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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11m

Davis Meltzer, 1975. humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/8307214...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

Congress Hall (1964-66) in Gießen, Germany, by Sven Markelius www.tumblr.com/germanpostwa...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

Recent appearances (cont'd): * AI, Corporate Power, and the Fight for Worker Control (Plutopia) plutopia.io/cory-doctoro... * How to Think About AI (Daniel Solove) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0xR... * Could Tech Bosses Destroy Life As We Know It? (Politics JOE) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL4V...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

Recent appearances: * Life After AI (Brain Bar) www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPPa... * Terms of Service with Clare Duffy (CNN) www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

Upcoming appearances (cont'd): * Montreal: World Science Fiction Convention, Sep 2-6 montreal2027.ca/en

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

Upcoming appearances (cont'd): * Virtual: Enshittification, AI, and the Future of Technology (UBC Master of Educational Technology), Nov 28 met.ubc.ca/2026/09/met-... * Oxford: Bennett Oxford Symposium on Open Code in Science, Dec 9 www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/events/2026-...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

Upcoming appearances (cont'd): * Sheffield: Reverse Centaur at Juno Books, Nov 25 www.outsavvy.com/event/40274/... * Oxford: Ministry of the Future, Nov 23 ministryforthefuture.co.uk/events.html

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

Upcoming appearances (cont'd): * Kilkenny: Kilkenomics, Nov 6-8 kilkenomics.com * Vancouver: Enshittification (Sid Williams Theatre Society), Nov 10 www.sidwilliamstheatre.com/events/cory-... * Vancouver: BC Policy Solutions Gala, Nov 12 bcpolicy.ca/gala/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

Upcoming appearances (cont'd): * Vancouver: Life After AI (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 22 writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve... * Ottawa: Life After AI (Ottawa Writers Festival), Oct 24 writersfestival.org/event/life-a... * Vienna: TED AI, Oct 28-30 tedai-vienna.ted.com

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

Upcoming appearances: * Vancouver: Read, Resist, Repair, Rejoice (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 19 writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve... * Victoria: Munro's Books, Oct 20 www.munrobooks.com/events/61136...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

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." craphound.com/shop/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

Yesterday's threads: Load-bearing; and more! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

#10yrsago Donald Trump’s mail-servers are running Windows 2003 pluralistic.net/2021/10/18/l... #5yrsago Copyfraudster censors investigation of implausible covid gadget pluralistic.net/2021/10/18/l... #5yrsago Corporatism made John Deere ripe for a strike pluralistic.net/2021/10/18/l...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

#10yrsago Everything Belongs to the Future: a tale of pharmadystopian, immortal gerontocrats memex.craphound.com/2016/10/18/e... #10yrsago UK government proposes issuing Britons with unique porn-viewing ID numbers www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/a-datab...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

#10yrsago Project Include cuts off Y Combinator because Peter Thiel is a part-time investor there web.archive.org/web/20161019... #10yrsago Islamophobic terrorist cell planned a “bloodbath” in Kansas, wanted to kill Muslim babies web.archive.org/web/20161018...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

#10yrsago Kim Stanley Robinson says Elon Musk’s Mars plan is a “1920s science-fiction cliché” web.archive.org/web/20161018... #10yrsago UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal says GHCQ illegally spied for 17 years www.theverge.com/2016/10/17/1...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

#15yrsago Aloha From Hell: Sandman Slim goes back to Hell and kicks more ass memex.craphound.com/2011/10/18/a... #10yrsago California DMV thinks “INFOS3C” is a dirty word www.techdirt.com/2016/10/17/c... #10yrsago Howard Stern won’t release Trump tapes www.billboard.com/music/music-...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

#15yrsago Advice to the 1% from Lemony Snicket occupywriters.com/works/by-lem... #15yrsago Proposed Australian law makes it an offense to insult Gaming Minister Michael O’Brien web.archive.org/web/20120507...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

#20yrsago Recording industry shuts out Brazilian legal scholars web.archive.org/web/20061103... #20yrsago How pickpockets work web.archive.org/web/20070110... #15yrsago Why are more people opting for legal name-changes than ever before? web.archive.org/web/20111020...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

#25yrsago Linux on a Big Mouth Billy Bass web.archive.org/web/20010927... #20yrsago No-Fly lists even stupider than suspected web.archive.org/web/20061019... #20yrsago Canadian MP booted for his blog web.archive.org/web/20061026...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

* Ultimate gridfinity drawer configurator makerworld.com/en/models/27... * Is Blockbuster Video the Answer to Our Digital Privacy Woes? www.thenation.com/article/soci... * Trump Is Encouraging Airlines to Scam Passengers in Every Way Possible newrepublic.com/article/2164...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

Hey look at this * Philips updates instructions for ultrasound linked to 4 deaths www.medtechdive.com/news/philips... * LLMs don’t reason www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/02/1... * Beneath resilient financial markets, risks remain elevated and vulnerabilities persist www.imf.org/en/publicati...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

Israeli ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware": And they used Google, Facebook and every other major ad platform to do it. bsky.app/profile/doct...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Israeli ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware"; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/10/17/m... #Pluralistic

A lonely country road with a large roadside billboard. Thrusting out of the billboard is a punching fist with bloody, spiked brass knuckles; it is surrounded by scabrous craters. The sky is a psychedelic roil of red-brown clouds, from behind which loom indistinct, vast tropical flowers.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1h

More than half of all internet users have installed an ad-blocker; Doc Searls calls it the largest consumer boycott in history.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23h

image “Colony Ship” by Dexter Dickinson, 1980. humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/8306308...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23h

thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/8306335...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

RIP Sanjulián (Manuel Pérez Clemente), 1941–2026. The Barcelona illustrator used to tell his son, “In every original I paint there is an adventure. I enjoy them and I live them while I make them, so I have had a life full of emotions.” humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/8306143...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/8306165...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

Recent appearances: * Life After AI (Brain Bar) www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPPa... * Terms of Service with Clare Duffy (CNN) www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

Upcoming appearances (cont'd): Upcoming appearances (cont'd): * Montreal: World Science Fiction Convention, Sep 2-6 montreal2027.ca/en

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

Upcoming appearances (cont'd): * Sheffield: Reverse Centaur at Juno Books, Nov 25 www.outsavvy.com/event/40274/... * Oxford: Ministry of the Future, Nov 23 ministryforthefuture.co.uk/events.html

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

Yesterday's threads: Expedia amazoned hotel rooms; and more! bsky.app/profile/doct...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

#10yrsago Arizona Republic editor responds to death threats following Clinton endorsement eu.azcentral.com/story/opinio... #5yrsago Against the great forces of history pluralistic.net/2021/10/17/a...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

#25yrsago Anthrax terrorist's handwriting web.archive.org/web/20011017... #20yrsago Help find stolen WEB GEEK license plate web.archive.org/web/20061017... #15yrsago UK media swallowed the “adult content” filter line www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

* Sally Rooney books withdrawn in UK over Palestine Action support www.bbc.com/news/article... * Trump’s Great Gift to Chinese Automakers prospect.org/2026/10/15/t...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

Hey look at this * (not) solitaire notsolitaire.com * Steering AI Beyond Automation www.normaltech.ai/p/steering-a... * Wealth Inequality in America Drawn to scale dreamagainusa.org

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

Load-bearing: Digital sovereignty vs AI. bsky.app/profile/doct...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Load-bearing; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/10/16/s... #Pluralistic

A detail from Dore's engraving of Samson destroying the temple, depicting tumbling classical columns. Amid the columns, wreaking havoc, are three sf pulp magazine robots.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/10/2026

You find the weirdest stuff inside your walls. Our house was built in 1949 and we're its third owner, and I have *no idea* what those other people were doing, but at one point someone installed a junction box full of live, bare wires that they filled with crumpled newspaper (!).

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