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Pluralistic: By all means, tread on those people (26 Aug 2025)
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By all means, tread on those people: We know you love freedom, we just wish you'd share.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: The right to bear cameras; GOP wants slavery for undocumented migrants; Telepresence Nazi-punching.
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Continue reading "Pluralistic: By all means, tread on those people (26 Aug 2025)"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on August 26, 2025September 1, 2025Categories UncategorizedTags amazon, audiobooks, binding arbitration, Bluesky, class action, cloud computing, copyfight, drm, ebooks, enshittification, floss, foss, free software, free speech, google, monopolies, monopolism, open source, oss, rule of law, sideloading, sole and despotic dominion, trustbusting, wilhoits law5 Comments on Pluralistic: By all means, tread on those people (26 Aug 2025)
Pluralistic: Enshittification, the audiobook (the Kickstarter) (25 Aug 2025)
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Enshittification, the audiobook (the Kickstarter): A disenshittified audiobook about enshittification.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: Open source DRM?!; Sad Puppies lose big; Meritocratic delusion.
Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.
Recent appearances: Where I've been.
Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.
Continue reading "Pluralistic: Enshittification, the audiobook (the Kickstarter) (25 Aug 2025)"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on August 25, 2025August 26, 2025Categories UncategorizedTags amazon, art books, audible, audiobooks, books, canny valley, collage, crowdfunding, ebooks, enshittification, kickstarter, publishing, trustbustingLeave a comment on Pluralistic: Enshittification, the audiobook (the Kickstarter) (25 Aug 2025)
Pluralistic: Which jobs can be replaced with AI? (06 Aug 2025)
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Which jobs can be replaced with AI?: Jobs that have already be degraded to the point of uselessness.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: Circular batteries; Prison for file-sharing, Satanic abortions.
Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.
Recent appearances: Where I've been.
Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on August 6, 2025August 15, 2025Categories UncategorizedTags ai, audiobooks, automation, bullshit jobs, customer service, enshittification, labor, late-stage capitalismLeave a comment on Pluralistic: Which jobs can be replaced with AI? (06 Aug 2025)
Pluralistic: How my DRM-free principles left me owning the rights to a German audiobook (21 Jul 2025)
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How my DRM-free principles left me owning the rights to a German audiobook: This isn't my usual crowdfunder!
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: Internet addiction, Dems fund DHS urban invasions, AI art and anti-cooption, FCC vs prison profiteers
Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.
Recent appearances: Where I've been.
Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.
Continue reading "Pluralistic: How my DRM-free principles left me owning the rights to a German audiobook (21 Jul 2025)"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on July 21, 2025August 1, 2025Categories UncategorizedTags anticircumvention, article 6, audiobooks, auf deutsch, bitcoin, crowdfunder, crowdfunding, cryptocurrency, drm, drm-free, drm-frei, eucd, german, heists, horbuch, kickstarter, red team blues, uve teschner1 Comment on Pluralistic: How my DRM-free principles left me owning the rights to a German audiobook (21 Jul 2025)
Pluralistic: Kickstarting a new Martin Hench novel about the dawn of enshittification (07 Jan 2025)
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Kickstarting a new Martin Hench novel about the dawn of enshittification: A crime thriller of pyramid schemes, faith scams, weird PCs, Reaganomics, punk rock, and San Francisco during the AIDS crisis (and Amazon won't sell it!).
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2005, 2020
Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.
Recent appearances: Where I've been.
Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on January 7, 2025January 15, 2025Categories UncategorizedTags amazon, armistead maupin, audible, audiobooks, books, crime, crime thrillers, crowdfunding, cults, drm, martin hench, marty hench, monopolies, novels, punk, pyramid schemes, queer, religion, san francisco, science fiction, technothrillers, the eighties, thrillers, weird pcs, wil wheaton6 Comments on Pluralistic: Kickstarting a new Martin Hench novel about the dawn of enshittification (07 Jan 2025)
Pluralistic: Kitchensink callithump linkdump (29 Jun 2024)
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Kitchensink callithump linkdump: All the news I couldn't fit.
This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019
Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.
Recent appearances: Where I've been.
Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on June 29, 2024July 1, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags Adam Levitin, ai, andrew d white professor at large, audiobooks, authors against book bans, bankruptcy, book art, book bans, books, bragging, cornell university, crowdfunding, drm, games, health care, hospitals, ithaca, javae berry, john d berry, john demerritt, kickstarter, linkdump, linkdumps, maggie tokuda-hall, marty hench, microsoft, mmos, monopolization, nonconsensual third party releases, playready, price gouging, purdue pharma, raph koster, red team blues, s-curves, scaling, scotus, stars reach, storyfair, the bezzle8 Comments on Pluralistic: Kitchensink callithump linkdump (29 Jun 2024)
Pluralistic: Uplinkchump Linkdump (08 Jun 2024)
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Uplinkchump Linkdump: A bushel of links for the weekend.
This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023
Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.
Recent appearances: Where I've been.
Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on June 8, 2024June 15, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags amazon, antitrust, audiobooks, bad plumbing, campus protests, crowdfunding, delivery service provider, doj, dsp, eff, ftc, games, kickstarter, kids, labor, libro.fm, linkdump, linkdumps, long covid, long covid denial, maureen Tkacik, microsoft, nih, nvidia, openai, opsec, price gouging, pricing, ramsi woodcock, surge pricing, surveillance, surveillance self defense, the rent's too damned high, uber, weaponized shelter5 Comments on Pluralistic: Uplinkchump Linkdump (08 Jun 2024)
Pluralistic: Kickstarting "The Bezzle" audiobook, sequel to Red Team Blues (10 Jan 2024)
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Kickstarting "The Bezzle" audiobook, sequel to Red Team Blues: Another Wil Wheaton banger, necessitated by Amazon's perfidy.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2004, 2014, 2019, 2023
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: Kickstarting "The Bezzle" audiobook, sequel to Red Team Blues (10 Jan 2024)"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on January 10, 2024January 15, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags audible, audiobooks, bezzles, crowdfunding, disciplinary technology, kickstarter, martin hench, marty hench, prison-tech, publishing, red team blues, reits, science fiction, shitty technology adoption curve, the bezzle, wil wheaton, wilw1 Comment on Pluralistic: Kickstarting "The Bezzle" audiobook, sequel to Red Team Blues (10 Jan 2024)
Pluralistic: Microsoft put their tax-evasion in writing and now they owe $29 billion; The Lost Cause prologue, part 6 (13 Oct 2023)
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Microsoft put their tax-evasion in writing and now they owe $29 billion: The process is the punishment.
The Lost Cause prologue, part 6: Big finish!
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: Microsoft put their tax-evasion in writing and now they owe $29 billion; The Lost Cause prologue, part 6 (13 Oct 2023)"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on October 13, 2023October 18, 2023Categories UncategorizedTags audiobooks, big tech cant stop telling on itself, books, clifi, corporate crime, crowdfunding, fiction, irs, micros~1, microsoft, pour encouragez les autres, puerto rico, puertopia, pure tax play, rough ride, science fiction, solarpunk, steve ballmer, tax avoidance, tax evasion, the lost cause, the procedure is the punishment3 Comments on Pluralistic: Microsoft put their tax-evasion in writing and now they owe $29 billion; The Lost Cause prologue, part 6 (13 Oct 2023)
Pluralistic: Stellantis wants to make scabbing woke; The Lost Cause prologue, Part V (11 Oct 2023)
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Stellantis wants to make scabbing woke: The real DEI was the collective bargaining unit we formed along the way.
The Lost Cause prologue, Part V: Fuck around, find out.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: Stellantis wants to make scabbing woke; The Lost Cause prologue, Part V (11 Oct 2023)"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on October 11, 2023October 15, 2023Categories UncategorizedTags audiobooks, books, clifi, company unions, crowdfunding, fiction, gender, general motors, gm, labor, liberalism, race, science fiction, solarpunk, stellantis, strikes, the lost cause, uaw, woke capitalism, wokewashing1 Comment on Pluralistic: Stellantis wants to make scabbing woke; The Lost Cause prologue, Part V (11 Oct 2023)
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