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Inside: The age of disinvention; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/25/gammamax/
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https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117159662819871806
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Hey look at this
* Why Political Moderates Are Losing https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-political-moderates-are-losing
* Trump tried to curb clean energy. It’s booming anyway. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/trump-tried-to-curb-clean-energy-its-booming-anyway/
* The AI Hater's Manifesto https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-haters-manifesto/
* Amazon’s Monopoly Problem Is Growing https://prospect.org/2026/08/25/amazons-monopoly-problem-is-growing/
* More Details Emerge On How Trump Cronyism Ruined The Attempt To Break Up Ticketmaster https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/25/more-details-emerge-on-how-trump-cronyism-ruined-the-attempt-to-break-up-ticketmaster/
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#25yrsago Metacrap https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/metacrap.htm
#15yrsago Slashdot’s CmdrTaco steps down https://meta.slashdot.org/story/11/08/25/1245200/Rob-CmdrTaco-Malda-Resigns-From-Slashdot
#15yrsago Chalk memorial for Jack Layton in front of Toronto’s New City Hall https://www.flickr.com/photos/lewolf011/6076393292/
#15yrsago Coordinated multinational ATM fraud nets $13M in one night https://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/08/coordinated-atm-heist-nets-thieves-13m/
#5yrsago Vaccinate workers at (almost) any price https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/26/chained-to-the-mast/#vaccine-leave-hesitancy
#1yrago By all means, tread on those people https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/sole-and-despotic-dominion/#then-they-came-for-me
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Yesterday's threads: How Canada can save Americans and defeat America; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117152640762373520
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My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling"The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621568/thereversecentaursguidetolifeafterai/
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My previous nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It":
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
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:
* #London: AI and the Enshittification of the Media, NUJ (Sep 2)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-and-the-enshittification-of-the-media-tickets-1997771682882
* #Brighton: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Carole Cadwalladr (Brighton Dome), Sep 8
https://brightondome.org/whats-on/LSC-cory-doctorow-the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai/
* #Manchester: Take Back Big Tech with Jovan Owusu-Nepaul (House of Books and Friends), Sep 11
https://ma.to/event/cory-doctorow-house-of-books-and-friends-11-sep-2026
* #London: Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Riley Quinn (Foyle's Picadilly), Sep 9
https://www.foyles.co.uk/events/enshittification-cory-doctorow-riley-quinn
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #SouthBend: An Evening With Cory Doctorow (Notre Dame), Oct 6
https://franco.nd.edu/events/2026/10/06/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/
* #Hudson, OH: Hudson Library, Oct 7
https://engagedpatrons.org/EventsExtended.cfm?SiteID=3850&EventID=596952&PK=
* #Victoria: Munro's Books, Oct 20
https://www.munrobooks.com/events/6113620261020
* #Vancouver: BC Policy Solutions Gala, Nov 12
https://bcpolicy.ca/gala/
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Upcoming appearances:
* London: AI and the Enshittification of the Media, NUJ (Sep 2)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-and-the-enshittification-of-the-media-tickets-1997771682882
* Brighton: Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Carole Cadwalladr (Brighton Dome), Sep 8
https://brightondome.org/whats-on/LSC-cory-doctorow-the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai/
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Recent appearances:
* How Tech Platforms Took Over the Economy (Dystopia Now)
https://sites.libsyn.com/566555/enshittification-and-reverse-centaurs-cory-doctorow-on-how-tech-platforms-took-over-the-economy
* Hope, AI, Fixing the Internet and the Reverse Centaur of it all (Wilosophy)
https://podcastaddict.com/everyone-relax/episode/231414816
* Deflating the AI Bubble (Do Not Pass Go)
https://www.donotpassgo.ca/p/deflating-the-ai-bubble-with-cory
* Technofeudal Enshittification (Fucking Cancelled)
https://www.fuckingcancelled.com/p/technofeudal-enshittification-with
* Who The Machine Serves (EFF)
https://archive.org/details/effecting-change-who-the-machine-serves
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EFFecting Change Who The Machine Serves : Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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I'm also on Bluesky. Read today's thread there at:
https://bsky.app/profile/doctorow.pluralistic.net/post/3mtxh5ri4ck2t
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