Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Predistribution vs redistribution (Big Tech edition); and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/10/markets-are-regulations/
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Predistribution vs redistribution (Big Tech edition); and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/10/markets-are-regulations/
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Differently! Differently! This is adverb abuse!
@pluralistic When Canada makes an adversarial app for big tech products, they should call it Sorri.
I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Jan 22 at The Tattered Cover:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
And in #ColoradoSprings from Jan 23-25, where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:
https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:
https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/
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Predistribution vs redistribution (Big Tech edition): A thing that governments can do with 100% reliability.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115871427381296594
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Hey look at this
* Barrel of Suck: A bot to surface relevant old Suck.com articles https://www.bricoleur.org/2026/01/finally-finished-up-bot-for-posting.html
* My first Boing Boing post, 25 years ago tomorrow https://web.archive.org/web/20010124080600/http://boingboing.net/2001_01_01_bloggerarchive.html
* Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/10/trump-beginning-of-end-enshittification-make-tech-good-again
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#20yrsago HOWTO convert an Oral B flosser into a vibrating lockpick https://web.archive.org/web/20060113090614/http://www.inventgeek.com/Projects/lockpick/lockpick.aspx
#20yrsago Levi’s to ship iPod jeans https://web.archive.org/web/20060113045708/https://www.popgadget.net/2006/01/levis_ipod_jean.php
#20yrsago Chumbawamba: Why we don’t use DRM on our CDs https://web.archive.org/web/20060112044019/http://www.chumba.com/Chumbawambacopyprotect1.html
#20yrsago UK Parliamentarians demand WiFi https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/british-parliament-members-demand-wi-fi-access/
#15yrsago Sue Townsend talks Adrian Mole with the Guardian book-club https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2011/jan/10/sue-townsend-adrian-mole-book-club
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#15yrsago Major record labels forced to pay CAD$45M to ripped-off musicians https://web.archive.org/web/20110112055510/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5563/125/
#10yrsago Why Americans can’t stop working: the poor can’t afford to, and the rich are enjoying themselves https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/inequality-work-hours/422775/
#10yrsago Juniper blinks: firewall will nuke the NSA’s favorite random number generator https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spying-juniper-idUSKBN0UN07520160109/
#5yrsago Impeachment and realignment https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/10/realignments/#realign
ments
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#5yrsago Busting myths about the Night of the Short Fingers https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/10/realignments/#mythbusting
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Yesterday's threads: bunnie's piggyback hack; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115865826413271634
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels
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My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
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