Cory Doctorow

Burbank

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Author/activist/journalist. New book: PICKS AND SHOVELS, a Marty Hench adventure from the dawn of enshittification: https://t.co/zGDGhU2RvP @[email protected]

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Pluralistic: America is a scam (28 May 2025)

1 week ago | pluralistic.net | Cory Doctorow

America is a scam: Welcome to the age of cheating. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2010, 2015, 2020Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest.
Pluralistic: AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers (27 May 2025)

1 week ago | pluralistic.net | Cory Doctorow

AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers: A reverse-centaur in the loop. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest.
Cory Doctorow at Cascade PBS Ideas Festival

1 week ago | cascadepbs.org | Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science-fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently Picks and Shovels and The Bezzle (follow-ups to Red Team Blues, a science-fiction crime thriller), and The Lost Cause, a solarpunk science-fiction novel of hope amid the climate emergency. His most recent nonfiction book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation, a Big Tech disassembly manual.
Pluralistic: Who Broke the Internet, Part IV (26 May 2025)

1 week ago | pluralistic.net | Cory Doctorow

Who Broke the Internet, Part IV: The thrilling conclusion!Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest.
The dawn of search engines

1 week ago | wrvo.org | Cory Doctorow |Cooper McKim |Kate Concannon

Today on the show, we bring you a special episode from the Understood feed at CBC podcasts. It's an excerpt from a series called Who Broke the Internet hosted by Cory Doctorow. The four part series details his criticisms on the state of the modern internet and what we can do about it.
Pluralistic: Drinkslump linkdump (24 May 2025)

2 weeks ago | pluralistic.net | Cory Doctorow

Drinkslump linkdump: Another busy week!Object permanence: 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest. It's linkdump time, in which I skillfully weave together all the links that I was too busy to cram into the week's newsletter issues.
Pluralistic: Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives (21 May 2025)

2 weeks ago | pluralistic.net | Cory Doctorow

Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives: My May 2025 Locus Magazine column. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest.
The meritocracy to eugenics pipeline

2 weeks ago | medium.com | Cory Doctorow

The search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. I’m on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels. Catch me in PDX at Barnes and Noble with BUNNIE HUANG on June 20. The last two stops are in London (Jul 1) and Manchester (Jul 2). It’s kinda weird how, the more oligarchic our society gets, the more racist it gets. Why is the rise of billionaires attended by a revival of discredited eugenic ideas, dressed up in modern euphemisms like “race realism” and “human diversity”?
Pluralistic: The meritocracy to eugenics pipeline (20 May 2025)

2 weeks ago | pluralistic.net | Cory Doctorow

The meritocracy to eugenics pipeline: The search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest. It's kinda weird how, the more oligarchic our society gets, the more racist it gets.
The FCC Must Reject Efforts To Lock Up Public Airwaves

2 weeks ago | techdirt.com | Corynne McSherry |Cory Doctorow

President Trump’s attack on public broadcasting has attracted plenty of deserved attention, but there’s a far more technical, far more insidious policy change in the offing—one that will take away Americans’ right to unencumbered access to our publicly owned airwaves.