1980 champion Alan Jones has passed away at the age of 80.
Toegegeven, op meidenweekend naar Tirana, Skopje of Belgrado pakt u ook gewoon de Hongaarse luchtbus. Ze flikkeren uw groepje neer op 8E, 21C, 38A en 44B en een lauwe Bavaria kost € 6, maar na een paar uur uw adem inhouden spoelt u in Skadarlija dikke hompen vlees weg met grote glazen slivovitsj. Vliegen was vroeger sowieso beter: lekker Lucky Strikes paffen, oma mocht mee tot aan de gate, u kreeg ook op de korte vluchtjes wat te snaaien en er werd allround een stuk minder spastisch en gejaagd gedaan. Anyway, toen kwam de islam, en nu is iedereen opgefokt over de grootte van een tube tandpasta. Maar later zullen we zeggen: het definitieve verval van KLM werd ingezet bij het afschaffen van het gratis bier.
wyatt.crothersps5 has added a photo to the pool:
Finally caught this one in daylight!
After previously only managing to catch SSR's new Illawarra export coal workings under the cover of darkness, it was finally time to tick one off in daylight! CEY005 leads CF4405 and CEY003 on Southern Shorthaul Railroad's AR03 empty coal working from Port Kembla Inner Harbour to Centennial Coal's Airly Mine, seen making it's way north through Scarborough on the Up Illawarra during the morning of Thursday, 5 November 2026.
With the two CEY Class units sandwiching CF4405, the trio make their way along the scenic coastal section of the Illawarra Line, heading towards Sydney before continuing west towards the Blue Mountains and Airly Mine for another load of export coal. A welcome daylight catch of one of SSR's newest coal operations servicing Port Kembla Inner Harbour!
CEY005 CF4405 CEY003 | AR03 | Scarborough, NSW | 0842 05/11/2026
PARIJS (ANP/RTR) - Een vliegtuig van de Ierse luchtvaartmaatschappij Aer Lingus, onderweg van Dublin naar Rome, is vanwege een bommelding omgeleid naar een luchtmachtbasis in het Franse Évreux. Dat heeft het kantoor van de Franse premier bekendgemaakt.
Het kantoor meldt de situatie nauwkeurig in de gaten te houden. Op Flightradar, een site waarop vluchten te volgen zijn, is te zien dat de Airbus A320 vlak na Parijs is omgedraaid. Het vliegtuig is volgens die website nog niet geland.
Meerdere Europese vluchten maakten recent noodlandingen vanwege bommeldingen, maar er werden geen explosieven gevonden. Het is niet duidelijk wie verantwoordelijk is voor de reeks meldingen.
EINDHOVEN (ANP) - De prijs voor een liter benzine aan de Nederlandse pomp is donderdag gezakt tot onder de 2,50 euro, het laagste niveau sinds begin juli. Dat is het gevolg van de recente daling van de olieprijzen.
Volgens consumentenvoordeelplatform UnitedConsumers bedraagt de adviesprijs voor een liter benzine nu 2,485 euro, ruim 2 cent minder dan woensdag. Op 10 oktober bereikte de adviesprijs voor Euro95 nog de hoogste stand ooit met 2,732 euro.
Ook diesel werd donderdag goedkoper en kost nu 2,647 euro per liter. Dat is 18 cent onder de recordstand van halverwege september, toen de brandstof 2,824 euro kostte. De prijs van premium benzine (Euro 98) is in nog geen maand met 25 cent gedaald tot 2,698 euro.
UnitedConsumers houdt dagelijks de adviesprijzen van de grote oliemaatschappijen bij en berekent daarvan een gemiddelde. Die prijzen worden doorgaans bij duurdere pompen, bijvoorbeeld door tankstations langs de snelweg, gevraagd. Elders is brandstof vaak goedkoper.
DUBAI (ANP/AFP/BLOOMBERG) - De winst van de Emirates Group is het afgelopen halfjaar met meer dan de helft gedaald. De eigenaar van de grootste luchtvaartmaatschappij in het Midden-Oosten had last van verstoringen en hoge brandstofprijzen die het gevolg zijn van het aanhoudende conflict in het Midden-Oosten.
De groep, die gevestigd is in Dubai, boekte in de eerste zes maanden van zijn boekjaar een winst voor aftrek van belastingen van 4,1 miljard VAE-dirham, omgerekend bijna 1 miljard euro. Dat is 66 procent minder dan in dezelfde periode vorig jaar. De omzet van de hele groep werd minder zwaar getroffen en daalde met 12 procent, mede door sterke prestaties van de vrachtdivisie.
Luchtvaartmaatschappij Emirates vervoerde ruim een vijfde minder passagiers. Door aanvallen van Iran werden vluchten verstoord en haakten bezoekers af voor Dubai, dat eerder uitgroeide tot toeristische trekpleister.
"Het waren zes veeleisende maanden", zei voorzitter en topman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum in een toelichting.
WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Amerikaanse midtermverkiezingen afgelopen dinsdag kenden meerdere primeurs en records. Voor het eerst in de geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten zijn er straks meerdere zwarte gouverneurs tegelijk in functie. Ook krijgt het land zijn eerste zwarte vrouwelijke gouverneur. In de staat Alabama is de eerste trans volksvertegenwoordiger verkozen.
In vijf staten zijn zwarte gouverneurs verkozen. Dat is voor het eerst het geval in Florida, Georgia, Wisconsin en Nevada. De Democraat Wes Moore werd herkozen in Maryland. Volgens NBC News waren er vóór deze verkiezingen maar drie zwarte gekozen gouverneurs in de Amerikaanse geschiedenis, die nooit tegelijkertijd in functie waren. De eerste vrouwelijke zwarte gouverneur in het land wordt Keisha Lance Bottoms, in Georgia.
In de staat Alabama is de Democratische kandidaat Allison Montgomery verkozen voor het lokale Huis van Afgevaardigden. Zij wordt daarmee de eerste trans volksvertegenwoordiger in de staat.
De Filipijnse politie heeft beelden van kindermisbruik gevonden op drie geheugenkaarten en een telefoon die de zoon van Thomas Markle bij haar inleverde. Dat meldde de nationale politie (PNP) woensdag aan persbureau AFP, bericht Philstar. En dat is naar het zich laat aanzien nog maar het topje van de perverse ijsberg.
Er is nog een enorme hoeveelheid beeldmateriaal dat uitgezocht moet worden. De 82-jarige vader van Meghan Markle is niet aangeklaagd en noemt de beschuldigingen “zieke leugens”.
Wat de politie vond en wat nog niet vaststaat
De spullen komen uit een woning in Cebu waar Markle tot dit voorjaar woonde. Eerder zei de politie al dat ze een laptop onderzocht die daar naast misbruikbeelden zou zijn gevonden.
Politiechef Jose Melencio Nartatez jr. remt de conclusies af. Het vinden van materiaal is volgens hem niet genoeg: de politie moet uitzoeken “waar het vandaan komt, wie er verantwoordelijk voor kan zijn en of de Filipijnse wet is overtreden”.
Minister van Binnenlandse Zaken Jonvic Remulla zei eerder tegen AFP dat de Filipijnen “passende juridische stappen” zetten als er genoeg bewijs is.
Zijn zoon stapte zelf naar de politie
Het verhaal kwam op 22 oktober naar buiten via de Britse krant The Sun. Halfbroer Thomas Markle jr. (60) zou de beelden hebben gevonden toen hij dozen doorzocht die zijn vader in Cebu had achtergelaten. Hij lichtte de politie in en nam contact op met de FBI.
“Toen ik dit materiaal vond, was ik vol afgrijzen. Ik kon niet anders dan mijn vader aangeven,” zegt hij tegen The Sun. Hij wil zijn vader nooit meer spreken, “tenzij ik tegen hem moet getuigen”.
Markle senior verliet de Filipijnen dit voorjaar na een beroerte en een bloedprop, waarna zijn linkerbeen werd geamputeerd. Hij woont nu in de Verenigde Staten, volgens Britse media in een zorginstelling voor mensen met dementie.
Markle ontkent, Meghan wil gerechtigheid
Tegenover de Daily Mail noemde Markle de beschuldigingen “het ergste waar iemand me van kan beschuldigen”. Hij zegt dat de “vreselijke leugens” zonder bewijs over hem worden verspreid.
Meghan liet op 23 oktober weten dat ze “diep geschokt” is. Ze schrijft dat ze in 2018, kort na haar huwelijk met prins Harry, hoorde van een brief aan de politie met “verontrustende beschuldigingen” tegen haar vader. Haar werd toen beloofd dat die onderzocht zouden worden. Dat ze haar kinderen bij hem weghield, had volgens haar “maar één reden: om ze te beschermen”.
De omvang van wat nu boven water is gekomen, is walgelijker dan je je ooit kunt voorstellen.
De breuk tussen vader en dochter was al jaren openbaar, sinds Markle in 2018 niet naar de bruiloft kwam. Meghan zei eerder dat ze zich al tien jaar de meest online gepeste persoon voelt.
Ook Mexico doorzocht een opslagbox
Het onderzoek beperkt zich niet meer tot de Filipijnen. Het Openbaar Ministerie van de Mexicaanse staat Baja California doorzocht dinsdag een opslagbox die Markle huurde, na een anonieme tip op maandag. De eigenaar zegt dat Markle sinds 2024 geen huur meer betaalde, maar dat zijn spullen bleven staan.
Onderzoekers vonden er twintig jaar oude “tijdschriften uit Azië” en namen computerapparatuur mee voor verder onderzoek. Wat daarop staat, is nog niet bekend.
Of Markle ooit verhoord wordt, is onzeker. De Amerikaanse advocaat Spencer Kuvin zegt tegen de Britse pers dat je “niet zomaar een zorginstelling voor dementie kunt binnenstormen voor een verhoor”. Ook voor Harry en Meghan, die Hollywood al teleurgesteld verlieten, is het einde van deze familiezaak voorlopig niet in zicht.
Meer weten?
Bronnen: Philstar, NBC, The News
French prime minister’s office says Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Rome now heading to military base in Evreux
The plane appears to have just touched down in Evreux, according to Flightradar24’s tracking service.
We will no doubt hear more from authorities in due course.
Continue reading...Michel Barnier says Britain could avoid having to join the single currency, but free movement is non-negotiable
Good morning. Andy Burnham is back from the Commonwealth summit, but the Commons is on mini-recess until Tuesday, and there is not much in the political diary for today. But Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, will be holding a press conference, which means reporters will have the chance to ask him why his eve-of-poll “I don’t go with the consensus that Trump is going to get smashed” prediction turned out to be so wrong.
Another recent claim from Farage has been that, if the UK were to reapply to join the EU, it would have to sign up to the euro. This allegation was never taken particularly seriously by people who actually know how the EU works; while new members are theoretically obliged to sign up to the euro, six of the 27 current members do not use it, one has a formal opt-out (Denmark), and there is plenty of precedent to suggest the EU would easily accept a fudge giving the UK an opt-out.
But what is, and what remains unnegotiable, is the condition to join the single market. There is no negotiation possible. No possible negotiation on any kind of cherry-picking or the single market ‘a la carte’. The UK knows quite perfectly the condition to be part of and to rejoin the single market and the customs union.
Continue reading...Democrats’ success was helped by popular anger over tech, AI and the super rich – life for billionaires could become much more difficult
The photo of Silicon Valley centi-billionaires at Donald Trump’s inauguration – Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg, front row and side by side – now looks like a hitlist for a blue Congress hellbent on making life difficult for billionaires.
The picture symbolized at the time the bending of the knee by the richest men in the world to its most powerful, a symbiosis of the ultra-rich. Already unfathomably wealthy, Silicon Valley tycoons believed a Maga-sized public shift to the right would enrich them even more. It did. For several years, while Trump seemed an everlasting kingmaker and AI’s expansion seemed unstoppable, their fortunes ballooned to values beyond comprehension. Elon Musk’s surpassed $1tn.
Continue reading...More than 100 campaign groups will join together in 15 countries this week to call for a halt to major AI projects
Protesters across Europe are planning two days of action against datacentres this week with demonstrations taking place in 15 countries.
More than 100 groups are joining together for the “Stop Dirty Data Centres” events on Friday and Saturday. They are calling for a moratorium on large projects, citing environmental and social costs that “we can no longer afford”.
Continue reading...Apocryphal plans to send an arousing morale booster to troops battling the Nazis make scant sense, and nor does the resulting movie
Some potentially interesting ideas here and a good cast … but the whole thing disintegrates into a very weird and ill-judged mess. It looks as if it might be a saucy romp, but is in fact doomily serious, like a stilted, stricken stage play. Sexual violence, PTSD and misogyny are among the issues that the film fails to address convincingly.
Writer-director Richard Hawkins (who scripted Paul Greengrass’s The Theory of Flight) imagines that during the second world war the British government commissioned porn films to be shown to troops as a morale-boost. This is supposedly based on an “urban myth” whose existence does not appear to be evident other than in online material relating to this film – although Britain’s Political Warfare Executive (PWE) is known to have dropped pornographic leaflets over Germany to damage enemy morale, crudely depicting wives cheating on absent soldier husbands, etc.
Continue reading...‘I love the club, fans and the city of Munich,’ says striker
Kane has 156 goals in 161 Bayern games since 2023
England captain and Ballon d’Or winner Harry Kane has signed a new deal with Bayern Munich through to 2029, the German club have announced.
Kane moved to Bayern from Tottenham in 2023 for a record €100m fee and has proved a huge success, scoring 156 goals in 161 competitive appearances and leading the German club to two Bundesliga titles and a DFB Cup.
Continue reading...
wing of kaz has added a photo to the pool:
鹿児島県霧島市牧園町、福寿温泉 / Fukuju Onsen, Makizono-cho, Kirishima City, Kagoshima Prefecture
Uit nieuw onderzoek blijkt dat rechters onvoldoende uitleggen waarom ze strafzittingen achter gesloten deuren laten behandelen. Een motiveringsplicht kan dit veranderen.
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In mid-October, a Russian military satellite approached X36, which is operated by the Finnish company ICEYE and provides radar imagery to Western governments and militaries, including Ukraine.
Today's links
- Without CDA 230, Facebook will own the internet forever: Small, well-managed online communities are especially vulnerable to legal threats.
- Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
- Object permanence: "Perfect Thing"; Recruiters tell students Iraq war is over; Toothpick Final Fantasy replicas; "Eleanor & Park"; Voter Suppression Trail; "Science Comics Computers."
- Upcoming appearances: Kilkenny, Courtenay, Vancouver, Folkestone, Oxford, Sheffield, Virtual, Oxford, Montreal.
- 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.
Without CDA 230, Facebook will own the internet forever (permalink)
The road to hell is paved with the depraved indifference to badly considered tech policy. The internet is one of those charismatic hyperobjects that wraps around our lives in myriad ways, so tech policy changes have a big blast radius.
This isn't a counsel of despair. I firmly believe that we can make tech policy, and furthermore, that we must, but that policy has to be crafted in a way that's mindful of collateral damage.
Take scraping. Most creative workers are rightly furious at the palpable glee of tech bosses, who want to take everything we've made in order to train models whose express purpose is to destroy our livelihoods and transfer our wages to AI companies and the media companies they sell to.
This is an entirely correct thing to be angry about. But many of my peers and comrades think the answer to this is to ban scraping, which is a terrible idea.
Scraping is how we make search engines. If you want Google to be the last search engine we ever get then by all means, change the rules so you need licenses to make transient copies of the web. There's only one company with deep-enough pockets to secure permission from every web site operator: Google, the thrice-convicted monopolist that dominates the web so thoroughly that no one could afford to turn them down.
Scraping is how we glue down the web's shifting sands. If you want to understand why the web says something today, it helps to know what it said yesterday. If we want to know how Zuck and Musk's algorithms are peddling disinformation and hatred, we need to be able to scrape their feeds. If we want to know how Amazon uses surveillance data to price-gouge shoppers, we need to scrape its prices. If we want to know how Uber cheats its most economically desperate drivers with lowball wage offers, we need to scrape its job listings.
(It's possible to make a scraper that's so clumsy or aggressive that it crashes or destroys websites. That's a dick move. We should find people who do that and punish them; and the thing we should punish them for is trashing websites – not making transient copies of the data on those sites.)
(If you want to protect creative livelihoods from AI bosses, the answer lies in labor organizing, not more copyright:)
https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/21/off-the-menu/#universally-loathed
The point is that while tech bosses are some of the worst, most eminently guillotineable monsters history has produced, tech is important to the lives of billions of perfectly nice people. If you let your rage at tech bosses overwhelm your care for those everyday people, you risk coming up with "punishments" that end up benefiting Big Tech and wrecking the lives of those normal users.
For example: you may have heard people insist that we can solve our problems with Big Tech by "repealing Section 230." This is a reference to section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a 26-word law that makes users responsible for their speech, while insulating the platforms that facilitate that speech from liability:
Here's what that means: say one user accuses another user of violating their rights through their words (libelling them, invading their privacy, etc). The wronged party can sue the person they're accusing of harming them, but they can't sue the social media platform, message board provider, hosting company, DNS provider (etc etc) for their role in hosting and transmitting the unlawful speech.
At the same time, CDA 230 allows all these "intermediaries" (social media platforms, hosting companies, message board providers, etc etc) to take down or otherwise moderate content that they deem offensive, without creating an obligation to police all of their users' speech.
CDA 230 grew out of lawsuits in the 1990s where online companies that took any action to remove offensive or unlawful speech were thereafter obliged to take down all unlawful speech. The lawfulness or unlawfulness of speech isn't something you can easily determine: for example, determining whether one user libeled another user requires that you find out whether the allegedly libelous speech is true. There's no way that a forum moderator can know that – it's the kind of thing you need a judge, a jury and a trial to figure out.
The result of these lawsuits was that most platforms decided they wouldn't take down any speech (so as to avoid creating an obligation to police all user speech), while a minority of platforms simply removed anything that anyone might find offensive. It was a mess:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton_Oakmont,_Inc._v._Prodigy_Services_Co.
CDA 230 fixed that. CDA 230 is how an individual or a small organization can host its own Mastodon or Bluesky servers, its own message boards, etc. It's these "smallhosts" that are the primary beneficiaries of CDA 230, not the Big Tech companies that 230's opponents hope to target by reforming or repealing 230.
Big Tech would be happy to see CDA 230 repealed. Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly called for CDA 230 to be deleted, because he thinks that Meta could hire enough moderators (or use enough AI) that they could avoid being ensnared in a lot of frivolous litigation, and when legal threats did land, Zuck's army of lawyers could readily see them off:
https://cepr.net/publications/repealing-section-230-giving-mark-zuckerberg-what-he-wants/
Big Tech's biggest fear isn't a repeal of CDA 230: it's mass defection of its users to smaller, independent services that are more responsive to users' needs. Zuck doesn't care if we get a new law that would make it impossible for another #MeToo to take off!
This is on my mind this week because of the way that intermediary liability has nearly destroyed an online community that I helped found, way back in the early 1990s.
The community is a small arts organization that I joined as a teenager. The organization sent out a quarterly newsletter, which I devoured as soon as it arrived in my mailbox. I wanted more! A few years in, I had the idea of setting up an email list for the org. Another member had access to a server where we could host the list, and now, more than 30 years later, that list is still going strong.
Now, every small community has its cranks and trolls, and this one is no exception. One member in particular has a well-earned reputation for flying off the handle, showering anyone who disagrees with them with furious and obscene abuse (I've been on the receiving end of this abuse myself). Unsurprisingly, this person is also an inveterate culture warrior who can be relied upon to troll anyone who brings up racial or gender issues. When this trolling draws the inevitable critical response, this person then reverts to form, showering their critics with abuse and profanity.
The list is moderated, and the organization's code of conduct is used as a framework for the moderators' calls. Like most codes of conduct, this org's CoC includes some generalities that leave room for interpretation (basically, "Don't be a dick").
A moderation policy that allows the moderators to sanction users for flaming each other and a user who picks fights and then launches into unhinged tirades at the mildest of criticisms were always going to collide, and that's what happened with this user. After picking a fight over racist language, this user posted a bunch of racial epithets and got sanctioned for posting racist language.
That's when the user sued the organization's volunteer board members for libel for implying that they were racist, seeking tens of thousands of dollars in damages, far in excess of the org's cash reserves. The org stepped in to defend its board members, and even though this trollish member quickly folded their legal threat, mounting just that initial defense incinerated a sizable fraction of the org's total assets.
This is the thing that CDA 230 was designed to prevent. Even spurious legal threats can wipe out small, volunteer-run communities. In the 30 years since I founded this list, there have been a couple times when members tried to convince the organization to move it to Facebook or another Big Tech platform. Each time, the rest of us were able to rebuff those efforts, and today the list continues to be independently operated.
If this one belligerent jerk had held out for just a little longer, that would have been the end of this community – not just the mailing list, but the organization itself.
We can't have an indieweb without limited liability for intermediaries. Repealing CDA 230 won't hurt Facebook – it will just force every independent community to move there.
Hey look at this (permalink)
- AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-cybersecurity-php2shell-vulnerability
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Anti-Monopolists Soared in the Midterms. You Can Help With What's Next. https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/ten-things-to-know-about-this-crushing
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Resume Bank https://www.economicliberties.us/resume-bank/
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Welcome to Chud Nuremberg https://www.garbageday.email/p/welcome-to-chud-nuremberg
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Petition to the Government of Canada https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7718
Object permanence (permalink)
#25yrsago Dutch cops bombard stolen phones with SMSes https://web.archive.org/web/20011106210234/https://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171836.html
#20yrsago Levy’s Perfect Thing: eye-opening iPod book https://memex.craphound.com/2006/11/05/levys-perfect-thing-eye-opening-ipod-book/
#20yrsago Army recruiters to students: “Iraq war is over” https://abcnews.com/GMA/story?id=2626032&page=1
#15yrsago Occupier/Army Ranger in ICU: Oakland PD “jumped me” https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/04/us-protests-oakland-veteran-idUSTRE7A37A820111104/
#15yrsago Prisoner’s toothpick replicas of Final Fantasy weapons https://web.archive.org/web/20111105071751/https://www.geekosystem.com/prisoner-builds-final-fantasy-swords-matchsticks/
#10yrsago Canadians are getting “blackmailed” by US copyright trolls https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/copyright-infringement-notice-canada-piracy-1.3831492
#10yrsago Eleanor & Park: a terrifying YA romance that has rescued its readers and frightened their parents https://memex.craphound.com/2016/11/05/eleanor-park-a-terrifying-ya-romance-that-has-rescued-its-readers-and-frightened-their-parents/
#10yrsago Chrome is about to start warning users that non-HTTPS sites are insecure https://www.wired.com/2016/11/googles-chrome-hackers-flip-webs-security-model/
#10yrsago Rebecca Solnit’s open letter to Trump: You should really visit New York some time https://lithub.com/new-york-city-is-a-book-conservatives-should-read/
#10yrsago The New York Times’s GOP voter-suppression retrogame: “The Voter Suppression Trail” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/01/opinion/voting-suppression-videogame.html
#10yrsago Toronto Star compiles a comprehensive list of Trump’s election-season lies https://web.archive.org/web/20161105070153/https://www.thestar.com/news/world/uselection/2016/11/04/donald-trump-the-unauthorized-database-of-false-things.html
#1yrago "Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works" https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/05/xor-xand-xnor-nand-nor/#brawniac
Upcoming appearances (permalink)
- Kilkenny (Kilkenomics), Nov 6-8
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Courtenay: Enshittification (Sid Williams Theatre Society), Nov 10
https://www.sidwilliamstheatre.com/events/cory-doctorow-talks-enshittification/ -
Vancouver: BC Policy Solutions Gala, Nov 12
https://bcpolicy.ca/gala/ -
Folkestone Writers Festival, Nov 16
https://www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/cory-doctorow-the-internet-is-broken-now-what/ -
Oxford: Ministry of the Future, Nov 23
https://ministryforthefuture.co.uk/events.html -
Sheffield: Reverse Centaur at Juno Books, Nov 25
https://www.outsavvy.com/event/40274/cory-doctorow-in-conversation -
Virtual: Enshittification, AI, and the Future of Technology (UBC Master of Educational Technology), Nov 28
https://met.ubc.ca/2026/09/met-speaker-series-cory-doctorow-enshittification-ai-and-the-future-of-technology/ -
Oxford: Bennett Oxford Symposium on Open Code in Science, Dec 9
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Montreal: World Science Fiction Convention, Sep 2-6
https://montreal2027.ca/en
Recent appearances (permalink)
- Clint Eastwood (No Gods No Mayors)
https://www.patreon.com/NoGodsNoMayors/posts/clint-eastwood-173008088 -
Life After AI (Brain Bar)
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Terms of Service with Clare Duffy (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/terms-of-service-with-clare-duffy/episodes/458ce968-af5d-11f0-b539-13ed2afe25f8 -
AI, Work, and Power (Software Engineering Daily)
AI, Work, and Power https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/podcasts/cory-doctorow-on-ai-work-and-power/ -
AI, Corporate Power, and the Fight for Worker Control (Plutopia)
https://plutopia.io/cory-doctorow-ai-corporate-power-and-the-fight-for-worker-control/
Latest books (permalink)
- "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2026
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"Canny Valley": A limited edition collection of the collages I create for Pluralistic, self-published, September 2025 https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/04/illustrious/#chairman-bruce
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"Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, October 7 2025
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"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).
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"The Bezzle": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about prison-tech and other grifts, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2024 (thebezzle.org).
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"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).
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"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).
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"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.
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"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
Upcoming books (permalink)
- "The Post-American Internet," a geopolitical sequel of sorts to Enshittification, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2027
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"Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, April 20, 2027
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"Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (the graphic novel), Firstsecond, 2027
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"The Memex Method," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2027
Colophon (permalink)
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Currently writing:
- “Once Is Enemy Action,” a science fiction novel about the origins of modern technofascism. Today's words: 511 (32924 total).
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"The Post-American Internet," a sequel to "Enshittification," about the better world the rest of us get to have now that Trump has torched America. Fourth draft completed. Submitted to editor.
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A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING
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