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[pluralistic@mamot.fr]

Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid: First they came for the VPNs.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116799199251172675

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[pluralistic@mamot.fr]

Hey look at this

* AI doomerism is misplaced. Here’s what it will take to pop the bubble https://www.salon.com/2026/06/22/ai-doomerism-is-misplaced-heres-what-it-will-take-to-pop-the-bubble/

* Visa and Mastercard: The Original Gangsters of Electronic Collusion https://www.thesling.org/visa-and-mastercard-the-original-gangsters-of-electronic-collusion/

* Has it happened yet? https://hasithappenedyet.org/

* Platform-Controlled Search and Distortions in Attention Allocation https://tinbergen.nl/discussion-paper/6496/26-035-vii-platform-controlled-search-and-distortions-in-attention-allocation

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[pluralistic@mamot.fr]

#20yrsago Darwin’s tortoise dead at 176

#15yrsago Major US ISPs set to limit repeat infringers with throttling, limiting access to 200 websites, and copyright reeducation school https://web.archive.org/web/20111105225114/http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20073522-261/exclusive-top-isps-poised-to-adopt-graduated-response-to-piracy/

#15yrsago Why fair use doesn’t work unless you’ve got a huge war-chest for paying lawyers https://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/

#15yrsago Model net neutrality rule for municipalities https://web.archive.org/web/20110626114610/http://envisionseattle.org/2011/06/model-net-neutrality-ordinance-for-seattle.html

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[pluralistic@mamot.fr]

#15yrsago Campus hookups: college sex isn’t new, but hookups are different https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/06/21/the-promise-and-perils-of-hook-up-culture/

#15yrsago A Brief History of the Corporation: understanding what an attention economy is and where it comes from https://ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/08/a-brief-history-of-the-corporation-1600-to-2100/

#15yrsago Eliza: what makes you think I’m a psychotherapeutic chatbot? https://www.filfre.net/2011/06/eliza-part-1/

#10yrsago Broken Windows policing is nonsense https://www.nyc.gov/assets/oignypd/downloads/pdf/Quality-of-Life-Report-2010-2015.pdf

#10yrsago How it feels to be under DDoS attack https://www.oreilly.com/radar/ddos-emotions/

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[pluralistic@mamot.fr]

#10yrsago 2016: the first presidential election in 50 years without Voting Rights Act protections https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/welcome-to-the-first-presidential-election-since-voting-rights-act-gutted-179737/3/

#10yrsago Google is restructuring to put machine learning at the core of all it does https://web.archive.org/web/20180530051703/https://www.wired.com/2016/06/how-google-is-remaking-itself-as-a-machine-learning-first-company/

#10yrsago Misconfigured database exposes sensitive data for 154 million US voters https://dailydot.com/politics/154-million-voter-files-exposed-l2

#10yrsago To understand the Trump campaign, study real-estate developer hustle https://web.archive.org/web/20161028030522/https://storify.com/KC_EDM/trump-is-running-his-campaign-like-a-real-estate-d

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[pluralistic@mamot.fr]

#10yrsago Writing the Other: intensely practical advice for representing other cultures in fiction https://memex.craphound.com/2016/06/23/writing-the-other-intensely-practical-advice-for-representing-other-cultures-in-fiction/

#1yrago The case for a Canadian wealth tax https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/23/billionaires-eh/#galen-weston-is-a-rat

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[pluralistic@mamot.fr]

Yesterday's threads: Good politics; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116794983837301758

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[pluralistic@mamot.fr]

My latest nonfiction book is "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621568/thereversecentaursguidetolifeafterai/

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My previous nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It":

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

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[pluralistic@mamot.fr]

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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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[pluralistic@mamot.fr]

Upcoming appearances:

* #Toronto: The Sovereignty Debate (IAB Canada's State of the Nation), Jun 23
https://iabcanada.com/state-of-the-nation-2026

* #Toronto: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI (Osler Records/Type Books), Jun 23
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-book-launch-and-talk-tickets-1991501299998

* #NYC: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Jonathan Coulton (The Strand), Jun 24
https://www.strandbooks.com/cory-doctorow-the-reverse-centaur-s-guide-to-life-after-ai.html

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[pluralistic@mamot.fr]

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Philadelphia: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with David Williams (Fitler Club/Philadelphia Citizen), Jun 25
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-book-event-tickets-1990110326559

* #Chicago: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Rick Perlstein (Exile in Bookville), Jun 26
https://exileinbookville.com/events/50628

* #London: Idler Festival, Jul 11
https://www.idler.co.uk/festival/

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[pluralistic@mamot.fr]

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Edinburgh International Book Festival with Jimmy Wales, Aug 17
https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/the-front-list-cory-doctorow-and-jimmy-wales

* #Sydney: The Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Aug 23-24
https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/cory-doctorow/

* #Melbourne: Enshittification at the Wheeler Centre, Aug 25
https://www.wheelercentre.com/events-tickets/season-2026/cory-doctorow-enshittification

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[pluralistic@mamot.fr]

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Brighton: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Carole Cadwalladr (Brighton Dome), Sep 8
https://brightondome.org/whats-on/LSC-cory-doctorow-the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai/

* #London: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Riley Quinn (Foyle's Picadilly), Sep 9
https://www.foyles.co.uk/events/enshittification-cory-doctorow-riley-quinn

* #SouthBend: An Evening With Cory Doctorow (Notre Dame), Oct 6
https://franco.nd.edu/events/2026/10/06/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/

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[pluralistic@mamot.fr]

Recent appearances

* How to Mess with Big Tech Oligarchs (Fighting Fascism)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-mess-with-big-tech-oligarchs-w-cory-doctorow/id1888647397?i=1000773711479

* Reverse Centaur with Angie Coiro (Kepler's Books)
https://www.youtube.com/live/cWN6XBa73xA

* How to Think About AI Before It’s Too Late (Galaxy Brain)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPQNPJ0CEPo

* The future of world governance, with Kim Stanley Robinson (UN Independent Expert on International Order)
https://www.youtube.com/live/wJvBvYdaAMY

* How to Think About Artificial Intelligence (KUER)
https://radiowest.kuer.org/show/radiowest/2026-06-16/cory-doctorow-on-how-to-think-about-artificial-intelligence

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[pluralistic@mamot.fr]

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[pluralistic@mamot.fr]

I'm also on Bluesky. Read today's thread there at:

https://bsky.app/profile/did:web:pluralistic.net/post/3moxctbhpdc22

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[pluralistic@mamot.fr]

I'm on tour with my new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI. Catch me TONIGHT (Jun 23) in #TORONTO at Osler Records:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-book-launch-and-talk-tickets-1991501299998

And TOMORROW in #NYC at The Strand:

https://www.strandbooks.com/cory-doctorow-the-reverse-centaur-s-guide-to-life-after-ai.html

After that, it's #Philly and #Chicago:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai/posts/4722070

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[failedlyndonlarouchite@mas.to]

@pluralistic

you burn an enormous amount of carbon traveling so much to promote the sale of a your personal stuff

[mwritter@universeodon.com]

@pluralistic sadly I’ve been locked out for 24 hours for some unknown reason? Boosting Corey on mastodon? Cross posting. Telling Chuck Grassley to jump in a lake? Who knows? Not me. But some automated bot has decided they didn’t like my posting and Bsky is having trouble getting a human or a bit to explain. Not Cool. This is the second time, the first time they accused me of being a bot. Bots spell too well to be me.

[mwritter@universeodon.com]

@pluralistic this was at Kepler’s! Corey was awesome as usual.