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Cory Doctorow | Pluralistic | 1st January 2026 Speech about a predicted shift in internet geopolitics, from the writer who coined the word "enshittification" to describe decaying online platforms. Trump's trade policy has dismantled global norms that favoured the US. Crises precipitate change. With the US no longer a "neutral" tech broker, an "unstoppable coalition of activists, entrepreneurs and natsec hawks" is poised to refashion the internet (8,000 words) Nomido is the Browser's daily word game. Play today's before it's gone! Dan Wang | 1st January 2026 Dan Wang's China letter is an annual classic. He moved from Yale to Stanford this year and, back in San Francisco, found that Silicon Valley and the Chinese Communist Party share a fondness for paranoia and a general lack of humour. The US is suffering from Trump's mishandling of China, but Europe is doing worse. Still: "American problems seem more fixable to me than Chinese problems" (14,000 words) Want more? The full Browser recommends five outstanding articles, a video and a podcast daily, for less than $1 a week. Caroline Crampton, Editor-In-Chief; Robert Cottrell, Founding Editor; Kaamya Sharma, Editor; Sylvia Bishop, Assistant Publisher; Jodi Ettenberg, Associate Editor; Uri Bram, CEO & Publisher; Al Breach, Founding Director Editorial comments and letters to the editor: editor@thebrowser.com | Technical issues and support requests: support@thebrowser.com | Or write at any time to the publisher: uri@thebrowser.com Proudly published with Ghost, the fiercely independent website and newsletter platform
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