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2026-11-05 01:04:00
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Cory Doctorow
pluralistic@mamot.fr
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Inside: Without CDA 230, Facebook will own the internet forever; and more!
Archived at:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/05/see-you-in-court/
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A hand-tinted black and white photo of a nighttime outdoor square dance in the 1930s. In the center of the dancers stands a rampant demon from a 16th C grimoire, about to pounce on the revelers.
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2026-11-05 01:04:40
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Cory Doctorow
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Without CDA 230, Facebook will own the internet forever: Small, well-managed online communities are especially vulnerable to legal threats.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117562996946894433
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2026-11-05 01:05:08
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Hey look at this
* AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-cybersecurity-php2shell-vulnerability
* Anti-Monopolists Soared in the Midterms. You Can Help With What's Next.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/ten-things-to-know-about-this-crushing
* Resume Bank
https://www.economicliberties.us/resume-bank/
* Welcome to Chud Nuremberg
https://www.garbageday.email/p/welcome-to-chud-nuremberg
* Petition to the Government of Canada
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7718
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2026-11-05 01:05:34
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#25yrsago
Dutch cops bombard stolen phones with SMSes
https://web.archive.org/web/20011106210234/https://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171836.html
#20yrsago
Levy’s Perfect Thing: eye-opening iPod book
https://memex.craphound.com/2006/11/05/levys-perfect-thing-eye-opening-ipod-book/
#20yrsago
Army recruiters to students: “Iraq war is over”
https://abcnews.com/GMA/story?id=2626032&page=1
#15yrsago
Occupier/Army Ranger in ICU: Oakland PD “jumped me”
https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/04/us-protests-oakland-veteran-idUSTRE7A37A820111104/
#15yrsago
Prisoner’s toothpick replicas of Final Fantasy weapons
https://web.archive.org/web/20111105071751/https://www.geekosystem.com/prisoner-builds-final-fantasy-swords-matchsticks/
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2026-11-05 01:05:47
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#10yrsago
Canadians are getting “blackmailed” by US copyright trolls
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/copyright-infringement-notice-canada-piracy-1.3831492
#10yrsago
Eleanor & Park: a terrifying YA romance that has rescued its readers and frightened their parents
https://memex.craphound.com/2016/11/05/eleanor-park-a-terrifying-ya-romance-that-has-rescued-its-readers-and-frightened-their-parents/
#10yrsago
Chrome is about to start warning users that non-HTTPS sites are insecure
https://www.wired.com/2016/11/googles-chrome-hackers-flip-webs-security-model/
#10yrsago
Rebecca Solnit’s open letter to Trump: You should really visit New York some time
https://lithub.com/new-york-city-is-a-book-conservatives-should-read/
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2026-11-05 01:06:07
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#10yrsago
The New York Times’s GOP voter-suppression retrogame: “The Voter Suppression Trail”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/01/opinion/voting-suppression-videogame.html
#10yrsago
Toronto Star compiles a comprehensive list of Trump’s election-season lies
https://web.archive.org/web/20161105070153/https://www.thestar.com/news/world/uselection/2016/11/04/donald-trump-the-unauthorized-database-of-false-things.html
#1yrago
"Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works"
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/05/xor-xand-xnor-nand-nor/#brawniac
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2026-11-05 01:06:19
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Yesterday's threads: The AI fatfinger economy has come for my receipts app; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117558049144148061
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2026-11-05 01:06:30
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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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2026-11-05 01:06:42
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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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2026-11-05 01:07:00
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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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2026-11-05 01:07:16
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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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2026-11-05 01:07:29
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Recent appearances:
* Clint Eastwood (No Gods No Mayors)
https://www.patreon.com/NoGodsNoMayors/posts/clint-eastwood-173008088
* Life After AI (Brain Bar)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPPa43-n0vI
* Terms of Service with Clare Duffy (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/terms-of-service-with-clare-duffy/episodes/458ce968-af5d-11f0-b539-13ed2afe25f8
* AI, Work, and Power (Software Engineering Daily)
AI, Work, and Power
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/podcasts/cory-doctorow-on-ai-work-and-power/
* AI, Corporate Power, and the Fight for Worker Control (Plutopia)
https://plutopia.io/cory-doctorow-ai-corporate-power-and-the-fight-for-worker-control/
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2026-11-05 01:07:37
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You can follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!
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2026-11-05 01:08:11
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I'm also on Bluesky. Read today's thread there at:
https://bsky.app/profile/doctorow.pluralistic.net/post/3mzkj3fy4bk2j
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