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2026-10-26 09:00:45
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Cory Doctorow
pluralistic@mamot.fr
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Inside: Sovereign citizens, but for news; and more!
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https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/26/abandon-hope/
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The original Art Deco LA Times building. Draped over it is a fringed naval flag. Superimposed over the building is the text of the LAT's outrageous dickover 'consent' dialog.
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2026-10-26 09:02:03
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Cory Doctorow
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Sovereign citizens, but for news: By reading the LA Times, you agree...
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117507997881501164
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2026-10-26 09:02:49
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Hey look at this
* Dial Up Modem Sounds, from 300 bps to 56K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xalTFH5ht-k
* Colonialism or Appropriation? Alphabets, Print, and Latin as New Technologies of Communication among the 16th-century Nahua
https://jorgecanizaresesguerra.medium.com/colonialism-or-appropriation-488a3c0bdaee
* The Lindsey Graham Files
https://www.lindseyfiles.com
* The Planning Starts Now
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/10/trump-accountability-legal-acts-impeachment-guide.html?gift_token=3lvYQO-uSRKXTV0qluiZyg
* Interoperability vs. Security: Why not both?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/interoperability-vs-security-why-not-both
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2026-10-26 09:03:03
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#25yrsago
RIAA denies asking for criminal immunity for hacking your computer
https://memex.craphound.com/2001/10/26/remember-when-the-riaa-tried/
#20yrsago
Big Mac pumpkin
https://web.archive.org/web/20061031170037/http://bitsandpieces1.blogspot.com/2006/10/big-mac-pumpkin.html
#20yrsago
Going Under: moving kids’ novel
https://memex.craphound.com/2006/10/26/going-under-moving-kids-novel/
#20yrsago
Accountants patent tax-dodges
https://web.archive.org/web/20061029080957/http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/19/business/norris20.php
#20yrsago
6-word sf stories
https://web.archive.org/web/20061109183215/https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html
#15yrsago
Using machine translation techniques to attack ciphers reveals secrets of ancient German ophthalmology cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20111025035607/http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/copiale-11.pdf
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2026-10-26 09:03:14
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#15yrsago
The Homeland Directive: taut technothriller for the paranoid era
https://memex.craphound.com/2011/10/25/the-homeland-directive-taut-technothriller-for-the-paranoid-era/
#15yrsago
NewsCorp shareholders revolt against Murdoch family
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/may/08/rupert-murdoch-news-corporation
#15yrsago
One-percenter: why I support Occupy
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/10/21/1028500/community/A-Voice-From-the-1/
#15yrsago
Debunking the OccupyLondon “empty tents” story
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/oct/25/occupy-london-part-time-protest
#15yrsago
Machine Man: a discomfiting novel about the antihuman side of transhumanism
https://memex.craphound.com/2011/10/26/machine-man-a-discomfiting-novel-about-the-antihuman-side-of-transhumanism/
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2026-10-26 09:03:22
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#15yrsago
Goths age gracefully
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/oct/24/goth-culture-research
#10yrsago
Everfair: a diverse, ambitious steampunk novel of Fabian socialists and American Black Zionists in Belgian Congo
https://memex.craphound.com/2016/10/26/everfair-a-diverse-ambitious-steampunk-novel-of-fabian-socialists-and-american-black-zionists-in-belgian-congo/
#10yrsago
Leaked Kremlin memos reveal plan to destabilize Ukraine
https://globalvoices.org/2016/10/25/hackers-publish-kremlin-aides-e-mails-allege-plan-to-destabilize-ukraine/
#10yrsago
When the FCC asked about unlocking set-top boxes, the Copyright Office ran to the MPAA
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/10/newly-released-documents-show-hollywood-influenced-copyright-offices-comments-set
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2026-10-26 09:03:40
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#10yrsago
Pussy Riot’s “Straight Outta Vagina”: sacrelicious Russian feminist pop anthem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp-KeVBNz0A
#10yrsago
TED talk about remixes and appropriating made by remixing and appropriating TED talks about remixing and appropriating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLlbzI5HURM
#10yrsago
Warner Bros angry that someone other than the MPAA is running an illegal internal movie server
https://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-claims-agency-ran-its-own-pirate-movie-site-161025/
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2026-10-26 09:03:54
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#10yrsago
AT&T developed a “product” for spying on all its customers and made millions selling it to warrantless cops
https://web.archive.org/web/20170504105645/https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/25/at-t-is-spying-on-americans-for-profit
#10yrsago
Lawsuit: mayor’s social media blocklists are public records
https://www.techdirt.com/2016/10/24/pinac-director-sues-miami-beach-mayor-over-refusal-to-release-social-media-blocklists/
#10yrsago
EFF asks court to let American sue Ethiopia for hacking his computer and rounding up his friends
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/american-illegally-wiretapped-home-ethiopian-government-deserves-his-day-court-eff
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2026-10-26 09:04:15
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#10yrsago
Donald Trump’s super PAC promised a Chinese millionaire access, influence in exchange for a secret $2 million donation
https://web.archive.org/web/20161024192242/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/24/exclusive-investigation-donald-trump-faces-foreign-donor-fundrai/
#10yrsago
Al Franken and FCC commissioner Clyburn want limits on forced arbitration
https://time.com/4541176/al-franken-arbitration-clauses/?iid=sr-link1
#10yrsago
Mercedes’ weird “Trolley Problem” announcement continues stupid debate about self-driving cars
https://memex.craphound.com/2016/10/25/mercedes-weird-trolley-problem-announcement-continues-dumb-debate-about-self-driving-cars/
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2026-10-26 09:04:36
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Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago
When Californians vote on legal weed, they’ll also vote on wiping millions of arrest records
https://web.archive.org/web/20161027161505/https://motherboard.vice.com/read/california-to-vote-on-wiping-old-weed-arrests
#10yrsago
Dickhead’s anti-yoga-pants letter to the editor sparks yoga-pants-parade
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37751422
#10yrsago
RIP science fiction great Sheri Tepper
https://locusmag.com/2016/10/sheri-s-tepper-1929-2016/
#5yrsago
The Dems' most secret Congressional committee
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/25/people-do-stuff/#personnel-are-policy
#5yrsago
Maxing out our global credit-card with authoritarian debt
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/26/inequality-and-guard-labor/#just-watch-me
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2026-10-26 09:05:12
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Cory Doctorow
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Friday's threads: Critique and writing; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117492227963597490
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2026-10-26 09:05:22
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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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2026-10-26 09:05:46
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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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2026-10-26 09:06:00
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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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2026-10-26 09:06:13
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Cory Doctorow
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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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2026-10-26 09:06:45
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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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2026-10-26 09:06:51
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2026-10-26 10:15:34
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noncompete is misspelled once as "noncomplete" (spelled correctly in the following sentence).
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