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Inside: The enshittification of labor; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/07/postwar-social-contract/
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The enshittification of labor: Pavlina Tcherneva, getting her peanut butter in my chocolate.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115509141999203422
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Hey look at this
* What EFF Needs in a New Executive Director https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/what-eff-needs-new-executive-director
* Complaint v Ireland to European Commission re process appointing ex-Meta lobbyist as Data Protection Commissioner https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/complaint-v-ireland-to-european-commission-re-process-appointing-ex-meta-lobbyist-as-data-protection-commissioner/
* Budget 2025 talks a big competition game but lacks punch https://www.donotpassgo.ca/p/budget-2025-talks-a-big-competition
* Snug Plug https://snugplugstore.com/
* Comparing the Industries Who Have Routinely Sued Their Regulators with the Industries Who Rarely Have https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5620230
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#20yrsago PATRIOT Act secret-superwarrants use is up 10,000 percent https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/05/AR2005110501366_pf.html
#10yrsago Protopiper: tape-gun-based 3D printer extrudes full-size furniture prototypes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beRA4sIjxa8
#10yrsago EFF on TPP: all our worst fears confirmed https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/release-full-tpp-text-after-five-years-secrecy-confirms-threats-users-rights
#10yrsago TPP will ban rules that require source-code disclosure https://www.keionline.org/39045
#10yrsago Publicity Rights could give celebrities a veto over creative works https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/eff-asks-supreme-court-apply-first-amendment-speech-about-celebrities-0
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#10yrsago How TPP will clobber Canada’s municipal archives and galleries of historical city photos https://www.geekman.ca/single-post/2015/11/the-tpp-vs-municipal-archives.html
#5yrsago HP ends its customers' lives https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/06/horrible-products/#inkwars
#1yrago Every internet fight is a speech fight https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/06/brazilian-blowout/#sovereignty-sure-but-human-rights-even-moreso
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Yesterday's threads: The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115502961501455604
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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 latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
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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:
* #Burbank: Burbank Book Festival, Nov 8
https://www.burbankbookfestival.com/
* #Lisbon: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, with Rabble (Web Summit), Nov 12
https://websummit.com/sessions/lis25/92f47bc9-ca60-4997-bef3-006735b1f9c5/a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet/
* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
https://www.hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-festival-after-hours.aspx
* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events/enshittification-and-extraction-the-internet-sucks-now/
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/cory-doctorow-with-sarah-wynn-williams
* #London: Downstream IRL with Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
https://dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/oen5rr-downstream-irl-aaron-bastani-in-conversation-with-cory-doctorow-17th-nov-earth-london-tickets
* #London: Enshittification with Carole Cadwalladr (Frontline Club), Nov 18
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversation-enshittification-tickets-1785553983029
* Virtual: Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library), Nov 21
https://www.crowdcast.io/@bclibraries-present
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