Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Boss-politics antitrust and the MAGA crackup; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/29/bondi-and-domination/
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Boss-politics antitrust and the MAGA crackup; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/29/bondi-and-domination/
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Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller Red Team Blues and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/red-team-blues-auf-deutsche-drm-freie
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Boss-politics antitrust and the MAGA crackup: The Tunney Act stirs the pot.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114937741570080342
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Hey look at this
* The Quintessential Urban Design of ‘Sesame Street’ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/realestate/sesame-street-design-over-the-years.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE8.NvIG.0sey-i206zqA (h/t Kottke)
* Is the Tesla Diner rigging reviews? https://protos.com/is-the-tesla-diner-rigging-reviews/
* Use Their ID https://use-their-id.com/
* The Tea app and the future of online surveillance https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-tea-app-and-the-future-of-online-surveillance-16aa944529b0cb6e
* ‘Fair Use’ Prevails as Library of Congress Wins DMCA Anti-Circumvention Battle https://torrentfreak.com/fair-use-prevails-as-library-of-congress-wins-dmca-anti-circumvention-battle-250729/
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#20yrsago Ten thousand superballs rolling down a San Francisco hill-street https://www.flickr.com/photos/49503155830@N01/28841983/
#20yrsago Michael Lynn’s censored Cisco security presentation https://web.archive.org/web/20050810081315/https://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,68356,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
#10yrsago Phil Gramm: “exploited worker” AT&T CEO “only” got $75m https://web.archive.org/web/20150809054245/https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/29/former-gop-sen-phil-gramm-outrage-att-ceo-got/
#10yrsago Self-aiming sniper rifle can be pwned over the Internet https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-can-disable-sniper-rifleor-change-target/
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#5yrsago Bitcoin is not a socialist's ally https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#bitcoinism
#5yrsago The Internet Archive defends online libraries https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#cdl
#5yrsago No consequences for police violence at BLM actions https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#impunity
#5yrsago Let's force Big Tech to interoperate https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#beyond-breakups
#5yrsago Unauthorized Meat https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#mellow-brown
#5yrsago Break 'Em Up https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#break-em-up
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Yesterday's threads: How twiddling enshittifies your brain; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114933155425871873
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels
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My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from 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:
* #SanDiego: ACM Collective Intelligence keynote, Aug 5
https://ci.acm.org/2025/speakers/cory-doctorow/
* #Ithaca: AD White keynote (Cornell), Sep 12
https://deanoffaculty.cornell.edu/events/keynote-cory-doctorow-professor-at-large/
* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8
https://politics-prose.com/cory-doctorow-10825
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
http://www.contraflowscifi.org/
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1504647263469
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25
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