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  1. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Autocratic regimes systematically deny internet access to opposition ethnic groups science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    #10yrsago Leaked Stingray manual shows how easy warrantless mass surveillance can be! web.archive.org/web/2016091220

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  2. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago IoT malware exploits DVRs, home cameras via default passwords securityaffairs.com/50929/malw

    #10yrsago Oppps.ru: patient zero in Russia’s fake news epidemic globalvoices.org/2016/09/12/ho

    #10yrsago It’s really easy for fired, dirty cops to walk into a new police job in a new town nytimes.com/2016/09/11/us/wher

    #10yrsago Donald Trump used $20K worth of charitable donations to buy a 6′ tall painting of Donald Trump washingtonpost.com/politics/ho

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  3. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #15yrsago Judge: copyright troll showed “staggering chutzpah” in sending its own subpoenas to ISPs eff.org/deeplinks/2011/09/judg

    #10yrsago Why Facebook’s “It’s too hard” excuse for Vietnam war photo takedown is bullshit web.archive.org/web/2016091421

    #10yrsago A socialist wrote the Pledge of Allegiance, which used to be accompanied by Nazi salutes smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

    #1yrago Hate the player AND the game pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say

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  4. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago The women held a vote, and you’re not allowed to talk to anyone ever again web.archive.org/web/2016090812

    #10yrsago Open licenses don’t work for uncopyrightable subjects: 3D printing edition michaelweinberg.org/post/15012

    #10yrsago Tomorrow: largest prison strike in US history thenib.com/inmates-are-plannin

    #10yrsago If DRM is so great, why won’t anyone warn you when you’re buying it? theguardian.com/technology/201

    #1yrago Fingerspitzengefühl pluralistic.net/2025/09/08/pro

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  5. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Indian workers staged one of the largest strikes in human history and no one in the USA noticed theintercept.com/2016/09/06/in

    #10yrsago Homeowners’ associations are not allowed to ban drought-tolerant landscaping latimes.com/business/la-fi-ass

    #10yrsago Blackballed by machine learning: how algorithms can destroy your chances of getting a job theguardian.com/science/2016/s

    #10yrsago The US Copyright Office is the poster child for regulatory capture web.archive.org/web/2016090900

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  6. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago How Hong Kong’s vulnerable, reviled refugee community saved Edward Snowden srilankafoundation.org/newsfee

    #10yrsago Leaked catalog from UK surveillance arms-dealer full of gadgets sold to US cops theintercept.com/2016/09/01/le

    #10yrsago Wells Fargo fires 5,300 employees for opening 2M fake accounts in customers’ names web.archive.org/web/2016090820

    #10yrsago European court rules that making a link can be copyright infringement eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/euro

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  7. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #20yrsago HOWTO Use sugar to sand away logos on your phone web.archive.org/web/2006100615

    #20yrsago HOWTO Knit a Princess Leia wig web.archive.org/web/2006102009

    #20yrsago Prisoner statue smuggled into Disneyland ride woostercollective.com/post/bre

    #15yrsago RIP, Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart web.archive.org/web/2011100802

    #10yrsago Supermaker John Edgar Park shares his bitters recipe makezine.com/projects/ultimate

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  8. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Pro-democracy reformers win big in Hong Kong’s elections globalvoices.org/2016/09/06/ho

    #1yrago Stock buybacks are stock swindles pluralistic.net/2025/09/06/com

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  9. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Sampling bias: how a machine-learning beauty contest awarded nearly all prizes to whites web.archive.org/web/2016090615

    #10yrago Warner Bros flags its own website as a piracy portal in copyright takedowns torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-f

    #10yrsago The privacy wars have been a disaster and they’re about to get a LOT worse locusmag.com/feature/cory-doct

    #10yrsago Weapons of Math Destruction: invisible, ubiquitous algorithms are ruining millions of lives memex.craphound.com/2016/09/06

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  10. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #20yrsago Three-hole punch debut, April 1940 web.archive.org/web/2006111914

    #20yrsago New Zealand redefines open source as “code you can’t modify” memex.craphound.com/2006/09/07

    #20yrsago MSFT quicker to patch DRM than security vulnerabilities schneier.com/blog/archives/200

    #20yrsago Wikipedia’s dumbest arguments en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi

    #10yrsago Why the Pirate Party could end up running Iceland web.archive.org/web/2021102407

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  11. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Singapore will disconnect entire civil service from the internet theguardian.com/technology/201

    #10yrsago They’re making a Twits ale from Roald Dahl’s body-yeast web.archive.org/web/2016081715

    #10yrsago As America’s temperatures soar, prisoners are dropping dead web.archive.org/web/2016082500

    #5yrsago Are privacy and antitrust on a collision course? pluralistic.net/2021/08/24/ill

    #5yrsago What kind of emergency is our emergency? pluralistic.net/2021/08/23/don

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  12. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago 5 years after Texas GOP’s attack on women’s reproductive health, TX leads developed world in maternal mortality web.archive.org/web/2016082021

    #10yrsago You didn’t find a meteorite sites.wustl.edu/meteoritesite/

    #10yrsago Young Conservatives’ “leadership seminar” featured food & water deprivation, sexist epithets, physical abuse web.archive.org/web/2016082414

    #10yrsago The 2017 Ikea Catalog considered as dystopian urban microapartment futurism web.archive.org/web/2016081715

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  13. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #15yrsago Getting people’s names right in software design: a LOT harder than it looks antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat

    #15yrsago Internet Archive’s cache of 24/7 TV footage from 9/11 and beyond archive.org/details/911

    #10yrsago Peter Thiel & Y Combinator fund a “litigation financing” startup to make money off other peoples’ lawsuits gizmodo.com/a-startup-backed-b

    #10yrsago Universities fought unionization’s ‘one-size-fits-all’ using identical arguments crookedtimber.org/2016/08/25/g

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  14. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Robert Moses wove enduring racism into New York’s urban fabric web.archive.org/web/2016040218

    #10yrsago EFF takes a deep dive into Windows 10’s brutal privacy breaches eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/wind

    #10yrsago Inside the “sweatshop” terminally ill Britons must call to get benefits web.archive.org/web/2016082009

    #10yrsago How the New York Public Library made ebooks open, and thus one trillion times better crummy.com/writing/speaking/20

    #5yrsago Raiders of the lost ARC pluralistic.net/2021/08/22/rai

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  15. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Glue anything to anything thistothat.com/

    #20yrsago No unions in iPod City web.archive.org/web/2006112300

    #15yrsago Credit scores are bullshit web.archive.org/web/2011101300

    #15yrsago RIP, Jack Layton bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-1

    #15yrsago William Gibson on cities and the future scientificamerican.com/article

    #10yrsago Bronx cops can steal anything they want by calling it “evidence” theatlantic.com/technology/arc

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  16. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #20yrsago Goth day at Disneyland photos flickr.com/photos/doctorow/tag

    #20yrsago HOWTO run a successful sf convention room party nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/

    #20yrsago Yahoo: Go ahead and remix our brand web.archive.org/web/2006111117

    #10yrsago The Equation Group’s sourcecode is totally fugly web.archive.org/web/2016081801

    #5yrsago Bubble pluralistic.net/2021/08/21/pod

    #1yrago Melissa Mendes's "The Weight" pluralistic.net/2025/08/21/wei

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  17. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Candid Republican operators admit that voter ID laws are about disenfranchisement brennancenter.org/our-work/res

    #1yrago Become unoptimizable pluralistic.net/2025/08/20/bil

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  18. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #15yrsago 90 percent of US net users don’t know from crtl-F theatlantic.com/technology/arc

    #15yrsago Bruce Sterling’s Augmented Reality project web.archive.org/web/2011082701

    #10yrsago Woman sues cops because they destroyed her empty house, thinking a suspect was hiding in it techdirt.com/2016/08/19/woman-

    #10yrsago US Army committed $6.5 trillion in accounting fraud in one year reuters.com/article/us-usa-aud

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  19. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Parents who can’t pay for kids’ incarceration can still go bankrupt, a US court rules archive.thinkprogress.org/ever

    #10yrsago UK Intellectual Property Office grants trademark on “should’ve” bbc.co.uk/news/business-370923

    #10yrsago The Greatest of Marlys! is the Lynda Barry book we’ve been waiting for memex.craphound.com/2016/08/16

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  20. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Kill Rock Stars president explains why the radio plays the same songs over and over youtube.com/watch?v=ThrXkYwTBP8

    #10yrsago Snowden explains the Shadow Brokers/Equation Group/NSA hack techdirt.com/2016/08/16/ed-sno

    #10yrsago Hackers claim to have stolen NSA cyberweapons, auctioning them to highest bidder web.archive.org/web/2016081603

    #10yrsago What life is like when you really understand advanced mathematics quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-u

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  21. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago UC Davis Chancellor spent $400K+ to scrub her online reputation after pepper-spray incident sacbee.com/news/local/article9

    #10yrsago Reputation systems work because people are mostly good timharford.com/2016/08/the-mea

    #10yrsago The guy who started Serbia’s ethnic cleansing led a pro-Trump rally in Belgrade web.archive.org/web/2016081702

    #10yrsago Europe’s banks want to store billions in cash to fight back against negative interest web.archive.org/web/2016081715

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  22. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Fiction: Sgt. Augmento, Bruce Sterling’s robots-take-our-jobs story web.archive.org/web/2016081816

    #10yrsago Las Vegas: high unionization rates mean smaller wage-gaps for women, especially older women nytimes.com/2016/08/17/opinion

    #10yrsago The incredible true story of the Epcot Horizons superfans who ruled the ride web.archive.org/web/2016082203

    #10yrsago Predictive policing predicts police harassment, not crime web.archive.org/web/2016082109

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  23. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #15yrsago Rep Allen West pens “dumbest thing ever written on congressional stationery” web.archive.org/web/2011091403

    #10yrsago The NSA’s program of tech sabotage created the Shadow Brokers web.archive.org/web/2016081813

    #10yrsago Walmarts are high-crime zones thanks to staff cuts, but America gets the bill web.archive.org/web/2016081800

    #10yrsago DoJ says it will end private federal prisons motherjones.com/politics/2016/

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  24. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Private prison contractor’s $1B no-bid deal to run immigration jails guarantees 100% occupancy payouts web.archive.org/web/2016081502

    #10yrsago Court of Appeal reverses Labour disenfranchisement ruling, but Corbyn still likely to win web.archive.org/web/2016081313

    #10yrsago John Oliver on subprime auto-lending and its killswitches web.archive.org/web/2016081615

    #10yrsago Worst of McMansions: architectural criticism of inequality’s most tangible evidence web.archive.org/web/2016081403

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  25. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #15yrsago Tiki Room resurgent passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2

    #10yrsago After New Zealand spooks misidentified pro-democracy activist, NSA spied on him for them web.archive.org/web/2016081504

    #10yrsago Even the woo industry thinks Gwyneth Paltrow’s “smoothie dust” ads are too much web.archive.org/web/2016081122

    #10yrsago It’s pretty easy to hack traffic lights usenix.org/system/files/confer

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  26. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago What’s inside a Tiki Bird? miehana.blogspot.com/2016/08/f

    #5yrsago End of the line for Reaganomics pluralistic.net/2021/08/13/pos

    #5yrsago Smart cities are neither, 2021 edition pluralistic.net/2021/08/13/pos

    #1yrago Maga's boss class think they are immune to American carnage pluralistic.net/2025/08/13/the

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  27. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago The Tor Project’s social contract: we will not backdoor Tor blog.torproject.org/tor-social

    #10yrsago Cash grants to people with unexpected bills successfully prevents homelessness science.org/content/article/bi

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  28. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #15yrsago Doctor tried to "cure homosexuality" by tasping gay man while he had sex with a female sex-worker web.archive.org/web/2011100408

    #10yrsago How a digital-only smartphone opens the door to DRM (and how to close the door) memex.craphound.com/2016/08/12

    #10yrsago Forget Skynet: AI is already making things terrible for people who aren’t rich white dudes nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion

    #10yrsago How self-driving cars could make everything worse, and what to do about it web.archive.org/web/2017091819

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  29. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago DEA bribes rail/airline employees for tipoffs that lead to warrantless cash seizures eu.usatoday.com/story/news/201

    #10yrsago Trump is an object lesson in the problems of machine learning mathbabe.org/2016/08/11/donald

    #5yrsago IRS leaks reveal billions reaped through ultra-wealthy lobbying on the tax bill pluralistic.net/2021/08/11/the

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  30. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Monopoly power and the decline of small business: big business vs democracy, growth & equality ilsr.org/article/independent-b

    #10yrsago As social media centralized, blogging’s core infrastructure has withered medium.com/@anildash/the-lost-

    #10yrsago 48 hours later, Adblock Plus beats Facebook’s adblocker-blocker theverge.com/2016/8/11/1243999

    #10yrsago 100 million VWs can be unlocked with a $40 cracker (and other cars aren’t much better) usenix.org/system/files/confer

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  31. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #20yrsago Duran Duran moves to Second Life, will gig there news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology

    #20yrsago Seventy percent of blog-pings are from spammers web.archive.org/web/2006082015

    #20yrsago London’s derelict cinemas web.archive.org/web/2006080921

    #10yrsago Foreign influence: how a Chinese businessman funneled $1.3M to Jeb Bush’s campaign web.archive.org/web/2016080318

    #10yrsago Researchers learn about wire-fraud scam after scammers infect themselves with their own malware spectrum.ieee.org/nigerian-sca

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  32. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Burying the past in glass coffins: Victoria & Albert museum bans sketching in temporary exhibitions theguardian.com/artanddesign/2

    #10yrsago Hugo Gernsback’s introduction to the first issue of Amazing Stories, 1926 brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/

    #10yrsago Afterbrexit: Scotland trolls Theresa May by passing laws she has ridiculed nakedcapitalism.com/2016/08/sc

    #5yrsago Managing aggregate demand pluralistic.net/2021/08/01/man

    #1yrago Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity' pluralistic.net/2025/08/01/eco

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  33. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago How to pay no taxes at all! (if you’re Apple, Google or Facebook) nakedcapitalism.com/2016/07/vi

    #5yrsago Games Workshop declares war on its customers pluralistic.net/2021/07/30/spa

    #1yrago Delta's AI-based price-gouging pluralistic.net/2025/07/30/eff

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  34. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #20yrsago Continuous Partial Attention wiki web.archive.org/web/2006080601

    #10yrsago Congress: TSA is worst place to work in USG, nearly half of employees cited for misconduct; it’s getting worse web.archive.org/web/2016072112

    #1yrago Trump's FCC abandons the future pluralistic.net/2025/07/24/geo

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  35. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Laurie Penny on hanging out with Milo Yiannopoulos and the gay trolls of the RNC medium.com/welcome-to-the-scre

    #1yrago Conservatism considered as a movement of bitter rubes pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/all

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  36. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Podcasting #PatentTrolls seek to intimidate #EFF supporters, EFF fights back eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/eff-

    #10yrsago #TSA #whistleblower describes life in the #pornoscanner room politico.com/magazine/story/20

    #10yrsago Kansas #CableLobbyist writes bill outlawing #GoogleFiber and #MunicipalBroadband, gets it introduced in Kansas legislature arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

    #10yrsago Canadian spies illegally tracked travellers using free airport wifi cbc.ca/news/politics/csec-used

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    #10yrsago #patenttrolls #eff #tsa #whistleblower #pornoscanner
  37. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #20yrsago Get Your #StateOfTheUnion On web.archive.org/web/2004012502

    #20yrsago Cambodian hybrid motorcycle/WiFi network nytimes.com/2004/01/26/busines

    #10yrsago Study: French #ThreeStrikes law did not deter or reduce #piracy papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

    #10yrsago #EuropeanCourtOfHumanRights will hear case about #GCHQ spying privacynotprism.org.uk/news/20

    #10yrsago Cthulhoid damask wallpaper (also fabric & wrapping paper) spoonflower.com/en/fabric/2037

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    #20yrsago #stateoftheunion #10yrsago #threestrikes #piracy #europeancourtofhumanrights
  38. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits, spyware, ransomware and trojans to attack pirates! lauren.vortex.com/archive/0010

    #10yrsago Triple-nested #KleinBottle web.archive.org/web/2008060503

    #5yrsago Ireland’s referendum results: legalised #abortion projected to win “by a landslide” irishtimes.com/news/politics/i

    #5yrsago Congressional staffers for Rep. Tom Garrett [R-VA] say they were used as “personal servants” politico.com/story/2018/05/25/

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  39. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Florida polo tycoon has difficulty adopting his 42-y-o girlfriend in order to keep assets away from bio-kids, ex-wife, family of guy he killed in a hit-and-run loweringthebar.net/2013/03/wha

    #10yrsago Zombie houses: 300K+ in America csmonitor.com/Business/Latest-

    #10yrsago Songwriting podcast with #RichardSherman of Disney’s Sherman Brothers sodajerker.com/episode-38-rich

    #5yrsago Paypal blocks payments for a #WorldSocialists pamphlet about the Iranian opposition wsws.org/en/articles/2018/03/2

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    #10yrsago #richardsherman #5yrsago #worldsocialists
  40. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Canada’s National Post pretends #FairDealing doesn’t exist, presents you with bill to copy a single word web.archive.org/web/2013031110

    #5yrsago A mechanical, wooden #TuringMachine youtube.com/watch?v=vo8izCKHiF

    #5yrsago Florida students succeed where so many have failed, force state legislature to pass #GunControl rules despite ferocious #NRA lobbying washingtonpost.com/politics/fl

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    #10yrsago #fairdealing #5yrsago #turingmachine #guncontrol #nra