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Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity (13 Nov 2025)

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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Cardiff (TONIGHT!), #Oxford and #London!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, 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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr (and 1 other) recently replied  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Upcoming appearances:

* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
https://www.hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-festival-after-hours.aspx

* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events/enshittification-and-extraction-the-internet-sucks-now/

* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/cory-doctorow-with-sarah-wynn-williams

* #London: Downstream IRL with Zack Polanski, Ash Sarkar, and Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
https://dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/oen5rr-downstream-irl-aaron-bastani-in-conversation-with-cory-doctorow-17th-nov-earth-london-tickets

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Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now

Join Tim Wu and Cory Doctorow, for a lively, infuriating and invigorating exploration of the forces that drove the internet to its current miserable state, and a prescription for taking it back and making a new, good internet that is fit for purpose

Cory Doctorow in Conversation with Sarah Wynn-Williams | Barbican

Is life online getting worse and worse? Leading tech critic and science fiction author, Cory Doctorow shares strategies for how we might reclaim the internet.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/13/patients-not-customers/

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity (13 Nov 2025)

A black and white photo of an old hospital ward. A bright red river of blood courses between the beds. Dancing in the blood is Monopoly's 'Rich Uncle Pennybags.' He has removed his face to reveal a grinning skull.
A black and white photo of an old hospital ward. A bright red river of blood courses between the beds. Dancing in the blood is Monopoly's 'Rich Uncle Pennybags.' He has removed his face to reveal a grinning skull.
A black and white photo of an old hospital ward. A bright red river of blood courses between the beds. Dancing in the blood is Monopoly's 'Rich Uncle Pennybags.' He has removed his face to reveal a grinning skull.
Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Cardiff (TODAY!), #Oxford and #London!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025)

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Rothermich's point is that health care isn't a commodity, and to treat it as such always worsens care. It dooms patients to choosing between different kinds of horrors, and subjects health care worker to the moral injury of failing their duty to their patients in order to serve them as customers.

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Cardiff (TONIGHT!), #Oxford and #London!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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You can follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/12/sorry-to-bother-you/

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Pluralistic: A tale of three customer service chatbots (12 Nov 2025)

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago

I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025)

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago

My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, 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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Upcoming appearances:

* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
https://www.hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-festival-after-hours.aspx

* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events/enshittification-and-extraction-the-internet-sucks-now/

* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/cory-doctorow-with-sarah-wynn-williams

* #London: Downstream IRL with Zack Polanski, Ash Sarkar, and Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
https://dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/oen5rr-downstream-irl-aaron-bastani-in-conversation-with-cory-doctorow-17th-nov-earth-london-tickets

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Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now

Join Tim Wu and Cory Doctorow, for a lively, infuriating and invigorating exploration of the forces that drove the internet to its current miserable state, and a prescription for taking it back and making a new, good internet that is fit for purpose

Cory Doctorow in Conversation with Sarah Wynn-Williams | Barbican

Is life online getting worse and worse? Leading tech critic and science fiction author, Cory Doctorow shares strategies for how we might reclaim the internet.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: A tale of three customer service chatbots; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/12/sorry-to-bother-you/

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: A tale of three customer service chatbots (12 Nov 2025)

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago

I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025)

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We literally just said, "Aw, c'mon, please?" and it gave us the private info. A couple texts later, we had it sorted out.

This is a very funny outcome: the support chatbot sucked, but in a way that turned out to be advantageous to us. It did that thing that outsource call centers were invented to prevent: it actually *helped us*.

But this one is clearly an outlier. It was a broken bot. I'm sure future iterations will be much more careful not to help...if they can help it.

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr (and 1 other) recently replied  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago

I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025)

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  路  activity timestamp 5 days ago

You can follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/11/athena-club/

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Pluralistic: Theodora Goss's 'Letters From an Imaginary Country' (11 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory DoctorowPluralistic: Daily links from Cory DoctorowPluralistic: No such thing as selective censorship resistance (16 Sep 2025)Pluralistic: Wallet voting (13 Sep 2025)Pluralistic: Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (11 Sep 2025)Pluralistic: Hate the player AND the game (10 Sep 2025)Pluralistic: Trump steals $400b from American workers (09 Sep 2025)Pluralistic: Fingerspitzengef眉hl (08 Sep 2025)Pluralistic: Stock buybacks are stock swindles (06 Sep 2025)Pluralistic: Why Wikipedia works (05 Sep 2025)Pluralistic: Canny Valley (04 Sep 2025)Pluralistic: The worst possible antitrust outcome (03 Sep 2025)

Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  路  activity timestamp 5 days ago

I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025)

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, 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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Shop

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr (and 1 other) recently replied  路  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Upcoming appearances:

* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
https://www.hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-festival-after-hours.aspx

* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events/enshittification-and-extraction-the-internet-sucks-now/

* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/cory-doctorow-with-sarah-wynn-williams

* #London: Downstream IRL with Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
https://dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/oen5rr-downstream-irl-aaron-bastani-in-conversation-with-cory-doctorow-17th-nov-earth-london-tickets

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Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now

Join Tim Wu and Cory Doctorow, for a lively, infuriating and invigorating exploration of the forces that drove the internet to its current miserable state, and a prescription for taking it back and making a new, good internet that is fit for purpose

Cory Doctorow in Conversation with Sarah Wynn-Williams | Barbican

Is life online getting worse and worse? Leading tech critic and science fiction author, Cory Doctorow shares strategies for how we might reclaim the internet.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  路  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Theodora Goss's 'Letters From an Imaginary Country'; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/11/athena-club/

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: Theodora Goss's 'Letters From an Imaginary Country' (11 Nov 2025)

The Tachyon Books cover for Theodora Goss's 'Letters From an Imaginary Country.
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  路  activity timestamp 5 days ago

I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025)

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This is a book bursting with monsters - the final novella, "The Secret Diary of Mina Harker," is a beautiful vampire tale that remixes Dracula to great effect - food, humor, subtle emotions and beautiful premises. It's got Oz, and Burroughs' Barsoom, and King Arthur, and so much else besides.

This was my introduction to Goss's work - I'd heard great things, but the TBR pile is always 50 times bigger than I can possibly tackle. I'm off to read a *lot* more of it.

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  路  activity timestamp 5 days ago

I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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You can follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/10/zero-sum-zero-hours/

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Pluralistic: "Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital" (10 Nov 2025)

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory DoctorowPluralistic: Daily links from Cory DoctorowPluralistic: No such thing as selective censorship resistance (16 Sep 2025)Pluralistic: Wallet voting (13 Sep 2025)Pluralistic: Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (11 Sep 2025)Pluralistic: Hate the player AND the game (10 Sep 2025)Pluralistic: Trump steals $400b from American workers (09 Sep 2025)Pluralistic: Fingerspitzengef眉hl (08 Sep 2025)Pluralistic: Stock buybacks are stock swindles (06 Sep 2025)Pluralistic: Why Wikipedia works (05 Sep 2025)Pluralistic: Canny Valley (04 Sep 2025)Pluralistic: The worst possible antitrust outcome (03 Sep 2025)

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  路  activity timestamp 6 days ago

I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025)

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, 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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* #Lisbon: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, with Rabble (Web Summit), Nov 12
https://websummit.com/sessions/lis25/92f47bc9-ca60-4997-bef3-006735b1f9c5/a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet/

* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
https://www.hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-festival-after-hours.aspx

* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events/enshittification-and-extraction-the-internet-sucks-now/

* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/cory-doctorow-with-sarah-wynn-williams

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Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now

Join Tim Wu and Cory Doctorow, for a lively, infuriating and invigorating exploration of the forces that drove the internet to its current miserable state, and a prescription for taking it back and making a new, good internet that is fit for purpose

Cory Doctorow in Conversation with Sarah Wynn-Williams | Barbican

Is life online getting worse and worse? Leading tech critic and science fiction author, Cory Doctorow shares strategies for how we might reclaim the internet.
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: "Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/10/zero-sum-zero-hours/

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: "Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital" (10 Nov 2025)


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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  路  activity timestamp 6 days ago

I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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A business that can only secure its sustained operations by shifting risk to its workers is a corporation that only exists because the workers who produce its profits assume the risks for its managers' blunders.

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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in Burbank (TODAY!), #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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