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2026-11-04 03:57:54
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Cory Doctorow
pluralistic@mamot.fr
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Inside: The AI fatfinger economy has come for my receipts app; and more!
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https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/04/genius-scan-is-neither/
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2026-11-04 03:58:42
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The AI fatfinger economy has come for my receipts app: Every heretofore useful button now summons a useless AI genie.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117558006008197927
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2026-11-04 03:58:56
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Hey look at this
* Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/google-search-schools-restrict-ai.html
* Private Credit's State Backstop: How Private Equity Socializes Risk Through Insurers
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7152239
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2026-11-04 03:59:22
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#20yrsago
Army Times: Rumsfeld must go!
https://web.archive.org/web/20061107220242/http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110406Z.shtml
#20yrsago
UK is a surveillance society
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6108496.stm
#20yrsago
Record companies sue soccer mom’s kids
https://web.archive.org/web/20061104145550/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110200114.html
#15yrsago
HOWTO make your own skateboard truck lazy-susan table
https://www.instructables.com/Skateboard-Table/
#15yrsago
Home Secretary to OccupyLondon: you’re scaring the tourists
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15588987
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2026-11-04 03:59:37
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#15yrsago
Judge whose daughter released video of him beating her suspended from bench during judicial investigation
https://web.archive.org/web/20111105234141/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_VIDEOTAPED_BEATING_TEXAS
#15yrsago
Prof who keeps announcing links between the Internet, childhood dementia and autism should publish theories in a scientific journal
https://www.badscience.net/2011/11/why-wont-professor-greenfield-publish-this-theory-in-a-scientific-journal/
#10yrsago
Internet of Things botnet threatens to knock the entire country of Liberia offline
https://doublepulsar.com/shadows-kill-mirai-ddos-botnet-testing-large-scale-attacks-sending-threatening-messages-about-6a61553d1c7#.zg4448j8w
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2026-11-04 03:59:55
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#10yrsago
Black Lives Matter declares its opposition to TPP
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/gauis-publius-tpp-has-picked-up-a-powerful-enemy-black-lives-matter.html
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2026-11-04 04:00:07
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Yesterday's threads: Separable; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117553004972702379
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2026-11-04 04:00:18
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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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2026-11-04 04:00:32
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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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2026-11-04 04:00:50
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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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2026-11-04 04:01:08
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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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2026-11-04 04:01:23
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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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