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  1. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? locusmag.com/feature/cory-doct

    #5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why

    #1yrago Why Wikipedia works pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-

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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 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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  4. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Leaked: Handspring's next PalmOS device web.archive.org/web/2002082421

    #15yrsago “Stalwart Workers”: neglected backbone of the firm web.archive.org/web/2011092015

    #5yrsago Facebook's war on switching costs pluralistic.net/2021/08/28/tal

    #5yrsago The "work ethic" is a dirty trick we play on ourselves pluralistic.net/2021/08/28/tal

    #1yrago The capitalism of fools pluralistic.net/2025/08/28/str

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  5. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #25yrsago Metacrap people.well.com/user/doctorow/

    #15yrsago Slashdot’s CmdrTaco steps down meta.slashdot.org/story/11/08/

    #15yrsago Chalk memorial for Jack Layton in front of Toronto’s New City Hall flickr.com/photos/lewolf011/60

    #15yrsago Coordinated multinational ATM fraud nets $13M in one night krebsonsecurity.com/2011/08/co

    #5yrsago Vaccinate workers at (almost) any price pluralistic.net/2021/08/26/cha

    #1yrago By all means, tread on those people pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/sol

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  6. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago The secrets of hospital bills pluralistic.net/2021/08/23/don

    #5yrsago Belarusian dictator pwned by "cyber-partisans" pluralistic.net/2021/08/25/tax

    #5yrsago Big Box stores' other shoe drops pluralistic.net/2021/08/25/tax

    #5yrsago The Unraveling pluralistic.net/2021/08/23/don

    #1yrago Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed pluralistic.net/2025/08/23/bec

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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #15yrsago The Onion: We did a paywall because British people like paying for the Web web.archive.org/web/2011091117

    #5yrsago Hench pluralistic.net/2021/08/19/fai

    #5yrsago Machine learning's crumbling foundations pluralistic.net/2021/08/19/fai

    #1yrago Charlie Jane Anders' "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" pluralistic.net/2025/08/19/rev

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  11. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Housing, money laundry, speculation and precarity pluralistic.net/2021/08/16/die

    #5yrsago Big Oil caught lying about methane pluralistic.net/2021/08/17/kin

    #5yrsago Sandman Slim's final adventure pluralistic.net/2021/08/17/kin

    #5yrsago The Sacklers threaten us all with a good time pluralistic.net/2021/08/18/let

    #1yrago Zuckermuskian solipsism pluralistic.net/2025/08/18/see

    #1yrago LLMs are slot-machines pluralistic.net/2025/08/16/jac

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  12. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Provocateur copyrights a Magic: The Gathering Deck pluralistic.net/2021/08/14/ang

    #5yrsago Disneyland at a stroll pluralistic.net/2021/08/15/dis

    #1yrago Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause pluralistic.net/2025/08/15/dog

    #1yrago "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bel

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  13. 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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  14. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Canada's got the world's worst internet ideas pluralistic.net/2021/08/11/the

    #5yrsago End of the line for Uber pluralistic.net/2021/08/10/unt

    #1yrago Goodhart's Law (of AI) pluralistic.net/2025/08/11/fiv

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  15. 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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  16. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Chicago cops switched off bodycams and high-fived after shooting unarmed black teen web.archive.org/web/2016080719

    #10yrsago DoJ to judges: use Tor to protect your internet connection web.archive.org/web/2016080702

    #5yrsago Expectations management pluralistic.net/2021/08/08/expectations-management-part-v/

    #5yrsago When your boss wants an AI camera in your bedroom pluralistic.net/2021/08/09/com

    #5yrsago The 22 Murders of Madison May pluralistic.net/2021/08/09/com

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  17. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago End bankruptcy shopping pluralistic.net/2021/08/07/hr-

    #5yrsago Doordash privacywashes its war on workers pluralistic.net/2021/08/07/hr-

    #1yrago Good ideas are popular pluralistic.net/2025/08/07/the

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  18. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Stiglitz quits Panama’s official money-laundering panel over internal sabotage reuters.com/article/us-panama-

    #10yrsago BBC will use surveillance powers to sniff Britons’ wifi and find license-cheats web.archive.org/web/2016080615

    #10yrsago How and why to short Uber qz.com/707947/investors-have-p

    #5yrsago Facebook's official disinformation research portal is a bad joke pluralistic.net/2021/08/06/get

    #5yrsago Scammers sell griefers social media banning services pluralistic.net/2021/08/06/get

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  19. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Anti-vaxers cool the mark pluralistic.net/2021/08/05/com

    #5yrsago Meet the new generation of pro-abortion activists pluralistic.net/2021/08/05/com

    #1yrago Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch pluralistic.net/2025/08/05/ex-

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  20. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Bureaucrats disqualify Hong Kong legislative candidates for insufficient loyalty globalvoices.org/2016/08/05/ho

    #10yrsago The Vlogbrothers guide to voting in every state in the union youtube.com/c/howtovoteinevery

    #10yrsago Vocal fry, uptalking, nasal: women’s voices can never be “right” thecut.com/2016/07/female-voic

    #5yrsago Facebook escalates war on accountability pluralistic.net/2021/08/05/com

    #5yrsago Drone delivery crashes pluralistic.net/2021/08/05/com

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  21. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Elite debt hits record heights pluralistic.net/2021/08/03/fit

    #5yrsago Utilities governed like empires pluralistic.net/2021/08/04/eig

    #5yrsago Congress has allocated enough money to end the eviction crisis pluralistic.net/2021/08/04/eig

    #5yrsago Vaccine refusal and health insurance pluralistic.net/2021/08/04/eig

    #1yrago AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad

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  22. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Australian media accessibility group raises red flag about DRM in web standards hotelsantalya.net/accessiq/new

    #10yrsago Reminder: the GOP has been attacking veterans and their families for years web.archive.org/web/2016080320

    #10yrsago Isis joins Donald Trump in denouncing Khizr Khan web.archive.org/web/2016080216

    #10yrsago Furries don’t have sex in fursuits ohjoysextoy.com/fursuits-grey-

    #5yrsago Machine learning sucks at covid pluralistic.net/2021/08/02/aut

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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Unauthorized cups pluralistic.net/2021/07/29/imp

    #5yrsago Tracking you with accelerometer signatures pluralistic.net/2021/07/29/imp

    #5yrsago Stories from Black women's customer service hell pluralistic.net/2021/07/29/imp

    #5yrsago Bankruptcy and elite impunity pluralistic.net/2021/07/29/imp

    #1yrago Boss-politics antitrust and the MAGA crackup pluralistic.net/2025/07/29/bon

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  26. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago The infosec apocalypse is nigh pluralistic.net/2021/07/27/gas

    #1yrago How twiddling enshittifies your brain pluralistic.net/2025/07/28/twi

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  27. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Textiles printed directly from sewer covers raubdruckerin.de/

    #10yrsago Mexican indigenous groups form co-op phone company to serve 356 municipalities globalvoices.org/2016/07/26/so

    #5yrsago Surge pricing violates antitrust law pluralistic.net/2021/07/26/agg

    #5yrsago Oregon's carbon offsets go up in smoke pluralistic.net/2021/07/26/agg

    #5yrsago Charter schools are money laundries pluralistic.net/2021/07/26/agg

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  28. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #15yrsago BitCoin alternative: distributed, but not decentralized cash links.org/files/distributed-cu

    #10yrsago Bruce Schneier on the coming IoT security dumpster-fire web.archive.org/web/2016072522

    #10yrsago Our public health data is being ingested into Silicon Valley’s gaping, proprietary maw web.archive.org/web/2017091707

    #5yrsago Amusement parks, crowd control and load-balancing pluralistic.net/2021/07/25/now

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  29. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #10yrsago Trump makes it easy to forget what a dumpster fire all the other GOP nomination hopefuls were lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n15/el

    #5yrsago Interop and the Public Interest Internet pluralistic.net/2021/07/16/pid

    #1yrago Ellen Ullman's "Close to the Machine" pluralistic.net/2025/07/16/bea

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  30. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Facebook's alternative facts pluralistic.net/2021/07/15/thr

    #1yrago When Google's slop meets webslop, search stops pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inh

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  31. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago False Flag: my science fiction story about the future of #CopyrightFilters in an Article 13 Europe greeneuropeanjournal.eu/false-

    #5yrsago Arizona realtor surprised to find Canadian “white hat” hacker talking to him through his #SmartDoorbell memex.craphound.com/2018/12/17

    #5yrsago Developer who tore down historic San Francisco house ordered to build an exact replica sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl

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    #5yrsago #copyrightfilters #smartdoorbell
  32. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Probing a mysterious network of #dropshippers, evangelicals, crapgadgets, and semi-vacant Manhattan department stores nytimes.com/interactive/2018/1

    #5yrsago Houston’s “inchworm bandits” create performance art while robbing restaurants on their bellies loweringthebar.net/2018/11/inc

    #5yrsago Dutch church holds 27 days of round-the-clock services to protect immigrant family from deportation qz.com/1470153/a-dutch-church-

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    #5yrsago #dropshippers
  33. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago You can request hand-crafted reading-list recommendations from the #BrooklynPublicLibrary online bklynlibrary.org/bookmatch

    #5yrsago In America, the young find distinguishing fact from opinion easier than their elders pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

    #5yrsago High school class’s #ElectoralPredictions model is a model for electoral predictions web.archive.org/web/2018110402

    #5yrsago #PublicDomain scores a huge appeals court victory: the law cannot be copyrighted eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/appe

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    #5yrsago #brooklynpubliclibrary #electoralpredictions #publicdomain
  34. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Since 2007, #debt-haunted grads have been doing public service to earn #LoanForgiveness, which they won’t get vice.com/en/article/kz5zew/you

    #5yrsago #MeToo meets the #FightFor15 as #McDonalds workers walk out over sexual harassment jacobin.com/2018/09/mcdonalds-

    #5yrsago Exploring the ruins of a #ToysRUs, discovering a trove of sensitive employee data hackaday.com/2018/09/17/explor

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    #5yrsago #debt #loanforgiveness #metoo #fightfor15 #mcdonalds
  35. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago #SAD: #Doonesbury’s collected Trump strips afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted memex.craphound.com/2018/09/18

    #5yrsago Photos: #HongKongDisneyland in the aftermath of Super Typhoon #Mangkhut disneyandmore.blogspot.com/201</a.

    #5yrsago #AjitPai: California #NetNeutrality law is “illegal” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

    #5yrsago North Carolina #Verizon customers, trapped by #HurricaneFlorence, say they’re being throttled and upsold reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitali

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    #5yrsago #sad #doonesbury #hongkongdisneyland #mangkhut #ajitpai
  36. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #15yrsago #Olympic logo cops enforce stupid rules with masking tape wsj.com/articles/SB12188524098

    #15yrsago #HowardZinn’s “A People’s History of American Empire” graphic novel memex.craphound.com/2008/08/18

    #5yrsago #SpiderRobinson’s joke memex.craphound.com/2018/08/18

    #5yrsago #Antivirus maker #Sentinelone uses #copyright claims to censor video of security research that revealed defects in its products theregister.com/2018/08/18/sen

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    #15yrsago #olympic #howardzinn #5yrsago #spiderrobinson #antivirus
  37. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Economic indicators: #ConsumerDebt continues to grow, delinquency rises, students face “crippling debt” wallstreetonparade.com/2018/08

    #5yrsago A gorgeous history of the #MidCenturyModernism by #Disney’s finest illustrators of the 1950s memex.craphound.com/2018/08/07

    #5yrsago What’s at stake in the fight over printing files for guns memex.craphound.com/2018/08/07

    #5yrsago Facebook to banks: give us our users’ financial data and we’ll let them bank with Facebook wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-b

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    #5yrsago #consumerdebt #midcenturymodernism #disney
  38. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago #ScottPruitt is such a colossal asshole that the lobbyists who were bribing him with nearly-free lodgings evicted him cnn.com/2018/04/06/politics/pr

    #5yrsago GOP Congressgangster #RalphNorman does not regret pulling a loaded gun on constituents from “Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense” washingtonpost.com/news/powerp

    #1yrago The Ed Sheeran problem, or, how the record industry got what it asked for pluralistic.net/2022/04/08/oh-

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    #5yrsago #scottpruitt #ralphnorman #1yrago
  39. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Even if governments #backdoor crypto, they still won’t be able to spy on terrorists eprint.iacr.org/2018/212.pdf

    #5yrsago Lawsuit reveals the deadly, out-of-control free-for-all inside Red State America’s #ForProfitPrisons nytimes.com/2018/04/03/us/miss

    #5yrsago To solve America’s housing crisis, build public housing theguardian.com/society/2018/a

    #5yrsago A science fiction writing workshop lexicon bruces.medium.com/a-science-fi

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    #5yrsago #backdoor #forprofitprisons