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Inside: You can't fight enshittification; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/
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Guess I'll give up forever.
@banjofox Did you read the accompanying essay?
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working on it
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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So "novel" translates to "cyberthriller"...? 🤢
So "novel" translates to "cyberthriller"...? 🤢
@pluralistic But what about those of us not living in the US? Are there any relevant equivalents to the EFF and the EFA?
@janeishly EFF operates worldwide, though EFA is US only. Looks like you're in the EU? EDRI is the EU umbrella org for EFF-like groups in the EU, so maybe consult their membership list?
Hey look at this
* Peter Beinart - "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning" | The Daily Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5kXCdzt_us (h/t Gord Doctorow)
* Venezuelan Men Sent to CECOT on What They Endured https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-men-cecot-interviews-trump (h/t Nelson Minar)
* The future of MAGA after Trump https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-future-of-maga-after-trump-7a59b37c5e8aa178
* Sundman figures it out! https://johnsundman.substack.com/ (h/t Ken MacLeod)
* US intelligence pushed DOJ to push HPE-Juniper merger https://www.axios.com/2025/07/30/merger-hpe-juniper-networks-national-security
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#20yrsago Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel? https://memex.craphound.com/2005/07/31/apple-to-add-trusted-computing-to-the-new-kernel/
#10yrsago TSA Behavioral Detection Program’s awful newsletter mocks travellers’ worries https://theintercept.com/2015/07/31/tsas-behavior-detection-program-newsletter-ridiculous-offensive/
#10yrsago German prosecutors give spies a walk, but investigate journalists for “treason” https://netzpolitik.org/2015/federal-office-for-the-protection-of-the-constitution-brings-a-charge-the-federal-public-prosecutor-investigates-against-us-concerning-our-sources/
#10yrsago Google diversity boss promised “UK’s first women’s history museum,” built a Jack the Ripper “museum” https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/exhibitions/museum-which-promised-to-celebrate-east-end-women-now-devoted-to-jack-the-ripper-10423690.html
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#5yrsago Challenge questions suck https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#favorite-food
#20yrsago Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel? https://memex.craphound.com/2005/07/31/apple-to-add-trusted-computing-to-the-new-kernel/
#10yrsago TSA Behavioral Detection Program’s awful newsletter mocks travellers’ worries https://theintercept.com/2015/07/31/tsas-behavior-detection-program-newsletter-ridiculous-offensive/
#10yrsago German prosecutors give spies a walk, but investigate journalists for “treason” https://netzpolitik.org/2015/federal-office-for-the-protection-of-the-constitution-brings-a-charge-the-federal-public-prosecutor-investigates-against-us-concerning-our-sources/
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#10yrsago Google diversity boss promised “UK’s first women’s history museum,” built a Jack the Ripper “museum” https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/exhibitions/museum-which-promised-to-celebrate-east-end-women-now-devoted-to-jack-the-ripper-10423690.html
#5yrsago Challenge questions suck https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#favorite-food
#5yrsago Apple's internal Right to Repair fight https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#e-waste-apple
#5yrsago Self-bricking medical device https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#bricked-exogen
#5yrsago Mexico's copyright vs self-determination and national sovereignty https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#necensuraninadados
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#5yrsago I'm being inducted into the Canadian SF/F hall of fame https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer/#hall-of-famer
#1yrago The largest campaign finance violation in US history https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/31/greater-fools/#coinbased
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Yesterday's threads: Delta's AI-based price-gouging; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114943661996357201
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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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