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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#10yrsago Multi-generational cruelty: America’s prisons shutting down kids’ visitations https://web.archive.org/web/20151204063410/https://www.thenation.com/article/2-7m-kids-have-parents-in-prison-theyre-losing-their-right-to-visit/
#10yrsago READ: Kim Stanley Robinson’s first standalone story in 25 years! https://reactormag.com/oral-argument-kim-stanley-robinson//
#10yrsago French Ministry of Interior wants to ban open wifi, Tor https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/france-looking-at-banning-tor-blocking-public-wi-fi/
#5yrsago China’s war on big data backstabbing https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/07/backstabbed/#big-data-backstabbing
#5yrsago The largest strike in human history https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/06/surveillance-tulip-bulbs/#modi-miscalulation
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#5yrsago Ad-tech as a bubble overdue for a bursting https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/06/surveillance-tulip-bulbs/#adtech-bubble
#1yrago Battery rationality https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/06/shoenabombers/#paging-dick-cheney
#1yrago A year in illustration (2024) https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/07/great-kepplers-ghost/#art-adjacent
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Saturday's threads: Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism"; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115674761066650994
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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:
* Virtual: Poetic Technologies with Brian Eno (David Graeber Institute), Dec 8
https://davidgraeber.institute/poetic-technologies-with-cory-doctorow-and-brian-eno/
* #Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
https://rjjulia.com/event/2025-12-08/cory-doctorow-enshittification
* #Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/infos/index.html
* #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/
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