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Inside: Installing Android phones in Blackberry chassis; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/23/resto-modding/
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Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller Red Team Blues and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/red-team-blues-auf-deutsche-drm-freie
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Installing Android phones in Blackberry chassis: From e-waste to a better phone.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114903851124805594
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Hey look at this
* Tesla skepticism continues to grow, robotaxi demo fails to impress Austin https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/07/tesla-is-the-least-trusted-car-brand-in-america-survey-finds/
* The Selling Of AI https://blog.dshr.org/2025/07/the-selling-of-ai.html
* Democrats Act Like Elections Are Complicated. They’re Not https://jacobin.com/2025/07/democrats-working-class-cwcp-report/
* We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish https://www.404media.co/were-publishing-our-ice-reporting-in-spanish/
* Why Are We Pretending AI Is Going to Take All the Jobs? https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-are-we-pretending-ai-is-going
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#20yrsago Copyfighter to trademark bully: I own “freedom of expression” https://web.archive.org/web/20050725013828/http://www.freedomofexpression.org/ceaseanddesist.html
#15yrsago HOWTO make spider-silk thread https://www.instructables.com/How-to-make-Spider-Silk-Thread/
#15yrsago Australian government blocks out 90% of document on web-spying plans https://www.theage.com.au/technology/no-minister-90-of-web-snoop-document-censored-to-stop--premature-unnecessary-debate-20100722-10mxo.html
#15yrsago Can you audit the software that goes in your body? https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2010/transparent-medical-devices.html
#15yrsago New Disney Haunted Mansion movie to be produced by Guillermo del Toro https://web.archive.org/web/20100723183543/http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/07/haunted-mansion-inspires-new-movie-by-the-walt-disney-studios-and-guillermo-del-toro/
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#15yrsago Wood floors made from wine-barrels https://3rings.designerpages.com/2010/07/vintage-wine-barrel-flooring-by-fontenay-wood/
#15yrsago UK regulator turns over Internet policing standards to movie, record industries https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/ofcoms-code-does-not-comply-with-digital-economy-act/
#10yrsago Comcast’s top lobbyist insists he isn’t a lobbyist https://www.techdirt.com/2015/07/22/comcast-really-wants-me-to-stop-calling-their-top-lobbyist-top-lobbyist/
#10yrsago Once again: Crypto backdoors are an insane, dangerous idea https://web.archive.org/web/20150724155241/http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/a-golden-key-for-encryption-is-mythical-nonsense
#10yrsago RIP, EL Doctorow https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/books/el-doctorow-author-of-historical-fiction-dies-at-84.html
#5yrsago Kentucky AG sues top GOP donors https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/22/stimpank/#kentucky
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#5yrsago Anti-facial recognition tool https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/22/stimpank/#fawkes
#5yrsago Little Brother as a role-playing game https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/22/stimpank/#lb-rpg
#5yrsago Ohio GOP leadership indicted for racketeering https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/22/stimpank/#householder
#5yrsago Insurers are secret, powerful police reformers https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/22/stimpank/#incentives-matter
#5yrsago OTF spared (for now) https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/22/stimpank/#breitbarf
#1yrago Unpersoned https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/22/degoogled/#kafka-as-a-service
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Yesterday's threads: Conservativism considered as a movement of bitter rubes; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114898333858441177
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels
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My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Upcoming appearances:
* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8
https://politics-prose.com/cory-doctorow-10825
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
http://www.contraflowscifi.org/
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1504647263469
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