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Ivey Janette McClelland
@IveyJanette@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

He'll send the troops into the Castro.

On purpose.

To Make The Castro Straight White People Again. And rename it Eureka Valley. Just like 1968.

#sanfrancisco #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq_plus
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Pres. Trump threatens to send military troops to 'straighten out' SF, other Democratic-run cities

President Trump told the military's top generals at Quantico on Tuesday about his plans to send troops to "very unsafe" Democratic cities, including San Francisco. He's arguing "We're under invasion from within." He also hinted at deploying more National Guard troops to crack down on crime.
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Ivey Janette McClelland
@IveyJanette@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

He'll send the troops into the Castro.

On purpose.

To Make The Castro Straight White People Again. And rename it Eureka Valley. Just like 1968.

#sanfrancisco #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq_plus
https://abc7news.com/post/president-trump-says-san-francisco-needs-straightened-suggesting-dangerous-cities-used-military-grounds/17911861/
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ABC7 San Francisco

Pres. Trump threatens to send military troops to 'straighten out' SF, other Democratic-run cities

President Trump told the military's top generals at Quantico on Tuesday about his plans to send troops to "very unsafe" Democratic cities, including San Francisco. He's arguing "We're under invasion from within." He also hinted at deploying more National Guard troops to crack down on crime.
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification

* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/

* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

* #LosAngeles, CA: In coversation with *The American Prospect*'s David Dayen (Oct 16, 6:30PM)
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification

* #Calgary, AB: Literary Death Match at Wordfest (Oct 17, 7:30PM)
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/

* #Calgary, AB: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! at Wordfest (Oct 18, 1PM)
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

* #SanFrancisco, CA: In conversation with Jenny Odell, author of *How To Do Nothing* at Public Works, presented by Booksmith (Oct 20, 7PM)
https://app.gopassage.com/events/29638

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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow with Jenny Odell / Enshittification | Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. He will be joined by How To Do Nothing and Saving TIme author Jenny Odell. Grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.About the authorCory Doctorow is a Canadian, British, American blogger, journalist, and activist. For more than twenty-three years, he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on campaigns to further and safeguard our human rights online. He was coeditor of the weblog Boing Boing for nineteen years and now maintains a daily(ish) newsletter at Pluralistic.net. He has written more than thirty books, including nonfiction books, many science fiction novels, collections of short stories and essays, young adult novels, graphic novels, and even a picture book. Born in Toronto, he now lives in Burbank, California. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by York University and an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science from the Open University. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. He holds visiting professorship and research appointments at MIT, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, and the Open University.Jenny Odell is an artist, writer, and educator whose work focuses on close observation of the everyday world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Paris Review. Odell has been an artist in residence at the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), and her work has been exhibited internationally. From 2013 to 2021, she taught digital art at Stanford University. She is currently at work on a book about repair.About the bookstoreThe Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.Please note:This event will be taking place at PUBLIC WORKS at 161 Erie Street in San Francisco. Please note the venue is 21+.Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30pm.Ticket holders will have seats held until 7pm. Arrivals after 7pm will be allowed admission, but seats are not guaranteed.There will be a post-show signing for those who have purchased a ticket with a book. Additional copies and assorted backlist will be for sale at the venue on the night of the event.Venue includes a full-service bar that will be available throughout the event.Questions? tickets@booksmith.com
Wordfest

Big Tech's Betrayal—and How to Break Free! - Wordfest

Starring Cory Doctorow. Hosted by Zain Velji
Wordfest

Literary Death Match - Wordfest

Starring Emily Austin, Gabrielle Drolet, Jon Hickey & Wesley King, with Cory Doctorow, Emma Donoghue, and Andrew Phung. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

* #LosAngeles, CA: In coversation with *The American Prospect*'s David Dayen (Oct 16, 6:30PM)
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification

* #Calgary, AB: Literary Death Match at Wordfest (Oct 17, 7:30PM)
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/

* #Calgary, AB: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! at Wordfest (Oct 18, 1PM)
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

* #SanFrancisco, CA: In conversation with Jenny Odell, author of *How To Do Nothing* at Public Works, presented by Booksmith (Oct 20, 7PM)
https://app.gopassage.com/events/29638

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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow with Jenny Odell / Enshittification | Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. He will be joined by How To Do Nothing and Saving TIme author Jenny Odell. Grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.About the authorCory Doctorow is a Canadian, British, American blogger, journalist, and activist. For more than twenty-three years, he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on campaigns to further and safeguard our human rights online. He was coeditor of the weblog Boing Boing for nineteen years and now maintains a daily(ish) newsletter at Pluralistic.net. He has written more than thirty books, including nonfiction books, many science fiction novels, collections of short stories and essays, young adult novels, graphic novels, and even a picture book. Born in Toronto, he now lives in Burbank, California. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by York University and an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science from the Open University. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. He holds visiting professorship and research appointments at MIT, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, and the Open University.Jenny Odell is an artist, writer, and educator whose work focuses on close observation of the everyday world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Paris Review. Odell has been an artist in residence at the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), and her work has been exhibited internationally. From 2013 to 2021, she taught digital art at Stanford University. She is currently at work on a book about repair.About the bookstoreThe Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.Please note:This event will be taking place at PUBLIC WORKS at 161 Erie Street in San Francisco. Please note the venue is 21+.Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30pm.Ticket holders will have seats held until 7pm. Arrivals after 7pm will be allowed admission, but seats are not guaranteed.There will be a post-show signing for those who have purchased a ticket with a book. Additional copies and assorted backlist will be for sale at the venue on the night of the event.Venue includes a full-service bar that will be available throughout the event.Questions? tickets@booksmith.com
Wordfest

Big Tech's Betrayal—and How to Break Free! - Wordfest

Starring Cory Doctorow. Hosted by Zain Velji
Wordfest

Literary Death Match - Wordfest

Starring Emily Austin, Gabrielle Drolet, Jon Hickey & Wesley King, with Cory Doctorow, Emma Donoghue, and Andrew Phung. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga
DIESEL, A Bookstore

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Upcoming appearances:

* #Boston: Enshittification with Randall Munroe (Brattle Theater), Oct 7
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-at-the-brattle-theatre-tickets-1591235180259?aff=oddtdtcreator

* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, with Rohit Chopra, Oct 8
https://politics-prose.com/cory-doctorow-10825

* #NYC: Enshittification at the Brooklyn Public Library, with Lina Khan, Oct 9
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cory-doctorow-discusses-central-library-dweck-20251009-0700pm

* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12
http://www.contraflowscifi.org/

* #NewOrleans: Enshittification at Octavia Books, Oct 12
https://www.octaviabooks.com/event/enshittification-cory-doctorow

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Cory Doctorow — Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It - with Rohit Chopra — at The Wharf

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Cory Doctorow at The Brattle Theatre

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification

* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/

* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow with Jenny Odell / Enshittification | Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. He will be joined by How To Do Nothing and Saving TIme author Jenny Odell. Grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.About the authorCory Doctorow is a Canadian, British, American blogger, journalist, and activist. For more than twenty-three years, he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on campaigns to further and safeguard our human rights online. He was coeditor of the weblog Boing Boing for nineteen years and now maintains a daily(ish) newsletter at Pluralistic.net. He has written more than thirty books, including nonfiction books, many science fiction novels, collections of short stories and essays, young adult novels, graphic novels, and even a picture book. Born in Toronto, he now lives in Burbank, California. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by York University and an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science from the Open University. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. He holds visiting professorship and research appointments at MIT, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, and the Open University.Jenny Odell is an artist, writer, and educator whose work focuses on close observation of the everyday world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Paris Review. Odell has been an artist in residence at the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), and her work has been exhibited internationally. From 2013 to 2021, she taught digital art at Stanford University. She is currently at work on a book about repair.About the bookstoreThe Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.Please note:This event will be taking place at PUBLIC WORKS at 161 Erie Street in San Francisco. Please note the venue is 21+.Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30pm.Ticket holders will have seats held until 7pm. Arrivals after 7pm will be allowed admission, but seats are not guaranteed.There will be a post-show signing for those who have purchased a ticket with a book. Additional copies and assorted backlist will be for sale at the venue on the night of the event.Venue includes a full-service bar that will be available throughout the event.Questions? tickets@booksmith.com
Wordfest

Big Tech's Betrayal—and How to Break Free! - Wordfest

Starring Cory Doctorow. Hosted by Zain Velji
Wordfest

Literary Death Match - Wordfest

Starring Emily Austin, Gabrielle Drolet, Jon Hickey & Wesley King, with Cory Doctorow, Emma Donoghue, and Andrew Phung. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga
DIESEL, A Bookstore

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification

* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/

* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow with Jenny Odell / Enshittification | Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. He will be joined by How To Do Nothing and Saving TIme author Jenny Odell. Grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.About the authorCory Doctorow is a Canadian, British, American blogger, journalist, and activist. For more than twenty-three years, he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on campaigns to further and safeguard our human rights online. He was coeditor of the weblog Boing Boing for nineteen years and now maintains a daily(ish) newsletter at Pluralistic.net. He has written more than thirty books, including nonfiction books, many science fiction novels, collections of short stories and essays, young adult novels, graphic novels, and even a picture book. Born in Toronto, he now lives in Burbank, California. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by York University and an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science from the Open University. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. He holds visiting professorship and research appointments at MIT, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, and the Open University.Jenny Odell is an artist, writer, and educator whose work focuses on close observation of the everyday world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Paris Review. Odell has been an artist in residence at the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), and her work has been exhibited internationally. From 2013 to 2021, she taught digital art at Stanford University. She is currently at work on a book about repair.About the bookstoreThe Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.Please note:This event will be taking place at PUBLIC WORKS at 161 Erie Street in San Francisco. Please note the venue is 21+.Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30pm.Ticket holders will have seats held until 7pm. Arrivals after 7pm will be allowed admission, but seats are not guaranteed.There will be a post-show signing for those who have purchased a ticket with a book. Additional copies and assorted backlist will be for sale at the venue on the night of the event.Venue includes a full-service bar that will be available throughout the event.Questions? tickets@booksmith.com
Wordfest

Big Tech's Betrayal—and How to Break Free! - Wordfest

Starring Cory Doctorow. Hosted by Zain Velji
Wordfest

Literary Death Match - Wordfest

Starring Emily Austin, Gabrielle Drolet, Jon Hickey & Wesley King, with Cory Doctorow, Emma Donoghue, and Andrew Phung. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga
DIESEL, A Bookstore

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification

* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/

* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow with Jenny Odell / Enshittification | Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.

The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. He will be joined by How To Do Nothing and Saving TIme author Jenny Odell. Grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.About the authorCory Doctorow is a Canadian, British, American blogger, journalist, and activist. For more than twenty-three years, he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on campaigns to further and safeguard our human rights online. He was coeditor of the weblog Boing Boing for nineteen years and now maintains a daily(ish) newsletter at Pluralistic.net. He has written more than thirty books, including nonfiction books, many science fiction novels, collections of short stories and essays, young adult novels, graphic novels, and even a picture book. Born in Toronto, he now lives in Burbank, California. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by York University and an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science from the Open University. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. He holds visiting professorship and research appointments at MIT, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, and the Open University.Jenny Odell is an artist, writer, and educator whose work focuses on close observation of the everyday world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Paris Review. Odell has been an artist in residence at the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), and her work has been exhibited internationally. From 2013 to 2021, she taught digital art at Stanford University. She is currently at work on a book about repair.About the bookstoreThe Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.Please note:This event will be taking place at PUBLIC WORKS at 161 Erie Street in San Francisco. Please note the venue is 21+.Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30pm.Ticket holders will have seats held until 7pm. Arrivals after 7pm will be allowed admission, but seats are not guaranteed.There will be a post-show signing for those who have purchased a ticket with a book. Additional copies and assorted backlist will be for sale at the venue on the night of the event.Venue includes a full-service bar that will be available throughout the event.Questions? tickets@booksmith.com
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification

* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/

* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

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The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. He will be joined by How To Do Nothing and Saving TIme author Jenny Odell. Grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.About the authorCory Doctorow is a Canadian, British, American blogger, journalist, and activist. For more than twenty-three years, he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on campaigns to further and safeguard our human rights online. He was coeditor of the weblog Boing Boing for nineteen years and now maintains a daily(ish) newsletter at Pluralistic.net. He has written more than thirty books, including nonfiction books, many science fiction novels, collections of short stories and essays, young adult novels, graphic novels, and even a picture book. Born in Toronto, he now lives in Burbank, California. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by York University and an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science from the Open University. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. He holds visiting professorship and research appointments at MIT, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, and the Open University.Jenny Odell is an artist, writer, and educator whose work focuses on close observation of the everyday world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Paris Review. Odell has been an artist in residence at the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), and her work has been exhibited internationally. From 2013 to 2021, she taught digital art at Stanford University. She is currently at work on a book about repair.About the bookstoreThe Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.Please note:This event will be taking place at PUBLIC WORKS at 161 Erie Street in San Francisco. Please note the venue is 21+.Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30pm.Ticket holders will have seats held until 7pm. Arrivals after 7pm will be allowed admission, but seats are not guaranteed.There will be a post-show signing for those who have purchased a ticket with a book. Additional copies and assorted backlist will be for sale at the venue on the night of the event.Venue includes a full-service bar that will be available throughout the event.Questions? tickets@booksmith.com
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Starring Emily Austin, Gabrielle Drolet, Jon Hickey & Wesley King, with Cory Doctorow, Emma Donoghue, and Andrew Phung. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga
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I love this photo of a participant of the #SanFrancisco King of the Streets #lowrider festivities.

Image source: hxxps://www.instagram.com/p/DOodTPnD5hV/

The custom bicycle is a creation of El Yepez Customs (el_yepez_customs on Instagram).

#photography #portrait #festival #cars

A young woman with a lovely brown skin wearing a saturated carnival outfit, consisting of a bustiere, a flowing loincloth, and ankle, wrist, and arm bands covered in pink and white curly abstract patterns with black outlines, and topped with a huge headdress made out of long blue, yellow, pink, and black-and-white striped feathers. She smiles and stands astride an ornately pinstriped metallic green bicycle with gold handlebars and green marijuana-leaf themed rims. The photo is taken on a sidewalk against a downtown scene.
A young woman with a lovely brown skin wearing a saturated carnival outfit, consisting of a bustiere, a flowing loincloth, and ankle, wrist, and arm bands covered in pink and white curly abstract patterns with black outlines, and topped with a huge headdress made out of long blue, yellow, pink, and black-and-white striped feathers. She smiles and stands astride an ornately pinstriped metallic green bicycle with gold handlebars and green marijuana-leaf themed rims. The photo is taken on a sidewalk against a downtown scene.
A young woman with a lovely brown skin wearing a saturated carnival outfit, consisting of a bustiere, a flowing loincloth, and ankle, wrist, and arm bands covered in pink and white curly abstract patterns with black outlines, and topped with a huge headdress made out of long blue, yellow, pink, and black-and-white striped feathers. She smiles and stands astride an ornately pinstriped metallic green bicycle with gold handlebars and green marijuana-leaf themed rims. The photo is taken on a sidewalk against a downtown scene.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
https://dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-10-16/cory-doctorow-enshittification

* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/literary-death-match/

* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
https://wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/show/big-techs-betrayaland-how-to-break-free/

* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

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The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. He will be joined by How To Do Nothing and Saving TIme author Jenny Odell. Grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.About the authorCory Doctorow is a Canadian, British, American blogger, journalist, and activist. For more than twenty-three years, he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation on campaigns to further and safeguard our human rights online. He was coeditor of the weblog Boing Boing for nineteen years and now maintains a daily(ish) newsletter at Pluralistic.net. He has written more than thirty books, including nonfiction books, many science fiction novels, collections of short stories and essays, young adult novels, graphic novels, and even a picture book. Born in Toronto, he now lives in Burbank, California. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by York University and an Honorary Doctor of Computer Science from the Open University. He has been inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. He holds visiting professorship and research appointments at MIT, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, and the Open University.Jenny Odell is an artist, writer, and educator whose work focuses on close observation of the everyday world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Paris Review. Odell has been an artist in residence at the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), and her work has been exhibited internationally. From 2013 to 2021, she taught digital art at Stanford University. She is currently at work on a book about repair.About the bookstoreThe Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.Please note:This event will be taking place at PUBLIC WORKS at 161 Erie Street in San Francisco. Please note the venue is 21+.Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30pm.Ticket holders will have seats held until 7pm. Arrivals after 7pm will be allowed admission, but seats are not guaranteed.There will be a post-show signing for those who have purchased a ticket with a book. Additional copies and assorted backlist will be for sale at the venue on the night of the event.Venue includes a full-service bar that will be available throughout the event.Questions? tickets@booksmith.com
Wordfest

Big Tech's Betrayal—and How to Break Free! - Wordfest

Starring Cory Doctorow. Hosted by Zain Velji
Wordfest

Literary Death Match - Wordfest

Starring Emily Austin, Gabrielle Drolet, Jon Hickey & Wesley King, with Cory Doctorow, Emma Donoghue, and Andrew Phung. Hosted by Adrian Todd Zuniga
DIESEL, A Bookstore

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I love this photo of a participant of the #SanFrancisco King of the Streets #lowrider festivities.

Image source: hxxps://www.instagram.com/p/DOodTPnD5hV/

The custom bicycle is a creation of El Yepez Customs (el_yepez_customs on Instagram).

#photography #portrait #festival #cars

A young woman with a lovely brown skin wearing a saturated carnival outfit, consisting of a bustiere, a flowing loincloth, and ankle, wrist, and arm bands covered in pink and white curly abstract patterns with black outlines, and topped with a huge headdress made out of long blue, yellow, pink, and black-and-white striped feathers. She smiles and stands astride an ornately pinstriped metallic green bicycle with gold handlebars and green marijuana-leaf themed rims. The photo is taken on a sidewalk against a downtown scene.
A young woman with a lovely brown skin wearing a saturated carnival outfit, consisting of a bustiere, a flowing loincloth, and ankle, wrist, and arm bands covered in pink and white curly abstract patterns with black outlines, and topped with a huge headdress made out of long blue, yellow, pink, and black-and-white striped feathers. She smiles and stands astride an ornately pinstriped metallic green bicycle with gold handlebars and green marijuana-leaf themed rims. The photo is taken on a sidewalk against a downtown scene.
A young woman with a lovely brown skin wearing a saturated carnival outfit, consisting of a bustiere, a flowing loincloth, and ankle, wrist, and arm bands covered in pink and white curly abstract patterns with black outlines, and topped with a huge headdress made out of long blue, yellow, pink, and black-and-white striped feathers. She smiles and stands astride an ornately pinstriped metallic green bicycle with gold handlebars and green marijuana-leaf themed rims. The photo is taken on a sidewalk against a downtown scene.
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