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  Cory Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr

  Apr 7, 2026, 8:19 AM

  Switzerland's Goldilocks fiber: Public provision is a layered question.

  https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116362403855081255

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  Cory Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr

  Apr 7, 2026, 8:19 AM

  Hey look at this

  * Nick Chater on the Nudge Movement and Blaming The Individual for Corporate Wrongdoing https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/nick-chater-on-the-nudge-movement-and-blaming-the-individual-for-corporate-wrongdoing

  * Why We’re Removing Our Programmatic Ads https://prospect.org/2026/04/06/why-were-removing-our-programmatic-ads/

  * Actually, people love to work hard https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/06/people-love-to-work-hard/

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  Cory Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr

  Apr 7, 2026, 8:20 AM

  #15yrsago Recording industry lobbyist appointed head of copyright for European Commission https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/04/top-music-industry-lawyer-now-eu-copyright-chief/

  #15yrsago How emacs got into Tron: Legacy https://web.archive.org/web/20110407224426/http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178

  #15yrsago Dead man’s AOL account hijacked by spammer https://ip.topicbox.com/groups/ip/T274c51b2ba843fb0-Mb6bf8853b1ed34a26b07ce44/deceasesd-father-in-law-spamming-friends-and-family-two-years-on

  #15yrsago Scarring Party: megaphone songs, sea chanteys and dark vaudeville tunes https://web.archive.org/web/20110406044523/http://www.avclub.com/milwaukee/articles/the-scarring-party-losing-teeth%2C43871/

  #15yrsago Snaggly table made out of computer junk https://web.archive.org/web/20110406044521/http://brcdesigns.com/furniture/binary-low-table

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  Cory Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr

  Apr 7, 2026, 8:20 AM

  #15yrsago Scott Walker gives cushy $85.5K/yr government job to major donor’s young, underqualified son https://web.archive.org/web/20110406040138/https://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/04/scott-walker-hires-dropout/

  #15yrsago Closing down Borders sign: “No toilets, try Amazon” https://web.archive.org/web/20110406044522/https://consumerist.com/2011/04/sign-at-borders-store-closing-in-chicago-tells-customers-where-to-find-a-restroom.html

  #15yrsago What is legitimate “newsgathering” and what is “piracy”? https://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/why-arianna-huffington-is-bill-kellers-somali-pirate/

  #10yrsago Iceland’s Prime Minister asks to dissolve Parliament https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35966412

  #10yrsago Artist installs rooms beneath Milan’s sewer entrances https://web.archive.org/web/20160406132425/https://www.biancoshock.com/borderlife.html

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  Cory Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr

  Apr 7, 2026, 8:20 AM

  #10yrsago Banned on China’s Internet: all discussion of the Panama Papers https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-35957235

  #10yrsago Google reaches into customers’ homes and bricks their gadgets https://arlogilbert.com/the-time-that-tony-fadell-sold-me-a-container-of-hummus-cb0941c762c1#.srp9ym34a

  #10yrsago Middle class housing projects are the Bay Area’s future https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/welcome-to-the-future-middle-class-housing-projects

  #10yrsago Pollster explains how Chamber of Commerce can steamroller empathetic execs into opposing progressive policies https://web.archive.org/web/20160406190524/https://gawker.com/business-execs-support-progressive-policies-but-the-ch-1768898477

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  Cory Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr

  Apr 7, 2026, 8:21 AM

  #10yrsago How to write about scientists who are women https://www.doublexscience.org/the-finkbeiner-test/

  #10yrsago Garden: XKCD’s latest maddening, relaxing webtoy https://xkcd.com/1663/#3978da67-1ead-45e1-a293-9c8e4918a147

  #10yrsago Parent Hacks: illustrated guide is the best kind of parenting book https://memex.craphound.com/2016/04/05/parent-hacks-illustrated-guide-is-the-best-kind-of-parenting-book/

  #10yrsago The Nameless City: YA graphic novel about diplomacy, hard and soft power, colonialism, bravery, and parkour https://memex.craphound.com/2016/04/05/the-nameless-city-ya-graphic-novel-about-diplomacy-hard-and-soft-power-colonialism-bravery-and-parkour/

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  Cory Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr

  Apr 7, 2026, 8:21 AM

  #5yrsago How Facebook will benefit from its massive breach https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/05/zucks-oily-rags/#into-the-breach

  #1yrago How the world's leading breach expert got phished https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/05/troy-hunt/#teach-a-man-to-phish

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  Cory Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr

  Apr 7, 2026, 8:22 AM

  Yesterday's threads: Your boss wants to use surveillance data to cut your wages; and more!

  https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116357033777550815

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  Cory Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr

  Apr 7, 2026, 8:22 AM

  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 Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr

  Apr 7, 2026, 8:23 AM

  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 Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr

  Apr 7, 2026, 8:23 AM

  Upcoming appearances:

  * #Toronto: Humber Polytechnic President's Lecture Series, Apr 8
  https://liberalarts.humber.ca/current-students/resources/conferences-and-lectures/presidents-lecture-series.html

  * #Montreal: Bronfman Lecture (McGill), Apr 10
  https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/artificial-intelligence-the-ultimate-disrupter-tickets-1982706623885

  * #Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly, Apr 10
  https://mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/events/4863920260410

  * #Toronto: DemocracyXchange, Apr 16
  https://www.democracyxchange.org/news/cory-doctorow-to-open-dxc26-on-april-16

  * #SanFrancisco: 2026 Berkeley Spring Forum on M&A and the Boardroom, Apr 23
  https://www.theberkeleyforum.com/#agenda

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  Cory Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr

  Apr 7, 2026, 8:23 AM

  Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

  * #London: Resisting Big Tech Empires (LSBU), Apr 25
  https://www.tickettailor.com/events/globaljusticenow/2042691

  * #NYC: Enshittification at Commonweal Ventures, Apr 29
  https://luma.com/ssgfvqz8

  * #NYC: Techidemic with Sarah Jeong, Tochi Onyibuchi and Alia Dastagir (PEN World Voices), Apr 30
  https://worldvoices.pen.org/event/techidemic/

  * #Berlin: Re:publica, May 18-20
  https://re-publica.com/de/news/rp26-sprecher-cory-doctorow

  * #Berlin: Enshittification at Otherland Books, May 19
  https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/cory-doctorow.html

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  Cory Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr

  Apr 7, 2026, 8:23 AM

  Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

  * #HayOnWye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25
  https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay/big-ideas-2

  * SXSW #London, Jun 2
  https://www.sxswlondon.com/session/how-big-tech-broke-the-internet-b3c4a901

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  Cory Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr

  Apr 7, 2026, 8:24 AM

  Recent appearances:

  * The internet is getting worse (CBC The National)
  https://youtu.be/dCVUCdg3Uqc?si=FMcA0EI_Mi13Lw-P

  * Do you feel screwed over by big tech? (Ontario Today)
  https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-45-ontario-today/clip/16203024-do-feel-screwed-big-tech

  * Launch for Cindy's Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (City Lights)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuVCm2PUalU

  * Chicken Mating Harnesses (This Week in Tech)
  https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1074

  * The Virtual Jewel Box (U Utah)
  https://tanner.utah.edu/podcast/enshittification-cory-doctorow-matthew-potolsky/

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  Cory Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr

  Apr 7, 2026, 8:24 AM

  You can follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

  Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/07/swisscom/

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  Cory Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr

  Apr 7, 2026, 8:25 AM

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

  https://bsky.app/profile/doctorow.pluralistic.net/post/3mivdahh62s24

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