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Inside: Raymond Beisinger's "9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/28/productive-seething/
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@pluralistic Lovely recommendation. Purchased!
I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Miami, #Burbank and #Lisbon!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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Raymond Beisinger's "9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off": A self-defense guide for creative workers.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115452453122211744
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Beisinger’s work is so distinct that it’s as recognisable to me as a Saul Bass title sequence or movie poster.
Hey look at this
* Twitter, Free Speech Absolutism, and Adoxastic Enshittification https://contemporaryrhetoric.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Alford_Carter_15_3_1.pdf
* This Wreckage Courtesy of the Enshittification Administration: Notes On Late-State Trumpism https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/this-wreckage-courtesy-of-the-enshittification-administration-notes-on-late-state-trumpism/
* Air filters have DRM now 🤦♂️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCu_n2Nddu0
* Washington’s Battery Strategy Is Upside Down https://christopherchico.substack.com/p/washingtons-battery-strategy-is-upside (h/t Naked Capitalism)
* The New York Times is wrong about the electoral value of moderation https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-new-york-times-makes-several
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#20yrsago Build a gingerbread Phantom Manor from Disneyland Paris https://www.haunteddimensions.raykeim.com/index506.html
#15yrsago HOWTO explain the Internet to a Dickensian street urchin https://www.fastcompany.com/1697711/flowchart-understanding-web-fans-charles-dickens#self
#10yrsago Librarian of Congress grants limited DRM-breaking rights for cars, games, phones, tablets, and remixers https://memex.craphound.com/2015/10/27/librarian-of-congress-grants-limited-drm-breaking-rights-for-cars-games-phones-tablets-and-remixers/
#10yrsago EU, worn down by telcoms lobbyists, pass brutal net discrimination rules https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/net-neutrality-eu-votes-in-favour-of-internet-fast-lanes-and-slow-lanes/
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#10yrsago Ministry of Irony: Orwell estate tries to censor mentions of the number 1984 https://torrentfreak.com/orwell-estate-sends-copyright-takedown-over-the-number-1984-151027/
#10yrsago Pirates are the best customers: just sell good stuff at a reasonable price in a timely fashion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXxzWgl3nHs
#10yrsago Elite “wealth managers”: Renfields to the one percent bloodsuckers https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/elite-wealth-management/410842/
#10yrsago The Abaddon: graphic novel based loosely on Sartre’s No Exit https://memex.craphound.com/2015/10/27/the-abaddon-graphic-novel-based-loosely-on-sartres-no-exit/
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#5yrsago Surveillance startup protected sexual harassers https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/27/peads-r-us/#Verkada
#5yrsago Comcast v Comcast https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/27/peads-r-us/#diseconomies-of-scale
#5yrsago The president's extraordinary powers https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/27/peads-r-us/#peads
#5yrsago Monopolies Suck https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/27/peads-r-us/#sally-hubbard
#5yrsago Ferris wheel fine dining https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/27/peads-r-us/#ferris-dining
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Yesterday's threads: Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115446476224573120
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels
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My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
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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."
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1504647263469
* #Miami: Cloudfest, Nov 6
https://www.cloudfest.com/usa/
* #Burbank: Burbank Book Festival, Nov 8
https://www.burbankbookfestival.com/
* #Lisbon: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, with Rabble (Web Summit), Nov 12
https://websummit.com/sessions/lis25/92f47bc9-ca60-4997-bef3-006735b1f9c5/a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet/
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
https://www.hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-festival-after-hours.aspx
* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events/enshittification-and-extraction-the-internet-sucks-now/
* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/cory-doctorow-with-sarah-wynn-williams
* #London: Downstream IRL with Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
https://dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/oen5rr-downstream-irl-aaron-bastani-in-conversation-with-cory-doctorow-17th-nov-earth-london-tickets
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #London: Enshittification with Carole Cadwalladr (Frontline Club), Nov 18
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversation-enshittification-tickets-1785553983029
* Virtual: Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library), Nov 21
https://www.crowdcast.io/@bclibraries-present
* #Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
https://compneuro.washington.edu/news-and-events/neuroscience-ai-and-society/
* #Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
https://rjjulia.com/event/2025-12-08/cory-doctorow-enshittification
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