De verdachte werd voorgeleid voor de moord op Lisa en voor een seksueel misdrijf aan de Weesperzijde. Hij wordt ook nog verdacht van een derde misdrijf.

Een gesigneerd shirt van Maradona, of van Wesley Sneijder? Ook in Nederland is er tegenwoordig een markt voor. Het kost wat, afhankelijk van de naam, maar dan zijn fans in hun eigen huis wel een stukje dichter bij hun idolen.

De Nederlandsche Bank oordeelt maandag hard over de manier waarop de Amsterdamse onlinebank bunq in 2021 en 2022 dubieuze klanten controleerde. Ondertussen is het onrustig in de raad van commissarissen van de bank.

WARSCHAU (ANP/RTR/DPA) - De conservatief-nationalistische president Karol Nawrocki van Polen heeft met een veto een wetsvoorstel tegengehouden voor hulp aan Oekraïense vluchtelingen. Het torpederen van het voorstel heeft mogelijk ook gevolgen voor de toegang tot Starlink in Oekraïne.

Het wetsvoorstel gaat over onder meer het verlengen van de kinderbijslag voor Oekraïense vluchtelingen. De sinds deze maand aangetreden Nawrocki wil dat alleen werkende Oekraïners de uitkeringen blijven ontvangen.

Maar volgens de linkse vicepremier en minister voor Digitalisering, Krzysztof Gawkowski, vormt het wetsontwerp ook de wettelijke basis voor de financiering van Starlink voor Oekraïne. "Dit betekent het einde van Starlink-internet, dat Polen levert aan Oekraïne terwijl het oorlog voert", schreef Gawkowski op X.

Een woordvoerder van de president laat weten dat het parlement de mogelijkheid heeft om met een nieuw wetsvoorstel de wettelijke basis tijdig te herstellen.

ARNHEM (ANP) - De Nederlandse atletiekploeg die volgende maand op de wereldkampioenschappen in Tokio in actie komt, telt minstens vijftig atleten. 37 van hen komen individueel uit op een onderdeel: achttien vrouwen en negentien mannen. De rest maakt deel uit van de vijf estafetteploegen die zijn gekwalificeerd.

Hoofdcoach Laurent Meuwly van de Atletiekunie ziet elf kansen om een medaille te winnen. "Maar ze zeggen dat één op de drie kansen wordt gerealiseerd, dus denk ik dat het realistisch is dat we minimaal vier medailles winnen en in de top acht van de medaillespiegel eindigen", zei de Zwitser bij de presentatie van de atletiekploeg op sportcentrum Papendal.

Femke Bol verdedigt in Tokio haar titel op de 400 meter horden. Haar kans op prolongatie is groot, omdat haar grote concurrente Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone heeft gekozen voor een ander onderdeel. Grote afwezigen in de ploeg zijn Sifan Hassan, Abdi Nageeye en Anouk Vetter.

WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft zich vlak voor een ontmoeting met de Zuid-Koreaanse president Lee Jae-myung gemengd in de politieke situatie van dat land. "Wat is er aan de hand in Zuid-Korea?", vraagt hij zich hardop af op Truth Social. "Lijkt wel een zuivering of een revolutie. Dat kunnen we niet hebben als we er zaken mee doen."

Zuid-Korea verkeerde maandenlang in politieke chaos nadat toenmalig president Yoon Suk-yeol in december de militaire noodtoestand had uitgeroepen. Hij werd geschorst, maar kon pas in april officieel worden afgezet door het constitutioneel hof. In juni won Lee de verkiezingen namens de progressieve oppositie.

Lee is nu voor het eerst sinds zijn aantreden aangekomen in de Verenigde Staten. Hij heeft om 18.00 uur een gesprek met Trump. De verwachting was dat de twee het met name over de militaire samenwerking en de handelstarieven tussen beide landen zouden hebben. De VS en Zuid-Korea sloten vorige maand een handelsovereenkomst.

Today's links

• Enshittification, the audiobook (the Kickstarter): A disenshittified audiobook about enshittification.
• Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
• Object permanence: Open source DRM?!; Sad Puppies lose big; Meritocratic delusion.
• Upcoming 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.

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Enshittification, the audiobook (the Kickstarter) (permalink)

Audiobooks are hands-down the most enshittified aspect of publishing, which is why I make my own audiobooks and pre-sell them on Kickstarter, which is how I get around the fact that Amazon refuses to carry my audiobooks:

http://disenshittification.org

Why are audiobooks so enshittified? Because they have the two essential characteristics for enshittification:

1) They are digital, which means the rules for them can be shifted on a per-customer, per-usage basis; and

2) They are controlled by a monopoly, Amazon, whose Audible division is responsible for 90% of popular audiobook sales.

https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/07/audible-exclusive/#audiblegate

Amazon refuses to sell any audiobook unless it is first wrapped in the company's proprietary encryption (AKA "Digital Rights Management" or "DRM"). This DRM permanently locks Audible's audiobooks to the apps it approves, because US copyright law makes it a felony to tamper with that DRM. That means that neither the author nor the publisher can authorize you to take your Audible purchases to a rival platform, and if they try, Audible can have them imprisoned for up to five years:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/18/descartes-delenda-est/#self-destruct-sequence-initiated

Which is why none of my books are for sale on Audible. I'm not gonna submit to conditions that will let Audible take you, my reader, hostage. Not only does that make you vulnerable to whatever evil shit Amazon thinks up (remember a couple years ago, when they experimented with putting ads in the audiobooks you paid for?!), but that also makes me (and every other author) vulnerable, because if you can't leave Audible, neither can we:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/#acx-ripoff

Which is why I do these Kickstarters for my audiobooks! Since 2013, I've either paid narrators (like Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson) to perform my books, or I've gone into Skyboat Media's studios myself, to record under the expert direction of the legendary Gabrielle de Cuir:

https://skyboatmedia.com/

That's what I did this time, recording my forthcoming book Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It in early August. Since then, I've been working with my trusty sound engineer John Taylor Williams to polish that recording to perfection. Now, I'm selling that pre-selling that audiobook on a Kickstarter where you can also pre-order the hardcover, ebook, as well as an extremely limited edition art-book collecting the collages I made for my Pluralistic.net newsletter while developing the ideas behind Enshittification:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/enshittification-the-drm-free-audiobook

You can listen to a generous, one-hour sample of the entire first section of the book here:

https://archive.org/download/enshittification-sample/Enshittification_Kickstarter_Promo_FMx1.mp3

The audiobooks and ebooks I sell through my Kickstarters are sold without any DRM, and also without any "terms and conditions." You are buying these books, not "licensing" them. That means you can do anything with these books that copyright law allows: sell 'em, give 'em away, lend 'em to a friend. Just don't violate copyright law and we're cool.

This book, Enshittification, synthesizes all the essays, speeches and panels I've done on the subject of platform decay into a single, coherent argument designed to be accessible to everyone, even (especially) your normie friends who know that everything sucks but don't understand why and are paralyzed about what to do about it.

The book's not out until October – it'll be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US/Canada) and Verso (UK/Commonwealth), but it's already getting fantastic early notices. The Financial Times has already longlisted it for 2025's best business book of the year:

https://www.ft.com/bookaward

It's gotten starred reviews and raves from trades like Kirkus, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly, and we've sold foreign rights in more than a dozen countries, all over the world. There's also a 2026 graphic novel edition (adapted by Koren Shadmi) coming from First Second's 23rd Street Books.

Just as exciting is the Enshittification documentary, which is currently in pre-production, directed by Emily James (Just Do It), edited by Kurt Engfehr (Fahrenheit 9/11) and produced by Eve Marson (Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet). You can pre-purchase tickets to the theatrical run and a DRM-free download here; your early support will help raise the $75,000 we need for principle photography:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/one-time-137256536

We recorded a sizzle reel at the Teardown conference in Portland last spring, and Kurt's edited it into an amazing trailer:

https://vimeo.com/1111178798?share=copy#t=3.009

The documentary is a road-movie, with a crew following me on tour and interviewing me and other experts on the subject (think Inconvenient Truth, but for platform decay). We've got quite a tour planned: I'll be in Boston (with Randall "XKCD" Munroe); DC (with former CFPB chair Rohit Chopra); New Orleans; Chicago (with Kara Swisher); LA (with The American Prospect's David Dayen); Calgary; San Francisco; Portland; Seattle (with Ed Zitron); Vancouver; Calgary, Montreal, Toronto, New York City (with Lina Khan); Miami; Burbank; Lisbon; London; Hay-on-Wye; and Madison, CT. Other tour dates are still being finalized – more details to follow.

I developed enshittification as a series of posts on Pluralistic.net, my blog/newsletters/social media feed. Each edition of Pluralistic goes out with a graphic, usually a collage I've made from public domain and Creative Commons materials:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/albums/72177720316719208

Making these collages has turned into one of my major creative outlets, and dozens of readers have asked if I would ever do a book of them. Then, last year, I got to talking to Creative Commons CEO Anna Tumadóttir about her plans for CC's 25th anniversary and we cooked up a plan to publish a little book of my Pluralistic collages to give to major donors as a premium. Anna needed 400 of these, but my printer gives me a quantity break at 500 copies, so I'm making 100 signed, numbered copies available for backers of this Kickstarter.

The books are gorgeous. Cyberpunk icon and electronic art impresario Bruce Sterling wrote me a wonderful introduction. It's designed by John D. Berry, president of the Association Typographique Internationale, a legend of type and book design:

https://johndberry.com/biographical-note/

For production, I've tapped Pasadena's Typecraft, a 118-year-old printer who ran the book on 100lb Mohawk paper. It's a gorgeous little 4.75" x 6.75" paperback, and this is the only run I plan on doing (though if people like it, I might do future volumes collecting more collages).

One of the things I love about these campaigns is the chance to work with so many wonderful partners. There's Skyboat Media and director Gabrielle de Cuir; editor John Taylor Williams of Wryneck Studios; Emily, Kurt and Eve working on the documentary; John Berry, Bruce Sterling and Typecraft for my art book. I'm also working with some of my favorite booksellers in the world to fulfill print book orders: in LA, I've got Secret Headquarters (the best comics shop in the world!), who'll fulfill US orders as well as worldwide orders for signed books and Canny Valley. For Canadian hardcover orders, I'm working with Winnipeg's McNally-Robinson. For EU orders, I'm once again working with Berlin's magnificent Otherland Books. Orders in the UK will be fulfilled directly by Verso. Working with local shippers means we don't have to fuck around with the Trump tariffs.

Enshittification is the product of my open-access publishing program. I don't charge anything for the essays I publish nearly every day on Pluralistic.net, and I release them under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, which lets anyone reproduce and adapt them, including commercially. Releasing my work this way means that it gets spread far and wide, which means everything to me, and I'm so glad to see everyone from scrappy progressive news sites to Conde Nast taking my work and reprinting it widely.

Readers frequently ask me how they can support my work, whether I have a Patreon or some other way to accept donations. I don't have anything like that. What I have, instead, are these books, which I can't seem to stop writing. The best way to thank me for my work is to buy the books, in any (or every) format. Selling books benefits a whole community of people who are important to my work, including my publishers and agents, and also all the people who work on publishing, fulfillment and production with me. These people don't just work on my projects, of course: they have many partners of their own.

When you buy my books, you help ensure that I'll keep doing what I do – and you help all my partners keep doing what they do. And the best way to support my work is to back it on these Kickstarter campaigns. The extraordinary generosity of my Kickstarter backers since 2020 has made a huge difference to my artistic career and my family's financial stability. If you backed one of those campaigns, I thank you, sincerely. And whether you've backed before, I hope you'll consider backing this one:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/enshittification-the-drm-free-audiobook

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Hey look at this (permalink)

• A Different Kind of Tension https://jonathanlethem.com/

• Why the Internet is Turning to Shit https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-the-internet-is-turning-to-shit

• Did this Kid Use AI to Fake Research About How Great AI Is? https://skepchick.org/2025/08/did-this-kid-use-ai-to-fake-research-about-how-great-ai-is/

• Is it illegal to not buy ads on X? Experts explain the FTC’s bizarre ad fight. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/is-it-illegal-to-not-buy-ads-on-x-experts-explain-the-ftcs-bizarre-ad-fight/

• Nomad Cycles: E-Bikes made with soul, not just to be sold! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nomadcycles/nomad-cycles-e-bikes-made-with-soul-not-just-to-be-sold

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Object permanence (permalink)

#20yrsago Court: DMCA can’t prohibit third-party repairs https://web.archive.org/web/20050912004536/https://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/2005/08/24/fed_circuit_smacks_down_bad_dmca_decision_re_independent_repair_techs.php

#20yrsago Chinese government mandating 3-hour caps on MMO playing https://www.gamespot.com/articles/china-govt-steps-up-limits-on-online-gaming/1100-6131845/

#20yrsago ItPlaysQuake: reviews of Quake-ports on odd hardware https://web.archive.org/web/20051122053035/http://www.itplaysquake.com/

#20yrsago DRM != SSL https://memex.craphound.com/2005/08/24/drm-ssl/

#20yrsago FBI stages fake wedding, invites mobsters, arrests gift-bearing guests https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-aug-23-na-gang23-story.html

#20yrsago What the *&^%#!? is an “open source DRM?” https://web.archive.org/web/20050903070248/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/003928.php

#20yrsago Why some “piracy” can increase overall revenues https://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2005/08/just_enough_pir.html

#15yrsago Play a digital version of a lost “perception-altering” Freemasonry board-game https:/www.dpoetry.com/fires/

#10yrsago The FBI kept files on author Ray Bradbury: “Definitely slanted against the United States” https://memex.craphound.com/2015/08/24/the-fbi-kept-files-on-author-ray-bradbury-definitely-slanted-against-the-united-states/

#10yrsago Car information security is a complete wreck — here’s why https://memex.craphound.com/2015/08/23/car-information-security-is-a-complete-wreck-heres-why/

#10yrsaog Sad Puppies, Rabid Puppies lose big at the Hugos https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/016318.html

#5yrsago Quantifying the meritocratic delusion https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/23/visionary-art/#meritocratic-delusion

#5yrsago Chinese sf guidelines https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/24/raise-the-spirits-of-scientists/#taikonaut-futurism

#5yrsago Don't use Bridgefy at protests https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/24/raise-the-spirits-of-scientists/#threat-models

#5yrsago Concretizing "Main St vs Wall St" https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/24/raise-the-spirits-of-scientists/#main-st-wall-st

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Upcoming appearances (permalink)

• Ithaca: AD White keynote (Cornell), Sep 12
  https://deanoffaculty.cornell.edu/events/keynote-cory-doctorow-professor-at-large/

• DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8
  https://politics-prose.com/cory-doctorow-10825

• New Orleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12
  http://www.contraflowscifi.org/

• Chicago: Enshittification with Kara Swisher (Chicago Humanities), Oct 15
  https://www.oldtownschool.org/concerts/2025/10-15-2025-kara-swisher-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification/

• San Francisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
  https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

• Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1504647263469

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Recent appearances (permalink)

• Divesting from Amazon’s Audible and the Fight for Digital Rights (Libro.fm)
  https://pocketcasts.com/podcasts/9349e8d0-a87f-013a-d8af-0acc26574db2/00e6cbcf-7f27-4589-a11e-93e4ab59c04b

• The Utopias Podcast
  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2272465/episodes/17650124

• Tariffs vs IP Law (Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFABFe-5-uQ

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Latest books (permalink)

• "Picks and Shovels": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about the heroic era of the PC, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2025 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels).

• "The Bezzle": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about prison-tech and other grifts, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2024 (the-bezzle.org).

• "The Lost Cause:" a solarpunk novel of hope in the climate emergency, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), November 2023 (http://lost-cause.org).

• "The Internet Con": A nonfiction book about interoperability and Big Tech (Verso) September 2023 (http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org). Signed copies at Book Soup (https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245).

• "Red Team Blues": "A grabby, compulsive thriller that will leave you knowing more about how the world works than you did before." Tor Books http://redteamblues.com.

• "Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid, with Rebecca Giblin", on how to unrig the markets for creative labor, Beacon Press/Scribe 2022 https://chokepointcapitalism.com

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Upcoming books (permalink)

• "Canny Valley": A limited edition collection of the collages I create for Pluralistic, self-published, September 2025

• "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, October 7 2025
  https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

• "Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, 2026

• "Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (the graphic novel), Firstsecond, 2026

• "The Memex Method," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2026

• "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026

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Colophon (permalink)

Today's top sources:

Currently writing:

• "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux about being an effective AI critic. (1019 words yesterday, 422263 words total).

• A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING

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