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Cory Doctorow

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Aug 26

The age of disinvention

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The age of disinvention

Cory Doctorow

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Aug 14

Capital formation

Going legit means going mainstream.

Three weird male figures’ heads. The figures have gigeresque throats made from dripping stalagmites and stalactites, and their crania have been replaced with clear domes. The three figures overlap, each smaller than the previous. In the rightmost, largest dome is the portrait of Ben Franklin seen on a US$100 bill. The middle dome contains a 19th century bank with Grecian columns. The left dome contains the US capital. The background is a heavily processed monochrome image of wiring in an early m

Cory Doctorow

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Mar 7

The web is bearable with RSS

And don’t forget “Reader Mode.”

Cory Doctorow

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Feb 23

Deplatform yourself

Copyright infringement is your least entertainment dollar.

The Muse Thalia, pictured brandishing a comedy mask and putting a laurel wreath on a bust of a bearded figure. It has been altered. The bust has an extra set of eyes and ears. Thalia has two extra sets of arms, one ending in lion’s paws, the other in lobster’s claws. She has one cyclopean eye. Her comedy mask is now a tragedy mask. The image has been tinted blue.

Cory Doctorow

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Jan 30

Threads’ margin is the Eurostack’s opportunity

Move fast and break kings.

Cory Doctorow

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Jan 17

The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification

Regulatory arbitrage isn’t just for tax cheats.

A green Irish pillarbox, standing before a verdant, rolling Irish countryside. The pillarbox is emblazoned with the poop emoji from the cover of ‘Enshittification,’ with angry eyebrows and a grawlix-scrawled black bar over its mouth. Image: Stuart Caie (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Double_aperture_Irish_pillar_box_in_Dublin_2008.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en — Sourabh.biswas003 (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PXL_20

Cory Doctorow

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Jan 1

The Post-American Internet

My speech from Hamburg’s Chaos Communications Congress.

The Post-American Internet

Cory Doctorow

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Dec 16, 2025

America’s collapsing consumption is the world’s disenshittification opportunity

America’s loss is the post-American internet’s gain.

Uncle Sam staring into a funhouse mirror that has made him painfully thin. The reflection is wearing a Trump wig and has orange skin. He stands atop a map of the world that stretches to infinity. In the background is a shantytown with the TRUMP logomark rising in the sky over it.

Cory Doctorow

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Oct 10, 2025

A disenshittification moment from the land of mass storage

Score one for the good guys.

A massive goliath figure in a loincloth, holding a club and sitting on a boulder; his head has been replaced with the head of Benjamin Franklin taken from a US $100 bill. He is peering down at a Synology NAS box, festooned with Enshittification poop emojis, with angry eyebrows and black grawlix bars over their mouths.

Cory Doctorow

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Oct 16, 2024

You should be using an RSS reader

The one thing you can choose to do that will make your internet life better and make the internet better for everyone else, too.