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2026-10-28 04:04:49
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Cory Doctorow
pluralistic@mamot.fr
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Inside: Agents vs ecommerce; and more!
Archived at:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/28/principle-agent-problem/
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A blasted, dark, cratered moonscape, dominated by an overturned shopping cart, which is being swarmed with killer robots from pulp magazines.
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2026-10-28 04:06:47
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Agents vs ecommerce: Opacity is a feature, not a bug.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117518170412534323
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2026-10-28 04:07:00
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Hey look at this
* Musk: Inside the Suits
https://www.insidethesuits.com/receipts/15-musk-no-further-sales/
* "The day all billionaires died…"
https://www.patreon.com/noneofthisisok/posts/day-all-died-171938052
* Your phone is about to stop being yours
https://keepandroidopen.org/
* Shitter: Alternative Twitter front-end
https://codeberg.org/shitter/shitter
* Saving Social Security
https://prospect.org/2026/10/27/saving-social-security/
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2026-10-28 04:07:12
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#25yrsago
Hack your Aibo
https://web.archive.org/web/20010516005338/http://aibohack.com/
#20yrsago
History of calculator watches
https://watchismo.blogspot.com/2006/10/calculating-history-of-led-calculator.html
#15yrsago
How Occupy has shifted the national debate
https://www.salon.com/2011/10/27/the_victory_ows_has_already_won/
#15yrsago
UK public reimbursed Margaret Thatcher was reimbursed for more than £500K in personal expenses
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/oct/28/margaret-thatcher-expenses-claim
#15yrsago
Depression the Hyperbole and a Half way
https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html
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2026-10-28 04:07:28
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#15yrsago
Philippines president Duterte says God threatened to crash his plane if he didn’t stop swearing
https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/international/2016/10/28/duterte-says-god-told-stop-cursing/
#15yrsago
Public safety codes are now free online for all
https://memex.craphound.com/2016/10/28/public-safety-codes-are-now-free-online-for-all/
#10yrsago
Dr Seuss estate has crushed a kickstarter for a Seuss/Trek mashup
https://web.archive.org/web/20170425161011/https://www.popehat.com/2016/10/26/popehat-signal-help-defend-a-seuss-trek-parody-under-fair-use/
#10yrsago
Undercover with a prepper militia that patrols the border to fight “drug cartels”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/undercover-border-militia-immigration-bauer/
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2026-10-28 04:07:52
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#10yrsago
The “Blacks for Trump” guy used to be in a murder cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20161027133828/https://fusion.net/story/362459/blacks-for-trump-michael-the-black-man-yahweh-cult/
#5yrsago
Europe's trustbusters lose the plot
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/clintons-ghost/#filternet
#5yrsago
All of science gets a general index
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/clintons-ghost/#cornucopia-concordance
#5yrsago
The new DRM-breaking exemptions just dropped
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/clintons-ghost/#felony-contempt-of-business-model
#1yrago
Raymond Biesinger's "9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off"
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/28/productive-seething/#fuck-you-pay-me
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2026-10-28 04:08:19
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Yesterday's threads: History is something you do; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117512149949747081
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2026-10-28 04:08:27
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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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2026-10-28 04:08:42
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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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2026-10-28 04:08:53
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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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#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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2026-10-28 04:09:01
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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
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#Sheffield
: Reverse Centaur at Juno Books, Nov 25
https://www.outsavvy.com/event/40274/cory-doctorow-in-conversation
* 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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2026-10-28 04:09:21
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Cory Doctorow
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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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