Part spoken-word poem, part journalistic meditation, this is an inventive, tender novel of a songwriter’s journey through love and loss in London

Tice Cin’s philosophical and poetic new novel about a young Turkish-Cypriot songwriter and music producer extends the preoccupations of her prizewinning debut, 2021’s Keeping the House. This intimately told sophomore novel, again a story of friendship, precarity and community, is at once an elegy, a spoken-word poem and a journalistic meditation, repeatedly asking readers: “So, are you listening?”

For our unnamed narrator, “hurts come in different shapes each time”: from the childhood scars of her father’s abandonment, to sexism in the creative scene and the difficulties of navigating short-lived flatshares on universal credit (“If you don’t know about being money dry, if you don’t know loss – you don’t get it. If you know, you know”). Her journey of personal discovery is mapped on to the contemporary travails of London’s wider working-class inner-city diaspora communities as she calculates her life by doorways, “walking past each one” without a roadmap for her personal and professional goals.

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One Oscar-winning director, one horoscope-prompted meet-cute and a continent-crossing cyclist – is this the start of documentaries that make you happy-cry?

Here is a story that on the face of it seems so wildly unlikely it can only be true. Indeed, the very concept of a romantic documentary sounds almost oxymoronic, an indication of how much nonfiction films have become synonymous with grim histories full of suffering and injustice. Let’s hope this sweet work, directed by Orlando von Einsiedel (who’s made his share of hardcore, suffering-intensive docs including Oscar-winning short The White Helmets) launches a new trend in nonfiction film-making for stuff that makes you happy-cry.

The basic meet-cute happened in 1975, when PK (played by Chirag Lobo in the film’s extensive re-enactments) met Lotta (Mina Dale) in Delhi. He was a poor street artist, a Dalit, the lowest possible caste, once called Untouchables. The real PK Mahanandia appears on screen to explain how he had left his rural village for Delhi in order to get away from all that caste hierarchy. When he met Lotta he pretty much knew he’d met the woman of his dreams because he’d been carrying a horoscope his father had commissioned for him when he was a baby that prophesised he’d fall in love with a woman whose family owned a jungle. Lotta, a backpacker from Sweden, hailed from a clan back home that owned a forest, so that was good enough for PK to believe he’d met his fate. After a chaste holiday romance bloomed between these two crazy kids, she went back to Sweden and he decided to bicycle the 6,000 miles all the way there from India to prove his love.

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Villagers in Piddington, Oxfordshire, hold symbolic referendum over plans to house more than 1,000 asylum seekers nearby

• UK politics live – latest updates

Residents of an English village have voted to leave the UK in a symbolic referendum against plans to house more than 1,000 asylum seekers nearby.

The result of the poll in Piddington, Oxfordshire, was announced on Wednesday morning after 312 people voted on Tuesday. A total of 285 people were in favour of independence from the UK while 26 voted against. One ballot was spoiled.

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What does perception look like when it belongs to a machine? That question became the foundation for our work on TRON: Ares, where our team of twenty artists designed and animated more than sixty shots of computer vision and interface systems that visualize the world through the eyes of Ares. Rather than creating traditional HUD graphics, we set out to design machine perception itself. Every frame exists as a living system that continuously scans, tracks, evaluates, and reconstructs reality as streams of computation. Driven by a philosophy of maximum detail, each live action plate was transformed through our custom squarepacking algorithms into a computational lattice capable of analyzing the image at multiple scales simultaneously. Source code, reactive graphics, tracking systems, and layered analysis become different expressions of the same intelligence, revealing a world where every pixel is continuously interpreted and every image is rewritten through the language of the machine.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De Inspectie Leefomgeving en Transport (ILT) houdt vanwege bezuinigingen volgend jaar op een aantal terreinen minder intensief toezicht. Het gaat onder meer om het vervoer van gevaarlijke stoffen, de taxibranche en geluidshinder in de luchtvaart en op het spoor. Andere onderwerpen krijgen prioriteit, zoals pfas-vervuiling, cyberweerbaarheid en de veiligheid van producten van Aziatische webshops.

Door de bezuinigingen op de Rijksoverheid van dit en het vorige kabinet en het aflopen van tijdelijke financiering verwacht de ILT een steeds krapper budget, waarbij de daling van de begroting oploopt tot 14,6 miljoen euro in 2031. De begroting voor volgend jaar gaat over 251,6 miljoen euro. Tegelijkertijd stijgen de kosten van leveranciers en moet de toezichthouder investeren in ICT. Dit noopt de ILT tot "nog scherpere keuzes" over de inzet van personeel en geld.

"We kunnen niet meer overal dezelfde mate van toezicht bieden. Dat zal merkbaar zijn en kan botsen met de verwachting die de samenleving heeft van de ILT", waarschuwt inspecteur-generaal Mattheus Wassenaar in het jaarplan.

Gevaarlijke stoffen

Bij het toezicht op het transport van gevaarlijke stoffen gaat de ILT meer risico- en datagericht werken, waarbij de aandacht vooral uitgaat naar de branches waar het toezicht naar verwachting het meest effect heeft. Inspecties op de weg of bij bedrijven voert de ILT nog maar minimaal uit, zich beperkend tot de wettelijke taken. Ook het toezicht op het beheer van belangrijke dijken en dammen gebeurt vanaf volgend jaar meer risicogericht.

Rondom geluidshinder van vliegtuigen zal de ILT minder vragen van burgers afhandelen. Bij het toezicht op drinkwaterbedrijven stopt de toezichthouder met prestatievergelijkingen en kijkt de instantie meer naar het bestuur van de drinkwaterbedrijven. De ILT voert verder minder strafrechtelijke onderzoeken uit, namelijk vijftien in plaats van twintig. De meeste aandacht gaat daarbij uit naar milieucriminaliteit. In de taxibranche heeft de ILT onvoldoende budget voor acties tegen illegaal taxivervoer.

De controle op producten van webshops van buiten de EU wordt juist intensiever. Er komen meer controles aan de grens met andere instanties. Daarnaast blijft volgens Wassenaar veel aandacht uitgaan naar de bodemkwaliteit. "Keuzes maken hoort bij het werk van een inspectie. Ons uitgangspunt blijft dan ook hetzelfde: we willen daar zijn waar we de meeste maatschappelijke schade kunnen voorkomen."

STRAATSBURG (ANP) - De EU moet een intensievere samenwerking aangaan met Canada die de relatie verdiept, onder meer op het gebied van handel en defensie. Dat stelt voorzitter van de Europese Commissie Ursula von der Leyen in haar State of the Union voor de EU. Canada moet het eerste "geassocieerd lid van de Europese Unie" worden, zei ze.

De Canadese premier Mark Carney is ook aanwezig in Straatsburg bij de toespraak waarin Von der Leyen de speerpunten voor het nieuwe politieke jaar uiteenzet.

Het gaat lukken om de daders van de spoorwegsabotage, waardoor de dienstregeling dinsdag in het midden en oosten van het land werd ontregeld, te pakken. Die verwachting sprak justitieminister David van Weel uit voordat hij aanschoof bij de Algemene Politieke Beschouwingen. Topvrouw Mirjam van Velthuizen van ProRail zei eerder dat er weinig camerabeelden van de sabotage zijn. Maar er zijn volgens de VVD-bewindsman andere manieren om de daders te vinden.

"Er zijn allemaal manieren om hierachter te komen. Er is materiaal achtergelaten, dat komt ook ergens vandaan. Onderschat de politie en het OM niet. Ik zeg heel vaak: het is 2026 inmiddels, we hebben heel veel technieken en we komen erachter", aldus Van Weel.

UTRECHT (ANP) - In de nacht van dinsdag op woensdag heeft spoorbeheerder ProRail geen nieuwe buizen op het spoor gevonden. In de avond werd op het spoor tussen Apeldoorn en Deventer nog wel een buis aangetroffen. Dinsdag, Prinsjesdag, zorgde materiaal zoals buizen en kabels dat op meer dan 35 plekken op de spoorrails was gelegd voor een flinke ontregeling van het treinverkeer.

Volgens ProRail rijden woensdag alle treinen weer.

Het is nog onduidelijk wie er achter de sabotageacties zit. De landelijke politie doet onderzoek.

EINDHOVEN (ANP) - De Nederlandse benzineprijzen zijn woensdag gestegen naar het hoogste niveau ooit. Volgens consumentenvoordeelplatform UnitedConsumers ligt de gemiddelde adviesprijs van de grote oliemaatschappijen nu net iets boven het record van een week geleden.

Woensdag is sprake van een kleine toename, van 0,4 cent tot 2,726 euro per liter. Dinsdag steeg de literprijs van Euro95 nog met 4 cent. Die toename volgde op stevige stijgingen van de olieprijzen, mede door de sluiting van de belangrijke oost-westelijke pijpleiding in Saudi-Arabië na een droneaanval.

Inmiddels laten de olieprijzen weer een lichte daling zien. Het is echter nog onduidelijk wanneer de Saudische pijpleiding weer in gebruik wordt genomen.

Door de Iranoorlog en de blokkade van de Straat van Hormuz is al maanden sprake van hogere olieprijzen. De gemiddelde adviesprijs voor diesel in Nederland is opgelopen tot 2,777 euro per liter. De hoogste prijs van diesel werd in april gemeten. Toen piekte de prijs op 2,819 euro per liter.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Voor zeven gemeenten in Zuid-Holland dreigt een ingreep door de provincie. Al zeker drie jaar voldoen ze niet aan hun taak wat betreft de huisvesting van asielzoekers met een verblijfsvergunning, zogeheten statushouders. Van zes gemeenten was dat al bekend en ook Lansingerland heeft nu een laatste waarschuwing gekregen van de provincie.

Lansingerland heeft net als Albrandswaard, Oegstgeest en Vlaardingen tot 1 juli 2027 de tijd om alsnog genoeg statushouders een huis te geven. Lukt dat niet, dan gaat de provincie dat regelen op kosten van die gemeenten. Krimpenerwaard, Leidschendam-Voorburg en Zwijndrecht moeten op 1 april aan hun taak voldoen.

Zuid-Holland gaf de afgelopen jaren al vaker gemeenten een laatste waarschuwing. Vooralsnog heeft de provincie niet hoeven overgaan tot 'indeplaatsstelling', wat betekent dat het op kosten van de betreffende gemeente ter plekke huisvesting regelt voor statushouders.

Een 16-jarige jongen is dinsdagavond beroofd van zijn fatbike in Berkel en Rodenrijs. Vier jongens trokken het slachtoffer van zijn fiets, sloegen hem en dreigden met een mes. Zijn fatbike is niet meer teruggevonden, maar agenten stuitten wel op twee andere opmerkelijke vondsten.

Een 16-jarige jongen is dinsdagavond beroofd van zijn fatbike in Berkel en Rodenrijs. Vier jongens trokken het slachtoffer van zijn fiets, sloegen hem en dreigden met een mes. Zijn fatbike is niet meer teruggevonden, maar agenten stuitten wel op twee andere opmerkelijke vondsten.

Rob Vermeulen, Rijnmond-nieuwslezer en presentator van het Radio Rijnmond-programma De Emotie, is op 72-jarige leeftijd overleden aan de gevolgen van prostaatkanker. Vermeulen lag al langere tijd in een hospice.

​Eindelijk is er duidelijkheid over de grootschalige sabotage op het spoor gisteren: anonieme saboteurs wilden met deze actie aandacht vragen voor anonieme sabotage. “Wij worden niet gezien.”

“Het was tijd om een heel duidelijk statement te maken”, vertelt een anonieme saboteur. “Anonieme sabotage. Dat is ons statement. En ja, als we daarvoor metalen buizen aan het spoor moeten vastmaken, dan is dat maar zo.”

Met de actie hopen de anonieme saboteurs mensen te hebben wakker geschud over sabotage dat door niemand wordt opgeëist. “Dit zal iedereen wel aan het denken zetten. Het is tijd dat mensen gaan inzien dat er in Nederland gesaboteerd wordt, door bepaalde mensen.”

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Today's links

• How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses: If you can't impose switching costs, just eliminate the competition.
• Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
• Object permanence: Flash Worms; This Film is Not Yet Rated; Libdem copyright sabotage; Religion worth more than Big Tech; Geographic tubemap; Selective censorship resistance.
• Upcoming appearances: Budapest, Edmonton, Boston, South Bend, Hudson, Calgary, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Victoria, Ottawa.
• 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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How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (permalink)

There's lots of reasons to believe the "hyperscaler" model of AI can never be profitable, and not just because of its gigantic expenditures and negative unit economics (the companies lose money with every new customer and every new use, and they lose more money with each generation of their products):

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/#subprime-intelligence

The industry strenuously denies this, of course. They insist that they are only days away from turning their balance sheets right side up. All they have to do is fix those unit economics, then they can make back the cost of producing their models by selling access to them. The problem is that the evidence for those improving unit economics is weak, while the evidence that they're faking their finances is very strong:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/

Same goes for the claims that these companies are already profitable. Dig into those claims and you'll learn they depend on a new, special meaning of "profitable" that does not match the generally accepted accounting procedures (GAAP) definition, which is to say, these companies are claiming that they are so cool that their profitability can only be measured using a novel, secret form of mathematics:

https://futurism.com/future-society/anthropic-claude-profit-ai-safety-development-finances

This is the same wheeze that Softbank tried with Wework. Speaking in my capacity as an author of internationally bestselling technothrillers about accounting fraud, I can tell you that it was accounting fraud then, and it's accounting fraud now:

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/how-wework-went-from-being-47-billion-start-up-to-bankrupt-in-3-years-4552627

But let's give the AI bosses a momentary benefit of the doubt and stipulate that they are on the verge of acquiring positive unit-economics, which will let them start to pay off the massive expenditures they incurred by training their models and enter their long-anticipated profitability phase, where the money-furnaces they've been running for years turn into money printers, to the delight of the investors who've supplied the vast bales of $100 bills the companies have been shoveling into their models' coalboxes for years now.

Basically, they're saying, "Sure, it cost us a lot to get these rails laid, but now that the railroad is complete we can start running cars over them and make a profit." Unfortunately (for bosses and investors), this proposition is every bit as dubious as their claims to improving unit economics.

To understand why, just look at what happened the last time Anthropic shipped a major Claude update. Virtually overnight, all of OpenAI's best customers stopped paying for ChatGPT and started paying for Claude. That's because chatbots have very low switching costs: going from one chatbot to another costs almost nothing:

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-ai-startup-founder-switched-chatgpt-to-claude-2026-3

Everyone using AI knows this to be true. When I walked the floor at CES last year, I asked every AI-powered gadget maker, "What will you do if your chatbot provider jacks up their prices?" and to a one, they said, "No problem, we've designed this thing so that we can switch chatbots with the click of a mouse":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfhELBX8Jbs

That means that you can't just "build the railroad and run the cars over it." The minute you finish your railroad, your rivals will announce that they've got a new, adjacent railroad that's even faster than yours, and you will have to get to work laying another set of tracks to support even faster trains.

This is a disaster all around: the AI companies are locked in a Red Queen's Race, a fatal beggar-thy-neighbor doom-loop. The only way they could escape that trap is by signing a nonaggression pact amongst themselves promising not to compete anymore. But there's two giant problems with this: first, it is incredibly, fantastically illegal under antitrust law, because it represents a conspiracy among the dominant players to cease to compete with one another, and; second, it leaves the field open for the further development of Chinese "open weight" models that customers can run on their own modest, low-powered computers, which are presently lagging the US "frontier models" by a mere four months:

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/exclusive-open-chinese-models-close-gap-with-silicon-valleys-frontier-ai-models/

Even if you don't trust Chinese models, you can extract their training through a process called distillation and transfer them to models you do trust:

https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-distillation-attacks

But what if there was a way for the AI companies to get government permission to violate antitrust law and cease to compete with one another, and secure a ban on the use of Chinese open weight models? Turns out, there is a way to call time on the Red Queen's Race: merely insist that you are on the verge of teaching so many words to the word-guessing program that it will wake up and devour us all, and call for a ban on "superintelligence":

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/microsoft-ceo-says-superintelligence-must-remain-under-human-control

Once the government stipulates that "superintelligence risk" is an existential crisis, it must grant the hyperscalers a consent decree absolving them from any violations of antitrust law stemming from a conspiracy to halt direct competition with one another:

https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/brer-rabbit-and-ai-extinction

Freaking out about "superintelligence" is a canonical example of "criti-hype," where critics repeat boosters' claims but append, "(and that's bad)" to them:

https://peoples-things.ghost.io/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype/

Remember, the tech giants want to stop competing. Mark Zuckerberg and Sudar Pichai colluded to rig the ad-market with a secret program called "Jedi Blue":

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

Every year, Google sends Apple a bribe of more than $20b in exchange for Apple not entering the search market:

https://appleworld.today/2025/09/google-wont-be-barred-from-entering-into-search-agreements-with-companies-like-apple/

And the biggest tech companies in the world had a secret "no poach" agreement where they illegally promised not to try to hire one another's top engineers by offering them raises:

https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/law_and_economics/1033/

The only thing Peter Thiel hates more than the Antichrist (spoiler, he's just talking about Greta Thunberg) is "wasteful competition":

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WmRC_NQh6aQ

When an industry that is eating itself alive through "hyperscaling" demands that the government bless a conspiracy to halt competition and ban open source alternatives, you should be suspicious. When that industry is pursuing a venture that has lost more money than any other venture in human history, you should be very suspicious, especially when its "rogue AI hacking" story turns out to be a story about how a hacking tool did exactly what it was designed to do:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/#llms-are-fake

Peter Thiel is right: AI is full of wasteful competition, but not because competition is a waste – rather, it's because the companies are competing to convince people to use their expensive products for the cheapest applications.

Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO depended on him losing billions of dollars by letting the world's stupidest chuds produce mountains of child porn and images of Sonic the Hedgehog with giant boobs. That is indeed wasteful (and reprehensible).

That doesn't mean we should allow the AI companies to get the government to bless their conspiracy in restraint of trade; rather, it militates for having the government investigate them for securities fraud, trafficking in child sex abuse material, election finance violations, and a long list of other crimes and misdemeanors.

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Hey look at this (permalink)

• Henry Farrell and Abe Newman on Weaponized Interdependence https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/henry-farrell-and-abe-newman-on-weaponized

• The Enshittification Resistant Software Project https://er-certification.statichost.page/index.html

• The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6SPV4GZp-U

• Marginalia Search https://marginalia-search.com/

• Why the Postpandemic Tech Bust Sent Billionaires to Trump https://www.wired.com/story/against-tech-oligarchy-book-excerpt-trump-billionaries/

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Object permanence (permalink)

#25yrago Flash Worms: Thirty Seconds to Infect the Internet https://web.archive.org/web/20011024012950/http://www.silicondefense.com/flash/

#20yrsago This Film is Not Rated – must-see doc about MPAA ratings https://memex.craphound.com/2006/09/16/this-film-is-not-rated-must-see-doc-about-mpaa-ratings/

#15yrsago Chinese netizens angered by “princelings” — spoiled children of the rich and powerful https://edition.cnn.com/2011/09/16/world/asia/china-elite-children/index.html?iref=allsearch

#15yrsago LibDems get to vote on copyright reform, but who inserted the clause saying downloading should be a criminal act? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/sep/16/libdems-vote-copyright-reform

#15yrsago Insurer: music-festival tragedy caused by illegal downloading https://twitpic.com/6l5ap2

#10yrsago US religion is worth $1.2T/year, more than America’s 10 biggest tech companies, combined https://web.archive.org/web/20161019095803/http://www.religjournal.com/pdf/ijrr12003.pdf

#10yrsago Geographically representative map of the London Underground https://web.archive.org/web/20240813111321/https://www.citymonitor.ai/analysis/map-londons-tube-shows-disused-stations-track-layout-and-more-2429/

#10yrsago Republican election officials block restrictions on foreign spending in US elections https://web.archive.org/web/20160916181403/https://theintercept.com/2016/09/16/fec-republicans-kill-attempt-to-block-foreign-money-in-u-s-elections/

#10yrsago Tommy Chong asks Obama to pardon him for his bullshit drug paraphernalia bust https://web.archive.org/web/20210720131834/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/tommy-chong-seeks-obamas-pardon-928962/

#10yrsago Week two for the largest prison strike in US history https://web.archive.org/web/20160916143157/https://theintercept.com/2016/09/16/the-largest-prison-strike-in-u-s-history-enters-its-second-week/

#5yrsago Criminal entrepreneurship in Mexico’s high-tech drug cartels https://web.archive.org/web/20160917133449/https://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-drug-cartels-operate-like-silicon-valley-startups

#1yrago No such thing as selective censorship resistance https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/16/too-many-throats-to-choke/#pluralism-is-resiliency

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Upcoming appearances (permalink)

• Budapest: Brain Bar, Sep 17
  https://brainbar.com/munkatars/cory-doctorow

• Edmonton: Elbows Up (Edmonton Public Library), Sep 28
  https://www.epl.ca/blogs/post/elbows-up-with-cory-doctorow/

• Boston: The Post-American Internet: Possibilities for a new internet created by an American Hermit Kingdom (MIT Media Lab), Sep 30
  https://www.media.mit.edu/events/the-post-american-internet-possibilities-for-a-new-internet-created-by-an-american-hermit-kingdom/

• Boston: The Paradox of Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs (Harvard Berkman Klein), Sep 30
  https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/running-harder-falling-faster-paradox-enshittification-and-reverse-centaurs

• South Bend: An Evening With Cory Doctorow (Notre Dame), Oct 6
  https://franco.nd.edu/events/2026/10/06/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/

• Hudson, OH: Hudson Library, Oct 7
  https://engagedpatrons.org/EventsExtended.cfm?SiteID=3850&EventID=596952&PK=

• Calgary: Wordfest, Oct 8
  https://wordfest.com/2026/show/wordfest-presents-cory-doctorow-2026/

• Winnipeg: McNally Robinson, Oct 9
  https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-18991/An-Evening-with-Cory-Doctorow

• Vancouver: Read, Resist, Repair, Rejoice (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 19
  https://writersfest.bc.ca/festival-event-2026/01

• Victoria: Munro's Books, Oct 20
  https://www.munrobooks.com/events/6113620261020

• Vancouver: Life After AI (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 22
  https://writersfest.bc.ca/festival-event-2026/46

• Ottawa: Life After AI (Ottawa Writers Festival), Oct 24
  https://writersfestival.org/event/life-after-ai

• Vancouver: BC Policy Solutions Gala, Nov 12
  https://bcpolicy.ca/gala/

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Recent appearances (permalink)

• Are 'AI Apocalypse' Warnings Just Marketing? (What's Left)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXd9HwIE5bo

• The Real AI Threat Isn’t What You’ve Been Told (The Tea with Myriam François)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc8It00fRsA

• Fascists may come after the AI bubble bursts (You&AI)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2WN64aQeYQ

• What Would a Normal Person Do (Trashfuture)
  https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture/posts/what-would-do-169247456

• Pod Save the UK
  https://audioboom.com/posts/8950533-radicalised-organised-and-thick-as-s-t-nish-has-had-it-with-far-right-protests-plus-why

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Latest books (permalink)

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

• "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 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, April 20, 2027

• "Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (the graphic novel), Firstsecond, 2027

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

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Colophon (permalink)

Today's top sources:

Currently writing:

• “Once Is Enemy Action,” a science fiction novel about the origins of modern technofascism. Today's words: 555 (15487 total).

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Treurig nieuws: Bartina Koeman, de vrouw van Ronald Koeman, is op 65-jarige leeftijd overleden aan de gevolgen van chronische borstkanker. Op Instagram schrijft de ex bondscoach: "Met intens verdriet, maar ook met grote trots en liefde, nemen wij afscheid van mijn prachtige vrouw, onze allerliefste mama en oma." Dan is de vervelende afsluiting van Ronald Koemans periode bij het Nederlands Elftal natuurlijk weer een bijzaak. Ze kregen samen drie kinderen, Tim, Debbie en Ronald Jr. Veel te jong. RIP.

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Attorney General Todd Blanche said the plots included efforts to murder a Russian dissident believed to be located in Washington, D.C.

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‘De tijd blijft maar in cirkels rondgaan’, zegt de oude wijze Úrsula Buendía in Honderd jaar eenzaamheid.