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2026-10-27 02:25:08
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Cory Doctorow
pluralistic@mamot.fr
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Inside: History is something you do; and more!
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https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/27/tied-to-the-tracks/
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A closeup of a roulette wheel at rest. The ball has been replaced with the planet Earth. A flying fist is jetting through the air at it and is about to knock it. Image: Ralf Roletschek (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:13-02-27-spielbank-wiesbaden-by-RalfR-093.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
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2026-10-27 02:25:48
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Cory Doctorow
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History is something you do: Not something that happens to you.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117512103896408257
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2026-10-27 02:26:07
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Hey look at this
* There's No Such Thing as Society in the Objective Function
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/theres-no-such-thing-as-society-in
* The Real Reason AI Is Able to Hack Everything on the Internet
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-real-reason
* Halloween 1960-1964 – Quivers Down The Backbone
https://centuriesofsound.com/2026/10/25/halloween-1960-1964-quivers-down-the-backbone/
* Still On Its Way to Cleveland
https://longreads.com/2026/09/22/family-road-trip-early-internet-90s/
* slurptop
https://slurpburgers.com/slurpbuilds/the-slurptop/
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2026-10-27 02:26:13
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#15yrsago
Canon of St Paul’s resigns over plans to evict Occupy London
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/27/giles-fraser-st-pauls-profile
#15yrsago
Orange County city council unanimous: Occupy tents are a form of speech
https://web.archive.org/web/20111029021151/http://www.occupy-oc.org/tears-stream-as-city-council-unanimously-agrees-occupy-tents-are-a-form-of-speech/
#15yrsago
Edible Venn diagram: the piagram
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/g8nxo/i_realize_its_a_bit_late_for_pi_day_but_heres_my/
#15yrsago
SOPA: US House of Reps copyright bill proposes national censorship, attacks on hosting services, Twitter, YouTube
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/disastrous-ip-legislation-back-–-and-it’s-worse-ever
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2026-10-27 02:26:29
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#15yrsago
Google rejects JWZ’s 2-step plan to end the nym wars
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/10/google-nymwars-redux/
#15yrsago
Toronto mayor confronted by comedy interviewer calls 911, reportedly shouts “You bitches! Don’t you fucking know? I’m Rob fucking Ford, the mayor of this city!
https://www.joeydevilla.com/2011/10/27/im-rob-fucking-ford-or-the-mayor-the-ambush-and-the-911-call/
#15yrsago
Canadian Tory MP: Don’t worry about violating our stupid new copyright law, because we probably won’t catch you if you do
https://web.archive.org/web/20111029155739/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6089/125/
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2026-10-27 02:26:40
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#10yrsago
UK MPs realise that age filtering won’t work so now they just want to block all porn in the UK
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/now-we-want-censorship-the-digital-economy-bill-is-running-out-of-control/
#10yrsago
Samsung abuses copyright to censor satirical exploding phone Grand Theft Auto mod
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/10/samsung-sets-its-reputation-fire-bogus-dmca-takedown-notices
#10yrsago
EU lies and the British tabloids who told them
https://web.archive.org/web/20160626051921/https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/06/daily-chart-15
#10yrsago
The Pirate Party are poised to form Iceland’s government in Saturday’s election
https://qz.com/817784/icelands-pirate-party-looks-likely-to-take-the-countrys-general-election-on-oct-29
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2026-10-27 02:26:56
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#5yrsago
Hospital rings up $2755 upcharge by sending pregnant woman to ER
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/27/crossing-a-line/#zero-fucks-given
#1yrago
Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/27/shit-shack/#binding-arbitration
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2026-10-27 02:27:07
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Yesterday's threads: Sovereign citizens, but for news; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117508043253876084
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2026-10-27 02:27:51
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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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2026-10-27 02:28:01
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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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2026-10-27 02:28:25
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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
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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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#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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2026-10-27 02:28:36
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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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