Cory Doctorow
speaker
2,525 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 20 Sep
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 8 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 3.
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So that's what's happened with me.
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That's what's going on.
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I won't be back next weekend.
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I am taking the weekend off for my 55th birthday.
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It's great to be going into my 55th birthday with all of this great news.
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We have rented a cabin that is off-grid with a composting toilet and one little solar-powered lamp and a little gas range to make coffee on.
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in the middle of the hundred acre wood.
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Yes, that hundred acre wood.
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So we're going to be spending next weekend up there and having a lovely time.
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I'm going to do this week's podcast for you.
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It's a short essay from Pluralistic, and it turned out to be just the right thing I needed to do in order to write the speech that I gave immediately before coming back to London in Connecticut, where I was the keynote speaker at the National Association of Attorneys General Annual Presidents Conference, where I was the guest of General Wong, the Attorney General of Connecticut.
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who was this year's host, and I spoke to the 50 state AGs and their staff about inshittification.
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And the call to action is the call to action I developed while writing this essay, which is called Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers from the 27th of June edition of Pluralistic.net.
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More than a decade ago, a group of young, internet-connected Belarusian dissidents launched a series of increasingly high-stakes, increasingly surreal confrontations with the corrupt authoritarian government of Alexander Lukashenko, a man who is often called the last Soviet dictator.
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Lukashenko's secret police, still called the KGB, routinely terrorize and kidnap pro-democracy activists, and all forms of protest are banned.
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It was against this backdrop of unrelenting oppression that the activists launched a series of whimsical flash mobs that challenged the Lukashenko regime's willingness to crack down on even the most innocuous behavior.
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One of these flash mobs was an ice cream social.
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Activists converged on a public square to eat ice cream cones.
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Lukashenko's thugs beat them and dragged them away.
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The protesters thought that by daring Lukashenko to arrest people for eating ice cream, they could create a win-win situation.
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