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Today's threads (a thread)Inside: AI digital sovereignty risk doesn't exist; and more!Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/their-trillions-our-billions/#Pluralistic1/
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I'm on tour with my new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI. Catch me in #LA TOMORROW (Jun 19) at Skylight Books:https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-cory-doctorow-presents-reverse-centaurs-guide-life-after-ai-w-brian-merchantAnd on SUNDAY (Jun 21) at Kepler's in #MenloPark:https://www.keplers.org/upcoming-events-internal/cory-doctorow-2026After that, it's #Toronto, #NYC, #Philly and #Chicago:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai/posts/47220702/
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AI digital sovereignty risk doesn't exist: If 'risk + AI = risk - AI', then 'AI = 0'.https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1167717993811248443/
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Hey look at this* Is Donald Trump the Greatest Environmentalist of All Time?? https://jacobin.com/2026/06/trump-iran-green-transition-environmentalism* WNBA Players Scored a Historic Labor Contract—With One Notable Caveat https://www.hardresetmedia.com/p/wnba-players-labor-contract-wearables* Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949986/anthropic-fable-mythos-shutdown-sovereign-ai* Blindsight Sci-fi Short Film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkR2hnXR0SM* Introducing: Story Oracle https://www.clarionwest.org/story-oracle/4/
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#25yrsago Napster boss's American Library Association keynote https://web.archive.org/web/20010623201456/https://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2001/06/17/napster/index.html#20yrsago Flickr: we’ll give full access to competitors – if they reciprocate https://www.flickr.com/groups/central/discuss/72157594165399644/#comment72157594167782546#20yrsago Report from a concert by a Serbian war-criminal https://web.archive.org/web/20060613081324/http://blog.b92.net/blog/22#20yrsago European podcasters to WIPO: Stay away from us! https://web.archive.org/web/20060619224538/https://www.bloggernews.net/2006/06/european-podcasters-team-up-to-lobby.html#15yrsago KFC: support diabetes research by buying an 800 calorie, 56 spoonful of sugar “Mega Jug” https://web.archive.org/web/20110619031415/https://theweek.com/article/index/216462/irony-alert-buy-kfcs-800-calorie-soda-to-support-diabetes-research5/
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#10yrsago Terrorist who murdered Jo Cox shouts: “Death to traitors” in court https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2016/0618/Accused-killer-of-MP-Jo-Cox-makes-defiant-court-statement#10yrsago Judge orders release of man convicted while his public defender was handcuffed https://web.archive.org/web/20160617172242/http://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/judge-releases-man-who-received-jail-sentence-while-lawyer-was-handcuffs-video#10yrsago Hambone virtuoso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMJeaZtgwng#10yrsago Google Fiber now forces subscribers into binding arbitration; days left to opt out https://web.archive.org/web/20160617141759/https://consumerist.com/2016/06/16/google-fiber-copies-comcast-att-forces-users-to-give-up-their-legal-right-to-sue/#1yrago The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/18/anarcho-cryptid/#decameron-and-on6/
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Yesterday's threads: The (real) dead economy theory; and more!https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1167669096579856117/
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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--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/8/
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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."https://craphound.com/shop/9/
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Upcoming appearances:* Virtual: The future of world governance, with Kim Stanley Robinson (UN Independent Expert on International Order), Jun 19https://www.youtube.com/live/wJvBvYdaAMY* #LA: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Brian Merchant (Skylight Books), Jun 19https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-cory-doctorow-presents-reverse-centaurs-guide-life-after-ai-w-brian-merchant* #MenloPark: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Angie Coiro (Kepler's), Jun 21https://www.keplers.org/upcoming-events-internal/cory-doctorow-202610/
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):* #Toronto: The Sovereignty Debate (IAB Canada's State of the Nation), Jun 23https://iabcanada.com/state-of-the-nation-2026* #Toronto: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI (Osler Records/Type Books), Jun 23https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-book-launch-and-talk-tickets-1991501299998* #NYC: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Jonathan Coulton (The Strand), Jun 24https://www.strandbooks.com/cory-doctorow-the-reverse-centaur-s-guide-to-life-after-ai.html11/
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):* #Philadelphia: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with David Williams (Fitler Club/Philadelphia Citizen), Jun 25https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-book-event-tickets-1990110326559* #Chicago: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Rick Perlstein (Exile in Bookville), Jun 26https://exileinbookville.com/events/50628* #London: Idler Festival, Jul 11https://www.idler.co.uk/festival/* #Edinburgh International Book Festival with Jimmy Wales, Aug 17https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/the-front-list-cory-doctorow-and-jimmy-wales12/
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):* #Sydney: The Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Aug 23-24https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/cory-doctorow/* #Melbourne: Enshittification at the Wheeler Centre, Aug 25https://www.wheelercentre.com/events-tickets/season-2026/cory-doctorow-enshittification* #Brighton: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Carole Cadwalladr (Brighton Dome), Sep 8https://brightondome.org/whats-on/LSC-cory-doctorow-the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai/* #London: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Riley Quinn (Foyle's Picadilly), Sep 9https://www.foyles.co.uk/events/enshittification-cory-doctorow-riley-quinn13/
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):* #SouthBend: An Evening With Cory Doctorow (Notre Dame), Oct 6https://franco.nd.edu/events/2026/10/06/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/14/
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Recent appearances* The Enshittification of Life, the Universe, & Everything (Luke Savage)https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-enshittification-of-life-the* Cory Doctorow's digital jail-break (DW In Focus)https://www.dw.com/en/cory-doctorows-digital-jail-break/audio-77414035* Why the Internet Got Worse and What to Do About It (Jim Rutt) (RIP)https://www.jimruttshow.com/cory-doctorow-3/* On Enshittification – and what can be done about it (Re:publica)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhINQgPMVSI* EFFecting Change: How to Disenshittify the Internet (EFF, with Wendy Liu)https://archive.org/details/effecting-change-enshittification15/
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I'm also on Bluesky. Read today's thread there at:https://bsky.app/profile/did:web:pluralistic.net/post/3mol6dmutjs2f17/
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I'm on tour with my new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI. Catch me in #LA TOMORROW (Jun 19) at Skylight Books:https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-cory-doctorow-presents-reverse-centaurs-guide-life-after-ai-w-brian-merchantAnd on SUNDAY (Jun 21) at Kepler's in #MenloPark:https://www.keplers.org/upcoming-events-internal/cory-doctorow-2026After that, it's #Toronto, #NYC, #Philly and #Chicago:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai/posts/4722070eof/