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Pluralistic: Deranged billionaires and their syndromes (16 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Deranged billionaires and their syndromes (16 Jul 2026)Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
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Deranged billionaires and their syndromes: The Mad Kings do love a syllogism.
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Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* BOOM! Billionaires Punched in the Nose Over Paramount-Warner by State Enforcers, Unions thebignewsletter.com/p/boom-bi…
* Don't Take Advice From Your Enemies hamiltonnolan.com/p/dont-take-…
* Against Money press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/b…
* Inside the Personal Computer - An Illustrated Introduction in 3 Dimensions youtube.com/watch?v=ofcXVA4GUm…
* Canadian Workers Among the Most Restricted by Non-Compete Clauses donotpassgo.ca/p/canadian-work…
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Pop-Up Book｜Inside the Personal Computer - An Illustrated Introduction in 3 Dimensions
立體書王國｜The Pop-Up Kingdom (YouTube)Cory Doctorow
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#25yrsago Gadget-friendly chinos web.archive.org/web/2001071713…
#15yrsago Brazilian bodges: “Gambiologia” web.archive.org/web/2011072023…
#15yrsago Privacy risks in collaborative filters blog.citp.princeton.edu/2011/0…
#15yrsago Tenn. state rep: “I carved my initials in my desk in the House, but I don’t understand why it’s news” web.archive.org/web/2011071520…
#15yrsago Who holds the copyright to a picture taken by a monkey? techdirt.com/2011/07/13/can-we…
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Can We Subpoena The Monkey? Why The Monkey Self-Portraits Are Likely In The Public Domain
TechdirtCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe slams Internet censorship, copyright disconnection web.archive.org/web/2012110808…
#10yrsago Mississippi’s prison town are in danger of collapse, thanks to tiny reforms in the War on Drugs huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/mis…
#10yrsago Pokemon Go players: you have 30 days from signup to opt out of binding arbitration web.archive.org/web/2016071514…
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Mississippi Jails Are Losing Inmates, And Local Officials Are 'Devastated' By The Loss Of Revenue
Ryan Grim (HuffPost UK)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Trump makes it easy to forget what a dumpster fire all the other GOP nomination hopefuls were lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n15/el…
#5yrsago Interop and the Public Interest Internet pluralistic.net/2021/07/16/pid…
#1yrago Ellen Ullman's "Close to the Machine" pluralistic.net/2025/07/16/bea…
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Eliot Weinberger · They could have picked...
Eliot Weinberger (London Review of Books)Cory Doctorow
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Tuesday's threads: Gerontocracy's failure mode; and more!
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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:
us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…
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My previous nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It":
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The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
SupaduDev (Macmillan Publishers)Cory Doctorow
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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."
craphound.com/shop/
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Craphound Shop
Cory Doctorow (Craphound Shop)Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Edinburgh International Book Festival with Jimmy Wales, Aug 17
edbookfest.co.uk/events/the-fr…
* #Sydney: The Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Aug 23-24
festivalofdangerousideas.com/c…
* #Melbourne: Enshittification at the Wheeler Centre, Aug 25
wheelercentre.com/events-ticke…
* #Brighton: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Carole Cadwalladr (Brighton Dome), Sep 8
brightondome.org/whats-on/LSC-…
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Cory Doctorow / Talks / What's On - Brighton Dome
Brighton DomeCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #London: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Riley Quinn (Foyle's Picadilly), Sep 9
foyles.co.uk/events/enshittifi…
* #SouthBend: An Evening With Cory Doctorow (Notre Dame), Oct 6
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An Evening with Cory Doctorow
Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public GoodCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Talk Tech Bock (Vera Linß)
youtube.com/watch?v=3PFjGvQoBg…
* How To Think About AI Before It’s Too Late (This Is Hell)
thisishell.com/episodes/1919
* AI Won't Replace You... But This Might (Deep Focus)
youtube.com/watch?v=oorWq_m48A…
* Who Owns Your Tractor? (Growing the Future)
youtube.com/watch?v=IU9eBPUZBI…
* You Bought it, They Break It (What Now? with Trevor Noah)
podbean.com/media/share/dir-ir…
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AI Won't Replace You... But This Might | Cory Doctorow | The Deep Focus Show
The Deep Focus Show (YouTube)Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Deranged billionaires and their syndromes (16 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)Cory Doctorow
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I'm also on Bluesky. Read today's thread there at:
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Benjamin Labohm
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*btw: Just bought the enshittification book. Looking forward to reading it on my upcomming vacation!
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