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Pluralistic: O(N^2) nationalism (26 Nov 2025)
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O(N^2) nationalism: Trumpism can only be defeated through international nationalism.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: Paywall kremlinology; How to fix everything; Office365 is spyware; State-owned Amazon.
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 November 26, 2025December 1, 2025Categories UncategorizedTags anticircumvention, china, cold war 2.0, digital sovereignty, dmca 1201, dollar clearing, enshittification, eurostack, floss, geopolitics, multipolarism, national security, post-american internet, right to repair, sanctions, snowden, solar, supply chain attacks, swift, tariffs, trump tariffs, trumpismLeave a comment on Pluralistic: O(N^2) nationalism (26 Nov 2025)
Pluralistic: Every internet fight is a speech fight (06 Nov 2024)
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Every internet fight is a speech fight: And every internet fight is a sovereignty fight.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 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 November 6, 2024November 15, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags bernstein, blocking orders, brazil, chat control, crypto wars, cybercrime treaty, data localization, eff, elon musk, france, free expression, free speech, lawful interception, malcolm turnbull, national sovereignty, pavel durov, russia, snowden, speech, telegram, twitter3 Comments on Pluralistic: Every internet fight is a speech fight (06 Nov 2024)
Pluralistic: China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI's backdoor (07 Oct 2024)
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China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI's backdoor: There's no such thing as a backdoor that only works when 'good guys' use it.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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 October 7, 2024October 15, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags backdoors, calea, cold war 2.0, foreseeable outcomes, greece, jerry berman, keys under doormats, lawful interception, olympics, snowden1 Comment on Pluralistic: China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI's backdoor (07 Oct 2024)
Pluralistic: Links, dumped (10 June 2023)
Today's links
Links, dumped: A grab-bag of delicious miscellania.
This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on June 10, 2023July 15, 2023Categories UncategorizedTags ai, ai safety, applied statistics, asu, ayyyy eyeee, baltimore, books, bookseller, business insider, business outsider, corporate crime, cunieiform, doj, events, fanfic, justice department, labor, linkdump, linkdumps, merch, news, pat robertson, pride, revenge fantasies, science fiction, sf, snow crash, snowden, ted chiang, ukpoli, webinars, whistleblowers3 Comments on Pluralistic: Links, dumped (10 June 2023)
Pluralistic: 27 Jul 2021
Today's links
What would a live concert album sound like with all the songs taken out?: Gavin Edwards' "Having Fun On Stage With Everybody."
The infosec apocalypse is nigh: Ed Snowden on the NSO's malware.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on July 27, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags audio, computer science, copyfight, infosec, lawful interception, mashups, Novalpina, nso group, pegasus, pegasus project, security, snowden, technology debt, weird1 Comment on Pluralistic: 27 Jul 2021
Pluralistic: 05 Jul 2021
Today's links
Conspiracy fantasy: The political significance and personal appeal of conspiratorialism.
Podcasting "Self Publishing": My column on monopolism, publishing, and the fortunes of authors.
This day in history: 2001, 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on July 5, 2021February 25, 2022Categories UncategorizedTags args, bologna, conspiracy fantasies, conspiracy games and countergames, conspiracy practice, conspiratorialism, italy, luther blisset, monopolism, pluralism, podcasts, qanon, self-publishing, snowden, spoken word, writing, wu ming foundation2 Comments on Pluralistic: 05 Jul 2021
Pluralistic: 30 Jun 2021
Today's links
Corruption: Concentrated gains, diffused losses.
This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on June 30, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags antitrust, climate, corruption, cynicism, medicare for all, snowden1 Comment on Pluralistic: 30 Jun 2021
Pluralistic: 09 Feb 2021
Today's links
Snowden's young adult memoir: The Young Readers' edition of Permanent Record.
Favicons as undeletable tracking beacons: F-cache considered harmful.
The ECB should forgive the debt it owes itself: Another round of austerity will destroy the European project.
Fleet Street calls out schtum Tories: When Paul Dacre and Katharine Viner agree…
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 09 Feb 2021"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on February 9, 2021February 9, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags books, debt, ecb, eu, events, favicons, foia, gift guide, infosec, memoirs, mmt, modern monetary theory, press, privacy, reviews, security, snowden, strike debt, supercookies, surveillance, transparency, uk, ukpoli, ya2 Comments on Pluralistic: 09 Feb 2021
Pluralistic: 03 Sep 2020
Today's links
Big Car says Right to Repair will MURDER YOU: You wouldn't download a car.
Algorithmic grading: Another weapon of math destruction.
Snowden vindicated: NSA spying was illegal.
Coronavirus is over (if we want it): All we have to do is reform our entire health-care system.
Rest in Power, David Graeber: Occupy, Debt, Utopia of Rules, Bullshit Jobs.
Hedge fund managers trouser 64%: 2-and-20 is a fiction.
Corporate spooks track you "to your door": SDKs are trojan horses.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 03 Sep 2020"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on September 3, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags Alliance for Automotive Innovation, atul gowande, ballot initiatives, Coalition for Safe and Secure Data, dana simmons, david graeber, domestic surveillance, edgenuity, education, epidemiology, finance, fud, graeber, health care, hedge funds, hyas, locational privacy, mass surveillance, Massachusetts, nsa, obits, pedagogy, question 1, right to repair, rule of law, snowden, surveillance, testing, threat intelligence, weapons of math destruction, x-mode1 Comment on Pluralistic: 03 Sep 2020
Pluralistic: 28 Jul 2020
Today's links
Afterland: Lauren Beukes's regrettably brilliantly timed plague novel.
Mexican copyright crushes free speech: Trump's trade deal takes away Mexicans' fundamental rights.
Audible Exclusives: Monopolists gonna monopolize.
Snowden's Little Brother intro: The Age of Mass Surveillance Will Not Last Forever.
Police "unions" are not unions: They're protection rackets.
Quick, inaccurate, cheap covid tests: Frequency vs accuracy.
Swarov.se: Once you see it…
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Continue reading "Pluralistic: 28 Jul 2020"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on July 28, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags amazon, audible, audiobooks, books, copyright, coronavirus, covid, free expression, gender, gift guide, goatse, labor, little brother, mexico, monopolies, novels, police, police unions, publishing, reviews, science fiction, snowden, swarovski, testing, thin blue line, usmca1 Comment on Pluralistic: 28 Jul 2020
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