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Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER

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Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER

@doctorow

New book: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI pluralistic.net/kickstarter @[email protected] (Masto)/@doctorow.pluralistic.net (Bsky)

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Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
@doctorow
Jun 9
I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog. You can read today's post ("Naomi Kritzer's "Obstetrix"") at pluralistic.net/2026/06/09/del… It's also available on Mastodon at: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1… And on Bluesky at: bsky.app/profile/did:we…
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Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
@doctorow
Feb 24, 2023
So there's a great Thai restaurant in my neighborhood called Kiin. Yesterday, I searched for their website to order some takeout. Here's the Google result.
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Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
@doctorow
Oct 4, 2020
Dutch resistance members celebrate at the moment they heard of Adolf Hitler’s death over the radio, May 1945. (Colorized) explorerrowan.tumblr.com/post/631051993…
Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
@doctorow
Mar 19, 2023
My new hobby: finding public domain images that Getty sells for $500, locating hi-rez scans of their original publications, cropping and cleaning them up, adding metadata, and uploading them to Wikimedia Commons. First one: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fig_…
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Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
@doctorow
Jan 4, 2022
This is fucking wild. Norton "Antivirus" now sneakily installs cryptomining software on your computer, and then SKIMS A COMMISSION. community.norton.com/en/forums/faq-…
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Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
@doctorow
Oct 28, 2021
It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is. 1/
Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
@doctorow
Feb 24, 2023
Replying to @doctorow
And why the actual FUCK is @GoogleAds accepting these scam artists' ads for a business that they already have a knowledge box for?! Google KNOWS what the real KIIN restaurant is, and yet they are accepting payment to put a fake KIIN listing two slots ABOVE the real one.
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Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
@doctorow
Feb 24, 2023
Replying to @doctorow
I got duped. I placed an order with the fake site. The fake site then placed the order - in my name! - with the real site, having marked up the prices by 15%.
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Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
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Feb 24, 2023
Replying to @doctorow
Doug @rushkoff says that the ethic of today's "entrepreneur" is to #GoMeta - don't provide a product or a service, simply find a way to be a predatory squatter on a chokepoint between people who do useful things and people who use those things.
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Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
@doctorow
Nov 11, 2016
"Hitler's only kidding about the antisemitism" New York Times, 1922 boingboing.net/2016/11/11/hit…
Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
@doctorow
Nov 5, 2025
This has sold out across most of the five boroughs, and copies are selling on Ebay for $80. Here's a 4000px+ wide JPEG if you want to run a copy on archival paper and frame it as a commemoration of the day things started to get better: nypost.com/wp-content/upl…
Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
@doctorow
Nov 5, 2025
Gonna need a framed litho of this
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Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
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Nov 19, 2020
Alan Dean Foster is an sf legend - a writer who produced a shelf of original novels but also made a reputation novelizing movies and TV from Star Wars to Aliens, turning out books that transcended quickie adaptations, becoming beloved bestsellers in their own right. 1/
Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
@doctorow
Feb 24, 2023
Replying to @doctorow
How the actual FUCK did these obvious scammers get an Amex merchant account in the name of "KIINTHAILA" by after supplying the phone number for a website hosting company? What is Amex's #KYC procedure? Do they even call the phone number?
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Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
@doctorow
Jun 4, 2021
It's been eight years since @aaronsw took his own life. Aaron had been charged with 13 felonies under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (#CFAA) for violating the terms of service on the @JSTOR database of scholarly articles. 1/