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Hey look at this

* Khan vs. Cutter: A Tale of Two Careers https://prospect.org/2026/04/14/khan-vs-cutter-tale-of-two-careers/

* The MetaBrainz Foundation is seeking a new Executive Director (ED) https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/04/14/seeking-a-new-executive-director/

* Missouri Town Council Approves Data Center. A Week Later, Voters Fire Half of Council https://gizmodo.com/missouri-town-council-approves-data-center-a-week-later-voters-fire-half-of-council-2000746005

* Wikilinker https://whitelabel.org/wikilinker/about/

* Fold Catastrophes/Peter Watts https://tachyonpublications.com/product/fold-catastrophes/?mc_cid=c20986aa78

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Wikilinker

Wikilinker Auto-links the most popular 1,000,000 people, places, organizations, and other matchable names to their Wikipedia pages on any webpage, using a...

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#20yrsago Canadian labels pull out of RIAA-fronted Canadian Recording Industry Ass. https://web.archive.org/web/20060414170111/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/component/option,com_content/task,view/id,1204/Itemid,85/nsub,/

#20yrsago EFF publishes “7 Years Under the DMCA” paper https://web.archive.org/web/20060415110951/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004555.php

#20yrsago Life of a writer as a Zork adventure https://web.archive.org/web/20060414115745/http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2006/04/disadventure.html

#20yrsago NOLA mayoral candidate uses photo of Disneyland New Orleans Square https://web.archive.org/web/20060414214356/https://www.wonkette.com/politics/new-orleans/not-quite-the-happiest-place-on-earth-166989.php

#20yrsago AOL won’t deliver emails that criticize AOL https://web.archive.org/web/20060408133439/https://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_04.php#004556

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Michael Geist - Removing the C from CRIA

MichaelGeists Home on the Web, labels drop out of cria

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#15yrsago UK court rules that kettling was illegal https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/apr/14/kettling-g20-protesters-police-illegal

#15yrsago If Chris Ware was Charlie Brown https://eatmorebikes.blogspot.com/2011/04/lil-chris-ware.html

#10yrsago Piracy dooms motion picture industry to yet another record-breaking box-office year https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-fails-to-prevent-box-office-record-160413/

#10yrsago Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca law offices raided by Panama authorities https://www.reuters.com/article/us-panama-tax-raid-idUSKCN0XA020/

#10yrsago Panama Papers reveal offshore companies were bagmen for the world’s spies https://web.archive.org/web/20160426083004/https://www.yahoo.com/news/panama-papers-reveal-spies-used-mossak-fonseca-231833609.html

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Piracy Fails to Prevent Another Box Office Record * TorrentFreak

Piracy is not killing the movie business. According to the MPAA's Theatrical Market Statistics report the industry has just turned in a record year, with $38.3b taken at the box office.

^{Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)}

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#10yrsago How corporate America’s lobbying budget surpassed the combined Senate and Congress budget https://web.archive.org/web/20150422010643/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/how-corporate-lobbyists-conquered-american-democracy/390822/

#10yrsago URL shorteners are a short path to your computer’s hard drive https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02734

#10yrsago UL has a new, opaque certification process for cybersecurity https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/04/underwriters-labs-refuses-to-share-new-iot-cybersecurity-standard/

#10yrsago Jeremy Corbyn overpays his taxes https://web.archive.org/web/20160413192208/https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/news/73724/jeremy-corbyn-overstated-income-his-tax-return

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Underwriters Labs refuses to share new IoT cybersecurity standard

Too many unhealthy products will pass the bare-minimum certification process."

^{Ars Staff (Ars Technica)}

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#10yrsago Cassetteboy’s latest video is an amazing, danceable anti-Snoopers Charter mashup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2fSXp6N-vs

#10yrsago Texas: prisoners whose families maintain their social media presence face 45 days in solitary https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/texas-prison-system-unveils-new-inmate-censorship-policy

#5yrsago Data-brokerages vs the world https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/13/public-interest-pharma/#axciom

#5yrsago What "IP" means https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/13/public-interest-pharma/#ip

#5yrsago Bill Gates will kill us all https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/13/public-interest-pharma/#gates-foundation

#5yrsago Jackpot https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/13/public-interest-pharma/#affluenza

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Cassetteboy vs The Snoopers' Charter

Please help fund Privacy International's legal fight against government hacking www.crowdjustice.com/hackingLyrics:A new law is hereThat causes decent people...

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Yesterday's threads: In praise of (some) compartmentalization; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116402208330897071

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Cory Doctorow

2026-04-14 08:52:23

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: In praise of (some) compartmentalization; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/14/compartments/

#Pluralistic

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

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Craphound Shop

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^{Craphound Shop}

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Upcoming appearances:

* #Toronto: DemocracyXchange, Apr 16
https://www.democracyxchange.org/news/cory-doctorow-to-open-dxc26-on-april-16

* #SanFrancisco: 2026 Berkeley Spring Forum on M&A and the Boardroom, Apr 23
https://www.theberkeleyforum.com/#agenda

* #London: Resisting Big Tech Empires (LSBU), Apr 25
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/globaljusticenow/2042691

* #NYC: Enshittification at Commonweal Ventures, Apr 29
https://luma.com/ssgfvqz8

* #NYC: Techidemic with Sarah Jeong, Tochi Onyibuchi and Alia Dastagir (PEN World Voices), Apr 30
https://worldvoices.pen.org/event/techidemic/

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Enshittification: In Conversation with Cory Doctorow

Commonweal Ventures is thrilled to host acclaimed author and technology journalist Cory Doctorow for a discussion on his bestselling book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It.

^luma.com

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #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

* #HayOnWye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25
https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay/big-ideas-2

* 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 (The Strand), Jun 24
https://www.strandbooks.com/cory-doctorow-the-reverse-centaur-s-guide-to-life-after-ai.html

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#rp26-Sprecher Cory Doctorow | re:publica

Was bedeutet „Enshittification“ – und wie kam es dazu? Der Science-Fiction-Autor, Journalist und Technologie-Aktivist zeigt, was dahintersteckt - und was wir dagegen tun können.

^republica

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Recent appearances:

* 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

* Launch for Cindy's Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (City Lights)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuVCm2PUalU

* Chicken Mating Harnesses (This Week in Tech)
https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1074

* The Virtual Jewel Box (U Utah)
https://tanner.utah.edu/podcast/enshittification-cory-doctorow-matthew-potolsky/

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The ‘enshittification’ of the internet, explained

Cory Doctorow says the internet is getting worse and he has a theory why. In conversation with The National’s Ian Hanomansing, the Canadian author explains h...

^YouTube

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