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Inside: Trump steals $400b from American workers; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/09/germanium-valley/
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#Ithaca and #NYC! I'm heading your way for a zillion events from Sept 11-17. Here's a list of open-to-all #Cornell activities including two major keynotes; a movie night with dinner and discussion; and a public event at Cornell Tech in NYC:
https://adwhiteprofessors.cornell.edu/visits/cory-doctorow/
I'm also appearing at Buffalo Street Books on Sept 11:
https://buffalostreetbooks.com/event/2025-09-11/cory-doctorow-tcpl-librarian-judd-karlman
and at Autumn Leaves Books on Sept 13:
https://www.autumnleavesithaca.com/event-details/enshittification-why-everything-got-worse-and-what-to-do-about-it
I'll also be at the #Brooklyn Book Festival on Sept 21:
https://brooklynbookfestival.org/event/big-techs-big-heist-cory-doctorow-in-conversation-with-adam-becker/
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Trump steals $400b from American workers: You get a noncompete, and you get a noncompete, and you get a noncompete!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115175569673099957
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Hey look at this
* Nate Silver's big list of grievances https://www.garbageday.email/p/nate-silver-s-big-list-of-grievances
* Electronic Dance Music vs. Copyright: Law as Weaponized Culture https://drive.proton.me/urls/TVH0PW4TZ8#EM5VMl1BUlny (h/t Aram Sinnreich)
* Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ https://www.theverge.com/news/773928/google-open-web-rapid-decline
* Britain Owes Palestine https://www.britainowespalestine.org/
* A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. https://bsky.app/profile/zohrankmamdani.bsky.social/post/3lyech7chqs2q
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#20yrsago Crooks take anti-forensic countermeasures https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18725163-800-television-shows-scramble-forensic-evidence/
#20yrsago Recording industry demands digital radio broadcast flag https://web.archive.org/web/20051018100306/https://www.godwinslaw.org/weblog/archive/2005/09/09/riaas-big-push-to-copy-protect-digital-radio
#20yrsago Unicef/Save the Children sell out to recording industry https://web.archive.org/web/20050914034709/http://www.promusicae.org/pdf/campana_jovenes_musica_e_internet.pdf
#15yrsago TSA forces pregnant traveller into full-body scanner https://web.archive.org/web/20100910235117/https://consumerist.com/2010/09/pregnant-traveler-tsa-screeners-bullied-me-into-full-body-scan.html
#10yrsago Help crowdfund a relentless tsunami of FOIA requests into America’s private prisons https://www.muckrock.com/project/the-private-prison-project-8/
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#10yrsago Your baby monitor is an Internet-connected spycam vulnerable to voyeurs and crooks https://web.archive.org/web/20210505050810/https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2015/09/02/iotsec-disclosure-10-new-vulns-for-several-video-baby-monitors/
#10yrsago Inept copyright bot sends 2600 a legal threat over ink blotches https://www.2600.com/content/2600-accused-using-unauthorized-ink-splotches
#10yrsago FBI used Burning Man to field-test new surveillance equipment https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/sep/01/burning-man-fbi-file/
#10yrsago Fury Road, hieroglyph edition https://imgur.com/gallery/you-will-ride-eternal-papyrus-chrome-you-will-ride-eternal-papyrus-chrome-BxdOcTr#/t/chrome
#10yrsago Little Brother optioned by Paramount https://www.tracking-board.com/tb-exclusive-paramount-pictures-picks-up-ny-times-bestselling-ya-novel-little-brother/
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#10yrsago Record street-marches in Moldova against corrupt oligarchs https://www.euractiv.com/section/europe-s-east/news/moldova-banking-scandal-fuels-biggest-protest-ever/
#5yrsago Germany's amazing new competition proposal https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/09/free-sample/#wunderschoen
#5yrsago DRM versus human rights https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/09/free-sample/#que-viva
#1yrago America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/09/low-wage-100/#executive-excess
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Yesterday's threads: Fingerspitzengefühl; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115170125660818044
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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 @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @versobooks, @beaconPressBks etc) 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:
* #Ithaca: Enshittification at Buffalo Street Books, Sept 11
https://buffalostreetbooks.com/event/2025-09-11/cory-doctorow-tcpl-librarian-judd-karlman
* #Ithaca: AD White keynote (Cornell), Sep 12
https://deanoffaculty.cornell.edu/events/keynote-cory-doctorow-professor-at-large/
* #Ithaca: Enshittification at Autumn Leaves Books, Sept 13
https://www.autumnleavesithaca.com/event-details/enshittification-why-everything-got-worse-and-what-to-do-about-it
* #Ithaca: Radicalized Q&A (Cornell), Sept 16
https://events.cornell.edu/event/radicalized-qa-with-author-cory-doctorow
* #Ithaca: The Counterfeiters (Dinner/Movie Night) (Cornell), Sept 17
https://adwhiteprofessors.cornell.edu/visits/cory-doctorow/
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Ithaca: Communication Power, Policy, and Practice (Cornell), Sept 18
https://events.cornell.edu/event/policy-provocations-a-conversation-about-communication-power-policy-and-practice
* #Ithaca: A Reverse-Centaur's Guide to Being a Better AI Critic (Cornell), Sept 18
https://events.cornell.edu/event/2025-nordlander-lecture-in-science-public-policy
* #NYC: Enshittification and Renewal (Cornell Tech), Sept 19
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/enshittification-and-renewal-a-conversation-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1563948454929
* #NYC: Brooklyn Book Fair, Sept 21
https://brooklynbookfestival.org/event/big-techs-big-heist-cory-doctorow-in-conversation-with-adam-becker/
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, with Rohit Chopra, Oct 8
https://politics-prose.com/cory-doctorow-10825
* #NYC: Enshittification at the Brooklyn Public Library, with Lina Khan, Oct 9
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cory-doctorow-discusses-central-library-dweck-20251009-0700pm
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12
http://www.contraflowscifi.org/
* #Chicago: Enshittification with Anand Giridharadas (Chicago Humanities), Oct 15
https://www.oldtownschool.org/concerts/2025/10-15-2025-kara-swisher-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification/
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25
* #Madrid: Conferencia EUROPEA 4D (Virtual), Oct 28
https://4d.cat/es/conferencia/
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1504647263469
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