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Along with new functionality, systemd is broadening its distro support even further, which will surely delight members of the wider Linux community.…
GAZA-STAD (ANP/AFP) - In de Gazastrook worden opnieuw doden gemeld na Israëlische aanvallen. Het Nasser-ziekenhuis in Khan Younis laat weten dat vier personen zijn omgekomen, de burgerbescherming spreekt over drie slachtoffers.
Onder de slachtoffers zouden zich meerdere leden bevinden van hetzelfde gezin, onder wie een 1-jarig meisje. Hun huis zou zijn geraakt. Een bron binnen het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken van Gaza stelt dat sprake is van artillerievuur bij Khan Younis.
De Israëlische krijgsmacht bevestigt dat een aanval is uitgevoerd. Die zou bedoeld zijn geweest om "terroristische infrastructuur" uit te schakelen. Over slachtoffers zou bij de krijgsmacht niets bekend zijn.
Autoriteiten in de Gazastrook maakten een dag eerder al melding van 27 doden door nieuwe aanvallen. Het zou daarmee een van de dodelijkste dagen zijn sinds vorige maand een bestand van kracht werd.
DEN BOSCH (ANP) - Realityster en vastgoedondernemer Peter Gillis wil dat een rechtszaak tegen hem over belastingfraude opnieuw bij de rechtbank komt. Dit heeft zijn advocaat Mark Hendriks donderdag verzocht tijdens de eerste zitting in het hoger beroep van Gillis in het gerechtshof in Den Bosch. De rechter wees het verzoek echter af.
Volgens Gillis en zijn advocaat was de rechter die hem in april veroordeelde mogelijk vooringenomen tegen de realityster, bekend van de serie Massa is Kassa. Gillis kreeg twaalf maanden cel, waarvan zes voorwaardelijk. Zijn dochter en ex-vrouw kregen taakstraffen van 240 en 180 uur vanwege betrokkenheid.
De advocaat stelde dat de rechter zich bij het oordeel liet beïnvloeden door optredens van Gillis in de media en op sociale media. Ook zou hij onterecht zijn vergeleken met een taxichauffeur die weleens een zwarte rit rijdt. "De verdachten hebben geen eerlijk proces gehad, omdat de rechter bevooroordeeld was", aldus Hendriks. Gillis wil ook dat het gerechtshof onderzoekt hoe de vergelijking in de zaak is terechtgekomen.
Ter discussie
Het OM ontkende dat de vergelijking als bewijs is gebruikt in de uitspraak en wilde dat de zaak in hoger beroep verdergaat. De advocaat-generaal zei dat de argumenten van Gillis en zijn raadsman het vertrouwen in rechters ondermijnen.
De rechter benadrukte dat de zaak in hoger beroep al opnieuw ter discussie staat. "Ik kan me voorstellen dat bepaalde onderdelen voor discussie vatbaar zijn, maar we gaan niet het hele vonnis opnieuw doen."
Gillis werd met zijn bedrijven verdacht van jarenlange belastingfraude, het onjuist voeren en bewaren van administratie, het verstrekken van onjuiste gegevens aan de Belastingdienst en het niet tijdig doen van belastingaangifte.
MANILLA (ANP/AFP) - Een Chinese vrouw die een illegaal onlinegokcentrum leidde en burgemeester was op de Filipijnen is tot een levenslange gevangenisstraf veroordeeld vanwege mensenhandel. Dat heeft een regionale rechtbank in Manilla bekendgemaakt.
Van de 35-jarige Alice Guo was al bekend dat ze een valse Filipijnse identiteit had aangenomen om burgemeester te kunnen worden van een plaats ten noorden van de hoofdstad Manilla. Op het complex op de Filipijnen van waaruit het onlinegokken werd gecoördineerd, werkten honderden mensen tegen hun wil. Behalve kantoorgebouwen stonden er ook luxe villa's en een zwembad.
De zaak kwam aan het rollen toen een Vietnamese dwangarbeider wist te ontsnappen en de politie alarmeerde. Bij een inval op het complex troffen politie-eenheden meer dan zevenhonderd mensen uit de Filipijnen, Vietnam, Maleisië, Taiwan, Rwanda en Indonesië aan.
Met Guo zijn nog zeven anderen tot levenslang veroordeeld. Guo wordt ook nog vervolgd voor corruptie en witwassen.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - In de Grote Kerk in Den Haag vieren politici dat het precies tachtig jaar geleden is dat het parlement voor de eerste keer na de Tweede Wereldoorlog weer bijeenkwam. Ook koning Willem-Alexander en prinses Amalia zijn donderdagochtend aanwezig bij de Bijzondere Verenigde Vergadering van de Eerste en de Tweede Kamer samen.
De Staten-Generaal was door de nazi-bezetters buiten werking gesteld tijdens de vijf jaren oorlog. De eerste Verenigde Vergadering van de Kamers op 20 november 1945 was een eerste stap in het herstel van de parlementaire democratie. De politici werden destijds tijdens deze samenkomst in een provisorisch herstelde Ridderzaal op het Binnenhof toegesproken door koningin Wilhelmina.
Onder anderen demissionair premier Dick Schoof spreekt de genodigden toe over de ontwikkelingen die zich de afgelopen tientallen jaren in de maatschappij en politiek afspeelden. Verder zijn onder de genodigden leden van de Raad van State, burgemeesters en militairen.
BRUSSEL (ANP) - Demissionair minister David van Weel (Buitenlandse Zaken) gaat donderdag in Brussel pleiten voor sancties tegen Soedan. Dat gaat hij doen tijdens de vergadering van de EU-ministers van Buitenlandse Zaken. "Ik denk dat we het er wel over eens zijn dat we in ieder geval de hoofddaders van het gruwelijke geweld in Soedan moeten aanpakken", zei hij voor het begin van de vergadering in Brussel. Het opleggen van sancties tegen hen is "wel het minste wat we kunnen doen", zei Van Weel.
Het gaat volgens VVD'er Van Weel om persoonlijke sancties die op basis van mensenrechtenschendingen worden opgelegd. De mensen die op de sanctielijst komen, kunnen niet meer reizen en kunnen niet meer bij hun bezittingen, verduidelijkte de minister. "Dat zijn echt zaken die ze raken en die hopelijk impact hebben."
De sancties moeten worden opgelegd aan leden van de paramilitaire beweging Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Soedan, wil Van Weel.
'Niet ongestraft blijven'
Het is voor het eerst dat de EU sancties wil opleggen aan Soedanezen, zei EU-buitenlandchef Kaja Kallas. Zo wil de EU "echt druk uitoefenen op degenen die de wreedheden in Soedan begaan".
Ook Frankrijk is voorstander van sancties tegen degenen die verantwoordelijk zijn voor de "gepleegde wreedheden", zei minister Jean-Noël Barrot (Buitenlandse Zaken) bij aankomst in Brussel. "Na de val van El Fasher hebben we alle partijen opgeroepen tot een staakt-het-vuren en het respecteren van het internationaal humanitair recht", zei Barrot. Ook moet dringend humanitaire hulp worden verleend.
"Maar dat is niet genoeg", zei hij. Sancties zijn nodig omdat "dergelijke wreedheden niet ongestraft kunnen blijven", aldus Barrot.
MÜNCHEN (ANP) - Vrachtwagen- en busfabrikant MAN wil in Duitsland ongeveer 2300 banen schrappen, meldt een woordvoerder aan persbureau dpa. De onderneming, die ook aan Nederlandse bedrijven levert, zegt te kampen met een aanhoudend zwakke markt voor trucks en de ingreep moet voor lagere kosten zorgen. Het geld dat MAN daarmee vrijspeelt, zou bedoeld zijn voor investeringen in nieuwe voertuigen zoals elektrische trucks.
Het Duitse dochterbedrijf van Traton wil de banenreductie over een periode van tien jaar doorvoeren. Gedwongen ontslagen sluit het truckbedrijf uit.
Naast een zwakke markt heeft MAN ook last van gestegen stroomprijzen en loonkosten. Daarnaast wordt de concurrentie van Aziatische fabrikanten heviger. Na de reorganisatie zal MAN rond de 13.000 medewerkers tellen.
Sgokkend niews van de onderweis inspeksie. Allemaal kindere, die onderweis volge, hebbe niezzo veel aan dat onderweis. Se kunnen beiforbeelt niet srijfen. Aan het ijnde van de bassissgool moeten kindere eigelijk korte text-jes kunnen make over een alle daags onder werp. Maar na 2 jaar op de middel baren sgool zijn er nog steeds veel kindere die dat helemaal niet kunnen. 1 op de 6. Onder vee mbo-bassis sgolieren (en die zein al zo dom) licht dat nog hoger: 40 pro cent. Dat is niet zonder riesie ko, laaggeletterdheid longt en ook op andere flakke zijn de gevolgen niet te oversien. Gelukkig is strax D66 aan de magt en die hebbe een goed trek rekoord op het flak van onder weiss.
Well, this fucking sucks. A federal judge has decided that Meta is not a monopolist, and that its acquisitions of Instagram and Whatsapp were not an illegal bid to secure and maintain a monopoly:
https://gizmodo.com/meta-learns-that-nothing-is-a-monopoly-if-you-just-wait-long-enough-2000687691
This is particularly galling because Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly, explicitly declared that these mergers were undertaken to reduce competition, which is the only circumstance in which pro-monopoly economists and lawyers say that mergers should be blocked.
Let me take a step back here. During the Reagan years, a new economic orthodoxy took hold, a weird combination of economic theory and conspiracy theory that held that:
a) It was bad economic policy to try and prevent monopolization, since monopolies are "efficient" and arise because companies are so totally amazing that we all voluntarily buy their products and pay for their services and;
b) The anti-monopoly laws on the books are actually pro-monopoly laws, and if you look at them just right, you'll find that what Congress really intended was for monopolies to be nurtured and protected:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/20/we-should-not-endure-a-king/
The one exception these monsters of history were willing to make to their pro-monopoly posture was this: if a corporation undertakes a merger because they are seeking a monopoly, then the government should step in and stop them. This is a great standard to come up with if what you really want to do is nothing, because how can you know why a company truly wants to buy another company? Who can ever claim to know what is in another person's heart?
This is a great wheeze if you want to allow as many monopolies as possible, unless the guy who's trying to get that monopoly is Mark Zuckerberg, because Zuck is a man who has never had a criminal intention he did not immediately put to writing and email to someone else.
This is the guy who put in writing the immortal words, "It is better to buy than to compete," and "what we’re really buying is time," and who described his plans to clone a competitor's features as intended to get there "before anyone can get close to their scale again":
Basically, Zuck is the guy who works until 2:30 every night, and then, before turning in, sends some key executive a fully discoverable, immortally backed-up digital message that reads, "Hey Bob, you know that guy we were thinking about killing? Well, I've decided we should do it. And for avoidance of doubt, it's 100% a murder, and right now, at this moment, I am premeditating it."
And despite this wealth of evidence as to Zuckerberg's intention at the time, US regulators at the FTC and EU regulators at the Commission both waved through those mergers, as well as many other before and since. Because it turns out that in the pro-monopoly world, there are no bright lines, no mergers so nakedly corrupt that they should be prevented. All that stuff about using state power to prevent deliberate monopolization was always and forever just bullshit. In the pro-monopoly camp, all monopolies are warmly welcome.
It wasn't always this way. In the trustbusting era, enforcers joined with organized labor and activists for all kinds of human rights, from universal sufferage to ending Jim Crow, to smash corporate power. Foundational to this fight was the understanding that concentrated corporate power presented a serious danger: first, because of the way that it could corrupt our political process, and second, because of the difficulty of dislodging corporate power once it had been established.
In other words, trustbusters sought to prevent monopolies, not merely to break up monopolies once they were formed. They understood that a company that was too big to fail would also be too big to jail, and that impunity rotted societies from within.
Then came the project to dismantle antitrust and revive the monopolies. Corporatists from the University of Chicago School of Economics and their ultra-wealthy backers launched a multipronged attack on economics, law, and precedent. It was a successful bid to bring back oligarchy and establish a new class of modern aristocracy, whose dynastic fortunes would ensure their rule and the rule of their descendants for generations to come.
A key part of this was an attack on the judiciary. Like other professionals, federal judges are expected to undergo regular "ongoing education" to ensure they're current on the best practices in their field. Wealthy pro-monopolists bankrolled a series of junkets for judges called the "Manne Seminars," all-expenses-paid family trips to luxury resorts, where judges could be indoctrinated with the theory of "efficient monopolies":
https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/13/post-bork-era/#manne-down
40% of all federal judges attended a Manne Seminar, and empirical studies show that after graduating, these judges changed the way they ruled, to favor monopolies:
https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/qje/qjaf042/8241352?login=false
The terrible beauty of this strategy is that you don't need to get all the judges into a Manne Seminar – you just need to get enough judges to attend that they will create a wall of precedent that every other judge will feel hemmed in by when they rule on antitrust cases. Those judgments further shore-up the pro-monopoly precedent, setting the stage for the next pro-monopoly judgment, and the next, and the next.
So here we are, a couple generations into the project to brainwash judges, monopolize the economy and establish a new aristocracy, and a judge just ruled that Meta isn't an illegal monopoly, even though Mark Zuckerberg literally put his explicit criminal intent in writing.
What are we to do? Should we despair? Does this mean it's all over?
Not hardly. Reversing 40+ years of pro-monopoly policy was always going to be a slog, with many setbacks on the way. That's why antitrust has historically sought to prevent monopolies. Once monopolies have conquered your economy, getting rid of them is far harder, or, as the joke from eastern Canada goes, "If you wanted to get there, I wouldn't start from here."
But you have to play the ball where it lies. The fact that Meta can deliberately set out to create a monopoly and still evade judgment is more reason to fight monopolies, not less – it's (more) evidence of how just corrupted and illegitimate our judicial system has become.
We've been here before. The first antitrust laws were passed to do the hard work of smashing existing monopolies, not the relatively easy task of preventing monopolization. Of course: before there is a law, there has to be a crime. Antitrust law was passed because of a monopoly problem, not as a pro-active measure to prevent the problem from arising.
Our forbears smashed monopolies that were, if anything, far more ferocious than Big Tech. They vanquished oligarchs whose perfidy and ruthlessness put today's ketamine-addled zuckermuskian mediocrities in the shade. How they did it is not a mystery: they just put in the hard yards of building coalitions and winning public sentiment.
They did it before and we can do it again. We know how it's done. We remember their names and what they did. Take Ida Tarbell, the slayer of John D Rockefeller and Standard Oil. Tarbell was a brilliant, fierce writer and orator, fearless and brilliant. She was the first woman in America to get a science degree, and a key driver of the movement for universal suffrage. But in addition to all that, she was an anti-monopolist.
Tarbell's father was a Pennsylvania oil man who'd been ruined by Rockefeller and Standard Oil. Determined to see him avenged, Tarbell researched the many tendrils of Rockefeller's empire and his devious tactics, and laid them bare in a pair of wildly successful serialized books, The History of the Standard Oil Company, Volumes I & II (published first in the popular national magazine Collier's):
https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/13/a-monopoly-isnt-the-same-as-legitimate-greatness/
Tarbell's History changed the way the country saw Rockefeller. She punctured his myth of brilliance and competence, and showed how he owed his fortune to swindling and cheating. She cut him down to size. She was a key figure in the American trustbusting movement, a catalyst for the revolution that saw Rockefeller and his fellow oligarchs overthrown.
This took a hell of a long time. The Sherman Act (which was used to break up Standard Oil) was passed in 1890, but Standard Oil wasn't broken up until 1912. It took perseverance through setback after setback, it took the compounding tragedies that drove people to question the order and demand change, and it took unglamorous organizing and dramatic street-fights to escape from oligarchy's powerful gravity well.
Today, we are back at square one, but we have advantages that Tarbell and the other trustbusters lacked. For one thing, we have them, the lessons of their fight and the inspiration of their victory. For another, we have the political wind at our back. All over the world, from China to Canada, from the EU to the USA, politicians have felt emboldened (or forced) to launch anti-monopoly efforts the likes of which have not been seen since the Carter administration:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/09/elite-disunity/#awoken-giants
What's more, these enforcers aren't alone – they can and do collaborate. Because these tech companies run the same swindles in every country in the world, enforcers can collaborate on building cases against them. After all the facts of Big Tech's crimes are virtually identical, whether you're in the UK, Singapore, South Korea, Canada or Germany:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/22/autocrats-of-trade/#dingo-babysitter
This is an advantage that the trustbusters who took down Rockefeller could only dream of. Like Big Tech, Rockefeller had a global empire, but unlike Big Tech, Rockefeller abused each of the nations of the world in distinct ways. In America, Rockefeller ran the refineries and pipelines; in Germany, he had a stranglehold on the ports.
Even if the Rockefeller-era trustbusters wanted to collaborate, sending memos back and forth across the Atlantic by zeppelin, all they could offer each other was warm wishes. US pipeline investigations had nothing to add to German port investigations.
Today's tech monopolists may be bigger than any one government, but they're not bigger than all the governments whose people they're abusing.
The trustbusters who brought down Rockefeller did something knowable and repeatable. Their work did not arise out of the lost arts of a fallen civilization. The work of taking down today's monopolists requires only that we recover our ancestors' moral fire and perseverance. No one needs to figure out how to build a pyramid without power tools or embalm a Pharaoh.
We merely have to build and sustain a global movement to destroy oligarchy.
(Merely!)
Yes, that's a hell of a big lift. But we're not alone. There are billions of people who suffer under oligarchy and an infinite variety of ways to erode its power, as a prelude to smashing that power. Our allies in antitrust include the voters who put Zohran Mamdani into office, going from less than 1% in the polls to a commanding majority in a three-way race, running on an anti-oligarch platform:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/28/mamdani/#trustbusting
(No coincidence that one of our most effective fighters is now co-leading Mamdani's transition team):
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/15/unconscionability/#standalone-authority
Trustbusting alone will not end oligarchy and trustbusters alone cannot break up the monopolies. As with the original trustbusters, the modern trustbusting movement is but a part of a coalition that wants a world organized around the needs of the many, not the few.
The Age of Extraction https://the-antimonopolist.ghost.io/the-age-of-extraction/
HOPE Hacking Conference Banned From University Venue Over Apparent ‘Anti-Police Agenda’ https://www.404media.co/hope-hacking-conference-banned-from-university-venue-over-apparent-anti-police-agenda/
HOPE CONFERENCE BANNED BY ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY https://www.2600.com/content/hope-conference-banned-st-johns-university
unshittified.club https://unshittified.club/
#20yrsago Brit backpackers take Indian call-centre jobs https://web.archive.org/web/20051210103452/http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/sterling/index.blog?entry_id=1284171
#20yrsago Laser etching doesn’t necessarily void your warranty https://web.archive.org/web/20051126194823/http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/11/will_laser_etching_apple_gear.html
#20yrsago UCLA to MPAA shill: ARRRRRRR! https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-nov-18-fi-glickman18-story.html
#20yrsago RIAA prez: Lots of companies secretly install rootkits! It’s no biggie! https://web.archive.org/web/20051125041201/http://www.malbela.com/blog/archives/000375.html
#20yrsago Sony offers MP3s in replacement for rootkit CDs https://web.archive.org/web/20051124233458/https://www.upsrow.com/sonybmg/
#15yrsago TSA forces cancer survivor to remove prosthetic breast https://web.archive.org/web/20101120213044/http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13534628
#15yrsago How the Victorians wiped their bums https://web.archive.org/web/20101123191021/http://wellcomelibrary.blogspot.com/2010/11/item-of-month-november-2010-victorian.html
#15yrsago Understanding the “microcredit crisis” in Andhra Pradesh https://web.archive.org/web/20101119012652/https://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/11/18/the-lessons-of-andhra-pradesh/
#15yrsago Canadian Heritage Minister inadvertently damns his own copyright bill https://web.archive.org/web/20101121054805/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5456/125/
#15yrsago TSA confiscates heavily-armed soldiers’ nail-clippers https://redstate.com/erick/2010/11/18/another-tsa-outrage-n37064
#15yrsago Chris McKitterick pirates his own book https://mckitterick.livejournal.com/653743.html
#15yrsago Chinese woman kidnapped to labor camp on her wedding day over sarcastic re-Tweet https://web.archive.org/web/20120609051421/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-post/2010/11/chinese_twitter_sentence_a_yea.html
#15yrsago RuneScape devs refuse to cave in to patent trolls https://web.archive.org/web/20101119012943/http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/31597/UKBased_RuneScape_Dev_Jagex_Wins_Patent_Infringement_Lawsuit.php
#10yrsago Manhattan DA calls for backdoors in all mobile operating systems https://web.archive.org/web/20151120003032/https://manhattanda.org/sites/default/files/11.18.15
#10yrsago Watching paint dry: epic crowfunded troll of the UK film censorship board https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/charlielyne/make-the-censors-watch-paint-drying?ref=video
#10yrsago CEOs are lucky, tall men https://hbr.org/2015/11/are-successful-ceos-just-lucky
#10yrsago America’s CEOs and hedge funds are starving the nation’s corporations to death https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-buybacks-cannibalized/
#10yrsago EU official: all identified Paris attackers were from the EU https://web.archive.org/web/20151116223023/https://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/11/16/3722838/all-paris-attackers-identified-so-far-are-european-nationals-according-to-top-eu-official/
#10yrsago The Web is pretty great with Javascript turned off https://www.wired.com/2015/11/i-turned-off-javascript-for-a-whole-week-and-it-was-glorious/
#10yrsago If the Paris attackers weren’t using cryptography, the next ones will, and so should you https://insidesources.com/new-york-times-article-blaming-encryption-paris-attacks/
#10yrsago Zero: the number of security experts Ted Koppel consulted for hysterical cyberwar book https://www.techdirt.com/2015/11/19/ted-koppel-writes-entire-book-about-how-hackers-will-take-down-our-electric-grid-never-spoke-to-any-experts/
#10yrsago How a paid FBI informant created a terror plot that sent an activist to jail for 9 years https://theintercept.com/2015/11/19/an-fbi-informant-seduced-eric-mcdavid-into-a-bomb-plot-then-the-government-lied-about-it/
#10yrsago Google steps up to defend fair use, will fund Youtubers’ legal defenses https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2015/11/a-step-toward-protecting-fair-use-on.html?m=1
#10yrsago Alan Moore’s advice to unpublished authors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuaWu2uhmRQ
#10yrsago Private funding of public services is bankrupting the UK https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/11748960/The-PFI-hospitals-costing-NHS-2bn-every-year.html
#10yrsago The US government turned down Anne Frank’s visa application https://www.reuters.com/article/2007/02/14/us-annefrank-letters-idUSN1430569220070214/#HmyajvjLmsX2tVYf.97
#10yrsago Seriously, try “view source” on google.com https://xkcd.com/1605/#10yrsago
#5yrsago Tyson execs bet on covid spread in unsafe plant https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/19/disneymustpay/#you-bet-your-life
#5yrsago Disney stiffs writer https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/19/disneymustpay/#disneymustpay
#5yrsago Cyberpunk and Post-Cyberpunk https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/19/disneymustpay/#asl
#5yrsago Canada's GDPR https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/18/always-get-their-rationalisation/#consent
#5yrsago Telehealth chickenizes docs https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/18/always-get-their-rationalisation/#telehealth
#5yrsago The Mounties lied about social surveillance https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/18/always-get-their-rationalisation/#rcmp
#5yrsago Race, surveillance and tech https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/18/always-get-their-rationalisation/#asl
#1yrago Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/18/rights-without-power/#careful-what-you-wish-for
#1yrago Forcing Google to spin off Chrome (and Android?) https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/19/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do/#shiny-and-chrome
Virtual: Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library), Nov 21
https://www.crowdcast.io/@bclibraries-present
Toronto: Jailbreaking Canada (OCAD U), Nov 27
https://www.ocadu.ca/events-and-exhibitions/jailbreaking-canada
San Diego: Enshittification at the Mission Hills Branch Library, Dec 1
https://libraryfoundationsd.org/events/doctorow
Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/neuroscience-ai-and-society-cory-doctorow-tickets-1735371255139
Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
https://rjjulia.com/event/2025-12-08/cory-doctorow-enshittification
Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/infos/index.html
Enshittification with danah boyd and Lee Vinsel (Peoples & Things)
https://newbooksnetwork.com/cory-doctorow-on-enshittification-why-everything-suddenly-got-worse-and-what-to-do-about-it
Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now, with Tim Wu (Oxford Internet Institute)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkYxMQJ9c94
Working it out: Job security in the AI era (Web Summit)
https://websummit.com/summaries/lis25/working-it-out-job-security-in-the-ai-era/
How to dis-Enshittify the world (Blood In the Machine)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to-dis-enshittify-the-world-with
"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 (the-bezzle.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
"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, 2026
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