Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Catch this! and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/16/interrupt-driven/
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Catch this! and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/16/interrupt-driven/
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I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Jan 22 at The Tattered Cover:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
And in #ColoradoSprings from Jan 23-25, where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:
https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:
https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/
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Hey look at this
* Minneapolis Labor, Community Leaders Join Call for Jan. 23 General Strike to Demand ICE Out https://www.commondreams.org/news/minneapolis-ice-general-strike
* Bankrupt scooter startup left one private key to rule them all https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/bankrupt_scooter_startup_key/
* Equilibrium (is) for Dummies https://profstevekeen.substack.com/p/equilibrium-is-for-dummies
* Investors Have a Large Footprint in Certain Rental Markets. It Just Depends on Where You Look. https://www.thesling.org/investors-have-a-large-footprint-in-certain-rental-markets-it-just-depends-on-where-you-look/
* Everything Costs More Because the Algorithm Says So https://thewalrus.ca/everything-costs-more-because-the-algorithm-says-so/
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#25yrsago Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s formal excommunication from the Latter Day Saints https://web.archive.org/web/20010203204300/http://www.panix.com/~pnh/GodandI.html
#20yrsago King Foundation uses copyright to suppress “I Have a Dream” speech https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/14/AR2006011400980.html
#20yrsago Firefly fans trying to raise enough dough to produce a new season https://web.archive.org/web/20060118033219/https://www.browncoatsriseagain.com/
#20yrsago New discussion draft of GNU General Public License is released https://gplv3.fsf.org/
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#10yrsago “Late stage capitalism” is the new “Christ, what an asshole” https://x.com/mjg59/status/688238257935548416
#10yrsago Worried about Chinese spies, the FBI freaked out about Epcot Center https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2016/jan/14/fbi-epcot/
#10yrsago India’s Internet activists have a SOPA moment: no “poor Internet for poor people” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/15/india-net-neutrality-activists-facebook-free-basics
#5yrsago Pelosi kicks Katie Porter off the Finance Committee https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/16/speaker-willie-sutton/#swampgator
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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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