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Saturday's threads: Federal Wallet Inspectors; and more!
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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:
* #Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/infos/index.html
* #Denver: Enshittification at Tattered Cover Colfax, Jan 22
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
* #ColoradoSprings: Guest of Honor at COSine, Jan 23-25
https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
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Recent appearances:
* (Digital) Elbows Up (OCADU)
https://vimeo.com/1146281673
* How to Stop “Ensh*ttification” Before It Kills the Internet (Capitalisn't)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34gkIvYiHxU
* Enshittification on The Daily Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5nE
* Enshittification with Four Ways to Change the World (Channel 4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZQaEeuuI3Q
* The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. (Novarra Media)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wE8G-d7SnY
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