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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Jan 21, 2023 • 27 tweets • 30 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Tiktok's enshittification; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/pot…

#Pluralistic 1/
Tiktok's enshittification: The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too.

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Hey look at this

* Rethinking Tech Regulation and Creative Labor eff.org/deeplinks/2023…

* OGL Will Be 'Irrevocable' @CreativeCommons license gizmodo.com/dnd-wizards-of…

* AA Promises Flight Attendants Free Bowl Of Chili If They Don't Picket viewfromthewing.com/american-airli… 3/
#20yrsago Recording industry needs collaborative filtering web.archive.org/web/2003041021…

#20yrsago Origin of spam templetons.com/brad/spamterm.…

#15yrsago Joel Johnson puts AT&T on the spot over copyright spying plan web.archive.org/web/2008012208… 4/
#20yrsago SBC’s patent-shakedown: website navigation web.archive.org/web/2003020706…

#15yrsago Congress moving forward with plan to scare colleges into supporting RIAA measures eff.org/deeplinks/2008… 5/
#15yrsago @PrivacyPrivee rejects #DRM: don’t give spyware legal protection! web.archive.org/web/2008012201…

#10yrsago Guerrilla indie feature film shot at #WaltDisneyWorld web.archive.org/web/2013012002… 6/
#10yrsago Designing for the factory: makers, machines, China, and industrial design bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2790

#10yrsago @jonathancoulton: @gleeofficial plagiarized my arrangement of “Baby Got Back” techdirt.com/2013/01/18/jon… 7/
#10yrsago More plagiarism from Glee

#10yrsago Podcast of my memorial for @AaronSw, and the afterword he wrote for Homeland craphound.com/news/2013/01/2…

#10yrago @EdwardTufte on Aaron Swartz and his own hacking career danwin.com/2013/01/edward… 8/
#10yrsago Montreal comp sci student reports massive bug, is expelled and threatened with arrest for checking to see if it had been fixed theregister.com/2013/01/21/daw… 9/
#10yrsago Pennsylvania kindergartener uses #HelloKitty bubble-gun at school, suspended for “terrorist threat” abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline…

#10yrsago Guy re-creates a #VIARail car, in his basement, down to the most minute detail 10/
#5yrsago Apple, Google add 45 minutes to commuter-bus run to avoid 280 highway, where the buses’ windows keep getting smashed fortune.com/2018/01/18/app… 11/
#5yrsago Racist authoritarians insisted that ending #StopAndFrisk would increase violent crime, but the opposite just happened propublica.org/article/in-new…

#5yrsago Comic-strip contracts, so no one argues they’re too confusing to be enforceable theconversation.com/comic-contract… 12/
#5yrsago City of #Sarajevo bans unsanctioned utterances of its name, threatens Facebook groups web.archive.org/web/2018012200…

#5yrsago To keep their bond-ratings, hedge-funds have to publicly demonstrate that they are the most ruthless of landlords ourfinancialsecurity.org/2018/01/afr-re… 13/
#5yrsago Self-destructing thumb drives with smoke loads, glowing elements, tiny explosives medium.com/@_MG_/mr-self-… 14/
Thursday's threads: Why the Fed wants to crush workers; and more!

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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

booksoup.com/book/978080700… 16/
My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @darkdel:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 17/
My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon 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/ 18/
My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @beaconPressBks et al) 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/ 19/
Upcoming appearances:

* Library Learning Experience/@ALALibrary (#NewOrleans), 1/27-30
2023.alaliblearnx.org/cory-doctorow

* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (@UCLLaws), 2/1
ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/20…

* Avid Reader (#Brisbane), 2/8
avidreader.com.au/pages/6834-Cho… 20/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Future of Arts/Culture/Tech, @ACMI, (#Melbourne), 2/14
acmi.net.au/whats-on/in-co…

* @statelibrarynsw (#Sydney), 2/15
sl.nsw.gov.au/events/chokepo…

* ANU/@canberratimes Meet The Author (#Canberra), 2/16
anu.edu.au/events/in-conv… 21/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (#Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc…

* #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy (#Brussels), 3/2:
brusselsconference.com/registration 22/
Recent appearances:

* The Way the Music Died (@Canadaland Commons):
canadaland.com/podcast/monopo…

* @majorityfm with @SamSeder
majorityreportradio.com/2023/01/09/1-9…

* @DecoderPod:
open.spotify.com/episode/6pVSj7…

* @plutopia
plutopia.io/cory-doctorow-… 23/
You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/pot… 24/
If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "Normalize Dark Corners!"

doctorow.medium.com/normalize-dark… 25/
If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "🦸🏽‍♀️". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!

Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list 26/
Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? You can read my work elsewhere, but it is now a #TwitterCrime to tell you how. Please visit my site, pluralistic.net, for links to find me on less-unhinged places (I can only imagine that my days here are numbered). 27/

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May 21
My latest *Locus Magazine* column is "Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives," about the secret engine of sweeping political upheavals (like Trumpism) and their inherent fragility:



1/ locusmag.com/2025/05/commen…A Renaissance oil-painting of the assassination of Julius Caesar, modified to give Caesar Trump's hair and turn his skin orange, to make the knives glow, and to emboss a Heritage Foundation logo on the wall behind the scene.
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Something's very different in tech. Once upon a time, every bad choice by tech companies - taking away features, locking out mods or plugins, nerfing the API - was countered, nearly instantaneously, by someone writing a program that overrode that choice.

1/ A 19th century engraving of fiendishly complex machine composed of thousands of interlocking gears and frames (originally an image of a printing press, but modified so that it's just all gears and things), colored dark blue. It bears Woody Guthrie's guitar sticker, 'This machine KILLS fascists. To one side of it stands an image of Ned Ludd, taken from an infamous 19th century Luddite handbill, waving troops into battle. King Ludd's head has been replaced with a hacker's hoodie, the face within lost in shadow.
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Bad clients would be muscled aside by third-party clients. Locked bootloaders would be hacked and replaced. Code that confirmed you were using OEM parts, consumables or adapters would be found and nuked from orbit.

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May 13
"Understood: Who Broke the Internet?" is my new podcast for CBC about the enshittogenic policy decisions that gave rise to enshittification. Episode two just dropped: "ctrl-ctrl-ctrl":



1/ cbc.ca/listen/cbc-pod…The logo for 'Who Broke the Internet' - a shattered hard-drive with the CBC logomark.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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The thesis of the show is straightforward: the internet wasn't killed by ideological failings like "greed," nor by economic concepts like "network effects," nor by some cyclic force of history that drives towards "re-intermediation."

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May 2
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Inside: AI and the fatfinger economy; and more!

Archived at:

#Pluralistic

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3/ Image: Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Index_finger_%3D_to_attention.JPG CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en -- Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Patrick "patio11" McKenzie is a fantastic explainer, the kind of person who breaks topics down in ways that stay with you, and creep into your understanding of other subjects, too. Take his 2022 essay, "The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero":



1/ bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optima…A rainforest in Chiapas, green and intergrown.
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It's a very well-argued piece, and here's the nut of it:

> The marginal return of permitting fraud against you is plausibly greater than zero, and therefore, you should welcome greater than zero fraud.

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1/ hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-be…The Basic Books cover for Adam Becker's 'More Everything Faster.'
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