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  1. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Advertisers claim they can hack your childhood memories web.archive.org/web/2001092102

    #25yrsago Wind-up cellphone charger web.archive.org/web/2001103112

    #20yrsago Steven Brust’s Dzur: witty and exciting heroic fantasy memex.craphound.com/2006/09/05

    #20yrsago America to US gov’t: kill the Broadcast Treaty! cptech.org/ip/wipo/bt/jointlet

    #20yrsago New Zealand wants a Ministry of DRM web.archive.org/web/2007010804

    #20yrsago Is it legal to look at the Web in Canada? web.archive.org/web/2006101012

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  2. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Electrolite relaunches web.archive.org/web/2001092719

    #25yrsago How to play Mafia web.archive.org/web/2001111301

    #20yrsago How Wikipedia entries get written aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswi

    #5yrsago Proctorio's awful reviews disappear down the memory hole pluralistic.net/2021/09/04/hyp

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  3. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Electrolite relaunches web.archive.org/web/2001092719

    #25yrsago How to play Mafia web.archive.org/web/2001111301

    #20yrsago How Wikipedia entries get written aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswi

    #5yrsago Proctorio's awful reviews disappear down the memory hole pluralistic.net/2021/09/04/hyp

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  4. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Electrolite relaunches web.archive.org/web/2001092719

    #25yrsago How to play Mafia web.archive.org/web/2001111301

    #20yrsago How Wikipedia entries get written aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswi

    #5yrsago Proctorio's awful reviews disappear down the memory hole pluralistic.net/2021/09/04/hyp

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  5. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Electrolite relaunches web.archive.org/web/2001092719

    #25yrsago How to play Mafia web.archive.org/web/2001111301

    #20yrsago How Wikipedia entries get written aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswi

    #5yrsago Proctorio's awful reviews disappear down the memory hole pluralistic.net/2021/09/04/hyp

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  6. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Electrolite relaunches web.archive.org/web/2001092719

    #25yrsago How to play Mafia web.archive.org/web/2001111301

    #20yrsago How Wikipedia entries get written aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswi

    #5yrsago Proctorio's awful reviews disappear down the memory hole pluralistic.net/2021/09/04/hyp

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  7. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Barnum & Bailey hired an ex-CIA spook to destroy a critical journalist web.archive.org/web/2001091319

    #20yrsago Wired article about Wikipedia is on a editable wiki web.archive.org/web/2006090103

    #20yrsago Singapore will have nationwide WiFi by 2007 web.archive.org/web/2006090119

    #5yrsago Twitter Arguments pluralistic.net/2021/08/29/twi

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  8. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago NYT says ebooks don't exist, fails to mention thriving ebook pirate scene nytimes.com/2001/08/28/busines

    #25yrsago Parking tickets waived in exchange for written apologies web.archive.org/web/2001082601

    #20yrsago "I, Row-Boat" web.archive.org/web/2006000000

    #20yrsago Filipino students use SMS to organize mass demonstrations web.archive.org/web/2006090216

    #20yrsago Spam pump-and-dumps work news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology

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  9. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #20yrsago Canadian music label puts fans and artists first web.archive.org/web/2006083021

    #20yrsago After the Siege in Russian craphound.com/Cory_Doctorow_-_

    #20yrsago Victory in War on Moisture: Gel-bras once again safe! web.archive.org/web/2006082018

    #20yrsago EFF sues Barney the humorless, copyright maximalist dinosaur web.archive.org/web/2006081309

    #15yrsago MP3tunes verdict: music lockers are legal eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/mp3t

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  10. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Kevin Mitnick is out of prison web.archive.org/web/2001000000

    #25yrsago Brazil to nationalize AIDS drug patents edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/ame

    #25yrsago Copyright your DNA web.archive.org/web/2001082717

    #25yrsago The internet is boring now nytimes.com/2001/08/26/us/expl

    #20yrsago TSA busts “explosive water” that turns out to be cosmetics web.archive.org/web/2006082212

    #20yrsago Windows Media DRM cracked, no one cares archive.blogs.harvard.edu/cmus

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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago IP and scientific publishing web.archive.org/web/2001100120

    #20yrsago British air travelers kick brown “terrorists” off their planes web.archive.org/web/2006082310

    #15yrsago “Probability neglect”: why policy-makers are constitutionally incapable of formulating evidence-based anti-terrorism policy web.archive.org/web/2011101504

    #15yrsago TSA can’t explain why “enhanced patdowns” are legal web.archive.org/web/2015120303

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  14. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #20yrsago Hair-Gel Bombers win war on bras huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/us-

    #20yrsago Would a hair-gel bomb actually work? seclists.org/interesting-peopl

    #20yrsago The Pirate Bay’s backstory web.archive.org/web/2006090118

    #20yrsago AOL will dig for buried platinum and gold in spammer’s Mom’s yard nbcnews.com/id/wbna14365934

    #15yrsago Charlie Stross on network security in 2061 antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat

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  15. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #20yrsago Copyright wars: film-makers eats themselves web.archive.org/web/2007031801

    #20yrsago RyanAir to UK govt: ease off on security or we sue theguardian.com/business/2006/

    #20yrsago Federal court bans Bush’s warrantless spying on Americans edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/

    #20yrsago Western millionaires plotted Equatorial Guinea coup as a game web.archive.org/web/2007111421

    #20yrsago Sweden’s Pirate Party – political arm of the pro-piracy groundswell web.archive.org/web/2006082009

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  16. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Berkeley Breathed: the Onion interview web.archive.org/web/2001120106

    #25yrsago Chinese going mobile crazy news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia

    #25yrsago Free wifi in NYC web.archive.org/web/2001102407

    #20yrsago RIAA’s “abundance of sensitivity” ends harassment of grieving family memex.craphound.com/2006/08/14

    #20yrsago London Copyfighters: Speak at Speaker’s Corner on Aug 27! memex.craphound.com/2006/08/14

    #20yrsago TSA wins the war on lipstick memex.craphound.com/2006/08/14

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  17. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Awful, stupid Wired report on Dutch hacker camp web.archive.org/web/2001100708

    #20yrsago Our faulty intuition about open systems ft.com/content/64167124-263d-1

    #20yrsago Defending against the last plot won’t save us from the next one schneier.com/blog/archives/200

    #20yrsago NBC: Hair-gel terrorists posed no risk last week web.archive.org/web/2006081319

    #15yrsago AT&T merger leak: it’s all about raising prices and reducing competition web.archive.org/web/2011092022

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  18. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #20yrsago RIAA to grieving family: We depose your children in 60 days recordingindustryvspeople.blog

    #15yrsago Stasi spywear: the inept art of commie disguise web.archive.org/web/2012000000

    #15yrsago 1968: when Britain’s Daily Mirror tried to overthrow Parliament bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%

    #15yrsago My panel with Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf and Al Gore at Mexico City’s Campus Party youtube.com/watch?v=tXPZnpsN4-s

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  19. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Wonderfully thorough backgrounder on DeCSS web.archive.org/web/2001081619

    #25yrsago Warhol Worm web.archive.org/web/2001081417

    #25yrsago Camgirls use Amazon wishlists for payouts web.archive.org/web/2001082123

    #25yrsago State of the tech industry 2021 web.archive.org/web/2001121622

    #25yrsago List of scenes cut from Looney Tunes reissues web.archive.org/web/2001121409

    #20yrsago Strategy behind using liquids to threaten planes web.archive.org/web/2006081300

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  20. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #20yrsago Seymour Cray liked to tunnel under his house cs.man.ac.uk/~toby/writing/PCW

    #20yrsago Fake anti-Net Neutrality groups web.archive.org/web/2006081517

    #20yrsago HOWTO fold a bottle opener out of paper youtube.com/watch?v=qrXmDiYHUY0

    #20yrsago Wikipedia’s template language is Turing-complete web.archive.org/web/2007070711

    #20yrsago Schwarzenegger sends Guard to California’s airports web.archive.org/web/2006081320

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  21. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #20yrsago TiVo/Macrovision screw up breaks devices again zatznotfunny.com/2006-08/tivo-

    #20yrsago Will the Supreme Court strike down the TSA’s secret laws? papersplease.org/gilmore/

    #20yrsago Robot garage loses software license, strands parkers web.archive.org/web/2006080921

    #15yrsago Typewriter-part penguin web.archive.org/web/2011111602

    #15yrsago Choosing Android because you don’t trust Google theguardian.com/technology/201

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  22. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Moscow's pirate music market web.archive.org/web/2001091220

    #25yrsago Webcomics v trad comics web.archive.org/web/2001082107

    #25yrsago Aussie teens are addicted to their phones web.archive.org/web/2001081822

    #20yrsago Canadian librarians decry “Captain Copyright” web.archive.org/web/2006081300

    #20yrsago TiVo/Macrovision screw up breaks devices again zatznotfunny.com/2006-08/tivo-

    #20yrsago Will the Supreme Court strike down the TSA’s secret laws? papersplease.org/gilmore/
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  23. 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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  24. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Samuel Delany interviewed by The Onion web.archive.org/web/2001081011

    #25yrsago Evil Burger King customers web.archive.org/web/2001080500

    #25yrsago Definitive search engine optimization primer web.archive.org/web/2001100609

    #20yrsago Only traitors try to make us afraid of terrorists web.archive.org/web/2006041810

    #20yrsago Swingin’ big band song about rejecting surveillance web.archive.org/web/2006081822

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  25. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Collectible AOL CDs web.archive.org/web/2001111921

    #20yrsago Gonzales: Gitmo prisoners can be held indefinitely dawn.com/news/204441/guantanam

    #20yrsago Circuit City offers DVD ripping service web.archive.org/web/2006081121

    #15yrsago UK government kills Copyright Great Firewall, establishes user rights torrentfreak.com/uk-government

    #15yrsago Mugshot sites and mugshot removal sites: unholy blackmail symbiosis web.archive.org/web/2011081705

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  26. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Vernor Vinge in the NYT nytimes.com/2001/08/02/technol

    #25yrsago Why publishers should thank Syklarov web.archive.org/web/2001102309

    #25yrsago David Byrne track to be bundled with WinXP web.archive.org/web/2001080404

    #20yrsago Five things about blogs that no one ever needs to say again web.archive.org/web/2006081309

    #15yrsago Castles made from human hair inhabitat.com/artist-uses-huma

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  27. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago RIP, Poul Anderson locusmag.com/1997/Issues/04/An

    #25yrsago Talking P2P at PC Forum web.archive.org/web/2001082016

    #25yrsago CD DRM cracked in 2 weeks web.archive.org/web/2001080314

    #20yrsago Waitress cards drinker, is handed her own stolen ID web.archive.org/web/2006090104

    #20yrsago How POWs in a Nazi camp got a Disney insignia web.archive.org/web/2006120920

    #20yrsago Fixies illegal in Portland bikeportland.org/2006/07/28/ju

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  28. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago RIP, Wau Holland, founder of the legendary hacker clan, the Chaos Computer Club. web.archive.org/web/2001080519

    #20yrsago Diebold voting machines can be beaten with a switch-flip web.archive.org/web/2006100712

    #20yrsago How thieves steal RFID-enabled cars web.archive.org/web/2006081206

    #15yrsago Official London anti-terrorist publication says anarchists should be reported to local police web.archive.org/web/2011080123

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  29. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #20yrsago Linux Thinkpads can be controlled by knocking on them web.archive.org/web/2006081406

    #20yrsago Why the CBC doesn’t need DRM web.archive.org/web/2006082012

    #20yrsago Aussie mall defends its photons from terrorists web.archive.org/web/2006091022

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  30. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago How to help someone use a computer memex.craphound.com/2001/07/29

    #20yrsago Arrested for taking a pic of a cop arresting someone else web.archive.org/web/2006081310

    #15yrsago Batman logo in equation form reddit.com/r/pics/comments/j2q

    #15yrsago Vindictive WalMart erroneously accuses couple of shoplifting, has husband deported, wife fired, costs them house and car web.archive.org/web/2011100210

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  31. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago How to help someone use a computer memex.craphound.com/2001/07/29

    #20yrsago Arrested for taking a pic of a cop arresting someone else web.archive.org/web/2006081310

    #15yrsago Batman logo in equation form reddit.com/r/pics/comments/j2q

    #15yrsago Vindictive WalMart erroneously accuses couple of shoplifting, has husband deported, wife fired, costs them house and car web.archive.org/web/2011100210

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  32. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Chilling Effects web.archive.org/web/2001080117

    #25yrsago 13-year-old hacker's book deal: “The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking" web.archive.org/web/2001110216

    #20yrsago France’s new copyright law slaughters kills use and open source web.archive.org/web/2006081222

    #20yrsago Billy Bragg gets MySpace’s terms of service changed web.archive.org/web/2010080915

    #15yrsago Buy an Old West town in South Dakota for $0.8M web.archive.org/web/2011072801

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  33. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #20yrsago Power outlets in airports wiki web.archive.org/web/2006080706 Home.html

    #20yrsago How iTunes is bad for the music industry and the public web.archive.org/web/2006081314

    #15yrsago Ousted EMI boss: pirates are our best customers, suing is bad for business torrentfreak.com/former-google

    #15yrsago Patent trolls and shakedowns: Intellectual Ventures and the “little guy” web.archive.org/web/2016081016

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  34. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Shapeable printed batteries web.archive.org/web/2001110211

    #20yrsago Monopoly replaces play-money with fake credit-cards web.archive.org/web/2007022005

    #20yrsago HOWTO build a fax out of salmon tins web.archive.org/web/2006082801

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  35. 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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  36. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Pro-lumber industry spoof of The Lorax web.archive.org/web/2001072104

    #25yrsago Remixable vocal tracks from the next Public Enemy release web.archive.org/web/2001081319

    #20yrsago Wikipedia creates RSS for its posts web.archive.org/web/2006071810

    #20yrsago Anti-DRM picture-book web.archive.org/web/2006072109

    #10yrsago The US has spent $122B training foreign cops and soldiers in 150+ countries, but isn’t sure who web.archive.org/web/2016071314

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  37. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #20yrsago #Xbox #DRM adds insult to heartbreak gamegirladvance.com/2003/11/br

    #15yrsago Regulator to hear #BellCanada network #throttling case web.archive.org/web/2009012300

    #15yrsago Apple to Mac owners: throw away your monitor if Hollywood says so web.archive.org/web/2008120401

    #15yrsago Liberation: a magical road-novel about America in collapse, Bradbury meets Kerouac memex.craphound.com/2008/11/19

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    #20yrsago #xbox #drm #15yrsago #bellcanada #throttling
  38. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #20yrsago Evaporating #Danube reveals sunken Nazi ships web.archive.org/web/2005030610

    #15yrsago #Heinlein’s dystopian juvenile novels web.archive.org/web/2011061103

    #15yrsago Nature #Neuroscience article on neurological basis for #magic, co-written by Teller of #PennAndTeller web.archive.org/web/2008082805

    #15yrsago @eff forces spoon-bender Geller to eat crow over bogus copyright claim web.archive.org/web/2008081900

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    #20yrsago #danube #15yrsago #heinlein #neuroscience #magic
  39. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #20yrsago #Biopiracy: a new colonialism web.archive.org/web/2003062501

    #20yrsago #EdFelten explains why “black box” DRM tech is bad for society onlisareinsradar.com/archives/

    #20yrsago Encrypted AIM web.archive.org/web/2003080107

    #15yrsago Virgin Media UK working with record industry to spy on and threaten downloaders independent.co.uk/tech/virgin-

    #15yrsago Broadcasters fight hard against public use of blank #spectrum arstechnica.com/uncategorized/

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    #20yrsago #biopiracy #edfelten #15yrsago #spectrum