I've often wondered how Cory Doctorow can write so much high-quality material in a year, when it can take me all day to write one vaguely-passable blog post. He shared his strategy in this 2009 article;

https://www.locusmag.com/Features/2009/01/cory-doctorow-writing-in-age-of.html

This is wisdom to live by, and I'll be coming back to it.

I know there are heaps of writers in the fediverse, further suggestions welcome : )

#writing #CoryDoctorow

I've often wondered how Cory Doctorow can write so much high-quality material in a year, when it can take me all day to write one vaguely-passable blog post. He shared his strategy in this 2009 article;

https://www.locusmag.com/Features/2009/01/cory-doctorow-writing-in-age-of.html

This is wisdom to live by, and I'll be coming back to it.

I know there are heaps of writers in the fediverse, further suggestions welcome : )

#writing #CoryDoctorow

RE
"Buy from artists and creators you like online...and "get off of #Facebook, #Insta and #Twitter and join #Mastodon and/or #Bluesky..."

#corydoctorow said some stuff on his post "Wallet Voting" Sep 13 2025 that gave me the idea of a new, improved, #lottery
A lottery where most of the money ⭕doesn't go to the lottery company, or the State, etc.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/13/consumption-choices/

RE
"Buy from artists and creators you like online...and "get off of #Facebook, #Insta and #Twitter and join #Mastodon and/or #Bluesky..."

#corydoctorow said some stuff on his post "Wallet Voting" Sep 13 2025 that gave me the idea of a new, improved, #lottery
A lottery where most of the money ⭕doesn't go to the lottery company, or the State, etc.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/13/consumption-choices/

"It's especially noteworthy that this took place in the UK, where Prime Minister Keir Starmer has invited tech companies to pick Britons' pockets without fear of consequence, by firing the top competition regulator and replacing him with the former head of Amazon UK."

#CoryDoctorow, 2025

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/22/ink-spattered-pitchforks/#racehorse-semen

(1/2)

"HP's enshittificatory impulses run wild. They hunt relentlessly for ways to make things worse for their customers in order to make things better for themselves. Last week, they came up with a humdinger, even by their own standards. They announced that people who called their customer service line would be subject to mandatory 15-minute waits, even if there was a rep who was free to talk with them."

#CoryDoctorow, 2025

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/22/ink-spattered-pitchforks/#racehorse-semen

(1/2)

#enshittification#HP

"We can make a new, good internet. One that's fit for human thriving. We can create the digital nervous system we need to connect and coordinate us, through a 21st century haunted by climate collapse, genocide, authoritarianism, and economic chaos. We can create enshittification-resistant infrastructure for a new, good, world."

#CoryDoctorow, #Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, 2025

https://craphound.com/podcast/2025/08/28/enshittification-episode-500/

(2/2)

"... the point of this [enshittification] analysis isn't merely to give you a more technically-informed way to feel demoralised and furious about the state of the digital world. I wrote this book to propose a cure."

#CoryDoctorow, #Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, 2025

https://craphound.com/podcast/2025/08/28/enshittification-episode-500/

(1/2)

#podcasts #books

A concise definition of #conservatism: "There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

With lots of examples from (tech) corporate and MAGA conservatism. "The Flu Klux Klan wants to ban you from wearing a mask for health reasons, but they will defend to the death the right of ICE brownshirts to run around in gaiters and Oakleys as they kidnap our neighbors off the streets."

Conservatism underpins #fascism. Therefore "we should treat every attempt to pull any of these scams as an inch (or a yard, or a mile) down the road to fascist collapse."

#Antifascism#NieWiederIstJetzt#CDUCSU#SPD#AfD

A concise definition of #conservatism: "There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

With lots of examples from (tech) corporate and MAGA conservatism. "The Flu Klux Klan wants to ban you from wearing a mask for health reasons, but they will defend to the death the right of ICE brownshirts to run around in gaiters and Oakleys as they kidnap our neighbors off the streets."

Conservatism underpins #fascism. Therefore "we should treat every attempt to pull any of these scams as an inch (or a yard, or a mile) down the road to fascist collapse."

#Antifascism#NieWiederIstJetzt#CDUCSU#SPD#AfD

Backed #CoryDoctorow's latest kickstarter! His books, fact or fiction, are always entertaining works bringing necessary awareness to things both awesome and not. Don't miss out! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/enshittification-the-drm-free-audiobook @pluralistic

Finally! Today I start reading the galley of @pluralistic 's to-be published book, 'Enshittification'. I long to review the book.

https://bookwyrm.social/book/1982321/s/enshittification

#enshittification#CoryDoctorow #book #reading @bookstodon

Finally! Today I start reading the galley of @pluralistic 's to-be published book, 'Enshittification'. I long to review the book.

https://bookwyrm.social/book/1982321/s/enshittification

#enshittification#CoryDoctorow #book #reading @bookstodon

💩 Bistan da liburu hau euskarara itzultzea lortu beharko genukeela https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/book/9780374619329

#Kakaztea#Internet#CoryDoctorow

I really enjoyed #RedTeamBlues by @pluralistic so picked up #TheBezzle from the #library

Can't wait to dig in!

#CoryDoctorow#Bookstodon#NowReading#Books#PenroseTriangle

I really enjoyed #RedTeamBlues by @pluralistic so picked up #TheBezzle from the #library

Can't wait to dig in!

#CoryDoctorow#Bookstodon#NowReading#Books#PenroseTriangle

Hallo Cyber Freunde! Das fantastische Buch 'red team blues' von @pluralistic ist jetzt als deutsches Audiobuch erhältlich. Da alle Werke Cory's ohne DRM verkauft werden, ist es nur ueber kickstarter zu bekommen. (hintergrund hier: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/21/martin-mensch/#horbuch)

Unterstuetzt DRM freie Werke und Autoren die weiterhin ohne DRM verkaufen. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/red-team-blues-auf-deutsche-drm-freie

#corydoctorow
#cybercrime
#hoerbuch

Hallo Cyber Freunde! Das fantastische Buch 'red team blues' von @pluralistic ist jetzt als deutsches Audiobuch erhältlich. Da alle Werke Cory's ohne DRM verkauft werden, ist es nur ueber kickstarter zu bekommen. (hintergrund hier: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/21/martin-mensch/#horbuch)

Unterstuetzt DRM freie Werke und Autoren die weiterhin ohne DRM verkaufen. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/red-team-blues-auf-deutsche-drm-freie

#corydoctorow
#cybercrime
#hoerbuch

Solche G'schichten schreibt nur das Leben, und da mir das Buch sehr gefallen hat (auf Englisch) und es #DRMfrei ist, bewerbe ich das jetzt hier mal.

Brauche eine 🤩-Variante mit Sternen als Ohren!?! #Cory_Doctorow#Hörbuch #audiobook