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Inside: Justin Key's "The Hospital at the End Of the World"; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/04/slice-bees/
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Justin Key's "The Hospital at the End Of the World": A biopunk medical thriller from a major new talent.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116013255037503925
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Hey look at this
* Ken MacLeod: Imagined Futures https://plutopia.io/ken-macleod-imagined-futures/
* Elbows Up: How Canada Can Disenshittify Its Tech, Reclaim Its Sovereignty, and Launch a New Tech Sector Into a Stable Orbit https://archive.org/details/disenshittification-nation
* HOPE IS NOW A 501(C)(3) NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION https://2600.com/content/hope-now-501c3-non-profit-organization
* Department of Justice appeals Google search monopoly ruling https://www.theverge.com/tech/873438/google-antitrust-case-doj-states-appeal
* List of Kennedy Center cancellations during the Trump administration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kennedy_Center_cancellations_during_the_Trump_administration
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#20yrsago AOL/Yahoo: our email tax will make the net as good as the post office! https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/technology/postage-is-due-for-companies-sending-email.html
#20yrsago Volunteers ferry 15k coconuts every day to Indian temple http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4677320.stm
#15yrsago Wikileaks ACTA cables confirm it was a screwjob for the global poor https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/02/secret-us-cables-reveal-acta-was-far-too-secret/
#10yrsago Laura Poitras’s Astro Noise: indispensable book and gallery show about mass surveillance https://www.wired.com/2016/02/snowdens-chronicler-reveals-her-own-life-under-surveillance/
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#10yrsago How to prepare to join the Internet of the dead https://archive.org/details/Online_No_One_Knows_Youre_Dead
#10yrsago Who funds the “Millennials Rising” Super PAC? Rich old men. https://web.archive.org/web/20160204223020/https://theintercept.com/2016/02/04/millennials-rising-super-pac-is-95-funded-by-old-men/
#10yrsago They promised us a debate over TPP, then they signed it without any debate https://www.techdirt.com/2016/02/03/countries-sign-tpp-whatever-happened-to-debate-we-were-promised-before-signing/
#5yrsago Stop the "Stop the Steal" steal https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/04/vote-machine-tankies/#ess
#5yrsago Organic fascism https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/04/vote-machine-tankies/#pastel-q
#5yrsago Ron Deibert's "Chasing Shadows" https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/04/citizen-lab/#nso-group
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Yesterday's threads: Michael Swanwick's "The Universe Box"; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116007158252972863
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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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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."
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Upcoming appearances:
* #SaltLakeCity: Enshittification at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Tanner Humanities Center), Feb 18
https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/cory-doctorow/
* #Montreal (remote): Fedimtl, Feb 24
https://fedimtl.ca/
* #Victoria: 28th Annual Victoria International Privacy & Security Summit, Mar 3-5
https://www.rebootcommunications.com/event/vipss2026/
* #Berkeley: Bioneers keynote, Mar 27
https://conference.bioneers.org/
* #Berlin: Re:publica, May 18-20
https://re-publica.com/de/news/rp26-sprecher-cory-doctorow
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