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2026-10-31 11:05:58
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Cory Doctorow
pluralistic@mamot.fr
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Inside: Formalities; and more!
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https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/31/burn-berne/
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2026-10-31 11:07:27
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Cory Doctorow
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Formalities: When it comes to AI, the Copyright Office is restoring copyright to its proper status, as something you have to work to get.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117536184966334512
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2026-10-31 11:07:37
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Hey look at this
* Adam Conover: Big Divorce Energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVB-SUX7zgk
* Voting machines left unattended, as usual
https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/10/27/voting-machines-left-unattended-as-usual/
* In China, the AI bubble has already burst
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-ai-bubble-has-already-burst-2026-10-26/
* No one loves you more than Exxon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJyQXGynwsgz
* "The Bottle Imps" — new short fiction by Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling
https://boingboing.net/2026/10/30/the-bottle-imps-rudy-rucker-bruce-sterling.html
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2026-10-31 11:07:51
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#25yrsago
Slushpiles v anthrax
https://memex.craphound.com/2001/10/29/some-publishers-have-instituted-new/
#25yrsago
Image analogies
https://mrl.cs.nyu.edu/projects/image-analogies/
#25yrsago
Cleaning the Fucking Kitchen for Dummies
https://web.archive.org/web/20011007082222/https://www.fridgemagnet.org.uk/kitchen.html
#20yrsago
Last minute changes snuck into Aussie DMCA
https://web.archive.org/web/20061104133320/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004975.php
#20yrsago
Creative Commons 3.0 license drafts published
https://creativecommons.org/2006/10/30/version30revisedlicensedrafts/
#20yrsago
Bush legalizes martial law
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/06/10/28/1934208/bush-signs-bill-enabling-martial-law
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2026-10-31 11:08:02
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#20yrsago
No blogging allowed at “consumer generated media” conference
https://web.archive.org/web/20061108055635/http://gregverdino.typepad.com/greg_verdinos_blog/2006/10/social_media_fi.html
#20yrsago
Li'l Sparky: miniature 9V electric chair
https://www.flickr.com/photos/84221353@N00/281833134/in/pool-make/
#20yrsago
New Starbucks stores to open across the street from each other
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2006/oct/29/starbucks-buzzes-along-with-expansion/
#15yrsago
HOWTO defend yourself against tear-gas
https://web.archive.org/web/20111030230740/http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/5Fe8Ye/motherjones.com/mojo/2011/10/ows-flier-defending-against-tear-gas
#15yrsago
How to make a computer that doesn’t lock out GNU/Linux
https://web.archive.org/web/20120113141447/https://www.linuxfoundation.org/sites/main/files/lf_uefi_secure_boot_open_platforms.pdf
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2026-10-31 11:08:15
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#15yrsago
Microsoft buys Skype, attacks reverse engineer with bogus takedown notices and florid language
https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTAwNzI
#15yrsago
Justin Bieber: senator who sponsored anti-streaming bill should be “locked up — put away in cuffs”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/10/justin-bieber-streaming-bill-author-should-be-locked-up/
#15yrsago
SOPA in depth: the worst-ever copyright proposal in US legislative history?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/sopa-hollywood-finally-gets-chance-break-internet
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2026-10-31 11:08:27
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#15yrsago
Fresh German police-malware uncovered; everything the police said in defense to date revealed as lies
https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2011/analysiert-aktueller-staatstrojaner
#15yrsago
Russia dumps daylight savings
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-15512177
#15yrsago
Class War funnies: 1935 Daily Worker comics
https://philnel.com/2011/02/02/hoff_teeth/
#15yrsago
Christian groups: we will bodily protect Occupy London from St Paul’s
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/oct/29/christians-defend-occupy-london-protest
#15yrsago
Dean of St Paul’s resigns over plan to evict OccupyLondon
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/oct/31/dean-st-pauls-resigns-occupy
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2026-10-31 11:08:40
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#15yrsago
The future of the living room: Authorised Domain
https://dn711102.ca.archive.org/0/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_215/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_215_Authorised_Domain.mp3
#15yrsago
Sales tax is still regressive, gravity still sucks, and George Osborne is still a delusional ideologue
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-15519727
#15yrsago
Prince Charles exercises a secret veto over a wide swath of UK legislation
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/oct/30/prince-charles-offered-veto-legislation
#15yrsago
London cops recording movements & association with mobile tracking device: “blanket & indiscriminate”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/oct/30/metropolitan-police-mobile-phone-surveillance
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2026-10-31 11:08:51
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#10yrsago
The Shadow Brokers dump more intel from the NSA’s elite Equation Group
https://medium.com/@shadowbrokerss/message-5-trick-or-treat-e43f946f93e6#.x2c36nsfq
#10yrsago
Wells Fargo blackballed employees who refused to commit fraud, forcing them out of the industry forever
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/10/28/499805238/episode-732-bad-form-wells-fargo
#10yrsago
Listen: free recordings of Edgar Allen Poe stories, read by Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone
https://open.spotify.com/album/6xDmRcD6sgsGbDvBRpyH5H?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open
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2026-10-31 11:09:02
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#10yrsago
How Minnesota’s governor performed an economic miracle by raising tax on the rich and increasing minimum wage
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-dayton-minnesota-economy_b_6737786
#10yrsago
Icelandic women walk off the job 14% early to protest 14% pay-gap
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/women-iceland-protest-gender-wage-gap
#10yrsago
Snowden to journalists: your best defense is legal limits on spying, not cryptography
https://medium.com/global-editors-network/e-snowden-against-surveillance-journalists-engagement-more-efficient-than-encryption-dbfbacdf9463#.jd6u431fo
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2026-10-31 11:09:18
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#10yrsago
After North Carolina Republicans banned cities selling internet, a town decided to give it away instead
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/city-isp-makes-broadband-free-because-state-law-prohibits-selling-access/
#5yrsago
LaserWriter II
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/29/norwegian-potato-flour-enchiladas/#r2r
#5yrsago
Now, Put It Back!
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/31/now-put-it-back/
#1yrago
The internet was made for privacy
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/31/losing-the-crypto-wars/#surveillance-monopolism
#1yrago
When AI prophecy fails
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/29/worker-frightening-machines/#robots-stole-your-jerb-kinda
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2026-10-31 11:09:27
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Wednesday's threads: Agents vs ecommerce; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117518204218903177
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2026-10-31 11:09:35
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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/
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2026-10-31 11:09:58
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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."
https://craphound.com/shop/
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2026-10-31 11:10:09
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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
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#Kilkenny
: Kilkenomics, Nov 6-8
https://kilkenomics.com/
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#Courtenay
: Enshittification (Sid Williams Theatre Society), Nov 10
https://www.sidwilliamstheatre.com/events/cory-doctorow-talks-enshittification/
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#Vancouver
: BC Policy Solutions Gala, Nov 12
https://bcpolicy.ca/gala/
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#Folkestone
Writers Festival, Nov 16
https://www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/cory-doctorow-the-internet-is-broken-now-what/
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#Oxford
: Ministry of the Future, Nov 23
https://ministryforthefuture.co.uk/events.html
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#Sheffield
: Reverse Centaur at Juno Books, Nov 25
https://www.outsavvy.com/event/40274/cory-doctorow-in-conversation
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2026-10-31 11:10:29
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Virtual: Enshittification, AI, and the Future of Technology (UBC Master of Educational Technology), Nov 28
https://met.ubc.ca/2026/09/met-speaker-series-cory-doctorow-enshittification-ai-and-the-future-of-technology/
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#Oxford
: Bennett Oxford Symposium on Open Code in Science, Dec 9
https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/events/2026-bennett-institute-symposium/
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#Montreal
: World Science Fiction Convention, Sep 2-6
https://montreal2027.ca/en
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