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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 01:55:44 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Inside: Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance" ; and more!

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 01:55:34 JST 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."

     https://craphound.com/shop/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 01:55:35 JST Cory Doctorow

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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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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 01:55:36 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Yesterday's threads: Cooking in Maximum Security; and more!

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115605224506443045

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 01:55:37 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #5yrsago Cheap Chinese routers riddled with backdoors https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/24/zawinskiian-carcination/#jetstream

     #5yrsago Emailifaction is digital carcinization https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/24/zawinskiian-carcination/#carcinization

     #5yrsago Saudi Aramco is gushing debt https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/24/zawinskiian-carcination/#gusher

     #5yrsago Sci-Fi Genre https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/24/zawinskiian-carcination/#asl

     #1yrago The far right grows through "disaster fantasies" https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/24/mall-ninja-prophecy/#mano-a-mano

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 01:55:38 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #10yrsago J Edgar Hoover was angry that the Boy Scouts didn’t thank him effusively enough https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/nov/24/j-edgar-hoover-insults/

     #10yrsago WTO rules against US dolphin-safe tuna labels because they’re unfair to Mexican fisheries https://theintercept.com/2015/11/24/wto-ruling-on-dolphin-safe-tuna-labeling-illustrates-supremacy-of-trade-agreements/

     #10yrsago Shamrock shake: Pfizer’s Irish “unpatriotic loophole” ducks US taxes https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/with-160-billion-merger-pfizer-moves-to-ireland-and-dodges-taxes/

     #5yrsago Talking interop on EFF's podcast https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/24/zawinskiian-carcination/#comcom

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 01:55:39 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #10yrsago Cultural appropriation? Hindu nationalists used yoga as an anti-colonialist export https://web.archive.org/web/20151124030935/http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/11/university_canceled_yoga_class_no_it_s_not_cultural_appropriation_to_practice.html

     #10yrsago Leaked recording: pollution lobbyists discuss exploiting Syrian refugee crisis https://theintercept.com/2015/11/24/lobbyists-refugee-crisis/

     #10yrsago Dell apologizes for preinstalling bogus root-certificate on computers https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/dell-apologizes-for-https-certificate-fiasco-provides-removal-tool/

     #10yrsago Veronica Belmont on being overtaken by a meme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTThblbbnkM

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 01:55:40 JST Cory Doctorow

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     #20yrsago Solar utility pole: streetlight, WiFi, CCTV and charger https://web.archive.org/web/20060508050552/http://www.starsightproject.com/en/africa/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=52

     #20yrsago Sony rootkit recall makes The Onion https://web.archive.org/web/20051126015022/http://www.theonion.com/content/node/42988

     #15yrsago Menstruating woman subjected to TSA grope because panty-liner obscured her vulva on pornoscanner https://blog.gladrags.com/2010/11/24/tsa-groin-searches-menstruating-woman/

     #15yrsago Set to Sea: moving and beautiful graphic novel about a poet who becomes an involuntary sailor https://memex.craphound.com/2010/11/24/set-to-sea-moving-and-beautiful-graphic-novel-about-a-poet-who-becomes-an-involuntary-sailor/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 01:55:41 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * Nvidia’s ‘I’m Not Enron’ memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memo https://www.theverge.com/business/828047/nvidia-enron-conspiracy-accounting

     * How Black Friday Loyalty Programs Rip Off Shoppers https://economicpopulist.substack.com/p/how-black-friday-loyalty-programs

     * The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-guide-to-nvidia/

     * GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France amid police intimidation claims https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2025/11/22/grapheneos-migrates-server-infrastructure-from-france-amid-police-intimidation-claims/

     * Competition Commissioner Boswell calls it quits early https://www.donotpassgo.ca/p/competition-commissioner-matthew

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 01:55:42 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance" : An enshittified search monopolist meets the worst health care system imaginable.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115611253695041383

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 01:55:43 JST Cory Doctorow

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     I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
     
     Catch me next in #Toronto (THURSDAY!), #SanDiego and #Seattle!
     
     Full schedule with dates and links at:
     
     https://pluralistic.net/tour

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