SEOUL (ANP/AFP) - Noord-Korea is bezig met een "zeer ernstige uitbreiding" van zijn vermogen om kernwapens te produceren, waarschuwt de chef van de VN-atoomwaakhond Rafael Grossi. Volgens hem nemen de activiteiten bij een reactor die wordt gebruikt om uranium te verrijken snel toe.

Het gaat volgens Grossi, het hoofd van het Internationaal Atoomenergieagentschap (IAEA), vooral om de reactor van Yongbyon. Die werd eerder stilgelegd na gesprekken met de Verenigde Staten, maar later werden de activiteiten weer opgestart. Het verrijken van uranium dat daar kan gebeuren vormt een belangrijke stap in het ontwikkelen van kernwapens.

Het IAEA constateert nu dat meerdere faciliteiten van Yongbyon in hoog tempo in gebruik worden genomen. Grossi zei op bezoek in Zuid-Korea dat de Noord-Koreanen met die productiecapaciteiten naar schatting enkele tientallen kernkoppen kunnen bouwen.

Noord-Korea voerde in 2006 zijn eerste test met een atoombom uit en staat sindsdien onder sancties van de Verenigde Naties.

FRANKFURT (ANP) - Het aantal passagiers richting het Midden-Oosten vanaf de luchthaven van Frankfurt is flink gedaald. In maart kelderde het aantal reizigers op vluchten naar die regio met 68,6 procent. Dat meldt de luchthaven in zijn cijfers over maart.

Passagiers hebben sinds de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten is begonnen veel minder opties om richting die regio te vliegen. Meerdere vliegtuigmaatschappijen hebben vluchten geschrapt zolang de onrust in het Midden-Oosten aanhoudt. Zo vliegt Lufthansa, dat veelvuldig gebruikmaakt van de luchthaven in Frankfurt, voorlopig nog niet richting Dubai en Tel Aviv. Ook KLM liet eerder al weten dat het in ieder geval tot in juni niet op Dubai vliegt.

Frankfurt Airport behoort tot de grootste luchthavens van Europa, samen met onder meer Londen Heathrow, Istanbul Airport, Parijs-Charles de Gaulle en Schiphol.

PARIJS (ANP) - Het Franse modebedrijf Hermès had in het afgelopen kwartaal last van de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten, die eind februari begon. De verkoop van zijn dure tassen, sjaals en andere accessoires in het Midden-Oosten en Frankrijk viel tegen doordat minder mensen geld uitgaven aan de Birkin- en Kelly-handtassen en andere producten van Hermès door het conflict.

Veel mensen hebben het Midden-Oosten verlaten sinds het begin van de oorlog om terug te keren naar hun thuisland. Vooral in de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten, Koeweit, Qatar en Bahrein verkocht Hermès minder door de oorlog. De opbrengsten van het bedrijf in de regio waaronder het Midden-Oosten valt, daalden met bijna 6 procent vergeleken met het eerste kwartaal van vorig jaar naar 160 miljoen euro.

In Frankrijk verdiende het bedrijf 2,8 procent minder doordat er minder toeristen waren. De luxeproducten van Hermès zijn onder andere te koop op luchthavens. De tassen die het bedrijf verkoopt, kosten minstens 10.000 dollar.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Chipmachinemaker ASML ging woensdag bij de opening van het Damrak licht omhoog na de publicatie van zijn kwartaalcijfers. Het concern rekent voor dit jaar op een hogere omzet dan eerder aangegeven. De omzetverwachting voor het huidige tweede kwartaal is echter beneden de verwachtingen van marktkenners.

ASML profiteert van de forse investeringen van techbedrijven in nieuwe datacenters voor de ontwikkeling van AI. Daardoor is de vraag naar chips groter dan wat fabrikanten kunnen leveren. ASML stond na enkele minuten handel 0,1 procent hoger.

De hoofdindex van de dertig meest verhandelde fondsen op de beurs in Amsterdam stond een fractie lager op 1019 punten. De MidKap ging 0,5 procent omhoog tot 1017 punten.

DÜSSELDORF (ANP) - Nederland en Duitsland gaan nog intensiever samenwerken om de verspreiding en het gebruik van zwaar illegaal vuurwerk tegen te gaan. Dat meldt de Rotterdamse burgemeester Carola Schouten, voorzitter van het Offensief tegen Explosies. Ze is woensdag met vertegenwoordigers van het ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid, de politie en het OM aanwezig voor overleg met de Duitse autoriteiten op het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken van de Duitse deelstaat Noordrijn-Westfalen in Düsseldorf.

Door de aanpak van de illegale handel, het vervoer en de opslag van zwaar vuurwerk hopen de overheden aanslagen met explosieven verder tegen te gaan. Het zware vuurwerk dat wordt gebruikt, wordt elders in Europa geproduceerd, veelal in Duitsland opgeslagen en vanuit daar illegaal naar Nederland vervoerd.

"Het gebruik van zwaar vuurwerk voor aanslagen en andere vormen van ondermijnende criminaliteit stopt niet bij de grens", aldus Schouten. "Nederland en Duitsland delen een gemeenschappelijke verantwoordelijkheid om onze dorpen en steden veilig te houden. Alleen door nauwe samenwerking, kennisdeling en een vastberaden gezamenlijke aanpak kunnen we deze dreiging terugdringen en de veiligheid van onze inwoners duurzaam versterken."

Samen met andere Europese landen pleit het Offensief voor strengere Europese regelgeving en aanscherping van de pyrorichtlijn, waarin de Europese regels en afspraken over vuurwerk zijn vastgelegd. Bijvoorbeeld door een verbod in te stellen op de productie van extreem hard knalvuurwerk of een maximum te stellen aan de hoeveelheid kruit en flitspoeder in zwaar vuurwerk.

WASHINGTON (ANP) - Christine Lagarde is niet van plan om voor het einde van haar termijn op te stappen als president van de Europese Centrale Bank (ECB), zei ze in een interview met Bloomberg TV. De economische gevolgen van de Iranoorlog zijn zo ernstig dat ze het niet verantwoord vindt om vroegtijdig te stoppen.

"Als er grote wolken aan de horizon zijn, verlaat de kapitein het schip niet. En deze kapitein verlaat het schip niet, want ik zie wolken", zei Lagarde. Haar termijn van acht jaar bij de ECB eindigt in oktober 2027. Eerder dit jaar verschenen mediaberichten over een mogelijk eerder vertrek, maar de Française zei zelf meermaals van plan te zijn haar termijn af te maken.

Door het conflict in het Midden-Oosten zijn de energieprijzen hard gestegen. Daardoor dreigt hogere inflatie. Ook verlaagde de ECB onlangs de economische groeiverwachting voor de eurozone door de oorlog. "Als je grote ontwrichting ziet, met een gedaalde energietoevoer, gevaren voor groei, en risico's op hogere inflatie, dan zijn dat ernstige zaken waar we alert op moeten zijn", zei Lagarde.

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This question is difficult to answer categorically, mainly because the internet does not yet provide chapter and verse on every football match played by superstars of the black-and-white era. But it’s also far too interesting to leave on the cutting-room floor, so we’ve given it a go with the caveat that the answers are only 99% correct.

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Kijk je KUNT natuurlijk 'niet meer meedoen' omdat je iets te goed hebt geluisterd naar lullende raketgeleerden als Famke Louise en Tim Douwsma die écht net genoeg vermogen hebben om zelf hun reet af te vegen, al heeft dat in het geval van die laatste weinig zin, want bij hem komt de poep gewoon uit z'n bek. Voor je het weet zit je 2x per dag sterrenbeeldwater van Annekee in je vagina te druppelen omdat de kalender van de Moonsisters het juiste gevoel heeft, lig je tussen de kikkerdril in de sloot naar inspirational quotes van Arie Boomsma te luisteren, heb je de halve websjop van Kim Kutter leeggekocht omdat je allesverwoestende aids denkt te kunnen behandelen met spulletjes uit haar winkel en opeens zit je in Paraguay de horlepiep te dansen met Wimpie Engel omdat ver weg in een ander land op Nederland kankeren veeeeeel gezonder is dan in Nederland op Nederland kankeren. ENFIN, voor al die rare health- en fitfluencers op sociale media, die vooral het gezond verstand vergiftigen met hun gezondheidstips, wil het CDA een hashtag: #NietDeskundig. Een soort keurmerk, zoals Jomanda #NietDeskundig achter haar adviezen had moeten plakken toen ze Sylvia Millecam kankerzorg bood. Blijkbaar is iedereen zó naïef en zó gestopt met nadenken (we hebben het ook over jullie, JEUGD) dat er van de 0.0-pils van de politiek een obligatoir en poepflauw disclaimertje bij online gezwets moet. Even 1x centraal mensen: als de Gravinfluencer zegt dat je aids moet laten behandelen met Kim Kutter-zalf moet je dat dus NIET DOEN. Dan kunnen we de hashtag #NietDeskundig in de toekomst gewoon weer gebruiken waarvoor-ie bedoeld is: politici van het CDA.

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Today's links

• Rights for robots: Not everything deserves moral consideration.
• Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
• Object permanence: 7 years under the DMCA; NOLA mayoral candidate x New Orleans Square; Kettling is illegal; AOL won't deliver critical emails; Chris Ware x Charlie Brown; Mossack Fonseca raided; Corporate lobbying budget is greater than Senate and House; Corbyn overpays taxes; What IP means; Bill Gates v humanity; "Jackpot."
• Upcoming appearances: Toronto, San Francisco, London, Berlin, NYC, Hay-on-Wye, London.
• 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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Rights for robots (permalink)

The Rights of Nature movement uses a bold tactic to preserve our habitable Earth: it seeks to extend (pseudo) personhood to things like watersheds, forests and other ecosystems, as well as nonhuman species, in hopes of creating legal "standing" to ask the courts for protection:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_nature

What do watersheds, forests and nonhuman species need protection from? That turns out to be a very interesting question, because the most common adversary in a Rights of Nature case is another pseudo-person: namely, a limited liability corporation.

These nonhuman "persons" have been a feature of our legal system since the late 19th century, when the Supreme Court found that the 14th Amendment's "Equal Protection" clause could be applied to a railroad. In the 150-some years since, corporate personhood has monotonically expanded, most notoriously through cases like Hobby Lobby, which gave a corporation the right to discriminate against women on the grounds that it shared its founders' religious opposition to abortion; and, of course, in Citizens United, which found that corporate personhood meant that corporations had a constitutional right to divert their profits to bribe politicians.

Theoretically, "corporate personhood" extends to all kinds of organizations, including trade unions – but in practice, corporate personhood primarily allows the ruling class to manufacture new "people" to serve as a botnet on their behalf. A union has free speech rights just like an employer, but the employer's property rights mea that it can exclude union organizers from its premises, and employer rights mean that corporations can force workers to sit through "captive audience" meetings where expensive consultants lie to them about how awful a union would be (the corporation's speech rights also mean that it's free to lie).

In my view, corporate personhood has been an unmitigated disaster. Creating "human rights" for these nonhuman entities led to the catastrophic degradation of the natural world, via the equally catastrophic degradation of our political processes.

In a strange way, corporate personhood has realized the danger that reactionary opponents of votes for women warned of. In the days of the suffrage movement, anti-feminists claimed that giving women the vote would simply lead to husbands getting two votes, since wives would simply vote the way their husbands told them to.

This libel never died out. Take the recent hard-fought UK by-election in Gorton and Denton (basically Manchester): this was the first test of the Green Party's electoral chances under its new leader, the brilliant and principled leftist Zack Polanski. The Green candidate was Hannah Spencer, a working-class plumber and plasterer who rejected the demonization of the region's Muslim voters, unlike her rivals from Labour (which has transformed itself into a right-wing party), Reform (a fascist party), and the Conservatives (an irrelevant and dying right party). During the race (and especially after Spencer romped to a massive victory) Spencer's rivals accused her of courting "family voters," by which they meant Muslim wives, who would vote the way their Islamist husbands ordered them to. Despite the facial absurdity of this claim – that the Islamist vote would go for the pro-trans party led by a gay Jew – it was widely repeated:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyxeqpzz2no

"Family voting" isn't a thing, but corporate personhood has conferred political rights on the ruling class, who get to manufacture corporate "people" at scale, each of which is guaranteed the same right to contribute to politicians and intervene in our politics as any human.

Contrast this with the Rights for Nature movement. Where corporate personhood leads to a society with less empathy for living things (up to and including humans), Rights for Nature creates a legal and social basis for more empathy. In her stunning novel A Half-Built Garden, Ruthanna Emrys paints a picture of a world in which the personhood of watersheds and animals become as much of a part of our worldview as corporate personhood is today:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/26/aislands/#dead-ringers

Scenes from A Half-Built Garden kept playing out in my mind last month while I attended the Bioneers conference in Berkeley, where they carried on their decades-long tradition of centering indigenous activists whose environmental campaigns were intimately bound up with the idea of personhood for the natural world and its inhabitants:

https://bioneers.org/

On the last morning, my daughter and I sat through a string of inspiring and uplifting presentations from indigenous-led groups that had used Rights of Nature to rally support for legal challenges that had forced those other nonhuman "persons" – limited liability corporations – to retreat from plans to raze, poison, or murder whole regions.

The final keynote speaker that morning was the writer Michael Pollan, who spoke about a looming polycrisis of AI, and I found myself groaning and squirming. Not him, too! Were we about to be held captive to yet another speaker convinced that AI was going to become conscious and turn us all into paperclips?

That seemed to be where he was leading, as he discussed the way that chatbots were designed to evince the empathic response we normally reserve for people – the same empathy that all the other speakers were seeking to inspire for nature. But then, he took an unexpected and welcome turn: Pollan compared extending personhood to chatbots to the disastrous decision to extend personhood to corporations, and urged us all to turn away from it.

This crystallized something that had niggled at me for years. For years, people I respect have used the Rights for Nature movement as an argument for extending empathy to software constructs. The more we practice empathy – and the more rights we afford to more entities – the better we get at it. Personhood for things that are not like us, the argument goes, makes our own personhood more secure, by honing a reflex toward empathy and respect for all things. This is the argument for saying thank you to Siri (and now to other chatbots):

https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/article/download/14294/12136

Siri – like so many of our obedient, subservient, sycophantic chatbots – impersonates a woman. If we get habituated to barking orders at a "woman" (or at our "assistants") then this will bleed out into our interactions with real women and real assistants. Extending moral consideration to Siri, though "she" is just a software construct, will condition our reflexes to treat everything with respect.

For years, I'd uncritically accepted that argument, but after hearing Pollan speak, I changed my mind. Rather than treating Siri with respect because it impersonates a woman, we should demand that Siri stop impersonating a woman. I don't thank my Unix shell when I pipe a command to grep and get the output that I'm looking for, and I don't thank my pocket-knife when it slices through the tape on a parcel. I can appreciate that these are well-made tools and value their thoughtful design, but that doesn't mean I have to respect them in the way that I would respect a person.

That way lies madness – the madness that leads us to ascribe personalities to corporations and declare some of them to be "immoral" and others to be "moral," which is always and forever a dead end:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/#if-dishwashers-were-iphones

In other words: there's an argument from the Rights of Nature movement that says that the more empathy we practice, the better off we are in all our interactions. But Pollan complicated that argument, by raising the example of corporate personhood. It turns out that extending personhood to constructed nonhuman entities like corporations reduces the amount of empathy we practice. Far from empowering labor unions, the creation of "human" rights for groups and organizations has given capital more rights over workers. A labor rights regime can defend workers – without empowering bosses and without creating new "persons."

The question is: is a chatbot more like a corporation (whose personhood corrodes our empathy) or more like a watershed (whose personhood strengthens our empathy)? But to ask that question is to answer it – a chatbot is definitely more like a corporation than it is like a watershed. What's more: in a very real, non-metaphorical way, giving rights to chatbots means taking away rights from nature, thanks to LLMs' energy-intesivity.

Empathy then, for the nonhuman world – but not for human constructs.

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Hey look at this (permalink)

• Khan vs. Cutter: A Tale of Two Careers https://prospect.org/2026/04/14/khan-vs-cutter-tale-of-two-careers/

• The MetaBrainz Foundation is seeking a new Executive Director (ED) https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/04/14/seeking-a-new-executive-director/

• Missouri Town Council Approves Data Center. A Week Later, Voters Fire Half of Council https://gizmodo.com/missouri-town-council-approves-data-center-a-week-later-voters-fire-half-of-council-2000746005

• Wikilinker https://whitelabel.org/wikilinker/about/

• Fold Catastrophes/Peter Watts https://tachyonpublications.com/product/fold-catastrophes/?mc_cid=c20986aa78

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Object permanence (permalink)

#20yrsago Canadian labels pull out of RIAA-fronted Canadian Recording Industry Ass. https://web.archive.org/web/20060414170111/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/component/option,com_content/task,view/id,1204/Itemid,85/nsub,/

#20yrsago EFF publishes “7 Years Under the DMCA” paper https://web.archive.org/web/20060415110951/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004555.php

#20yrsago Life of a writer as a Zork adventure https://web.archive.org/web/20060414115745/http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2006/04/disadventure.html

#20yrsago NOLA mayoral candidate uses photo of Disneyland New Orleans Square https://web.archive.org/web/20060414214356/https://www.wonkette.com/politics/new-orleans/not-quite-the-happiest-place-on-earth-166989.php

#20yrsago AOL won’t deliver emails that criticize AOL https://web.archive.org/web/20060408133439/https://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_04.php#004556

#15yrsago UK court rules that kettling was illegal https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/apr/14/kettling-g20-protesters-police-illegal

#15yrsago If Chris Ware was Charlie Brown https://eatmorebikes.blogspot.com/2011/04/lil-chris-ware.html

#10yrsago Piracy dooms motion picture industry to yet another record-breaking box-office year https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-fails-to-prevent-box-office-record-160413/

#10yrsago Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca law offices raided by Panama authorities https://www.reuters.com/article/us-panama-tax-raid-idUSKCN0XA020/

#10yrsago Panama Papers reveal offshore companies were bagmen for the world’s spies https://web.archive.org/web/20160426083004/https://www.yahoo.com/news/panama-papers-reveal-spies-used-mossak-fonseca-231833609.html

#10yrsago How corporate America’s lobbying budget surpassed the combined Senate and Congress budget https://web.archive.org/web/20150422010643/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/how-corporate-lobbyists-conquered-american-democracy/390822/

#10yrsago URL shorteners are a short path to your computer’s hard drive https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02734

#10yrsago UL has a new, opaque certification process for cybersecurity https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/04/underwriters-labs-refuses-to-share-new-iot-cybersecurity-standard/

#10yrsago Jeremy Corbyn overpays his taxes https://web.archive.org/web/20160413192208/https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/news/73724/jeremy-corbyn-overstated-income-his-tax-return

#10yrsago Cassetteboy’s latest video is an amazing, danceable anti-Snoopers Charter mashup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2fSXp6N-vs

#10yrsago Texas: prisoners whose families maintain their social media presence face 45 days in solitary https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/texas-prison-system-unveils-new-inmate-censorship-policy

#5yrsago Data-brokerages vs the world https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/13/public-interest-pharma/#axciom

#5yrsago What "IP" means https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/13/public-interest-pharma/#ip

#5yrsago Bill Gates will kill us all https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/13/public-interest-pharma/#gates-foundation

#5yrsago Jackpot https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/13/public-interest-pharma/#affluenza

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Upcoming appearances (permalink)

• Toronto: DemocracyXchange, Apr 16
  https://www.democracyxchange.org/news/cory-doctorow-to-open-dxc26-on-april-16

• San Francisco: 2026 Berkeley Spring Forum on M&A and the Boardroom, Apr 23
  https://www.theberkeleyforum.com/#agenda

• London: Resisting Big Tech Empires (LSBU), Apr 25
  https://www.tickettailor.com/events/globaljusticenow/2042691

• NYC: Enshittification at Commonweal Ventures, Apr 29
  https://luma.com/ssgfvqz8

• NYC: Techidemic with Sarah Jeong, Tochi Onyibuchi and Alia Dastagir (PEN World Voices), Apr 30
  https://worldvoices.pen.org/event/techidemic/

• Berlin: Re:publica, May 18-20
  https://re-publica.com/de/news/rp26-sprecher-cory-doctorow

• Berlin: Enshittification at Otherland Books, May 19
  https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/cory-doctorow.html

• Hay-on-Wye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25
  https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay/big-ideas-2

• SXSW London, Jun 2
  https://www.sxswlondon.com/session/how-big-tech-broke-the-internet-b3c4a901

• NYC: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI (The Strand), Jun 24
  https://www.strandbooks.com/cory-doctorow-the-reverse-centaur-s-guide-to-life-after-ai.html

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Recent appearances (permalink)

• The internet is getting worse (CBC The National)
  https://youtu.be/dCVUCdg3Uqc?si=FMcA0EI_Mi13Lw-P

• Do you feel screwed over by big tech? (Ontario Today)
  https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-45-ontario-today/clip/16203024-do-feel-screwed-big-tech

• Launch for Cindy's Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (City Lights)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuVCm2PUalU

• Chicken Mating Harnesses (This Week in Tech)
  https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1074

• The Virtual Jewel Box (U Utah)
  https://tanner.utah.edu/podcast/enshittification-cory-doctorow-matthew-potolsky/

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Latest books (permalink)

• "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

• "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/

• "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 (thebezzle.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)

• "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2026 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621568/thereversecentaursguidetolifeafterai/)

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

• "The Post-American Internet," a geopolitical sequel of sorts to Enshittification, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2027

• "Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, 2027

• "The Memex Method," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2027

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Currently writing: "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. Third draft completed. Submitted to editor.

• "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux about being an effective AI critic. LEGAL REVIEW AND COPYEDIT COMPLETE.

• "The Post-American Internet," a short book about internet policy in the age of Trumpism. PLANNING.

• A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING

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