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# ![@doctorow Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::2729061.png) @doctorow Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK

Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK posts on X about twitter, vancouver, money, san diego the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX% [countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  XXXX% [musicians](/list/musicians)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[twitter](/topic/twitter) 2.39%, [vancouver](/topic/vancouver) #220, [money](/topic/money) 1.71%, [san diego](/topic/san-diego) #229, [tariffs](/topic/tariffs) #2969, [maga](/topic/maga) #3467, [drivers](/topic/drivers) #801, [threads](/topic/threads) 0.68%, [ponzi](/topic/ponzi) #283, [dawn](/topic/dawn) #1743

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
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**Top assets mentioned**
[IBM (IBM)](/topic/ibm) [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [Dell Technologies, Inc. (DELL)](/topic/dell)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::2729061/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Remember when we were all worried that Huawei had filled our telecoms infrastructure with listening devices and killswitches It sure would be dangerous if a corporation beholden to a brutal autocrat became structurally essential to your country's continued operations huh 1/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980278157166133434) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:21Z 470.2K followers, 37.2K engagements


"I'm on a tour with my new book the international bestseller *Enshittification* Catch me next in Vancouver Montreal and Ottawa Full schedule with dates and links at: (New dates just added in San Diego and Denver) 71/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981467444570181915) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T21:07Z 470.1K followers, 2439 engagements


"Hey look at this * Ethiopia in Talks With China to Convert Dollar Loans to Yuan * This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services * No Tricks Just Treats 🎃 EFFs Halloween Signal Stickers Are Here * How Trump is Building a Violent Shadowy Federal Police Force * Does the Left Have Trouble with Making Things in America 4/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981475472035709038) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T21:39Z 470.1K followers, XX engagements


"Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). NOTE: I DID NOT BUY A BLUE TICK. IT WAS NONCONSENSUALLY ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT. Inside: How to fix the UK housing crisis; and more Archived at: #Pluralistic 1/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977750998295732443) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T14:59Z 470.3K followers, 3250 engagements


"The US passed the first of these laws in 1998 when Bill Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. 13/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978454549267374381) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-15T13:34Z 470.3K followers, 1430 engagements


"As the ink was still drying on Clinton's signature the US trade rep started racing around the world demanding that America's trading partners adopt their own version of the law: 14/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978454554992627805) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-15T13:34Z 470.3K followers, 1363 engagements


"Yesterday's threads: The mad king's digital killswitch; and more 6/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980700356972888563) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:18Z 470.3K followers, XX engagements


"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: 7/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980700362551226396) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:19Z 470.3K followers, XX engagements


"The daily dose of Fay Wray"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980707436366545287) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:47Z 470.3K followers, 2164 engagements


"Eavy Metal "A wide selection of models from the studio staff and a page dedicated to Paul Benson plus an ad for Marauder Miniatures which was owned by Citadel (White Dwarf XXX December 1989)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980714538602569984) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T19:15Z 470.3K followers, 2608 engagements


"R.E. Sassoon House (1933) in London England by Adams Thompson & Fry with Elizabeth Denby"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981321199864181004) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T11:25Z 470.3K followers, XX engagements


"A departing soldier bids farewell to his loved one at New York's Penn Station 1943"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977149680187589052) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-11T23:09Z 470.5K followers, XX engagements


"Ork glyphs from Waaargh the Orks a Rogue Trader supplement by Nigel Stillmann & Bryan Ansell Games Workshop 1990"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977149689016320035) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-11T23:09Z 470.5K followers, 3107 engagements


"Hands weaving magnetic-core memory IBM Poughkeepsie New York 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977697168090685764) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T11:25Z 470.6K followers, 2500 engagements


"So what did Margaret Thatcher do to destroy the chances of everyday Britons to have a home Well this is Margaret Thatcher so if you guessed the answer was "deregulation" you'd be right. 13/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977743917140291945) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T14:31Z 470.5K followers, 2451 engagements


"Prior to Thatcher's deregulation home loans in the UK mostly originated with "building societies" a specialized lender whose operations are fundamentally different from the operations of a bank. 14/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977743919027716464) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T14:31Z 470.5K followers, 2240 engagements


"(Where the cost of your home eats up so much of your income that you struggle to pay for heating groceries transportation etc.) 43/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977744698463719768) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T14:34Z 470.6K followers, 1038 engagements


"Here's Keen's math: say you're a median UK household (37k/year in disposable income) and you buy a median house (270k) with a XX% deposit (what Americans call a "down-payment") at X% interest. 44/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1977744733674852475) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-13T14:34Z 470.6K followers, 1032 engagements


"Halloween Pinup of the Day.Dorothy Dix"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978177275557208487) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-14T19:13Z 470.5K followers, 4154 engagements


"Volkswagen used the fact that it was illegal to reverse-engineer its engines to disguise the fact that it was cheating on its emissions tests and the resulting "Dieselgate" scandal killed thousands of Europeans: 50/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978455804358324496) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-15T13:39Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements


"House Windstoer (1957-59) in Stuttgart Germany by Max Bcher"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978547218727514552) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-15T19:43Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"But they don't have a long time: the massive GPUs that power AI's "foundation models" and cost six- or seven-figures *each* burn out remarkably quickly. 5/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978874373441491113) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-16T17:23Z 470.4K followers, 1578 engagements


"The companies that buy these GPUs claim they'll last five years (and depreciate them over that schedule); however this is accounting fraud because in reality these GPUs have a duty-cycle that's more like *two to three years*: 6/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978874375484117273) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-16T17:23Z 470.4K followers, 1783 engagements


"Count Chocula Franken Berry and Boo Berry TV commercial animation cel - General Mills (1973)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1979578873110258027) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-18T16:02Z 470.4K followers, 2513 engagements


"Dutch music magazine Oor No. X - January 11th 1986"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980266395771474170) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T13:34Z 470.6K followers, 2828 engagements


"That means that if Trump (a man who never met a grievance too petty to pursue) orders Tim Cook (a man who never found a boot he wouldn't lick) to remove apps from your country's app store you won't be able to get those apps from anyone else: 7/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980278173544890494) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:21Z 470.5K followers, 7094 engagements


"Now you *could* get your government to order Apple to open up its platform to third-party app stores but they will not comply - instead they'll drown your country in spurious legal threats: 8/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980278176019579100) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:21Z 470.6K followers, 1942 engagements


"That's a law banning Canadian farmers from fixing their own tractors Canadian drivers from taking their cars to a mechanic of their choosing and Canadian iPhone and games console owners from choosing to buy their software from a Canadian store: 30/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980278625615442075) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:23Z 470.5K followers, 1075 engagements


"These anti-jailbreaking laws were designed as a tool of economic extraction a way to protect American tech companies' sky-high fees and rampant privacy invasions. 31/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980278740732260459) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:23Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"A post-American internet starts with abandoning the laws that give US companies - and therefore Trump - a veto over how your technology works. 41/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980279073520967943) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:24Z 470.5K followers, 2444 engagements


"I'm on a tour with my new book *Enshittification* Catch me next in San Francisco Portland and Seattle Full schedule with dates and links at: eof/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980279116206428294) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:25Z 470.5K followers, 2663 engagements


"Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). NOTE: I DID NOT BUY A BLUE TICK. IT WAS NONCONSENSUALLY ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT. Inside: The mad king's digital killswitch; and more Archived at: #Pluralistic 1/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980281906773332185) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:36Z 470.6K followers, 3120 engagements


"#20yrsago Fox shuts down Buffy Halloween musical despite Whedons protests Fox shuts down Buffy Halloween musical despite Whedons protests #20yrsago Norways public broadcaster sells out taxpayers to Microsoft #20yrsago Lifehackers profile in NYT #20yrsago Pan-European DRM proposal https://dissected #20yrsago EFF cracks hidden snitch codes in color laser prints #20yrsago Nielsens top-10 blog usability mistakes #20yrsago Microsoft employee calls me a communist and a liar and insists that a Microsoft monopoly will be good for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980281924582351097) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:36Z 470.6K followers, XXX engagements


"My ebooks and audiobooks (from @fsgbooks @torbooks @HoZ_Books @versobooks @beaconPressBks etc) 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." 8/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980281940403163639) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:36Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Recent appearances: * Enshittification (Smart Cookies) * Enshittification (The Gist) * Canadian tariffs with Avi Lewis * Enshittification (This Is Hell) * Enshittification (Computer Says Maybe) 10/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980281950259843430) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:36Z 470.6K followers, XX engagements


"Twitter gets worse every single day. Someday it will degrade beyond the point of usability. The Fediverse is our best hope for an enshittification-resistant alternative. I'm @pluralistic@mamot.fr. The Fediverse edition of today's threads is at: 15/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980281963027337385) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-20T14:36Z 470.6K followers, 2072 engagements


"Typical Tiki Hut Aloha Lagoon Cape Coral Gardens Florida"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980622519687344581) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T13:09Z 470.5K followers, 2412 engagements


"Employment Office Altona (1927) in Hamburg Germany by Gustav Oelsner. Photo by Carl Dransfeld"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980622543993377049) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T13:09Z 470.5K followers, XX engagements


"McDonald's Riverboat St. Louis Missouri 1985"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980622560783180083) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T13:09Z 470.4K followers, 2023 engagements


"1959 Swamp Fox flintlock pistol ad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980622565006799095) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T13:09Z 470.5K followers, 2087 engagements


"@FontaneJames Not avoiding just missing it this time. I've had many great events in Dallas and Austin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980634583260622865) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T13:57Z 470.5K followers, XX engagements


"Every one of these people is engaged in some form of skulduggery even the heroes who are every bit as lawless and wild as their adversaries though Hiaasen's protagonists are always smarter and more competent than his villains. 7/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696577808482432) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:03Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements


"The plots play out like an intricate clock that has been much-elaborated by a mad clockmaker with an affinity for eccentric gears all set against the background of Florida a glorious and beautiful place being fed into a woodchipper powered by unchecked greed and depravity. 8/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696580685721614) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:03Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements


"After 20-some volumes in this vein (including *Bad Monkey* lately adapted for Apple TV) something far weirder than anything Hiaasen ever dreamed up came to pass: Donald Trump the most Florida Man ever was elected president. 9/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696584368333001) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:03Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements


"If you asked an LLM to write a Hiaasen novel you might get Trump: a hacky unimaginative version of the wealthy callous scheming grifters of the Hiaasenverse. 10/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696586935247283) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements


"Back in 2020 Hiaasen wrote Trump into *Squeeze Me* a tremendous and madcap addition to his canon: *Fever Beach* is the first Hiaasen novel since *Squeeze Me* and boy does Hiaasen ever have MAGA's number. 11/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696589833499019) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements


"The book revolves around a classic Hiaasen bumbler Dale Figgo an incompetent white nationalist who was kicked out of the Proud Boys after the Jan X insurrection. 12/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696593352519836) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements


"Figgo mistook a statue of a revered Confederate general for Ulysses S Grant (it was the beard) and released a video of himself smearing shit all over it. 13/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696596036923475) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements


"Viva is the other fulcrum of the tale: her employers the elderly couple behind the Mink Foundation are secret white nationalist bankrollers who use their charity to funnel money to militia groups including Strokers For Liberty. 18/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696611006325209) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements


"The conduit between the Minks and the Strokers is Rep Clure Boyette a MAGA Republican failson of an ultra-powerful lobbyist who (unbeknownst to his dad) raised $2m for the Strokers for a "Stop the Steal pollwatching" op designed to terrorize voters who favor his opponent. 19/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696614210768966) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements


"As a front for this dark money op Boyette has founded the "Wee Hammers" a charity that pulls prepubescent children out of school and puts them to work with heavy power tools to construct houses in a child-labor-centric MAGA version of Habitat for Humanity. 20/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696617805312083) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements


"There are *so many characters* - I've barely scratched the surface here. 24/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696628806971630) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements


"There's Galaxy a dom who loses patience with her long-term client MAGA Congressman Boyette after he stiffs her on a payment because he was busy tweeting about plot by woke billiard manufacturers to replace the nation's black 8-balls with Pride-themed rainbow versions. 25/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696631373918576) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements


"There's Clure Boyette's soon-to-be-ex-wife who must not on any account be shown the photos Galaxy took of Clure in a fur dog-collar and leash defecating on the floor of a luxury hotel suite. 26"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696767139311961) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements


"There's Jonas Onus the number two man in the Strokers For Liberty who terrorizes all and sundry by bringing them into contact with Himmler his 120lb pitbull mix. 27/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696806242808143) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:04Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements


"There's Noel Kristianson whom Dale Figgo runs over and nearly kills during an altercation over Figgo's practice of stuffing incoherent antisemitic rants into ziplock bags weighted with beach-sand and tossing them onto the driveways of unsuspecting Floridians. 38/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696849968427229) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:05Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements


"There's a constellation of minor characters and spear-carriers including Key West drag queen martial artists and assorted discount-store Nazis long-suffering charter bus drivers and a hit man who cannot abide racial prejudice. 29/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696874387747229) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:05Z 470.3K followers, XXX engagements


"You do not need to have read any of Hiaasen's other novels to love this one. But I'm pretty sure that if you start with this one you're going to want to dig into the dozens of other Hiaasen books and you will not be disappointed if you do. 32/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980696979270455734) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:05Z 470.4K followers, 2001 engagements


"I'm on a tour with my new book the international bestseller *Enshittification* Catch me next in Portland Seattle and Vancouver Full schedule with dates and links at: (New dates just added in San Diego and Denver) 2/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980700332398375336) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:18Z 470.4K followers, XX engagements


"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: 8/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980700365738869196) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:19Z 470.4K followers, XX engagements


"Upcoming appearances: * PDX: Enshittification at Powell's Oct XX * Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy with Ed Zitron (Clarion West) Oct XX * Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival) Oct XX * Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote Oct XX * Montreal: Enshittification at Librarie Drawn and Quarterly Oct XX * Ottawa: Enshittification (Ottawa Writers Festival) Oct XX * Toronto: Enshittification with Dan Werb (Type Books) Oct XX * Madrid: Conferencia EUROPEA 4D (Virtual) Oct XX * Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books Nov X * Miami: Cloudfest Nov"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980700379097833617) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:19Z 470.4K followers, XX engagements


"Recent appearances: * The Great Enshittening (The Gray Area) * Enshittification (Smart Cookies) * Enshittification (The Gist) * Canadian tariffs with Avi Lewis * Enshittification (This Is Hell) 11/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980700385011724681) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:19Z 470.4K followers, XX engagements


"The Girl With the Key by Mary Kay Simmons Dell Books 3196 1974 Cover by Robert Maguire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980707427009056967) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:47Z 470.4K followers, XX engagements


"Its 1991 and Goblin Green bases still arent standard. This 2-page article in White Dwarf XXX (March 1991) includes a description of Englands process: The bases were painted with Bestial Brown and Woodland Green. When this was dry Wayne painted PVA glue onto the bases and sprinkled sand over them. Once the glue had set he brushed off the excess sand and drybrushed the bases with a mix of Sunburst Yellow and Bilious Green"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980735689584259188) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T20:39Z 470.4K followers, XX engagements


"The Halloween Hex - art by Keith Birdsong (1989)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980735694084743403) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T20:39Z 470.3K followers, 2506 engagements


"AKAI GX-646"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981321202955403443) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T11:26Z 470.4K followers, XX engagements


"992 updated Citadel Miniatures Painting Guide by Mike McVey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980757416565420201) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T22:05Z 470.3K followers, XX engagements


"Trail of the Loathsome Slime (1985)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981584374694060154) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-24T04:51Z 470.1K followers, 2647 engagements


"Rochelle Hudson 1930's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1973501296994029860) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-01T21:32Z 470.2K followers, 2970 engagements


"The Amazing Spider-Man "Bells of Doom""  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978547210213376270) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-15T19:43Z 470.2K followers, 2838 engagements


"The daily dose of Fay Wray"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978547226101375012) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-15T19:43Z 470.2K followers, 2435 engagements


"As much as I like my 2gb symmetrical fiber the fact that it exists because a crook stole billions of dollars from everyday people who were only hoping to live a dignified retirement of material sufficiency is *terrible*. 19/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978874404802318543) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-16T17:23Z 470.2K followers, XXX engagements


"Worldcom CEO Bernie Ebbers deserved what he got and worse. The AI bubble is on its way to sucking up a trillion dollars and not all of that money is coming from Saudi royals hedge fund bastards and Elon Musk's credulous creditors. 20/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978874407197315231) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-16T17:23Z 470.2K followers, XXX engagements


"The Daily Dose of Fay Wray"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978940590671728725) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-16T21:46Z 470.2K followers, 2299 engagements


"Of course its far cheaper to pretend to be spending a lot of money than it is to actually spend it and theyre doing plenty of that too. Meta has promised to spend $72b next year on data-centers. However Metas annual free cash flow is $52.1b. OpenAI says it will spend $60b/year on data-centers which is five times its annual revenue of $12.7b (and the company is losing $9b/year). As The American Prospects Brian McMahon writes How can OpenAI plan to spend five times what it brought in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978940761380131163) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-16T21:46Z 470.2K followers, 10.6K engagements


"The AI bubble is on its way to sucking up a trillion dollars and not all of that money is coming from Saudi royals hedge fund bastards and Elon Musks credulous creditors. Plenty of it will come out of the savings of working people whove forced to play the suckers at the table thanks to the replacement of guaranteed pensions with market-based pensions that only pay out if you guess right about which stocks to buy:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978953486583861668) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-16T22:37Z 470.2K followers, 35.3K engagements


"I'm on a tour with my new book *Enshittification* Catch me next in Portland Seattle and Vancouver Full schedule with dates and links at: (New dates just added in San Diego and Denver) eof/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980697043451724028) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:05Z 470.2K followers, 4812 engagements


"Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). NOTE: I DID NOT BUY A BLUE TICK. IT WAS NONCONSENSUALLY ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT. Inside: Carl Hiaasen's 'Fever Beach'; and more Archived at: #Pluralistic 1/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980700325268058511) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:18Z 470.2K followers, 3015 engagements


"RHPS (1975) Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980757413151273056) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T22:05Z 470.2K followers, XX engagements


""I Think I Might Be Dead" The horror of living in uncertainty Original title: "Return of the Living Dead" by John Russo (1985)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981321208663806245) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T11:26Z 470.2K followers, XX engagements


"Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs: When your shitty boss is a shitty app and you're not even allowed to call yourself an employee. 3/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981475461684167048) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T21:38Z 470.2K followers, XX engagements


"Monday's threads: Carl Hiaasen's 'Fever Beach'; and more 5/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981475476742033536) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T21:39Z 470.2K followers, XX engagements


"Upcoming appearances: * Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival) Oct XX * Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote Oct XX * Montreal: Enshittification at Librarie Drawn and Quarterly Oct XX * Ottawa: Enshittification (Ottawa Writers Festival) Oct XX * Toronto: Enshittification with Dan Werb (Type Books) Oct XX * Madrid: Conferencia EUROPEA 4D (Virtual) Oct XX * Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books Nov X * Miami: Cloudfest Nov X * Burbank: Burbank Book Festival Nov X * Lisbon: A post-American enshittification-resistant internet with Rabble (Web Summit)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981475543687008628) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T21:39Z 470.2K followers, XX engagements


"Twitter gets worse every single day. Someday it will degrade beyond the point of usability. The Fediverse is our best hope for an enshittification-resistant alternative. I'm @pluralistic@mamot.fr. The Fediverse edition of today's threads is at: 15/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980700400937525594) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:19Z 470.1K followers, 1975 engagements


"I'm on a tour with my new book the international bestseller *Enshittification* Catch me next in Portland Seattle and Vancouver Full schedule with dates and links at: (New dates just added in San Diego and Denver) eof/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980700406335566333) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:19Z 470.1K followers, 2033 engagements


"1Church of the "Hersteld Apostolische Gemeente" (1929) in Rotterdam the Netherlands by J.J.P. Oud"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980707445434630654) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-21T18:47Z 470.1K followers, 2132 engagements


"A Redditor and his parents. She passed a few weeks ago. Love you Mommy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981321197012046083) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T11:25Z 470.1K followers, 2557 engagements


"In the lair of the Master Bloody Bones and his Bloody Bones minions (Roger Raupp RPGA Network AD&D Module 7: Llywelyns Tomb by Bob Blake 1984) This adventure was reprinted by TSR in 1985 as C5: The Bane of Llywelyn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981409099620524411) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T17:15Z 470.1K followers, 2208 engagements


"This is bad enough when it means peeing in a bottle but it's even worse when the only way to take care of period-related matters is to go into the back of the van - where cameras record everything you do - and manage things there. 46/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981466810307531133) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T21:04Z 470.1K followers, XXX engagements


"Drivers are told many inconsistent things about those cameras. Some drivers have been told that the footage is only reviewed after an accident or complaint. 47/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981466829538115707) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T21:04Z 470.1K followers, XXX engagements


"Among drivers there's a (likely correct) belief that Amazon will not tell them how the apps are generating their scores out of fear that if drivers knew the scoring rubric they'd start to game it. 56/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981467053782433930) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T21:05Z 470.1K followers, XXX engagements


"This is a widespread practice within the world of content moderation and spamfighting where security practitioners who would normally reject the idea of "security through obscurity" out of hand suddenly embrace secrecy-dependent security measures: 57/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981467074393428072) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T21:05Z 470.1K followers, XXX engagements


"The chickenized reverse centaur is a new circle of labor hell a genuinely innovative way of making workers' lives worse in order to extract more billions for one of the most profitable companies in history. 70/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981467377519784110) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T21:06Z 470.1K followers, XXX engagements


"Recent appearances: * Enshittification is Not Inevitable (Team Human) * The Great Enshittening (The Gray Area) * Enshittification (Smart Cookies) * Enshittification (The Gist) * Canadian tariffs with Avi Lewis 10/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981475550414741947) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T21:39Z 470.1K followers, XX engagements


"Trail of the Loathsome Slime (1985)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981584378754117884) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-24T04:51Z 470.1K followers, 2456 engagements


"They keep you locked into app stores and payment systems which means you're constantly ripped off and can't install the software of your choosing even apps that help you avoid being kidnapped by masked thugs and sent to a secret prison: 12/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978454543722483860) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-15T13:34Z 470.1K followers, 1554 engagements


"I find it absolutely bizarre that the USTR spent decades racing around the world getting every country on earth to sign up to America First policies by threatening them with tariffs and then Trump actually imposed the tariffs anyway which has opened up the space for every country to get rid of those America First policies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1978474391051616667) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-15T14:53Z 470.1K followers, 11.1K engagements


""A career in MAGA is a pay-off system a welfare state for the unemployable." -John Ganz The Scum Manifesto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1980999597347737682) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-22T14:08Z 470.1K followers, 2028 engagements


"The Horrible Secret of Monhegan Island (1984)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981321211671171102) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T11:26Z 470.1K followers, 2224 engagements


"The Horrible Secret of Monhegan Island (1984)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981321215961944157) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T11:26Z 470.1K followers, 2263 engagements


"Gabrielle Drake undergoes wig maintenance on the set of UFO circa 1970"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981363502557385042) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T14:14Z 470.1K followers, 2237 engagements


"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: 6/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981475481116352887) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-23T21:39Z 470.1K followers, XX engagements


"Weekend House Herzet (1967-69) in Esneux Belgium by Bruno Albert"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1981684402217451755) [@doctorow](/creator/x/doctorow) 2025-10-24T11:29Z 470.1K followers, 1053 engagements