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2026-11-10 09:53:23
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Cory Doctorow
pluralistic@mamot.fr
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Inside: The EU should go big and hard over border IT failure; and more!
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https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/10/worst-of-all-worlds/
#Pluralistic
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2026-11-10 09:53:51
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The EU should go big and hard over border IT failure: Sometimes you have to execute an IT contractor to encourage the others.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117593358460986763
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2026-11-10 09:54:13
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Hey look at this
* You Don’t Understand Engineering Principles
https://erikjlarson.substack.com/p/you-dont-understand-engineering-principles-634
* Determining Location By Listening For Airplanes
https://hackaday.com/2026/11/09/determining-location-by-listening-for-airplanes/
* Data center buildout | PressAudit
https://pressaudit.org/dashboards/datacenters?chart=datacenter-buildout&tab=buildout-map
* Why Fewer People Are Challenging Bad Patents
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/why-fewer-people-are-challenging-bad-patents
* The Garbage Man: Bill Gates Has Earned Billions Investing in Climate-Polluting Landfills
https://www.propublica.org/article/bill-gates-republic-landfill-methane-pollution
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2026-11-10 09:54:24
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#20yrsago
Toothpick sculptures
https://web.archive.org/web/20061107232205/https://landmarksofsf.com/photoindex.html
#20yrsago
Computer-human interaction that gives hands their due respect
https://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/
#15yrsago
Warner Bros admits it sends takedown notices for files it hasn’t seen and doesn’t own
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/11/warner-admits-it-issues-takedowns-for-files-it-hasnt-looked-at/
#15yrsago
Understanding McDonald’s as a commodities broker with a restaurant sideline: the McRib
https://www.theawl.com/2011/11/a-conspiracy-of-hogs-the-mcrib-as-arbitrage/
#15yrsago
Why we get the future of tech wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUXh-GPa5dI
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2026-11-10 09:54:41
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#15yrsago
Fake British WWII passport for Hitler
https://web.archive.org/web/20120608185357/https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/museum/item.asp?item_id=46
#15yrsago
French court sends EDF execs to jail for hacking, spying on Greenpeace
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-15683090
#10yrsago
Trump Administration: a climate denier for the EPA, a Goldman-Sachs banker for Treasury
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/who-is-in-president-trump-cabinet-231071
#10yrsago
How science fiction can help us survive Trump’s America
https://www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/the_prospect_be/
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2026-11-10 09:55:00
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#10yrsago
Clinton’s data-driven “ground game” sucked in exactly the same way “targeted ads” suck, for the same reason
https://web.archive.org/web/20161111084125/http://tomewing.tumblr.com/post/152963356681/polls-etc
#10yrsago
The first transgender suicide hotline: 877-565-8860
https://translifeline.org/
#5yrsago
Risk compensation considered harmful
https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/10/elfin-safety/#mene-mene-tekel
#1yrago
"Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital"
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/10/zero-sum-zero-hours/#that-sounds-like-a-you-problem
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2026-11-10 09:55:18
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Yesterday's threads: America cannot undo Trumpism; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117585502900221383
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2026-11-10 09:55:25
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Cory Doctorow
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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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2026-11-10 09:55:42
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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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2026-11-10 09:55:50
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Upcoming appearances:
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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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