DEN HAAG (ANP) - In het vrijdag gepresenteerde regeerakkoord staan positieve punten, aldus SGP-leider Chris Stoffer. Maar hij heeft ook de nodige zorgen over het akkoord met de titel 'Aan de slag'.

Hij is positief over de plannen voor de krijgsmacht, woningbouw en asielbeleid. Ook kan hij zich vinden in de plannen voor de overheidsfinanciën.

Meer zorgen heeft hij over punten die traditioneel zwaar wegen voor de SGP. "Rond medische ethiek en de bescherming van klassieke vrijheden bestaan nog veel vragen", aldus Stoffer. Het gaat dan onder meer over plannen voor het draagmoederschap. Ook zet hij "vraagtekens bij de stikstofaanpak".

MELBOURNE (ANP) - Novak Djokovic gaat zondag op voor zijn elfde titel in de Australian Open en de 25e grandslamzege in zijn carrière. De 38-jarige Servische tennisser versloeg in de halve finale de Italiaanse titelverdediger Jannik Sinner in een vijfsetter: 3-6 6-3 4-6 6-4 6-4. De Serviër stak na vier uur en negen minuten zijn handen omhoog.

Djokovic is op een missie. Als hij zijn 25e grandslamtitel binnenhaalt, laat hij de Australische oud-tennisster Margaret Court achter zich en is hij in zijn eentje recordhouder. Zijn tegenstander in de finale is de Spanjaard Carlos Alcaraz, die in de andere halve finale bijna 5,5 uur nodig had om zich in vijf sets te ontdoen van de Duitser Alexander Zverev.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De nieuwe coalitie van D66, VVD en CDA trekt vanaf 2027 jaarlijks 50 miljoen euro uit voor media. Een deel van dat geld moet worden gebruikt om een eerder aangekondigde bezuiniging op de publieke omroep van 150 miljoen euro terug te draaien. Het geld wordt ook gebruikt voor persveiligheid en journalistieke vrijheid.

Hoe de verdeling van het geld precies is, staat nog niet in het coalitieakkoord.

Verder schrijven de partijen dat de publieke omroep "vol" zal inzetten op digitalisering en jongere doelgroepen, aangezien steeds minder mensen tv kijken. Omroepbestuurders mogen niet langer dubbele functies bekleden en krijgen maximaal twee termijnen van elk vier jaar.

ST. PAUL (ANP/RTR) - Journalist Don Lemon, een bekende oud-presentator van CNN, is opgepakt vanwege betrokkenheid bij een anti-ICE-protest in een kerk in St. Paul, Minnesota, op 18 januari. Dat meldt zijn advocaat.

Lemon werd deze week in Los Angeles opgepakt, onder meer op verdenking van het verhinderen van een kerkdienst. In zijn verklaring noemt Lemons advocaat, Abbe Lowell, de arrestatie een "ongekende aanval" op de vrijheid van meningsuiting.

Lemon was naar eigen zeggen aanwezig om liveverslag te doen van een protest tegen de omstreden Amerikaanse immigratiedienst ICE, maar zou niet hebben geweten dat de kerk zou worden binnengevallen. Bij zijn arrestatie zou de FBI betrokken zijn geweest, meldt persbureau Reuters.

Renée Good

De Amerikaanse minister van Justitie Pam Bondi noemde de situatie in St. Paul eerder "verschrikkelijk".

Enkele dagen eerder werd in het nabijgelegen Minneapolis Renée Good doodgeschoten door agenten van de federale immigratiedienst ICE. Dat voorval leidde tot grote protesten en conflicten in de stad en staat.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De aanstaande coalitie wil het nieuwe stelsel om rendement op vermogen te belasten (box 3), alweer op de schop gooien. De voorgestelde heffing op de waardestijging van bijvoorbeeld aandelen die nu voor behandeling in de Tweede Kamer ligt, moet plaatsmaken voor een belasting die beleggers pas betalen als zij hun bezit met winst verkopen. Dat schrijven D66, VVD en CDA in hun coalitieakkoord.

Met deze "doorontwikkeling" van het box 3-stelsel komen de coalitiepartijen tegemoet aan een wens van onder meer VNO-NCW, de grootste lobbyorganisatie voor het bedrijfsleven. Zij zeggen er langetermijnbeleggingen mee te willen stimuleren.

Vermogenden betalen nu nog belasting over een verondersteld rendement. Een reeks rechterlijke uitspraken in het nadeel van de Staat heeft duidelijk gemaakt dat dit niet langer houdbaar is. Daarom is jaren gewerkt aan een heffing op het daadwerkelijk behaalde rendement. Er komt vanaf 2028 een belasting op vermogensaanwas, inclusief 'papieren' winsten. Vooralsnog worden alleen vastgoed en aandelen in startups daarvan uitgezonderd.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De Groep Markuszower beschouwt het regeerakkoord van D66, VVD en CDA als een "openingsbod naar de Tweede Kamer". De groep splitste zich eerder deze maand af van de PVV. De Groep Markuszower hoopt "dat wij, met onze 7 zetels, betere afspraken kunnen maken met deze minderheidsregering", schrijft ze in een eerste reactie op het akkoord.

Verder zegt de Groep Markuszower "best geschrokken" te zijn van de plannen in het regeerakkoord. Er wordt onder meer te weinig gedaan aan de asielinstroom en er wordt "keihard bezuinigd" op de zorg en sociale zekerheid, aldus een verklaring op X van de Groep Markuszower. "Goede voorstellen zullen wij steunen, maar er moet nog veel reparatiewerk worden verricht om het voor de Nederlanders dragelijker te maken."

The first lady’s premiere was marked by conspicuous absences. It turns out chumminess with the president might just come at a cost

Who wasn’t on the red carpet at the official Melania documentary premiere in New York was so much more intriguing than who was. No offence to defence secretary Pete Hegseth, but if I wanted to see formalwear struggling to contain Crusades tattoos, I’d hang around outside the Spartak Moscow Christmas party. Not that it was a red carpet, because the carpet at the “Trump-Kennedy” Center was black. No one bothers hiding the grift any more, with the movie’s own producer openly explaining that this aesthetic was “all about supporting this luxury brand that [Melania’s] creating”. They should have dressed the event like a colon, since Donald’s is effectively where it was being held.

Anyway: arrivals. There was Melania and Donald Trump – she finally got him out of hair and makeup – who were holding hands, a coincidentally convenient way to cover his skin if his glam squad didn’t truck in enough concealer. In recent months, Trump has had terrible bruises on the tops of his hands and even more terrible excuses for why they keep appearing. Aspirin, Swiss furniture, shaking lots of hands – the list of things that aren’t cannula sites grows longer every week.

Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist

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Lemon’s lawyer said he was taken into custody after attending protest in which demonstrators disrupted a church service earlier in January

• US politics live – latest updates

Don Lemon, the former CNN anchor, was arrested late on Thursday on charges that he violated federal law during a protest at a church in Minnesota earlier this month, according to his lawyer.

Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for Lemon, said that Lemon was “taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards”.

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Mike White’s show will begin production in April at a five-star Saint-Tropez resort known for its old-world opulence

Will it be a fatal attack with a pétanque boule under the parasol palms? Some skulduggery in the swimming pool of a €21,000-a-night private villa? Perhaps a poisoned cocktail on the terrace overlooking the luxury yachts in the Mediterranean?

Bienvenue to season four of The White Lotus on the Côte d’Azur; judging by past series, someone is not making it out of the French Riviera alive.

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The space opera to end them all once blasted everything in its path. But a muddled approach has led to indecision and paralysis

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars was an actual movie that people watched. It drew people to cinemas in huge numbers, largely because it was completely unembarrassed about being a pulpy space adventure about comic wizards and laser swords. Nowadays, it is something else entirely. A TV show about a likable space dad and his cute, cheeky, telekinetically powered adopted alien son, or perhaps a divisive culture-war bellwether that vacillates between trying to destroy itself in a blaze of operatic self-importance and hamfistedly rebuilding itself.

These days Star Wars also seems mainly to be press releases and announcements, throwaway comments in interviews that gesture mournfully towards what once was and what might, one day, be again. Which brings us to Taika Waititi, the Oscar-winning director from New Zealand, who has been giving fresh updates on his episode in the long-running space saga. “I’m just trying to sort of go back and harness a little bit more of the fun from the original films,” he told Variety, adding of George Lucas’ original trilogy: “The stakes were very high [and] there were serious things going on but also there was a lot fun to be had in those films. That’s what I was trying to bring back.”

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I am honored to have been commissioned by Morrison Express, a globally leading logistics enterprise, to create a series of illustrations for their 2026 brand desk calendar. Centered on the various stages and tools of the brand's cargo transportation, I produced 13 illustrations depicting key scenarios including air freight, sea freight, land transport, freight hubs, and warehousing. The illustrations feature the brand's signature corporate blue as the primary color palette and are rendered in a vintage style.

Robbie Williams heeft nu eindelijk het album dat hij al wilde maken toen hij uit Take That stapte, maar niet alle liedjes overtuigen. Charlotte Haesens klassiek-chansonalbum doet dat wel.

Van de bijna dertigduizend woorden uit het regeerakkoord worden er 102 gewijd aan cultuur. De grootste verandering is de herziening van de financiële basisinfrastructuur (BIS)…

Ruzie over Groenland, oorlogsnieuws, een rechtszaak over seksueel misbruik. Hoe behandelt het NOS Jeugdjournaal al die heftige gebeurtenissen? „Je wil kinderen een kader geven om met het nieuws om te gaan.”

Boeren hadden de pijn voelen aankomen. De BBB is voorlopig uitgespeeld in Den Haag, en duidelijk was dat harde maatregelen nodig zouden zijn om van het ‘stikstofslot’ te komen.

AI vision systems can be very literal readers

Indirect prompt injection occurs when a bot takes input data and interprets it as a command. We've seen this problem numerous times when AI bots were fed prompts via web pages or PDFs they read. Now, academics have shown that self-driving cars and autonomous drones will follow illicit instructions that have been written onto road signs.…

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​Een huzarenstukje van de VVD: de partij van Dilan Yesilgöz leek een half jaar geleden op een fors verlies af te stevenen, maar is uiteindelijk toch uit de verkiezingen gekomen met een enorme zetelwinst. De partij presenteerde vandaag haar regeerakkoord. Dat akkoord roept de vraag op: hoe is de VVD uiteindelijk toch aan 66 zetels gekomen?

“Vooropgesteld: dit is gewoon ontzettend knap gedaan van Yesilgöz”, zegt politiek verslaggever Fons Lambie. “Veel partijen stoppen na de verkiezingen met campagnevoeren, maar de VVD is achter de schermen gewoon verder gegaan. Zo is het ze gelukt om enorm te groeien. Je moet bedenken: in november stond de VVD nog op ‘slechts’ 22 zetels. Daarna zijn er in recordtempo 44 bij gekomen. In Den Haag hoor je dat de partij eerst de 18 zetels van het CDA heeft overgenomen, en er daarna ook nog 26 van D66 heeft afgesnoept.”

Dat de VVD alleen een minderheidskabinet gaat vormen, is volgens Lambie te zien aan het regeerakkoord: “De hypotheekrenteaftrek blijft, de WW wordt verkort en de verlaging van het eigen risico wordt teruggedraaid – en het eigen risico zelfs verhoogd”, zegt hij. “Typische VVD-standpunten. Met extra wijkagenten hebben ze zelfs meer blauw op straat in het regeerakkoord gekregen. Dat is natuurlijk het voordeel als je 66 zetels hebt: dan kan je het helemaal naar eigen smaak invullen.”

Toch is het volgens Lambie niet alleen maar hosanna bij de VVD: “Je hoort dat er intern bij de partij wat kopstukken zijn die het zonde vinden dat Yesilgöz niet ook nog die 9 zetels van JA21 heeft kunnen meepakken.”

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Today's links

• Threads' margin is the Eurostack's opportunity: Move fast and break kings.
• Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
• Object permanence: Frank Chu; MPAA x TSA; Flint truths; Pastel Q; Bernie meme.
• 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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Threads' margin is the Eurostack's opportunity (permalink)

OG App is the coolest app you've never heard of. Back in 2022, two teenagers unilaterally disenshittified Instagram by making an "alt-client" that restored all the parts of Insta that made it a success and blocked all the antifeatures that Meta crammed down users' throats after they had them locked in.

Here's how OG App worked: first, it popped up a browser window and loaded the Instagram login screen. Then, after you'd logged into Insta, it stole the "session key" (the cryptographic proof that you were logged into your account). That let it impersonate you to Insta's servers, and slurp down the whole feed that Insta had queued up for you.

After grabbing your feed, OG App deleted all the ads, all the slop, all the boosted content, all the months-old clickbait that The Algorithm (TM) had surfaced. What was left was pristine: the posts from people you followed, in reverse-chronological order. To make this all even sweeter, OG App sent no data back to Meta as you used it, except for the likes and comments you intended to transmit to the company. All the other data that Meta's apps gather got blocked: everything from your location, to which posts you slowed down your scrolling on, to accelerometer readouts that revealed minute changes in how you hold your phone from second to second.

Boy did people like this! By the end of the day, OG App was in the top ten charts for both Google and Apple's app stores. By the next morning, it was gone. Meta sent a takedown notice to the app store duopoly and they killed OG App on its behalf (there is honor among thieves):

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/27/og-app-promises-you-an-ad-free-instagram-feed/

The funny thing is, the OG App creators were just following the Facebook playbook. When Facebook opened up to the general public in 2006, it had the problem that everyone who wanted social media already had an account on Myspace, and all of Facebook's improvements on Myspace (Zuck made a promise never to spy on his users!) didn't matter, because Myspace had something Facebook could not match: Myspace had all your friends.

Facebook came up with an ingenious solution to this problem: they offered Myspace users a bot. You gave that bot your Myspace login credentials (just as OG App did with your Insta credentials) and the bot impersonated you to Myspace (just as OG App did with Insta), and it grabbed everything queued up for you on Myspace (just as OG App did with Insta), and then flowed those messages into your Facebook feed (just as OG App did with Insta).

This was very successful! Users didn't have to choose between their friends on Myspace and the superior design and privacy policies of Facebook. They got to eat their cake and have it, too.

This is actually a very old and important pattern in tech. It's what "move fast and break things" looks like when it's actually disrupting sclerotic and decaying companies that lock us in, take us for granted, and treat us like shit. It's what Apple did when they cloned the MS Office file formats and released iWork, whose Pages, Numbers and Keynote let Microsoft users escape from the prison of Windows and bring their documents with them:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay

But like every pirate, the tech companies dreamed of being admirals. Once they'd attained the admiralty, they announced that when they did this stuff, it was progress, but if anyone does it to them, it would be piracy.

What's more, they were able to take advantage of a metastasizing blob of IP laws that the US Trade Representative spread around the world (with threats of tariffs for noncompliance). Soon, nearly every country had enacted laws that made it a literal crime for their entrepreneurs and technologists to fix America's defective tech exports by adding privacy tools, bridging old services into new ones, or reading and writing America's ubiquitous proprietary file-formats:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition

For decades, this system was immovable. The world couldn't afford tariffs on its exports to the USA, and it was able to maintain the pretense that America's platforms were trustworthy neutral parties, that would not be weaponized against their own national interest at the behest of the American state.

Obviously, that is dead now. Donald Trump, debilitated by white matter disease and his endemic incontinent belligerence, has flipped the table over in a poker game that was rigged in his favor because he resented having to pretend to play (TM November Kelly):

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/26/i-dont-want/#your-greenback-dollar

EU member-states are minting new "digital sovereignty" ministries as fast as they can print up new business cards, the EU itself has just appointed its first "Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy" czar:

https://commission.europa.eu/about/organisation/college-commissioners/henna-virkkunen_en

They're building the "Eurostack," a fleet of EU-based data centers that will host free, open, auditable, trustworthy equivalents to the US tech giants' offerings:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/25/eurostack/#viktor-orbans-isp

But Eurostack is about to run into a wall: Article 6 of the EU's own Copyright Directive, which prohibits reverse-engineering and modification of tech products. It's a law that the US Trade Rep lobbied hard for, winning the day by promising tariff-free access to the US for Europe's exports (a promise Trump has now broken):

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-of-movement/#data-dieselgate

So long as Europe continues to hold up its end of this one-sided bargain, it will not be able to create the reverse-engineering based tools to let EU companies, governments and households get their data out of US tech silos, let alone let them build and enjoy successors to OG App, which will make it easy for them to leave US social media without sacrificing contact with the people who matter to them.

Which brings me to Threads, Meta's latest social media network. Threads is built on Activitypub and Mastodon, these being open/free, auditable and trustworthy protocols, designed to support "federated" social media. That's social media that runs on servers managed by lots of different entities, whose users can all connect to one another no matter which server they use. Meta was clearly excited by the prospect of enclosing and conquering this open upstart, but also nervous at the prospect that its users would find, in federation, an easy path to escape from Meta's clutches.

After all, if you can leave Threads and join a non-Meta Mastodon server without losing contact with the people you followed and were followed by on Threads, then why wouldn't you leave? Mark Zuckerberg's users don't like him – they just hate him less than they love the people they are in community with on Zuckerberg's platforms.

So Threads never really joined the Fediverse. You can't quite follow and be followed by Mastodon users, and you can't quite migrate your account off Meta's servers and onto a better one. Zuck and his lieutenants are keenly attuned to any design that drives high "switching costs" for leaving their services, and they exploit these switching costs to figure out just how much pain they can inflict on users without risking their departure:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs

So now they've started to turn the screws on Threads users. They just announced a global program of Threads enshittification, with a promise to cram ads into the eyeballs of every Threads account:

https://www.contentgrip.com/meta-threads-ads-go-global/

This represents a hell of an opportunity for the EU and Eurostack. Meta's ads are wildly illegal in the EU, violating Europe's landmark privacy law, the GDPR. The only reason Meta gets away with its flagrant lawbreaking is that it has captured the Irish state, and uses legal tricks to force all GDPR enforcement into Irish jurisdiction:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/01/erin-go-blagged/#big-tech-omerta

People hate ads. More than half of all web users have installed an adblocker (which also protects their privacy). It's the largest consumer boycott in human history:

https://doc.searls.com/2023/11/11/how-is-the-worlds-biggest-boycott-doing/

But no one has ever installed an adblocker for an app, because reverse-engineering apps and the mobile platforms they run on is illegal under laws like Article 6 of the Copyright Directive. As a result, tech companies – especially US giants, who can violate EU law with impunity – love to enshittify their apps, because they know that no one can do unto them as they did unto their own rivals (like Myspace).

Meta's new ad strategy for Threads is the perfect cue for a European repeal of Article 6 of the Copyright Directive. Procedurally, this is a great moment for it, as the EU is finalizing the Digital Fairness Act, which could include an exemption to EUCD 6 for privacy-enhancing technologies:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/theme-protecting-our-democracy-upholding-our-values/file-digital-fairness-act

Giving Europeans an effective way to push back against Meta's wholesale violation of their rights is a way that the Eurostack can score popular support right now – not in five years when the new data centers come online. It's a way of improving the lives of Europeans in immediate, concrete ways, rather than asking them to be grateful that some ministry has changed cloud providers – an important change, sure, but one that has no real impact on their daily lives.

What's more, legalizing jailbreaking for the purpose of making Threads alt-clients wouldn't just give Europeans a better social media experience – it could bootstrap European social media services. Remember, Threads was able to achieve instant scale by moving Instagram users onto Threads wholesale, maintaining their Insta follows and followers when they created their Threads accounts.

Europe – like everywhere else – is full of entrepreneurs who are trying to get national, independent social media platforms off the ground, hoping to woo users by promising them a more privacy-respecting alternative. They've got the same problem Zuck had when he tried to compete with Myspace: users love their friends more than they hate being spied on, so merely offering a better service is insufficient.

To get users off the old platforms, you have to lower their switching costs – you have to let them bring their friends to the new network, even if those friends are still stuck on the old network. Legalize jailbreaking in the EU and you'll make it possible to do "on-device bridging" – where a new social media app is able to break open the data storage of the Threads app on the same device and move that data into its own feeds. And because the EU has the GDPR, they have the privacy framework needed to police the privacy violations that breaking into other apps' data storage can lead to.

Meta will squawk. They'll say Europe is legalizing the violation of its corporate rights. But Meta violates Europeans' rights at scale, and the "rights" that I'm talking about taking away from Meta are rights the EU gave it in the first place, in exchange for a broken promise of tariff-free access to the USA.

Adblocking isn't stealing. Adblocking is bargaining. Without adblocking, the companies don't sell us services in exchange for our privacy – they plunder all the private data they can get, and dribble out services at whatever level they think we deserve. If ad-supported media was a restaurant, it'd be one where you got thrown up against a wall, relieved of your wallet, fed a handful of gruel, and then got kicked in the ass and sent on your way:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-nah

Every time Donald Trump threatens the EU, he makes the case for the Eurostack, but still, he can't help himself. Likewise, every time Zuckerberg enshittifies his services, he makes the case for repealing Article 6 of the Copyright Directive, and he can't help himself either.

Threads' inexorable enshittification is an opportunity: an opportunity to make the case for the Eurostack, an opportunity to improve the lives of millions of Europeans, and an opportunity to break through the walled gardens that keep the people we love stuck on legacy social media platforms.

When they did it to us, that wasn't progress. When we do it to them, it's not piracy.

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Hey look at this (permalink)

• EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/eff-close-friday-solidarity-national-shutdown

• Let's Make Hope Normal Again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxt4HCjd7VA

• Detecting Dementia Using Lexical Analysis: Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Tells a More Personal Story https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/16/1/94

• How is Inventing the Renaissance an SFF-Related Work? https://www.exurbe.com/how-is-inventing-the-renaissance-an-sff-related-work/

• The Good, the Pretty, and Fear Itself https://catvalente.substack.com/p/the-good-the-pretty-and-fear-itself

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Object permanence (permalink)

#25yrsago Frank Chu explainer http://www.12galaxies.20m.com

#20yrsago Kerouac curator invents copyright laws to keep photographers away https://thomashawk.com/2006/01/open-letter-to-myra-borshoff-cook-tour.html

#20yrsago EFF suing AT&T for helping NSA illegally spy on Americans https://www.eff.org/cases/nsa-multi-district-litigation

#20yrsago CD DRM software players are amateurish and easy to trick https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2006/01/31/cd-drm-attacks-player/

#20yrsago MPAA puts TSA goon in charge of enforcement https://web.archive.org/web/20060209035921/http://www.mpaa.org/press_releases/2006_01_31.pdf

#20yrsago US-VISIT immigration system spent $15 million per crook caught https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/01/the_failure_of_1.html

#20yrsago Law firm fires clerk for personal opposition to DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20060203030500/http://www.freeculturenyu.org/2006/01/31/drm-fired/

#15yrsago Free excerpt from Jo Walton’s brilliant Among Others https://web.archive.org/web/20110204214337/http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/01/excerpt-among-others

#15yrsago Debunking yet another bought-and-paid-for report on the need for non-neutral net https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/01/huge-isps-want-per-gb-payments-from-netflix-youtube/

#15yrsago Batman: billionaire plutocrat vigilante https://reactormag.com/batman-plutocrat/

#15yrsago Another copyright troll throws in the towel https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2011/01/31

#10yrsago Ten hard truths about the Flint water atrocity https://www.ecowatch.com/michael-moore-10-things-they-wont-tell-you-about-the-flint-water-trage-1882162388.html

#10yrsago Watch: AMAZING slam poem about policing women’s speech habits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me4_QwmaNoQ

#10yrsago Congress wants to know if agencies were compromised by the backdoor in Juniper gear (and where it came from) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-juniper-networks-congress-idUSKCN0V708P/

#5yrsago Know Nothings, conspiratorialism and Pastel Q https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/31/rhymes-with-pastel-q/#paranoid-style

#5yrsago Mashing the Bernie meme https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/31/rhymes-with-pastel-q/#bernie-3d

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Upcoming appearances (permalink)

• Salt Lake City: Enshittification at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Tanner Humanities Center), Feb 18
  https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/cory-doctorow/

• Victoria: 28th Annual Victoria International Privacy & Security Summit, Mar 3-5
  https://www.rebootcommunications.com/event/vipss2026/

• Berkeley: Bioneers keynote, Mar 27
  https://conference.bioneers.org/

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

• 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

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Recent appearances (permalink)

• How the Internet Got Worse (Masters in Business)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auXlkuVhxMo

• Enshittification (Jon Favreau/Offline):
  https://crooked.com/podcast/the-enshittification-of-the-internet-with-cory-doctorow/

• Why Big Tech is a Trap for Independent Creators (Stripper News)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmYDyz8AMZ0

• Enshittification (Creative Nonfiction podcast)
  https://brendanomeara.com/episode-507-enshittification-author-cory-doctorow-believes-in-a-new-good-internet/

• Enshittification with Plutopia
  https://plutopia.io/cory-doctorow-enshittification/

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Latest 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/

• "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)

• "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, June 2026

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Colophon (permalink)

Today's top sources:

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 (1048 words today, 18579 total)

• "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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