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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

* #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
https://www.powells.com/events/cory-doctorow-10-21-25

* #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
https://www.clarionwest.org/event/2025-deep-dives-cory-doctorow/

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Wordfest

Big Tech's Betrayal—and How to Break Free! - Wordfest

Starring Cory Doctorow. Hosted by Zain Velji
Clarion West

Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron

Join Cory Doctorow (Enshittification), Ed Zitron (Better Offline), and moderator Whitney Beltrán for a discussion of how reckless tech policy created an enshittogenic environment that allowed the…

Cory Doctorow Event

The Legendary Independent Bookstore
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow with Jenny Odell / Enshittification | Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. He will be joined by How To Do Nothing and Saving TIme author Jenny Odell. Grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.About the authorCory Doctorow is a Canadian, British, American blogger, journalist, and activist. For more than twenty-three years, he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on campaigns to further and safeguard our human rights online. He was coeditor of the weblog Boing Boing for nineteen years and now maintains a daily(ish) newsletter at Pluralistic.net. He has written more than thirty books, including nonfiction books, many science fiction novels, collections of short stories and essays, young adult novels, graphic novels, and even a picture book. Born in Toronto, he now lives in Burbank, California. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by York University and an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science from the Open University. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. He holds visiting professorship and research appointments at MIT, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, and the Open University.Jenny Odell is an artist, writer, and educator whose work focuses on close observation of the everyday world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Paris Review. Odell has been an artist in residence at the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), and her work has been exhibited internationally. From 2013 to 2021, she taught digital art at Stanford University. She is currently at work on a book about repair.About the bookstoreThe Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.Please note:This event will be taking place at PUBLIC WORKS at 161 Erie Street in San Francisco. Please note the venue is 21+.Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30pm.Ticket holders will have seats held until 7pm. Arrivals after 7pm will be allowed admission, but seats are not guaranteed.There will be a post-show signing for those who have purchased a ticket with a book. Additional copies and assorted backlist will be for sale at the venue on the night of the event.Venue includes a full-service bar that will be available throughout the event.Questions? tickets@booksmith.com
Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
https://www.showpass.com/2025-festival-39/

* #Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote, Oct 24
https://www.attentionconferences.com/conferences/2025-forum

* #Montreal: Enshittification at Librarie Drawn and Quarterly, Oct 24
https://mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/events/3757420251024

* #Ottawa: Enshittification (Ottawa Writers Festival), Oct 25
https://writersfestival.org/events/fall-2025/enshittification

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Cory Doctorow launches Enshittification | Librairie Drawn & Quarterly

Drawn & Quarterly is an internationally renowned publisher of the world's best cartoonists.
Ottawa International Writers Festival

Enshittification

8:00pm, Saturday Oct 25 at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa — "Remember when the internet was young and alive, vibrant and accessible and free? Cory Doctorow does, and he knows what’s gone wrong—and he sees a way forward. This is a magnificent book." - James Gleick
  1. Cory Doctorow: Enshittification - Granville Island Stage - Vancouver - Oct 23, 2025
EVENT DESCRIPTION At last, a word has been coined that encapsulates our modern era, that eloquently sums up the pressing issues of our times: Enshittification. The term—which creator Cory Doctorow describes as a diagnosis about the state of exploitative online services, and the disheartening digital world as a whole—resonated so strongly that the American Dialect Society named it the 2023 Word of the Year, and it was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror. With incisive urgency as well as humour, Doctorow will speak with author and political commentator David Moscrop about how we reached this point, and what we can collectively do to move beyond hopelessness about our enshittified fate, and back toward the optimism promised by the earliest days of the internet.  Presented in partnership with Raincoast Books.  ACCESSIBILITY INFO We do our best to make our events low-barrier, accessible experiences for our community. If you have accessibility needs or questions, please reach out to our Festival Box Office by emailing boxoffice@writersfest.bc.ca or phoning 778-658-0462, Mon - Thurs 11am - 3pm.  We have not arranged for this event to include ASL interpretation. However, we invite you to request it with at least two weeks notice by contacting our box office. For more information about accessibility at the Vancouver Writers Fest, including specific information about this venue, please click here to be redirected to our website. BOX OFFICE INFO This event is in-person. Details are subject to change. Check out our Box Office Info for more information. For phone sales and technical assistance, please call Showpass support at 1 (844) 307-7469. Mon - Fri: 8am - 6pmSat and Sun: 9am - 6pm We offer no exchanges or refunds except if an event is cancelled. Check your order carefully before you click Pay. View all upcoming events  
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The Attention Forum: October 23/24th 2025

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
https://www.clarionwest.org/event/2025-deep-dives-cory-doctorow/

* #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
https://www.showpass.com/2025-festival-39/

* #Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote, Oct 24
https://www.attentionconferences.com/conferences/2025-forum

* #Montreal: Enshittification at Librarie Drawn and Quarterly, Oct 24
https://mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/events/3757420251024

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Cory Doctorow launches Enshittification | Librairie Drawn & Quarterly

Drawn & Quarterly is an internationally renowned publisher of the world's best cartoonists.
  1. Cory Doctorow: Enshittification - Granville Island Stage - Vancouver - Oct 23, 2025
EVENT DESCRIPTION At last, a word has been coined that encapsulates our modern era, that eloquently sums up the pressing issues of our times: Enshittification. The term—which creator Cory Doctorow describes as a diagnosis about the state of exploitative online services, and the disheartening digital world as a whole—resonated so strongly that the American Dialect Society named it the 2023 Word of the Year, and it was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror. With incisive urgency as well as humour, Doctorow will speak with author and political commentator David Moscrop about how we reached this point, and what we can collectively do to move beyond hopelessness about our enshittified fate, and back toward the optimism promised by the earliest days of the internet.  Presented in partnership with Raincoast Books.  ACCESSIBILITY INFO We do our best to make our events low-barrier, accessible experiences for our community. If you have accessibility needs or questions, please reach out to our Festival Box Office by emailing boxoffice@writersfest.bc.ca or phoning 778-658-0462, Mon - Thurs 11am - 3pm.  We have not arranged for this event to include ASL interpretation. However, we invite you to request it with at least two weeks notice by contacting our box office. For more information about accessibility at the Vancouver Writers Fest, including specific information about this venue, please click here to be redirected to our website. BOX OFFICE INFO This event is in-person. Details are subject to change. Check out our Box Office Info for more information. For phone sales and technical assistance, please call Showpass support at 1 (844) 307-7469. Mon - Fri: 8am - 6pmSat and Sun: 9am - 6pm We offer no exchanges or refunds except if an event is cancelled. Check your order carefully before you click Pay. View all upcoming events  
Attention: Conference

The Attention Forum: October 23/24th 2025

Clarion West

Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron

Join Cory Doctorow (Enshittification), Ed Zitron (Better Offline), and moderator Whitney Beltrán for a discussion of how reckless tech policy created an enshittogenic environment that allowed the…
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Chicago: How Platforms Die with Rick Perlstein (University Club), Oct 14
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-platforms-die-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1747916117159

* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification

* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/

* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

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Eventbrite

How Platforms Die with Cory Doctorow

Rick Perlstein sits down with Cory Doctorow to explore the state of our digital world and reclaiming our digital future.
Wordfest

Big Tech's Betrayal—and How to Break Free! - Wordfest

Starring Cory Doctorow. Hosted by Zain Velji
Wordfest

Literary Death Match - Wordfest

Starring Emily Austin, Gabrielle Drolet, Jon Hickey & Wesley King, with Cory Doctorow, Emma Donoghue, and Andrew Phung. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga
DIESEL, A Bookstore

Cory Doctorow discusses and signs "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It".

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

* #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
https://www.powells.com/events/cory-doctorow-10-21-25

* #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
https://www.clarionwest.org/event/2025-deep-dives-cory-doctorow/

* #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
https://www.showpass.com/2025-festival-39/

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  1. Cory Doctorow: Enshittification - Granville Island Stage - Vancouver - Oct 23, 2025
EVENT DESCRIPTION At last, a word has been coined that encapsulates our modern era, that eloquently sums up the pressing issues of our times: Enshittification. The term—which creator Cory Doctorow describes as a diagnosis about the state of exploitative online services, and the disheartening digital world as a whole—resonated so strongly that the American Dialect Society named it the 2023 Word of the Year, and it was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror. With incisive urgency as well as humour, Doctorow will speak with author and political commentator David Moscrop about how we reached this point, and what we can collectively do to move beyond hopelessness about our enshittified fate, and back toward the optimism promised by the earliest days of the internet.  Presented in partnership with Raincoast Books.  ACCESSIBILITY INFO We do our best to make our events low-barrier, accessible experiences for our community. If you have accessibility needs or questions, please reach out to our Festival Box Office by emailing boxoffice@writersfest.bc.ca or phoning 778-658-0462, Mon - Thurs 11am - 3pm.  We have not arranged for this event to include ASL interpretation. However, we invite you to request it with at least two weeks notice by contacting our box office. For more information about accessibility at the Vancouver Writers Fest, including specific information about this venue, please click here to be redirected to our website. BOX OFFICE INFO This event is in-person. Details are subject to change. Check out our Box Office Info for more information. For phone sales and technical assistance, please call Showpass support at 1 (844) 307-7469. Mon - Fri: 8am - 6pmSat and Sun: 9am - 6pm We offer no exchanges or refunds except if an event is cancelled. Check your order carefully before you click Pay. View all upcoming events  
Clarion West

Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron

Join Cory Doctorow (Enshittification), Ed Zitron (Better Offline), and moderator Whitney Beltrán for a discussion of how reckless tech policy created an enshittogenic environment that allowed the…

Cory Doctorow Event

The Legendary Independent Bookstore
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow with Jenny Odell / Enshittification | Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. He will be joined by How To Do Nothing and Saving TIme author Jenny Odell. Grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.About the authorCory Doctorow is a Canadian, British, American blogger, journalist, and activist. For more than twenty-three years, he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on campaigns to further and safeguard our human rights online. He was coeditor of the weblog Boing Boing for nineteen years and now maintains a daily(ish) newsletter at Pluralistic.net. He has written more than thirty books, including nonfiction books, many science fiction novels, collections of short stories and essays, young adult novels, graphic novels, and even a picture book. Born in Toronto, he now lives in Burbank, California. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by York University and an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science from the Open University. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. He holds visiting professorship and research appointments at MIT, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, and the Open University.Jenny Odell is an artist, writer, and educator whose work focuses on close observation of the everyday world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Paris Review. Odell has been an artist in residence at the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), and her work has been exhibited internationally. From 2013 to 2021, she taught digital art at Stanford University. She is currently at work on a book about repair.About the bookstoreThe Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.Please note:This event will be taking place at PUBLIC WORKS at 161 Erie Street in San Francisco. Please note the venue is 21+.Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30pm.Ticket holders will have seats held until 7pm. Arrivals after 7pm will be allowed admission, but seats are not guaranteed.There will be a post-show signing for those who have purchased a ticket with a book. Additional copies and assorted backlist will be for sale at the venue on the night of the event.Venue includes a full-service bar that will be available throughout the event.Questions? tickets@booksmith.com
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Chicago: How Platforms Die with Rick Perlstein (University Club), Oct 14
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-platforms-die-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1747916117159

* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification

* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/

* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

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Eventbrite

How Platforms Die with Cory Doctorow

Rick Perlstein sits down with Cory Doctorow to explore the state of our digital world and reclaiming our digital future.
Wordfest

Big Tech's Betrayal—and How to Break Free! - Wordfest

Starring Cory Doctorow. Hosted by Zain Velji
Wordfest

Literary Death Match - Wordfest

Starring Emily Austin, Gabrielle Drolet, Jon Hickey & Wesley King, with Cory Doctorow, Emma Donoghue, and Andrew Phung. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga
DIESEL, A Bookstore

Cory Doctorow discusses and signs "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It".

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

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

* #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
https://www.powells.com/events/cory-doctorow-10-21-25

* #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
https://www.clarionwest.org/event/2025-deep-dives-cory-doctorow/

* #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
https://www.showpass.com/2025-festival-39/

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  1. Cory Doctorow: Enshittification - Granville Island Stage - Vancouver - Oct 23, 2025
EVENT DESCRIPTION At last, a word has been coined that encapsulates our modern era, that eloquently sums up the pressing issues of our times: Enshittification. The term—which creator Cory Doctorow describes as a diagnosis about the state of exploitative online services, and the disheartening digital world as a whole—resonated so strongly that the American Dialect Society named it the 2023 Word of the Year, and it was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror. With incisive urgency as well as humour, Doctorow will speak with author and political commentator David Moscrop about how we reached this point, and what we can collectively do to move beyond hopelessness about our enshittified fate, and back toward the optimism promised by the earliest days of the internet.  Presented in partnership with Raincoast Books.  ACCESSIBILITY INFO We do our best to make our events low-barrier, accessible experiences for our community. If you have accessibility needs or questions, please reach out to our Festival Box Office by emailing boxoffice@writersfest.bc.ca or phoning 778-658-0462, Mon - Thurs 11am - 3pm.  We have not arranged for this event to include ASL interpretation. However, we invite you to request it with at least two weeks notice by contacting our box office. For more information about accessibility at the Vancouver Writers Fest, including specific information about this venue, please click here to be redirected to our website. BOX OFFICE INFO This event is in-person. Details are subject to change. Check out our Box Office Info for more information. For phone sales and technical assistance, please call Showpass support at 1 (844) 307-7469. Mon - Fri: 8am - 6pmSat and Sun: 9am - 6pm We offer no exchanges or refunds except if an event is cancelled. Check your order carefully before you click Pay. View all upcoming events  
Clarion West

Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron

Join Cory Doctorow (Enshittification), Ed Zitron (Better Offline), and moderator Whitney Beltrán for a discussion of how reckless tech policy created an enshittogenic environment that allowed the…

Cory Doctorow Event

The Legendary Independent Bookstore
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow with Jenny Odell / Enshittification | Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. He will be joined by How To Do Nothing and Saving TIme author Jenny Odell. Grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.About the authorCory Doctorow is a Canadian, British, American blogger, journalist, and activist. For more than twenty-three years, he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on campaigns to further and safeguard our human rights online. He was coeditor of the weblog Boing Boing for nineteen years and now maintains a daily(ish) newsletter at Pluralistic.net. He has written more than thirty books, including nonfiction books, many science fiction novels, collections of short stories and essays, young adult novels, graphic novels, and even a picture book. Born in Toronto, he now lives in Burbank, California. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by York University and an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science from the Open University. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. He holds visiting professorship and research appointments at MIT, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, and the Open University.Jenny Odell is an artist, writer, and educator whose work focuses on close observation of the everyday world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Paris Review. Odell has been an artist in residence at the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), and her work has been exhibited internationally. From 2013 to 2021, she taught digital art at Stanford University. She is currently at work on a book about repair.About the bookstoreThe Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.Please note:This event will be taking place at PUBLIC WORKS at 161 Erie Street in San Francisco. Please note the venue is 21+.Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30pm.Ticket holders will have seats held until 7pm. Arrivals after 7pm will be allowed admission, but seats are not guaranteed.There will be a post-show signing for those who have purchased a ticket with a book. Additional copies and assorted backlist will be for sale at the venue on the night of the event.Venue includes a full-service bar that will be available throughout the event.Questions? tickets@booksmith.com
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Chicago: How Platforms Die with Rick Perlstein (University Club), Oct 14
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-platforms-die-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1747916117159

* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification

* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/

* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

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Eventbrite

How Platforms Die with Cory Doctorow

Rick Perlstein sits down with Cory Doctorow to explore the state of our digital world and reclaiming our digital future.
Wordfest

Big Tech's Betrayal—and How to Break Free! - Wordfest

Starring Cory Doctorow. Hosted by Zain Velji
Wordfest

Literary Death Match - Wordfest

Starring Emily Austin, Gabrielle Drolet, Jon Hickey & Wesley King, with Cory Doctorow, Emma Donoghue, and Andrew Phung. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga
DIESEL, A Bookstore

Cory Doctorow discusses and signs "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It".

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

* #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
https://www.powells.com/events/cory-doctorow-10-21-25

* #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
https://www.clarionwest.org/event/2025-deep-dives-cory-doctorow/

* #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
https://www.showpass.com/2025-festival-39/

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  1. Cory Doctorow: Enshittification - Granville Island Stage - Vancouver - Oct 23, 2025
EVENT DESCRIPTION At last, a word has been coined that encapsulates our modern era, that eloquently sums up the pressing issues of our times: Enshittification. The term—which creator Cory Doctorow describes as a diagnosis about the state of exploitative online services, and the disheartening digital world as a whole—resonated so strongly that the American Dialect Society named it the 2023 Word of the Year, and it was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror. With incisive urgency as well as humour, Doctorow will speak with author and political commentator David Moscrop about how we reached this point, and what we can collectively do to move beyond hopelessness about our enshittified fate, and back toward the optimism promised by the earliest days of the internet.  Presented in partnership with Raincoast Books.  ACCESSIBILITY INFO We do our best to make our events low-barrier, accessible experiences for our community. If you have accessibility needs or questions, please reach out to our Festival Box Office by emailing boxoffice@writersfest.bc.ca or phoning 778-658-0462, Mon - Thurs 11am - 3pm.  We have not arranged for this event to include ASL interpretation. However, we invite you to request it with at least two weeks notice by contacting our box office. For more information about accessibility at the Vancouver Writers Fest, including specific information about this venue, please click here to be redirected to our website. BOX OFFICE INFO This event is in-person. Details are subject to change. Check out our Box Office Info for more information. For phone sales and technical assistance, please call Showpass support at 1 (844) 307-7469. Mon - Fri: 8am - 6pmSat and Sun: 9am - 6pm We offer no exchanges or refunds except if an event is cancelled. Check your order carefully before you click Pay. View all upcoming events  
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Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron

Join Cory Doctorow (Enshittification), Ed Zitron (Better Offline), and moderator Whitney Beltrán for a discussion of how reckless tech policy created an enshittogenic environment that allowed the…

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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow with Jenny Odell / Enshittification | Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. He will be joined by How To Do Nothing and Saving TIme author Jenny Odell. Grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.About the authorCory Doctorow is a Canadian, British, American blogger, journalist, and activist. For more than twenty-three years, he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on campaigns to further and safeguard our human rights online. He was coeditor of the weblog Boing Boing for nineteen years and now maintains a daily(ish) newsletter at Pluralistic.net. He has written more than thirty books, including nonfiction books, many science fiction novels, collections of short stories and essays, young adult novels, graphic novels, and even a picture book. Born in Toronto, he now lives in Burbank, California. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by York University and an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science from the Open University. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. He holds visiting professorship and research appointments at MIT, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, and the Open University.Jenny Odell is an artist, writer, and educator whose work focuses on close observation of the everyday world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Paris Review. Odell has been an artist in residence at the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), and her work has been exhibited internationally. From 2013 to 2021, she taught digital art at Stanford University. She is currently at work on a book about repair.About the bookstoreThe Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.Please note:This event will be taking place at PUBLIC WORKS at 161 Erie Street in San Francisco. Please note the venue is 21+.Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30pm.Ticket holders will have seats held until 7pm. Arrivals after 7pm will be allowed admission, but seats are not guaranteed.There will be a post-show signing for those who have purchased a ticket with a book. Additional copies and assorted backlist will be for sale at the venue on the night of the event.Venue includes a full-service bar that will be available throughout the event.Questions? tickets@booksmith.com
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Chicago: How Platforms Die with Rick Perlstein (University Club), Oct 14
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-platforms-die-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1747916117159

* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification

* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/

* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

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How Platforms Die with Cory Doctorow

Rick Perlstein sits down with Cory Doctorow to explore the state of our digital world and reclaiming our digital future.
Wordfest

Big Tech's Betrayal—and How to Break Free! - Wordfest

Starring Cory Doctorow. Hosted by Zain Velji
Wordfest

Literary Death Match - Wordfest

Starring Emily Austin, Gabrielle Drolet, Jon Hickey & Wesley King, with Cory Doctorow, Emma Donoghue, and Andrew Phung. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga
DIESEL, A Bookstore

Cory Doctorow discusses and signs "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It".

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

* #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
https://www.powells.com/events/cory-doctorow-10-21-25

* #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
https://www.clarionwest.org/event/2025-deep-dives-cory-doctorow/

* #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
https://www.showpass.com/2025-festival-39/

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  1. Cory Doctorow: Enshittification - Granville Island Stage - Vancouver - Oct 23, 2025
EVENT DESCRIPTION At last, a word has been coined that encapsulates our modern era, that eloquently sums up the pressing issues of our times: Enshittification. The term—which creator Cory Doctorow describes as a diagnosis about the state of exploitative online services, and the disheartening digital world as a whole—resonated so strongly that the American Dialect Society named it the 2023 Word of the Year, and it was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror. With incisive urgency as well as humour, Doctorow will speak with author and political commentator David Moscrop about how we reached this point, and what we can collectively do to move beyond hopelessness about our enshittified fate, and back toward the optimism promised by the earliest days of the internet.  Presented in partnership with Raincoast Books.  ACCESSIBILITY INFO We do our best to make our events low-barrier, accessible experiences for our community. If you have accessibility needs or questions, please reach out to our Festival Box Office by emailing boxoffice@writersfest.bc.ca or phoning 778-658-0462, Mon - Thurs 11am - 3pm.  We have not arranged for this event to include ASL interpretation. However, we invite you to request it with at least two weeks notice by contacting our box office. For more information about accessibility at the Vancouver Writers Fest, including specific information about this venue, please click here to be redirected to our website. BOX OFFICE INFO This event is in-person. Details are subject to change. Check out our Box Office Info for more information. For phone sales and technical assistance, please call Showpass support at 1 (844) 307-7469. Mon - Fri: 8am - 6pmSat and Sun: 9am - 6pm We offer no exchanges or refunds except if an event is cancelled. Check your order carefully before you click Pay. View all upcoming events  
Clarion West

Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron

Join Cory Doctorow (Enshittification), Ed Zitron (Better Offline), and moderator Whitney Beltrán for a discussion of how reckless tech policy created an enshittogenic environment that allowed the…

Cory Doctorow Event

The Legendary Independent Bookstore
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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow with Jenny Odell / Enshittification | Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. He will be joined by How To Do Nothing and Saving TIme author Jenny Odell. Grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.About the authorCory Doctorow is a Canadian, British, American blogger, journalist, and activist. For more than twenty-three years, he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on campaigns to further and safeguard our human rights online. He was coeditor of the weblog Boing Boing for nineteen years and now maintains a daily(ish) newsletter at Pluralistic.net. He has written more than thirty books, including nonfiction books, many science fiction novels, collections of short stories and essays, young adult novels, graphic novels, and even a picture book. Born in Toronto, he now lives in Burbank, California. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by York University and an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science from the Open University. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. He holds visiting professorship and research appointments at MIT, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, and the Open University.Jenny Odell is an artist, writer, and educator whose work focuses on close observation of the everyday world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Paris Review. Odell has been an artist in residence at the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), and her work has been exhibited internationally. From 2013 to 2021, she taught digital art at Stanford University. She is currently at work on a book about repair.About the bookstoreThe Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.Please note:This event will be taking place at PUBLIC WORKS at 161 Erie Street in San Francisco. Please note the venue is 21+.Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30pm.Ticket holders will have seats held until 7pm. Arrivals after 7pm will be allowed admission, but seats are not guaranteed.There will be a post-show signing for those who have purchased a ticket with a book. Additional copies and assorted backlist will be for sale at the venue on the night of the event.Venue includes a full-service bar that will be available throughout the event.Questions? tickets@booksmith.com
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Highly recommended. This is the way to talk about the members of the Trump junta. https://www.wonkette.com/p/sexual-matador-goebbels-is-more-hardcore

SEXUAL MATADOR GOEBBELS IS MORE HARDCORE THAN ANY OF YOU MEMPHIS GANGBANGERS!

Donald Trump's Stranger Danger Team came to Memphis yesterday.
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@heidilifeldman

When I first heard the matador line, my thought was that he's a guy with a red cape, but the real power is the bull.

Not him.

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Chicago: How Platforms Die with Rick Perlstein (University Club), Oct 14
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-platforms-die-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1747916117159

* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification

* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/

* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

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Eventbrite

How Platforms Die with Cory Doctorow

Rick Perlstein sits down with Cory Doctorow to explore the state of our digital world and reclaiming our digital future.
Wordfest

Big Tech's Betrayal—and How to Break Free! - Wordfest

Starring Cory Doctorow. Hosted by Zain Velji
Wordfest

Literary Death Match - Wordfest

Starring Emily Austin, Gabrielle Drolet, Jon Hickey & Wesley King, with Cory Doctorow, Emma Donoghue, and Andrew Phung. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga
DIESEL, A Bookstore

Cory Doctorow discusses and signs "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It".

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

* #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
https://www.powells.com/events/cory-doctorow-10-21-25

* #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
https://www.clarionwest.org/event/2025-deep-dives-cory-doctorow/

* #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
https://www.showpass.com/2025-festival-39/

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  1. Cory Doctorow: Enshittification - Granville Island Stage - Vancouver - Oct 23, 2025
EVENT DESCRIPTION At last, a word has been coined that encapsulates our modern era, that eloquently sums up the pressing issues of our times: Enshittification. The term—which creator Cory Doctorow describes as a diagnosis about the state of exploitative online services, and the disheartening digital world as a whole—resonated so strongly that the American Dialect Society named it the 2023 Word of the Year, and it was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror. With incisive urgency as well as humour, Doctorow will speak with author and political commentator David Moscrop about how we reached this point, and what we can collectively do to move beyond hopelessness about our enshittified fate, and back toward the optimism promised by the earliest days of the internet.  Presented in partnership with Raincoast Books.  ACCESSIBILITY INFO We do our best to make our events low-barrier, accessible experiences for our community. If you have accessibility needs or questions, please reach out to our Festival Box Office by emailing boxoffice@writersfest.bc.ca or phoning 778-658-0462, Mon - Thurs 11am - 3pm.  We have not arranged for this event to include ASL interpretation. However, we invite you to request it with at least two weeks notice by contacting our box office. For more information about accessibility at the Vancouver Writers Fest, including specific information about this venue, please click here to be redirected to our website. BOX OFFICE INFO This event is in-person. Details are subject to change. Check out our Box Office Info for more information. For phone sales and technical assistance, please call Showpass support at 1 (844) 307-7469. Mon - Fri: 8am - 6pmSat and Sun: 9am - 6pm We offer no exchanges or refunds except if an event is cancelled. Check your order carefully before you click Pay. View all upcoming events  
Clarion West

Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron

Join Cory Doctorow (Enshittification), Ed Zitron (Better Offline), and moderator Whitney Beltrán for a discussion of how reckless tech policy created an enshittogenic environment that allowed the…

Cory Doctorow Event

The Legendary Independent Bookstore
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow with Jenny Odell / Enshittification | Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. He will be joined by How To Do Nothing and Saving TIme author Jenny Odell. Grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.About the authorCory Doctorow is a Canadian, British, American blogger, journalist, and activist. For more than twenty-three years, he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on campaigns to further and safeguard our human rights online. He was coeditor of the weblog Boing Boing for nineteen years and now maintains a daily(ish) newsletter at Pluralistic.net. He has written more than thirty books, including nonfiction books, many science fiction novels, collections of short stories and essays, young adult novels, graphic novels, and even a picture book. Born in Toronto, he now lives in Burbank, California. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by York University and an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science from the Open University. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. He holds visiting professorship and research appointments at MIT, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, and the Open University.Jenny Odell is an artist, writer, and educator whose work focuses on close observation of the everyday world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Paris Review. Odell has been an artist in residence at the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), and her work has been exhibited internationally. From 2013 to 2021, she taught digital art at Stanford University. She is currently at work on a book about repair.About the bookstoreThe Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.Please note:This event will be taking place at PUBLIC WORKS at 161 Erie Street in San Francisco. Please note the venue is 21+.Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30pm.Ticket holders will have seats held until 7pm. Arrivals after 7pm will be allowed admission, but seats are not guaranteed.There will be a post-show signing for those who have purchased a ticket with a book. Additional copies and assorted backlist will be for sale at the venue on the night of the event.Venue includes a full-service bar that will be available throughout the event.Questions? tickets@booksmith.com
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification

* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/

* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
https://www.powells.com/events/cory-doctorow-10-21-25

* #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
https://www.clarionwest.org/event/2025-deep-dives-cory-doctorow/

* #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
https://www.showpass.com/2025-festival-39/

* #Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote, Oct 24
https://www.attentionconferences.com/conferences/2025-forum

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* #Lisbon, PT: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, with Rabble at Web Summit (Nov 12, 1040AM)
https://websummit.com/sessions/lis25/92f47bc9-ca60-4997-bef3-006735b1f9c5/a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet/

* #Cardiff, UK: Hay Festival After Hours at Wales Millennium Centre, Bute Place (Nov 13, 7PM)
https://www.hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-festival-after-hours.aspx

* #Oxford, UK: Joint event with Tim Wu, author of "The Age of Extraction," sponsored by the Oxford Internet Institute (Nov 14, evening)
Details and ticket link to come

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* #London, UK: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams, author of *Careless People* and Chris Morris (Brass Eye, Four Lions) (Nov 15, 7PM)
Details and ticket link to come

* #London, UK: Novara Live (Nov 17, evening)
Details and ticket link to come

* #London, UK: Frontline Club (Nov 18, evening)
Details and ticket link to come

* #Vancouver, BC: Virtual event for the Vancouver Public Library (Nov 21, 12PM)
Details and link to come

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* #LosAngeles, CA: In coversation with *The American Prospect*'s David Dayen (Oct 16, 6:30PM)
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification

* #Calgary, AB: Literary Death Match at Wordfest (Oct 17, 7:30PM)
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/

* #Calgary, AB: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! at Wordfest (Oct 18, 1PM)
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

* #SanFrancisco, CA: In conversation with Jenny Odell, author of *How To Do Nothing* at Public Works, presented by Booksmith (Oct 20, 7PM)
https://app.gopassage.com/events/29638

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Wordfest

Big Tech's Betrayal—and How to Break Free! - Wordfest

Starring Cory Doctorow. Hosted by Zain Velji
Wordfest

Literary Death Match - Wordfest

Starring Emily Austin, Gabrielle Drolet, Jon Hickey & Wesley King, with Cory Doctorow, Emma Donoghue, and Andrew Phung. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga
DIESEL, A Bookstore

Cory Doctorow discusses and signs "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It".

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* #PDX, OR: Enshittification at Powell's City of Books (Oct 21, 7PM)
https://www.powells.com/events/cory-doctorow-10-21-25

* #Seattle, WA: In conversation with Ed Zitron of Where's Your Ed At at the Seattle Public Library, presented by Clarion West (Oct 22, 7PM)
https://www.spl.org/programs-and-services/authors-and-books/authors-and-books-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D188210978

* #Vancouver, BC: In conversation with David Moscrop at the Vancouver Writers Festival (Oct 23, 7PM)
https://www.showpass.com/2025-festival-39/

* #Montreal, PQ: Keynote for the Attention Forum (Oct 24)
https://www.attentionconferences.com/conferences/2025-forum

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification

* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/

* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

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Wordfest

Big Tech's Betrayal—and How to Break Free! - Wordfest

Starring Cory Doctorow. Hosted by Zain Velji
Wordfest

Literary Death Match - Wordfest

Starring Emily Austin, Gabrielle Drolet, Jon Hickey & Wesley King, with Cory Doctorow, Emma Donoghue, and Andrew Phung. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga
DIESEL, A Bookstore

Cory Doctorow discusses and signs "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It".

Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow with Jenny Odell / Enshittification | Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. He will be joined by How To Do Nothing and Saving TIme author Jenny Odell. Grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.About the authorCory Doctorow is a Canadian, British, American blogger, journalist, and activist. For more than twenty-three years, he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on campaigns to further and safeguard our human rights online. He was coeditor of the weblog Boing Boing for nineteen years and now maintains a daily(ish) newsletter at Pluralistic.net. He has written more than thirty books, including nonfiction books, many science fiction novels, collections of short stories and essays, young adult novels, graphic novels, and even a picture book. Born in Toronto, he now lives in Burbank, California. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by York University and an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science from the Open University. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. He holds visiting professorship and research appointments at MIT, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, and the Open University.Jenny Odell is an artist, writer, and educator whose work focuses on close observation of the everyday world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Paris Review. Odell has been an artist in residence at the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), and her work has been exhibited internationally. From 2013 to 2021, she taught digital art at Stanford University. She is currently at work on a book about repair.About the bookstoreThe Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.Please note:This event will be taking place at PUBLIC WORKS at 161 Erie Street in San Francisco. Please note the venue is 21+.Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30pm.Ticket holders will have seats held until 7pm. Arrivals after 7pm will be allowed admission, but seats are not guaranteed.There will be a post-show signing for those who have purchased a ticket with a book. Additional copies and assorted backlist will be for sale at the venue on the night of the event.Venue includes a full-service bar that will be available throughout the event.Questions? tickets@booksmith.com
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
https://www.powells.com/events/cory-doctorow-10-21-25

* #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
https://www.clarionwest.org/event/2025-deep-dives-cory-doctorow/

* #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
https://www.showpass.com/2025-festival-39/

* #Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote, Oct 24
https://www.attentionconferences.com/conferences/2025-forum

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Clarion West

Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron

Join Cory Doctorow (Enshittification), Ed Zitron (Better Offline), and moderator Whitney Beltrán for a discussion of how reckless tech policy created an enshittogenic environment that allowed the…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification

* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/

* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

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Wordfest

Big Tech's Betrayal—and How to Break Free! - Wordfest

Starring Cory Doctorow. Hosted by Zain Velji
Wordfest

Literary Death Match - Wordfest

Starring Emily Austin, Gabrielle Drolet, Jon Hickey & Wesley King, with Cory Doctorow, Emma Donoghue, and Andrew Phung. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga
DIESEL, A Bookstore

Cory Doctorow discusses and signs "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It".

Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow with Jenny Odell / Enshittification | Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. He will be joined by How To Do Nothing and Saving TIme author Jenny Odell. Grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.About the authorCory Doctorow is a Canadian, British, American blogger, journalist, and activist. For more than twenty-three years, he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on campaigns to further and safeguard our human rights online. He was coeditor of the weblog Boing Boing for nineteen years and now maintains a daily(ish) newsletter at Pluralistic.net. He has written more than thirty books, including nonfiction books, many science fiction novels, collections of short stories and essays, young adult novels, graphic novels, and even a picture book. Born in Toronto, he now lives in Burbank, California. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by York University and an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science from the Open University. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. He holds visiting professorship and research appointments at MIT, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, and the Open University.Jenny Odell is an artist, writer, and educator whose work focuses on close observation of the everyday world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Paris Review. Odell has been an artist in residence at the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), and her work has been exhibited internationally. From 2013 to 2021, she taught digital art at Stanford University. She is currently at work on a book about repair.About the bookstoreThe Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.Please note:This event will be taking place at PUBLIC WORKS at 161 Erie Street in San Francisco. Please note the venue is 21+.Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30pm.Ticket holders will have seats held until 7pm. Arrivals after 7pm will be allowed admission, but seats are not guaranteed.There will be a post-show signing for those who have purchased a ticket with a book. Additional copies and assorted backlist will be for sale at the venue on the night of the event.Venue includes a full-service bar that will be available throughout the event.Questions? tickets@booksmith.com
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
https://www.powells.com/events/cory-doctorow-10-21-25

* #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
https://www.clarionwest.org/event/2025-deep-dives-cory-doctorow/

* #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
https://www.showpass.com/2025-festival-39/

* #Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote, Oct 24
https://www.attentionconferences.com/conferences/2025-forum

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The Attention Forum: October 23/24th 2025

Clarion West

Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron

Join Cory Doctorow (Enshittification), Ed Zitron (Better Offline), and moderator Whitney Beltrán for a discussion of how reckless tech policy created an enshittogenic environment that allowed the…

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@Crissy@tech.lgbt  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

👋 Hi Fediverse: Good morning from #Vancouver! Wonderful weekend things to positively share on your feed ❤️

1. Made shrimp & veggie japchae at home for dad’s birthday meal 🍤
2. Gave lizard a bath coz he made a mess so needed cleaning (rinsed him after this pic was taken)
3. Had lots of pears from family friend’s tree so poached them in cinnamon butter, vanilla, brown sugar for dessert 🍐
4. Friend learned sourdough bread making, gave me this beautiful boule last night

#gratitude #thankyou #foodie #dragonlove

Closeup for friend’s homemade sourdough bread given to me last night
Closeup for friend’s homemade sourdough bread given to me last night
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Cooked pears in butter, cinnamon, vanilla, brown sugar
Cooked pears in butter, cinnamon, vanilla, brown sugar
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Bearded dragon in bubble bath coz he made a mess earlier
Bearded dragon in bubble bath coz he made a mess earlier
Bearded dragon in bubble bath coz he made a mess earlier
Closeup of homemade jap chae: saucy glass noodles, shrimp, green onion, sesame seeds, bean sprouts
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification

* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/

* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

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Wordfest

Big Tech's Betrayal—and How to Break Free! - Wordfest

Starring Cory Doctorow. Hosted by Zain Velji
Wordfest

Literary Death Match - Wordfest

Starring Emily Austin, Gabrielle Drolet, Jon Hickey & Wesley King, with Cory Doctorow, Emma Donoghue, and Andrew Phung. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga
DIESEL, A Bookstore

Cory Doctorow discusses and signs "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It".

Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow with Jenny Odell / Enshittification | Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. He will be joined by How To Do Nothing and Saving TIme author Jenny Odell. Grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.About the authorCory Doctorow is a Canadian, British, American blogger, journalist, and activist. For more than twenty-three years, he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on campaigns to further and safeguard our human rights online. He was coeditor of the weblog Boing Boing for nineteen years and now maintains a daily(ish) newsletter at Pluralistic.net. He has written more than thirty books, including nonfiction books, many science fiction novels, collections of short stories and essays, young adult novels, graphic novels, and even a picture book. Born in Toronto, he now lives in Burbank, California. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by York University and an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science from the Open University. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. He holds visiting professorship and research appointments at MIT, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, and the Open University.Jenny Odell is an artist, writer, and educator whose work focuses on close observation of the everyday world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Paris Review. Odell has been an artist in residence at the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), and her work has been exhibited internationally. From 2013 to 2021, she taught digital art at Stanford University. She is currently at work on a book about repair.About the bookstoreThe Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.Please note:This event will be taking place at PUBLIC WORKS at 161 Erie Street in San Francisco. Please note the venue is 21+.Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30pm.Ticket holders will have seats held until 7pm. Arrivals after 7pm will be allowed admission, but seats are not guaranteed.There will be a post-show signing for those who have purchased a ticket with a book. Additional copies and assorted backlist will be for sale at the venue on the night of the event.Venue includes a full-service bar that will be available throughout the event.Questions? tickets@booksmith.com
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
https://www.powells.com/events/cory-doctorow-10-21-25

* #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
https://www.clarionwest.org/event/2025-deep-dives-cory-doctorow/

* #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
https://www.showpass.com/2025-festival-39/

* #Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote, Oct 24
https://www.attentionconferences.com/conferences/2025-forum
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Clarion West

Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron

Join Cory Doctorow (Enshittification), Ed Zitron (Better Offline), and moderator Whitney Beltrán for a discussion of how reckless tech policy created an enshittogenic environment that allowed the…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification

* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/

* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

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DIESEL, A Bookstore

Cory Doctorow discusses and signs "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It".

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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow with Jenny Odell / Enshittification | Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. He will be joined by How To Do Nothing and Saving TIme author Jenny Odell. Grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.About the authorCory Doctorow is a Canadian, British, American blogger, journalist, and activist. For more than twenty-three years, he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on campaigns to further and safeguard our human rights online. He was coeditor of the weblog Boing Boing for nineteen years and now maintains a daily(ish) newsletter at Pluralistic.net. He has written more than thirty books, including nonfiction books, many science fiction novels, collections of short stories and essays, young adult novels, graphic novels, and even a picture book. Born in Toronto, he now lives in Burbank, California. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by York University and an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science from the Open University. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. He holds visiting professorship and research appointments at MIT, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, and the Open University.Jenny Odell is an artist, writer, and educator whose work focuses on close observation of the everyday world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Paris Review. Odell has been an artist in residence at the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), and her work has been exhibited internationally. From 2013 to 2021, she taught digital art at Stanford University. She is currently at work on a book about repair.About the bookstoreThe Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.Please note:This event will be taking place at PUBLIC WORKS at 161 Erie Street in San Francisco. Please note the venue is 21+.Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30pm.Ticket holders will have seats held until 7pm. Arrivals after 7pm will be allowed admission, but seats are not guaranteed.There will be a post-show signing for those who have purchased a ticket with a book. Additional copies and assorted backlist will be for sale at the venue on the night of the event.Venue includes a full-service bar that will be available throughout the event.Questions? tickets@booksmith.com
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
https://www.powells.com/events/cory-doctorow-10-21-25

* #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
https://www.clarionwest.org/event/2025-deep-dives-cory-doctorow/

* #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
https://www.showpass.com/2025-festival-39/

* #Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote, Oct 24
https://www.attentionconferences.com/conferences/2025-forum

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Clarion West

Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron

Join Cory Doctorow (Enshittification), Ed Zitron (Better Offline), and moderator Whitney Beltrán for a discussion of how reckless tech policy created an enshittogenic environment that allowed the…

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@Crissy@tech.lgbt  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

👋 Hi Fediverse: Good morning from #Vancouver! Wonderful weekend things to positively share on your feed ❤️

1. Made shrimp & veggie japchae at home for dad’s birthday meal 🍤
2. Gave lizard a bath coz he made a mess so needed cleaning (rinsed him after this pic was taken)
3. Had lots of pears from family friend’s tree so poached them in cinnamon butter, vanilla, brown sugar for dessert 🍐
4. Friend learned sourdough bread making, gave me this beautiful boule last night

#gratitude #thankyou #foodie #dragonlove

Closeup for friend’s homemade sourdough bread given to me last night
Closeup for friend’s homemade sourdough bread given to me last night
Closeup for friend’s homemade sourdough bread given to me last night
Cooked pears in butter, cinnamon, vanilla, brown sugar
Cooked pears in butter, cinnamon, vanilla, brown sugar
Cooked pears in butter, cinnamon, vanilla, brown sugar
Bearded dragon in bubble bath coz he made a mess earlier
Bearded dragon in bubble bath coz he made a mess earlier
Bearded dragon in bubble bath coz he made a mess earlier
Closeup of homemade jap chae: saucy glass noodles, shrimp, green onion, sesame seeds, bean sprouts
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My organization, the Peretz Centre in #Vancouver, is doing a membership drive for the new year. If you're interested in #Yiddish culture & literature, Jewish secular humanism & social justice, consider checking out the programming or becoming a member. It's the organization's 80th year!🥺⏳
https://www.peretz-centre.org/peretz-centre-membership

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@ajh@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Just got my tickets to see @pluralistic at the #Vancouver Writer's Fest on Oct 23!

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Just got my tickets to see @pluralistic at the #Vancouver Writer's Fest on Oct 23!

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