The End of Rule of Law in America. “After these first three tyrannical, lawless months of this presidency, surely Americans can understand now that Donald Trump is going to continue to decimate America for the next three-plus years.”

Front 242

The Cure

International Jetsetters

Psygone

Fuck Buttons

Laibach

Cheaper, open source AI will commoditize the market at expense of their bloated counterparts

The future of large language models is likely to be open source, according to Marc Benioff, co-founder and longstanding CEO of Salesforce.…

SebWotan has added a photo to the pool:

The peace memorial in Hiroshima is an emotionally charged place, and very quiet at night. The flame of peace will burn until the last nuclear weapon is dismantled, the Cenotaph and the Dome a stern reminder of the horror of mass destruction.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Het absurdistische programma Jiskefet krijgt dit jaar de Ere Zilveren Nipkowschijf. Dat werd woensdagavond bekendgemaakt door de organisatie achter de televisieprijs. In talkshow Eva werden ook de drie genomineerden bekendgemaakt voor de Zilveren Nipkowschijf, de oudste en meest gezaghebbende televisieprijs van Nederland.

"Het zit de huidige jury al jaren niet lekker dat het onze voorvaderen nooit heeft behaagd Jiskefet te eren", aldus de jury in een persbericht. "Terwijl we nu, 35 jaar na de start van dit absurdistische programma, nog bijna dagelijks de humor en uitdrukkingen van Michiel Romeyn, Kees Prins en Herman Koch tegenkomen en bezigen. En de lullo's en Juffrouw Jannie dragen we nog altijd in ons hart."

Het NTR-programma Danny ter plekke is genomineerd voor de Zilveren Nipkowschijf voor de aflevering Syrië zonder Assad. Ook de VPRO-serie Een valse start, 100 dagen in de jeugd- en gezinszorg van programmamaker Nicolaas Veul maakt kans. De derde genomineerde is de documentaireserie Zorgen van BNNVARA, waarin mbo'ers worden gevolgd die worden voorbereid op een baan in de zorg.

De Joodse Raad

De winnaar van de Zilveren Nipkowschijf wordt op 12 juni bekendgemaakt in Het Ketelhuis in Amsterdam. Op die dag wordt ook de winnaar van de Zilveren Reissmicrofoon voor het beste radioprogramma of de beste radiomaker bekend.

Vorig jaar won de EO-dramaserie De Joodse Raad de Zilveren Nipkowschijf.

PARIJS (ANP/AFP) - De Franse farmaceut Sanofi heeft woensdag aangekondigd tot 2030 minstens 20 miljard dollar (omgerekend bijna 18 miljard euro) te willen investeren in zijn activiteiten in de Verenigde Staten. Met dat geld moeten onder andere onderzoeks- en productiecapaciteit worden uitgebreid.

"De geplande investering omvat een aanzienlijke verhoging van de uitgaven voor onderzoek en ontwikkeling en de toewijzing van miljarden dollars aan Amerikaanse productie", meldt Sanofi in een verklaring.

De afgelopen tijd meldden meerdere farmaceuten te willen investeren in de VS. Zij lijken daarmee te reageren op de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump die eerder dreigde met importheffingen op farmaceutische producten. Daarmee wil hij farmaceuten dwingen hun activiteiten naar de VS te verplaatsen. Vooralsnog is de sector uitgesloten van importheffingen.

KYIV (ANP/RTR) - De Oekraïense president Volodymyr Zelensky weet nog steeds niet wie donderdag namens Rusland naar Turkije komt voor de geplande onderhandelingen met Oekraïne. Zelensky wil alleen meedoen aan de gesprekken als president Vladimir Poetin zelf komt, maar die heeft zijn aanwezigheid nog niet bevestigd.

"Ik wacht af wie er uit Rusland komt en dan zal ik bepalen welke stappen Oekraïne moet nemen", aldus Zelensky in zijn dagelijkse toespraak. "De signalen in de media zijn tot nu toe niet overtuigend", zei de president over de kans dat Poetin zelf zal komen. Poetin is volgens Zelensky alleen maar bezig met het voortzetten van de beschietingen op Oekraïne.

"Het is nu zelfs nog duidelijker voor de hele wereld dan op enig ander moment tijdens de volledige oorlog dat het enige obstakel voor de vrede een gebrek aan Russische wil is."

"Now it can be told: THE MADMAN OF MARS!"

Fun fact, Psychiatric Dr. Fredric Wertham, in his book Seduction of the Innocent, reported that Space Western was a favorite comic book of a juvenile delinquent arsonist that was treated at his clinic.

Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.

Voorafgaand aan het duel van Feyenoord met RKC Waalwijk werd er stil gestaan bij het bombardement op Rotterdam. Dat is vandaag 85 jaar geleden. Met grote spandoeken werd deze tragische gebeurtenis herdacht.

The first trailer for James Gunn's Superman [July 11]. "He is kindness in a world that thinks of kindness as old-fashioned [...] He's a big ol' galoot. He's a farmboy from Kansas who's very idealistic. His greatest weakness is that he'll never kill anybody. He doesn't want to hurt a living soul. I like that sort of innate goodness about Superman; it's his defining characteristic." Starring David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Nathan Fillion, Isabela Merced, Skyler Gisondo, Sara Sampaio, María Gabriela de Faría, Wendell Pierce, Alan Tudyk, Pruitt Taylor Vince, and Neva Howell.

Based on the Infinite Monkey Theorem, monkeys.zip is a game(?) where users can claim a monkey on the Infinite Grid - this monkey will continually type, as we check each letter written against all the works of Shakespeare! Monkeys are awarded with points and cosmetic items for writing words, while we track the global performance and see how much of Shakespeare's works we can write!

See also the Making of monkeys.zip part I, part II

Today's links

• Are the means of computation even seizable?: Magic Saran Wrap is a mind-game.
• Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
• Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020
• 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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Are the means of computation even seizable? (permalink)

Something's very different in tech. Once upon a time, every bad choice by tech companies – taking away features, locking out mods or plugins, nerfing the API – was countered, nearly instantaneously, by someone writing a program that overrode that choice.

Bad clients would be muscled aside by third-party clients. Locked bootloaders would be hacked and replaced. Code that confirmed you were using OEM parts, consumables or adapters would be found and nuked from orbit. Weak APIs would be replaced with muscular, unofficial APIs built out of unstoppable scrapers running on headless machines in some data-center. Every time some tech company erected a 10-foot enshittifying fence, someone would show up with an 11-foot disenshittifying ladder.

Those 11-foot ladders represented the power of interoperability, the inescapable bounty of the Turing-complete, universal von Neumann machine, which, by definition, is capable of running every valid program. Specifically, they represented the power of adversarial interoperability – when someone modifies a technology against its manufacturer's wishes. Adversarial interoperability is the origin story of today's tech giants, from Microsoft to Apple to Google:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability

But adversarial interop has been in steady decline for the past quarter-century. These big companies moved fast and broke things, but no one is returning the favor. If you ask the companies what changed, they'll just smirk and say that they're better at security than the incumbents they disrupted. The reason no one's hacked up a third-party iOS App Store is that Apple's security team is just so fucking 1337 that no one can break their shit.

I think this is nonsense. I think that what's really going on is that we've made it possible for companies to design their technologies in such a way that any attempt at adversarial interop is illegal.

"Anticircumvention" laws like Section 1201 of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act make bypassing any kind of digital lock (AKA "Digital Rights Management" or "DRM") very illegal. Under DMCA, just talking about how to remove a digital lock can land you in prison for 5 years. I tell the story of this law's passage in "Understood: Who Broke the Internet," my new podcast series for the CBC:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/08/who-broke-the-internet/#bruce-lehman

For a quarter century, tech companies have aggressively lobbied and litigated to expand the scope of anticircumvention laws. At the same time, companies have come up with a million ways to wrap their products in digital locks that are a crime to break.

Digital locks let Chamberlain, a garage-door opener monopolist block all third-party garage-door apps. Then, Chamberlain stuck ads in its app, so you have to watch an ad to open your garage-door:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/09/lead-me-not-into-temptation/#chamberlain

Digital locks let John Deere block third-party repair of its tractors:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/08/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors/

And they let Apple block third-party repair of iPhones:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/22/apples-cement-overshoes/

These companies built 11-foot ladders to get over their competitors' 10-foot walls, and then they kicked the ladder away. Once they were secure atop their walls, they committed enshittifying sins their fallen adversaries could only dream of.

I've been campaigning to abolish anticircumvention laws for the past quarter-century, and I've noticed a curious pattern. Whenever these companies stand to lose their legal protections, they freak out and spend vast fortunes to keep those protections intact. That's weird, because it strongly implies that their locks don't work. A lock that works works, whether or not it's illegal to break that lock. The reason Signal encryption works is that it's working encryption. The legal status of breaking Signal's encryption has nothing to do with whether it works. If Signal's encryption was full of technical flaws but it was illegal to point those flaws out, you'd be crazy to trust Signal.

Signal does get involved in legal fights, of course, but the fights it gets into are ones that require Signal to introduce defects in its encryption – not fights over whether it is legal to disclose flaws in Signal or exploit them:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/05/theyre-still-trying-to-ban-cryptography/

But tech companies that rely on digital locks manifestly act like their locks don't work and they know it. When the tech and content giants bullied the W3C into building DRM into 2 billion users' browsers, they categorically rejected any proposal to limit their ability to destroy the lives of people who broke that DRM, even if it was only to add accessibility or privacy to video:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-director-ceo-team-and-membership

The thing is, if the lock works, you don't need the legal right to destroy the lives of people who find its flaws, because it works.

Do digital locks work? Can they work? I think the answer to both questions is a resounding no. The design theory of a digital lock is that I can provide you with an encrypted file that your computer has the keys to. Your computer will access those keys to decrypt or sign a file, but only under the circumstances that I have specified. Like, you can install an app when it comes from my app store, but not when it comes from a third party. Or you can play back a video in one kind of browser window, but not in another one. For this to work, your computer has to hide a cryptographic key from you, inside a device you own and control. As I pointed out more than a decade ago, this is a fool's errand:

https://memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10/lockdown-the-coming-war-on-general-purpose-computing/

After all, you or I might not have the knowledge and resources to uncover the keys' hiding place, but someone does. Maybe that someone is a person looking to go into business selling your customers the disenshittifying plugin that unfucks the thing you deliberately broke. Maybe it's a hacker-tinkerer, pursuing an intellectual challenge. Maybe it's a bored grad student with a free weekend, an electron-tunneling microscope, and a seminar full of undergrads looking for a project.

The point is that hiding secrets in devices that belong to your adversaries is very bad security practice. No matter how good a bank safe is, the bank keeps it in its vault – not in the bank-robber's basement workshop.

For a hiding-secrets-in-your-adversaries'-device plan to work, the manufacturer has to make zero mistakes. The adversary – a competitor, a tinkerer, a grad student – only has to find one mistake and exploit it. This is a bedrock of security theory: attackers have an inescapable advantage.

So I think that DRM doesn't work. I think DRM is a legal construct, not a technical one. I think DRM is a kind of magic Saran Wrap that manufacturers can wrap around their products, and, in so doing, make it a literal jailable offense to use those products in otherwise legal ways that their shareholders don't like. As Jay Freeman put it, using DRM creates a new law called "Felony Contempt of Business Model." It's a law that has never been passed by any legislature, but is nevertheless enforceable.

In the 25 years I've been fighting anticircumvention laws, I've spoken to many government officials from all over the world about the opportunity that repealing their anticircumvention laws represents. After all, Apple makes $100b/year by gouging app makers for 30 cents on ever dollar. Allow your domestic tech sector to sell the tools to jailbreak iPhones and install third party app stores, and you can convert Apple's $100b/year to a $100m/year business for one of your own companies, and the other $999,900,000,000 will be returned to the world's iPhone owners as a consumer surplus.

But every time I pitched this, I got the same answer: "The US Trade Representative forced us to pass this law, and threatened us with tariffs if we didn't pass it." Happy Liberation Day, people – every country in the world is now liberated from the only reason to keep this stupid-ass law on their books:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/#its-the-only-war-the-yankees-lost-except-for-vietnam-and-also-the-alamo-and-the-bay-of-ham

In light of the Trump tariffs, I've been making the global rounds again, making the case for an anticircumvention repeal:

https://www.ft.com/content/b882f3a7-f8c9-4247-9662-3494eb37c30b

One of the questions I've been getting repeatedly from policy wonks, activists and officials is, "Is it even possible to jailbreak modern devices?" They want to know if companies like Apple, Tesla, Google, Microsoft, and John Deere have created unbreakable digital locks. Obviously, this is an important question, because if these locks are impregnable, then getting rid of the law won't deliver the promised benefits.

It's true that there aren't as many jailbreaks as we used to see. When a big project like Nextcloud – which is staffed up with extremely accomplished and skilled engineers – gets screwed over by Google's app store, they issue a press-release, not a patch:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/nextcloud-accuses-google-of-big-tech-gatekeeping-over-android-app-permissions/

Perhaps that's because the tech staff at Nextcloud are no match for Google, not even with the attacker's advantage on their side.

But I don't think so. Here's why: we do still get jailbreaks and mods, but these almost exclusively come from anonymous tinkerers and hobbyists:

https://consumerrights.wiki/Mazda_DMCA_takedown_of_Open_Source_Home_Assistant_App

Or from pissed off teenagers:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378541/the-og-app-instagram-clone-pulled-from-app-store

These hacks are incredibly ambitious! How ambitious? How about a class break for every version of iOS as well as an unpatchable hardware attack on 8 years' worth of Apple bootloaders?

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/25/mafia-logic/#sosumi

Now, maybe it's the case at all the world's best hackers are posting free code under pseudonyms. Maybe all the code wizards working for venture backed tech companies that stand to make millions through clever reverse engineering are just not as mad skilled as teenagers who want an ad-free Insta and that's why they've never replicated the feat.

Or maybe it's because teenagers and anonymous hackers are just about the only people willing to risk a $500,000 fine and 5-year prison sentence. In other words, maybe the thing that protects DRM is law, not code. After all, when Polish security researchers revealed the existence of secret digital locks that the train manufacturer Newag used to rip off train operators for millions of euros, Newag dragged them into court:

https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250407-01.en.html

Tech companies are the most self-mythologizing industry on the planet, beating out even the pharma sector in boasting about their prowess and good corporate citizenship. They swear that they've made a functional digital lock…but they sure act like the only thing those locks do is let them sue people who reveal their workings.

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Hey look at this (permalink)

• Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use" https://www.eurogamer.net/nintendo-reserves-the-right-to-brick-your-console-following-unauthorised-use-in-bid-to-prevent-piracy (h/t Don Hayler)

• The Soviet Experiment with Empire https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/05/13/the-soviet-experiment-with-empire/

• The future of (post-)capitalism and democracy: worker-owned businesses? https://www.metafilter.com/208766/The-future-of-post-capitalism-and-democracy-worker-owned-businesses

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Object permanence (permalink)

#20yrsago Why writers should stop worrying about “ebook piracy” https://memex.craphound.com/2005/05/14/why-writers-should-stop-worrying-about-ebook-piracy/

#15yrsago Will 3D plans for bongs become illegal, too? https://www.fabbaloo.com/2010/05/up-against-the-wall-and-spread-your-legs-html

#15yrsago The People’s Manifesto: Mark Thomas and friends’ suggestions for UK political reform https://memex.craphound.com/2010/05/14/the-peoples-manifesto-mark-thomas-and-friends-suggestions-for-uk-political-reform/

#5yrsago Pandemics shatter AI's intrinsic conservativism https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/14/everybody-poops/#homeostatic-mechanism

#5yrsago Modern monetary theory's moment has arrived https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/14/everybody-poops/#deficit-myth

#5yrsago Facebook's "backfire effect" junk science https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/14/everybody-poops/#backfire-effect

#5yrsago Restaurants won't let gig drivers pee https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/14/everybody-poops/#gotta-go

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Upcoming appearances (permalink)

• Pittsburgh: Picks and Shovels at White Whale Books, May 15
  https://whitewhalebookstore.com/events/20250515

• Pittsburgh: PyCon, May 16
  https://us.pycon.org/2025/schedule/

• Virtual: Writing to Resist (California Writers Club Berkeley), May 18:
  https://cwc-berkeley.org/writing-to-resist-5-18-25/

• Seattle: Cascade PBS Ideas Festival, May 30
  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cascade-pbs-ideas-festival-tickets-1251699710529

• PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
  https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2025

• PDX: Picks and Shovels with bunnie Huang at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
  https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062183697-0

• Tualatin Public Library, Jun 22:
  https://www.tualatinoregon.gov/library/author-talk-cory-doctorow

• London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
  https://howtoacademy.com/events/cory-doctorow-the-fight-against-the-big-tech-oligarchy/

• Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1308451968059

• Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 3
  https://www.uk.coop/events-and-training/events-calendar/co-op-congress-2025-book-your-place

• New Orleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
  http://www.contraflowscifi.org/

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Recent appearances (permalink)

• Fireside Fedi
  https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/huevh4L6r1yMYXqcQMi8gR

• Ctrl-ctrl-ctrl (Understood)
  https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353-the-naked-emperor/episode/16145640-ctrl-ctrl-ctrl

• Remember when the internet was… good? What happened? (The Current)
  https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63-the-current/clip/16145000-remember-internet-was…-good-what-happened

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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). Signed, personalized copies at Dark Delicacies (https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3062/Available_Feb_20th%3A_The_Bezzle_HB.html#/).

• "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). Signed, personalized copies at Dark Delicacies (https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Order_Signed_Copies%3A_The_Lost_Cause_HB.html#/)

• "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. Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US): and Forbidden Planet (UK): https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/.

• "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

• "Attack Surface": The third Little Brother novel, a standalone technothriller for adults. The Washington Post called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance." Order signed, personalized copies from Dark Delicacies https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Available_Now%3A_Attack_Surface.html

• "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism": an anti-monopoly pamphlet analyzing the true harms of surveillance capitalism and proposing a solution. https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59?sk=f6cd10e54e20a07d4c6d0f3ac011af6b) (signed copies: https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2024/Available_Now%3A__How_to_Destroy_Surveillance_Capitalism.html)

• "Little Brother/Homeland": A reissue omnibus edition with a new introduction by Edward Snowden: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250774583; personalized/signed copies here: https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1750/July%3A__Little_Brother_%26_Homeland.html

• "Poesy the Monster Slayer" a picture book about monsters, bedtime, gender, and kicking ass. Order here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626723627. Get a personalized, signed copy here: https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2682/Corey_Doctorow%3A_Poesy_the_Monster_Slayer_HB.html#/.

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Upcoming books (permalink)

• 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

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Colophon (permalink)

Today's top sources:

Currently writing:

• Enshittification: a nonfiction book about platform decay for Farrar, Straus, Giroux. Status: second pass edit underway (readaloud)

• A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING

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An anonymous reader shares a report: Sony just announced its financial forecast for the next year, and it's expecting to be impacted by tariffs to the tune of 100 billion yen (about $680 million). To compensate, the company says it's considering options including moving manufacturing to the US and increasing prices for consumers.

Speaking to investors during the company's earnings call, Sony CFO Lin Tao confirmed that the company is considering "passing on" the price of tariffs to consumers in order to mitigate the impact on its bottom line. Tao didn't mention the PS5 by name though, and it's possible that Sony could try to protect pricing on its console through increases elsewhere in its electronics business. Sony has already increased the price of the PS5 this year, but only in the UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

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Lees-, kijk- en luistertips van onze redacteuren bij het nieuws. Deze week: er landen nooit meer ufo’s op aarde.

Formula 1 is back in action this weekend with the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix – and here’s all the information you need to follow the action live from Imola on F1 TV.