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BUDEL (ANP) - Het asielzoekerscentrum in Budel wordt donderdag volledig ontruimd omdat in het gebied een grote natuurbrand woedt. In de voormalige kazerne zitten 1500 asielzoekers. Het is nog niet bekend waar zij naartoe worden gebracht en hoe lang ze daar moeten blijven.
ROME (ANP/AFP) - Italië heeft Israël opgeroepen de Italiaanse opvarenden van de Global Summud Flotilla onmiddellijk vrij te laten. Die internationale hulpvloot die koerste op Gaza, werd in de nacht van woensdag op donderdag door de Israëlische marine niet ver van Kreta omsingeld, waarna Israël naar eigen zeggen 175 opvarenden arresteerde. Volgens de organisatie gaat het om 211 opvarenden die zijn "gekidnapt".
De Italiaanse premier Giorgia Meloni had donderdag overleg met haar minister van Defensie en van Buitenlandse Zaken over het voorval, waarbij volgens de organisatie 24 Italianen werden gearresteerd. In de verklaring van de Italiaanse overheid die volgde, wordt naast de oproep tot vrijlating ook gevraagd om "volledig respect voor het internationaal recht en garanties voor de fysieke veiligheid van de opvarenden".
In beelden die Israël donderdag vrijgaf, is volgens het land te zien hoe de arrestanten zich zouden vermaken tijdens hun arrest en tocht naar Israël.
Ook Spanje sprak zich later op de dag uit tegen de arrestaties. De Israëlische zaakgelastigde in Madrid is ontboden om uitleg te geven over de arrestatie van Spaanse opvarenden. De Spaanse diplomatieke missie in Israël staat in contact met de flotilla-organisatie.
Rijke landen proberen van hun plasticafval af te komen door het naar armere landen te exporteren. Duitsland was in 2025 ’s werelds grootste exporteur. Het land voerde meer dan 810.000 ton uit. Het Verenigd Koninkrijk volgde met ruim 675.000 ton, het hoogste niveau in acht jaar. Nederland is geen haar beter en zit daar vlak onder.
Een aanzienlijk deel van dit afval belandt in landen als Turkije, Maleisië en Indonesië. Daar is de verwerkingscapaciteit vaak beperkt, met milieuvervuiling, illegale dumping en slechte arbeidsomstandigheden als gevolg. De Turkse marien bioloog Sedat Gündoğdu spreekt van een “ernstig vervuilde Middellandse Zeekust”, waar microplastics het zwemmen soms onmogelijk maken.
Opvallend is dat grotere economieën zoals de Verenigde Staten en China relatief minder exporteren. Zij verwerken een groter deel van hun afval binnenlands, via stortplaatsen, verbranding of recycling. Europese landen daarentegen tellen export mee in hun recyclingdoelen, wat de prikkel vergroot om afval buiten de grenzen te verwerken.
De Europese Unie wil daar verandering in brengen. Vanaf november 2026 geldt een verbod op export van plastic afval naar niet-OESO-landen. Toch gaat momenteel nog ongeveer de helft van het Europese plastic naar dergelijke bestemmingen. Critici vrezen dat de stroom simpelweg verschuift naar landen binnen de OESO met beperkte capaciteit, zoals Turkije en delen van Oost-Europa.
Europarlementariër Sara Matthieu noemt het verbod een “keerpunt”, maar waarschuwt dat de Europese recyclingcapaciteit recent met 1 miljoen ton is afgenomen. “Nieuwe plastics zijn nog altijd goedkoper dan gerecyclede materialen”, stelt ze. “Dat marktfalen wordt onvoldoende aangepakt.”
In het Verenigd Koninkrijk, waar wetgeving rond plasticexport nog in consultatie is, ging in 2025 circa een vijfde van het afval naar niet-OESO-landen. De export naar Maleisië nam zelfs met 60 procent toe. Activist Pua Lay Peng spreekt van “afvalkolonialisme”.
Hoewel strengere regels en digitale tracking worden ingevoerd, vinden milieuorganisaties dat deze maatregelen tekortschieten. Volgens de Environmental Investigation Agency blijft het kernprobleem overeind: de enorme productie van plastic. Zolang die niet afneemt, zal afval zijn weg blijven vinden naar kwetsbare regio’s.
Bron: The Guardian
KESSEL (ANP) - Ploegen van de brandweer zijn nog enkele uren bezig met bluswerkzaamheden bij de grote natuurbrand bij het Limburgse Kessel, meldt de veiligheidsregio. "De brand breidt zich niet uit", luidt het.
Donderdagochtend werd melding gedaan van de brand tussen Kessel en Helden. De gemeente Peel en Maas liet weten dat het gebied werd afgesloten, er was een noodverordening van kracht.
Burgemeester Bob Vostermans riep inwoners van zijn gemeente eerder op om weg te blijven van de Heldense Bossen, waar de brand woedt.
BRUSSEL (ANP) - Nederlandse en Poolse landbouworganisaties willen dat de Europese Commissie snel ingrijpt vanwege de kunstmestcrisis die is ontstaan door de blokkade van de Straat van Hormuz. Aanhoudende geopolitieke spanningen, zoals de verstoringen in de zeestraat, hebben de beschikbaarheid van grondstoffen voor minerale meststoffen volgens de organisaties "aanzienlijk" beperkt, wat leidde tot een snelle prijsstijging.
Ze roepen de Europese Commissie in een brief op te onderzoeken of lidstaten tijdelijke flexibiliteit kunnen krijgen in het gebruik van dierlijke mest. De oproep komt van onder meer de boerenactiegroepen Agractie en Farmers Defence Force (FDF), Nederlandse Melkveehouders Vakbond (NMV), Nederlandse Vakbond Pluimveehouders (NVP) en Stichting Stikstofclaim.
Woensdag werd bekend dat Brussel tijdelijk toestaat dat lidstaten meer staatssteun kunnen verlenen aan bedrijven die in de knel zitten door de energiecrisis door de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten, onder andere aan de landbouwsector.
With widespread praise for Colin from Accounts and the release of Bad Company, Australian TV comedy is finally getting its flowers
Last week, Parks and Recreation star, and most importantly Megan Mullally’s husband, Nick Offerman, was asked on Amy Poehler’s podcast what he’s been laughing at recently. He revealed he has been loving the Australian comedy Colin from Accounts. A few days later, during promo for The Devil Wears Prada 2, award-winning actor and the Princess of Genovia herself, Anne Hathaway, also said she loves Colin from Accounts (maybe less surprising given it features her DWP2 co-star).
In both those instances, I felt an unfamiliar sense of national pride. I’m genuinely excited to see an Australian TV comedy getting its flowers like this. Not because it means it will get more American viewers, but because it’s external validation that the comedy we make in this country can be excellent. We can be world class – if we are given the chance.
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If you want to tell the tale of a young James Bond, you first need to pick which James Bond he’s going to grow into. This was the task handed to Hitman developer IO Interactive, the studio taking digital custody of the spy in 007 First Light, Bond’s first video game in almost 15 years. So what’s it to be? Will their agent take baby steps towards Sean Connery’s gruff masculinity, or is he practising Roger Moore’s arched eyebrow in the bathroom mirror? That’s if he’s a “movie” Bond at all. For a generation of gamers, the character exists most vividly as a hand at the bottom of the screen in GoldenEye 007.
As it turns out, 007 First Light’s Bond, depicted by Patrick Gibson (cornering a specific market, having played the serial killer-to-be in the Dexter origins show) is an amalgam: the facial scar is an Ian Fleming detail, but the sweet-talking charm is straight from the Pierce Brosnan playbook, and the second you barge a goon into a bookcase you know someone’s been studying Casino Royale on a loop. Trying to devise a Bond for all fandoms could risk satisfying none, but in the demo we played, the performance works. Crucially, Gibson brings an outsider’s unease that’s all his own, anchored by the arrogance that’ll one day be weaponised by MI6.
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United are looking at bringing in competition for Luke Shaw and are one of the clubs monitoring Diouf after his promising first campaign in English football. The Senegal international joined West Ham for €22m (£19m) from Slavia Prague and has recovered from a difficult start to become one of the side’s most important players.
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Toch prettig om te merken dat Tom Waits nog steeds bestaat en ook als filmacteur niet vergeten wordt, schrijft columnist Frits Abrahams. Waits schittert in de meest recente film van zijn vriend Jim Jarmusch: Father Mother Sister Brother (2025). Een gaaf, melancholisch drieluik over moeizame familierelaties, waarin Waits dicht bij zichzelf lijkt te blijven.
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The FSB and Investigative Committee claimed the pair had been acting on orders from a Ukrainian handler.
Today's links
- How not to ban surveillance pricing: Maryland's new consumer protection law is all loophole.
- Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
- Object permanence: Google's 8,000 Linux servers; Battleshoe; Knitted potholes; Unpack the court; "Robot Artists and Black Swans"; Enshittifying tech jobs.
- Upcoming appearances: Berlin, NYC, Barcelona, Hay-on-Wye, London, NYC.
- 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.
How not to ban surveillance pricing (permalink)
If you want to piss me off, it's easy: just breezily assert that our tech regulation problems are the result of the fast pace of technological change racing ahead of the plodding speed of governmental action:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/22/uber-for-nurses/#go-meta
While there have been some instances in which this was true, it is far more often the case that there are blindingly obvious answers to tech problems, which our lawmakers and regulators ignore, amidst a rising chorus of warnings about the dire consequences of failing to act.
Take the new Maryland bill that (supposedly) outlaws surveillance pricing: this bill is, frankly, a terribly drafted piece of shit. Worse: it's a terribly drafted piece of shit bill that fails to resolve a serious and urgent problem. Even worse: the lawmakers who drafted this piece of shit bill and Maryland Governor Wes Moore were all loudly and repeatedly warned about the problems of this bill, and they did nothing and now the people of Maryland are fucked.
So what is surveillance pricing, why is it so dangerous, and what's wrong with Maryland's Protection Against Predatory Pricing Act?
Surveillance pricing is when a company spies on you ("surveillance") and uses the resulting dossier to raise its prices to the maximum it calculates you will be willing to pay ("pricing"). With surveillance pricing, a retailer reaches into your bank account and devalues your dollars. If you pay $2 for an apple at the grocery store and the same store only charges me $1 for that apple, then that grocer is telling you that your dollars are worth half as much as mine:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/price-discrimination/
There's a kind of economics brainworm that makes some economists looooove surveillance pricing. They will insist that this is an "efficient" way to price goods, and claim that surveillance pricing isn't just a way to raise prices on people who are willing to pay more, it's a way to lower prices for people who are willing to pay less.
What you're supposed to infer from this is that people who can afford more will end up paying more, while people who can afford less will pay less. It's pitched as the Robin Hood of pricing policies, gouging the rich to finance discounts for the poor. But in practice, that's not at all how surveillance pricing works. Instead, surveillance pricing is most often used to levy a "desperation premium" on people who have fewer choices and less leverage.
For example, there's a McDonald's investments portfolio company called Plexure that supplies surveillance pricing tools to fast food restaurants. Plexure advertises its ability to use surveillance data to find out when a customer has just gotten a paycheck so that vendors can increase the price of their usual breakfast sandwich order. This isn't aimed at wealthy people – it's explicitly designed to target people who are living paycheck to paycheck.
Surveillance pricing is also used to determine how much you get paid; when that happens, we call it "algorithmic wage discrimination." Gig platforms like Uber use surveillance data about their drivers to predict which workers are most desperate, and those drivers are offered less money per mile and per hour, because a desperate worker will take whatever is on offer. Gig work apps for health-care do the same thing to nurses:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/18/loose-flapping-ends/#luigi-has-a-point
Indeed, surveillance pricing represents a kind of cod-Marxism. Instead of "from each to their own ability, to each according to their need," the "efficient" surveillance pricing motto is, "from each according to their desperation, to each according to our power":
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/11/socialism-for-the-wealthy/#rugged-individualism-for-the-poor
Surveillance pricing is anything but efficient. Because surveillance pricing is a transfer from consumers to investors, it has the net effect of reducing consumption overall. If your grocer can screw you out of an extra $50/month on your household food bill, that's $50/month you can't spend on a babysitter, a movie, or a couple of nice books for your kid. The American economy runs on consumption, and the American consumer has less discretionary income than they've had in generations. Anything that reduces consumption is a drag on the whole economy.
Surveillance pricing is rampant and getting worse all the time. During the Biden administration the FTC held hearings on the practice and developed a detailed, eye-watering record of all the ways that surveillance, combined with digital platforms that can alter prices for every visit by every customer, has resulted in a massive transfer from working people to wealthy investors:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/24/gouging-the-all-seeing-eye/#i-spy
Unfortunately – and predictably – Trump's new FTC chairman, Andrew Ferguson, killed off that action, replacing it with an initiative that encouraged FTC officials to anonymously rat each other out for being too "woke":
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/21/trumpflation/#andrew-ferguson
He did this even as a whole bunch of surveillance pricing companies were blitzing their clients with messages about the surveillance pricing possibilities created by Trump's tariffs, which would condition buyers to expect higher prices, creating opportunities to smuggle in surveillance-priced premiums:
https://pros.com/learn/webinars/navigating-tariff-increases-future-proof-pricing-strategy
It's only gotten worse since. Back in January, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the company had a new plan to make AI profitable: they would supply surveillance prices for sellers who used Google's advertising services. After all, Google spies on more people, more comprehensively, than anyone except Meta and the NSA, and Google has an advanced ad-targeting network and a giant AI arm. Put these three facts together and Google can offer merchants the ability to target you for ads and prices that are calculated, to the penny, to be the most you would be willing to pay:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/21/cod-marxism/#wannamaker-slain
All this – rampant, desperation-based price-gouging; federal inaction; a risk to the whole economy – is the backdrop for Maryland's new anti-surveillance pricing bill, which Governor Wes Moore has been trumpeting as the nation's first state bill banning surveillance pricing. This would be very cool – if it was real. But – as the American Economic Liberties Project's Pat Garofalo writes for the Economic Populist – the Protection Against Predatory Pricing Act is so badly drafted that it will have essentially no impact on surveillance pricing. It's positively riddled with loopholes:
https://economicpopulist.substack.com/p/gov-wes-moore-claims-maryland-banned
The first problem with this bill is its scope: it only regulates surveillance pricing for groceries. It has nothing to say about the use of surveillance data to reprice car rentals, apartments, healthcare, taxi rides, quick-service food, or the thousand other areas where surveillance pricing is already rampant. Worse: it is silent on algorithmic wage discrimination: the use of surveillance data to reprice your wages, penalizing workers for being poor by making them even poorer.
Now, helping people with their grocery bills isn't nothing. However, even within that very narrow scope, this bill is a disaster. As Garofalo points out, the bill's first glaring loophole here is how it permits surveillance pricing if a purchaser "consents." This is quite a loophole! After all, we live in an era in which "consent" consists of clicking "I agree" when presented with a gigantic list of terms and conditions, which you cannot negotiate, which are subject to change without notice, and which are so long that it would take 26 hours to review all the "agreements" you "consent" to in any given 24-hour day.
So if the company that you use to book your pet's veterinary check-ups is owned by the same company that provides your grocer with its surveillance pricing tools, you might "consent" to having that company jack you on every bag of groceries just by clicking "I agree" when your cat needs a vet appointment.
The bill also exempts "promotional offers" and "temporary discounts," suggesting that it was drafted by someone who has never encountered a merchant whose retail premises are always plastered with signs trumpeting the fact that every price in the shop is both "temporary" (ACT NOW!) and "promotional" (SALE! SALE! SALE!). Since the bill doesn't define either of these words, it effectively grants every grocer in the state an easy way to evade the law entirely.
Finally, the bill exempts two exceptionally scammy tactics that are already the major vehicle for surveillance price-based gouging: loyalty cards and subscription-based pricing.
Loyalty cards are often a total scam:
And subscriptions are a scammer's best friend:
But even if you are ripped off by a grocer who can't be bothered to call the scam a "sale" or a "temporary offer," who can't be bothered to dress it up as a "loyalty perk" or a "subscription price," you still can't get justice. That's because the Protection Against Predatory Pricing Act excludes the "private right of action," which means that you can't sue a grocer who rips you off. All this bill lets you do is petition the state Attorney General's office to sue the grocer on your behalf, and if the AG doesn't think you deserve justice, you're shit out of luck. And the Protection Against Predatory Pricing Act pre-empts other rights in Maryland's existing Consumer Protection Act, meaning that it actually gives Marylanders fewer rights than they had a month ago, before it was signed into law.
Legislation this bad doesn't happen by accident. The omissions and defects in this law aren't there because "technology moves so fast that lawmakers can't make sense of it." This is the result of lobbyists and sellout politicians conspiring to rip off the public, and of a governor who decided to ignore the warnings about the bill in order to get a chance to grandstand on Bill Maher while doing nothing to help Marylanders:
https://x.com/BlueGeorgia/status/2047868126365106631
From nurses' wages to your payday breakfast sandwich, surveillance pricing is everywhere, especially in groceries. Every time you use Instacart to shop at Albertsons, Costco, Kroger, and Sprouts Farmers Market, you might be getting ripped off for as much as 23% of the total price:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/11/nothing-personal/#instacartography
This isn't some silly-season fake controversy. It's an existential crisis for America's cash-strapped, heavily indebted households, whose lives have been made immeasurably worse by the inflation from Trump's Strait of Epstein disaster. Maryland had the chance to do something to help these people and instead they squandered it, selling out to lobbyists for companies whose bottom line depends on draining the bank accounts of the most desperate people in the state.
(Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0, modified)
Hey look at this (permalink)
- "An Ignorant Population Is Easier to Control" https://rickperlstein.substack.com/p/an-ignorant-population-is-easier
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Walt Disney Visited a Ford Factory in 1948. What He Witnessed There Laid the Groundwork for What Would Become Disneyland https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/walt-disney-visited-a-ford-factory-in-1948-what-he-witnessed-there-laid-the-groundwork-for-what-would-become-disneyland-180988551/
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‘Stop’: Warning over viral Scientology ‘Speedrun’ trend https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/stop-warning-over-viral-scientology-speedrun-trend/news-story/067ce0336bcf53774b4be682741dd868
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Aftermath: China Is Electrifying Freight Trucking https://prospect.org/2026/04/29/aftermath-china-electrifying-freight-trucking/
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2026 Digital Publishing Awards Nominees https://digitalpublishingawards.ca/2026nominees/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPA-2026-Nominees&utm_source=Envoke-Digital-Publishing-Awards&utm_term=DPA-2026-Nominees-Announced
Object permanence (permalink)
#25yrsago Google's now running on 8,000 Linux servers https://web.archive.org/web/20010501043429/http://www.internetweek.com/story/INW20010427S0010
#25yrsago Karl Schroeder’s Ventus in the NYT https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/29/reviews/010429.29scifit.html
#20yrsago Sony screwing artists out of iTunes royalties, customers out of first sale https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/technology/cheap-trick-allman-brothers-sue-sony-over-download-royalties.html
#20yrsago Robot Lego CD thrower can shatter discs https://www.techeblog.com/hammerhead-the-lego-cd-thrower/
#15yrsago Understanding alternative voting, with coffee and beer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtW3QkX8Xa0
#15yrsago Battleshoe https://philnoto.tumblr.com/post/4613522934/quite-busy-with-work-today-so-heres-a-little
#15yrsago Filling Paris’s potholes with knitwork https://www.flickr.com/photos/39380641@N03/albums/72157622189211405/
#15yrsago Pinhole cameras made out of hollow eggs https://www.lomography.com/magazine/71984-the-pinhegg-my-journey-to-build-an-egg-pinhole-camera
#15yrsago Canadian pro-Net Neutrality/anti-censorship/anti-surveillance party gaining support https://web.archive.org/web/20110429020845/http://www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/2011/04/ndp’s-new-status-as-second-runner-holding-april-26-2011/
#15yrsago We Say Gay: Tennessee kids fight bill that would prohibit discussing homosexuality in school https://web.archive.org/web/20110501072834/https://wesaygay.com/
#15yrsago HOWTO build an impossible Escher perpetual motion waterfall https://www.instructables.com/Perpetual-Motion-Machine-The-real-life-version-of/
#15yrsago RIP Keith Aoki, copyfighting law prof, comics illustrator, musician and writer https://www.thepublicdomain.org/2011/04/27/rip-keith-aoki/
#5yrsago Unpack the court with judicial overrides https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/27/bruno-argento/#crisis-of-legitimacy
#5yrsago Pharma's anti-generic-vaccine lobbying blitz https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/27/bruno-argento/#pharma-death-cult
#5yrsago Klobuchar on trustbusting https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/27/bruno-argento/#klobuchar
#5yrsago Robot Artists & Black Swans https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/27/bruno-argento/#fantascienza
#1yrago The enshittification of tech jobs https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/#are-more-equal-than-others
#5yrsago Dems want to give $600b to the one percent https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/28/inequality-r-us/#neotrumpism
Upcoming appearances (permalink)
- NYC: Techidemic with Sarah Jeong, Tochi Onyebuchi and Alia Dastagir (PEN World Voices), Apr 30
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Barcelona: Internet no tiene que ser un vertedero (Global Digital Rights Forum), May 13
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Virtual: How to Disenshittify the Internet with Wendy Liu (EFF), May 14
https://www.eff.org/event/effecting-change-enshittification -
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
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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 with Jonathan Coulton (The Strand), Jun 24
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Edinburgh International Book Festival with Jimmy Wales, Aug 17
https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/the-front-list-cory-doctorow-and-jimmy-wales
Recent appearances (permalink)
- Artificial Intelligence: The Ultimate Disruptor, with Astra Taylor and Yoshua Bengio (CBC Ideas)
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16210039-artificial-intelligence-the-ultimate-disruptor -
When Do Platforms Stop Innovating and Start Extracting? (InnovEU)
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Pete "Mayor" Buttigieg (No Gods No Mayors)
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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
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
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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 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/)
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"Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (the graphic novel), Firstsecond, 2026
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"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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"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.
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"The Post-American Internet," a short book about internet policy in the age of Trumpism. PLANNING.
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A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING
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