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2026-10-21 13:40:09
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Cory Doctorow
pluralistic@mamot.fr
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Inside: Adversarial interoperability is a team sport; and more!
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https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/21/brittle-individualism/
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A medieval engraving of an Italianate city; floating in the middle is a giant skull (anterior view).> Surrounding the skull is a series of 17th C European machine parts, being worked by tiny engravings of 17th C rude mechanicals. A strangely erotic, massive flower looms out of the right; standing amid its proudly thrusting stamen is a 17th C swordsman.
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2026-10-21 13:42:52
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Adversarial interoperability is a team sport: Vibe-coded jailbreaks are fun, but don't solve the problem.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117480705452523609
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2026-10-21 13:44:41
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Hey look at this
* Musk's Fake Flying Car And 'CEO Said A Thing!' Journalism
https://karlbode.com/musks-fake-flying-car-and-ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/
* High schoolers, students: the twilight of macronism
https://thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2026/10/20/high-schoolers-students-the-twilight-of-macronism/
* The Singularity has been postponed
https://johnquigginblog.substack.com/p/the-singularity-has-been-postponed-e77
* How to install an app on your Commodore 64
https://www.anildash.com/2026/10/08/install-an-app-commodore-64/
* A scammer could use what’s already exposed about you.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/out-there
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2026-10-21 13:45:31
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#25yrsago
Secret recording of Labour Whip demanding support for Iraq invasion
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/oct/22/uk.september11
#25yrsago
LoC launches emulator-based digital file preservation
https://web.archive.org/web/20011217002337/http://www.techreview.com/magazine/oct01/innovation5.asp
#25yrsago
Kevin Mitnick to play CIA lackey
https://web.archive.org/web/20011111105016/http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/22395.html
#15yrsago
ACLU Tennessee brings suit against ICE officers who broke into house and said, “We don’t need a warrant, we’re ICE, the warrant is coming out of my balls.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20111025092605/http://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/we-dont-need-warrant-were-ice/
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2026-10-21 13:46:09
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#15yrsago
WIPO’s secret, corporate-run trademark enforcement meeting
https://web.archive.org/web/20220121054715/https://craphound.com/PROGRAMManilaEdited10212011-FINAL.pdf
#15yrsago
Canada’s Supreme Court: Linking isn’t libel
https://web.archive.org/web/20111026134334/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15374238
#15yrsago
HOWTO recreate the Haunted Mansion’s singing busts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRtiiMW47i4
#10yrsago
Facebook’s crackdown on publishers feeds has sites paying celebs to repost
https://digiday.com/media/facebook-thirsty-publishers-turn-celebrities-worm-news-feed/
#10yrsago
Internet-destroying outages were caused by “amateurish” IoT malware
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/hacked-cameras-dvrs-powered-todays-massive-internet-outage/
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2026-10-21 13:47:17
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#10yrsago
Tory minister’s filibuster kills Turing’s law and pardons for 65,000 persecuted gay men
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/oct/21/chris-bryant-commons-plea-gay-pardon-law
#10yrsago
Trump hotels, faced with massive declines in bookings, rebrand as “Scion Hotels”
https://web.archive.org/web/20161023182616/http://www.travelandleisure.com/hotels-resorts/trump-scion-hotels
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2026-10-21 13:48:44
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Yesterday's threads: The death of history's most successful publisher; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117474439287018854
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2026-10-21 13:49:08
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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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2026-10-21 13:51:20
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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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2026-10-21 13:51:41
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Upcoming appearances:
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#Vancouver
: Life After AI (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 22
https://writersfest.bc.ca/festival-event-2026/46
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#Ottawa
: Life After AI (Ottawa Writers Festival), Oct 24
https://writersfestival.org/event/life-after-ai
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#Vienna
: TED AI, Oct 28-30
https://tedai-vienna.ted.com/
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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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