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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 4 months ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k-shaped-recovery/

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Uncle Sam staring into a funhouse mirror that has made him painfully thin. The reflection is wearing a Trump wig and has orange skin. He stands atop a map of the world that stretches to infinity. In the background is a shantytown with the TRUMP logomark rising in the sky over it.

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Pluralistic: America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity (16 Dec 2025)

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 4 months ago

#10yrsago Lifelock anti-identity theft service helped man stalk his ex-wife https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/consumers/2015/11/23/lifelock-used-electronically-track-arizona-woman/75535470/

#10yrsago EFF and Human Rights Watch force DEA to destroy its mass surveillance database https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/victory-privacy-and-transparency-hrw-v-dea

#10yrsago Do Androids Dream of Electric Victim-Blamers? https://neverbeenmad.tumblr.com/post/134528463529/voight-kampff-empathy-test-2015-by-smlxist-and

#10yrsago Billionaire GOP superdonors aren’t getting what they paid for https://web.archive.org/web/20181119192737/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/12/gop-billionaires-cant-seem-to-buy-this-election.html

Intelligencer

Republican Billionaires Just Can’t Seem to Buy This Election

Money has poured into the political system. And yet spending the cash haul effectively has never been more difficult.

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Voight-Kampff Empathy Test 2015 by SMLXist and NobleSasquatch (Twitter)

Electronic Frontier Foundation

A Victory for Privacy and Transparency: HRW v. DEA

In a victory for millions of people in the U.S. who have placed telephone calls to locations overseas, EFF and Human Rights Watch have confirmed that the Drug Enforcement Administration’s practice of collecting those records in bulk has stopped and that the only bulk database of those records has...

The Arizona Republic

LifeLock used to electronically track Arizona woman

Arizona woman says ex-husband used LifeLock to electronically track her; company apologizes, promises policy review.

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 4 months ago

#5yrsago EU competition rules have real teeth https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/15/iowa-vs-16-tons-of-bricks/#dsm

#5yrsago Asset forfeiture is just theft https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/15/iowa-vs-16-tons-of-bricks/#stand-and-delivery

#5yrsago Pornhub and payment processors https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/15/iowa-vs-16-tons-of-bricks/#chokepoints

#5yrsago Blockchain voting is bullshit https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/15/iowa-vs-16-tons-of-bricks/#sudoku-voting

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Pluralistic: 15 Dec 2020

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 4 months ago

Yesterday's threads: Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115726119691214207

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 4 months ago

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

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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Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocen...

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New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new...

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 4 months ago

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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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