Event in Toronto and online, March 2, 2026: "Making the Abolition of War a Realistic Goal"
Read the article here: https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/making=
the-abolition-of-war-a-realistic-goal/
#Abolition, #nonviolence, #ScienceForPeace #Toronto #AbolitionOfWar
Hey #toronto come hear me and @xor talk about how to think about privacy in this moment of history next week!! It’s gonna be a great convo in a great space https://luma.com/wayfinding1
Hey #toronto come hear me and @xor talk about how to think about privacy in this moment of history next week!! It’s gonna be a great convo in a great space https://luma.com/wayfinding1
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I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Thu (Jan 22) at The Tattered Cover:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
And in #ColoradoSprings this weekend (Jan 23-25), where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:
https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:
https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Denver: Enshittification at Tattered Cover Colfax, Jan 22
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
* #ColoradoSprings: Guest of Honor at COSine, Jan 23-25
https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
* #Ottawa: Enshittification at Perfect Books, Jan 28
https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
* #Toronto: Enshittification and the Age of Extraction with Tim Wu, Jan 30
https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Google's AI pricing plan; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/21/cod-marxism/
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I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Thu (Jan 22) at The Tattered Cover:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
And in #ColoradoSprings this weekend (Jan 23-25), where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:
https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:
https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/
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It's funny when you think of all those "AI safety" bros who claimed that AI's greatest danger was that it would become sentient and devour us. It turns out that the real "AI safety" risk is that AI will automate price gouging at scale, allowing Google to crown itself a "King over the necessaries of life":
https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/27/10-types-of-people/#taking-up-a-lot-of-space
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I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Thu (Jan 22) at The Tattered Cover:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
And in #ColoradoSprings this weekend (Jan 23-25), where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:
https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:
https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/
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Happy #SquirrelAppreciationDay! Despite the opinion of some people in my home there’s a colony of white squirrels in Toronto’s Trinity-Bellwood Park! I know. I’ve seen them. This is a portrait of one of them, climbing head-down a maple tree, along with the words “Legendary White Squirrel of Trinity-Bellwoods”. It’s sort of become a running joke to question the reality of 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/81433172
#linocut #printmaking #squirrel #whiteSquirrel #Toronto #TrinityBellwoods #typography #mastoArt
Happy #SquirrelAppreciationDay! Despite the opinion of some people in my home there’s a colony of white squirrels in Toronto’s Trinity-Bellwood Park! I know. I’ve seen them. This is a portrait of one of them, climbing head-down a maple tree, along with the words “Legendary White Squirrel of Trinity-Bellwoods”. It’s sort of become a running joke to question the reality of 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/81433172
#linocut #printmaking #squirrel #whiteSquirrel #Toronto #TrinityBellwoods #typography #mastoArt
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I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Thu (Jan 22) at The Tattered Cover:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
And in #ColoradoSprings this weekend (Jan 23-25), where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:
https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:
https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/
eof/
My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Denver: Enshittification at Tattered Cover Colfax, Jan 22
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
* #ColoradoSprings: Guest of Honor at COSine, Jan 23-25
https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
* #Ottawa: Enshittification at Perfect Books, Jan 28
https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
* #Toronto: Enshittification and the Age of Extraction with Tim Wu, Jan 30
https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/
* #Victoria: 28th Annual Victoria International Privacy & Security Summit, Mar 3-5
https://www.rebootcommunications.com/event/vipss2026/
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: AI is how bosses wage war on "professions"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/20/i-would-prefer-not-to/
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I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Thu (Jan 22) at The Tattered Cover:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
And in #ColoradoSprings this weekend (Jan 23-25), where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:
https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:
https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/
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AI salesmen may be slick, but they're not *that* slick. Bosses are easy marks for anyone who dangles the promise of a world where everyone - human *and* machine - follows orders to the letter, and praises you for giving them such clever, clever orders.
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I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Thu (Jan 22) at The Tattered Cover:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
And in #ColoradoSprings this weekend (Jan 23-25), where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:
https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:
https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/
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it's f'ing cold in Toronto. 🥶
here are the open city warming centres:-
* Cecil Community Centre, 58 Cecil (E of Spadina Av, S of College)
* Jimmie Simpson Recreation Centre, 870 Queen E (E of Broadview, N of Queen E)
* 136 Spadina Rd (S of Dupont)
* 81 Elizabeth (W of Bay, S of Dundas W)
* 349 George (E of Jarvis, S of Gerrard E)
* 12 Holmes Av (off of Yonge, S of Finch Av E)
* 885 Scarborough Golf Club Rd (E of Markham, south of Ellesmere)
it's f'ing cold in Toronto. 🥶
here are the open city warming centres:-
* Cecil Community Centre, 58 Cecil (E of Spadina Av, S of College)
* Jimmie Simpson Recreation Centre, 870 Queen E (E of Broadview, N of Queen E)
* 136 Spadina Rd (S of Dupont)
* 81 Elizabeth (W of Bay, S of Dundas W)
* 349 George (E of Jarvis, S of Gerrard E)
* 12 Holmes Av (off of Yonge, S of Finch Av E)
* 885 Scarborough Golf Club Rd (E of Markham, south of Ellesmere)
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I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Thu (Jan 22) at The Tattered Cover:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
And in #ColoradoSprings next weekend (Jan 23-25), where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:
https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:
https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/
eof/
My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Denver: Enshittification at Tattered Cover Colfax, Jan 22
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
* #ColoradoSprings: Guest of Honor at COSine, Jan 23-25
https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
* #Ottawa: Enshittification at Perfect Books, Jan 28
https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
* #Toronto: Enshittification and the Age of Extraction with Tim Wu, Jan 30
https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/
* #Victoria: 28th Annual Victoria International Privacy & Security Summit, Mar 3-5
https://www.rebootcommunications.com/event/vipss2026/
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