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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 California’s Right to Repair Bill, killed by Big Ag and Apple, has been reintroduced appleinsider.com/articles/19/0

    #5yrsago Sponsor of the “Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act” sues Twitter cow-account for $250 million lawandcrime.com/crazy/devin-nu

    #5yrsago More Than 130 European Businesses Tell the European Parliament: Reject the #CopyrightDirective eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/more

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    #5yrsago #copyrightdirective
  32. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago With days to go until the #CopyrightDirective vote, #Article13’s father admits it requires filters and says he’s OK with killing Youtube memex.craphound.com/2019/03/13

    #5yrsago Gimlet staff announce unionization plan following Spotify acquisition theverge.com/2019/3/13/1826395

    #5yrsago McMansion Hell tours the homes of the “meritocratic” one-percenters who allegedly bought their thickwitted kids’ way into top universities in the college admissions scandal mcmansionhell.com/post/1834170

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    #5yrsago #copyrightdirective #article13
  33. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    @eff @neilhimself
    #5yrsago Artist #NanGoldin leads protests at the #Guggenheim and the Met over their reputation-laundering of the #Sacklers’ opioid epidemic fortunes newyorker.com/news/our-columni

    #5yrsago Addressing inequality is foreign policy, not domestic crookedtimber.org/2019/02/11/d

    #1yrago After Ohio rail disaster, #Buttigieg is silent on restoring the safety standards Trump repealed pluralistic.net/2023/02/11/din

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    #5yrsago #nangoldin #guggenheim #sacklers #1yrago #buttigieg
  34. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Charter slashes network spending by $2B, but makes up for it by charging its customers more arstechnica.com/information-te

    #5yrsago The #FBI invented a fictitious “#AbortionExtremist” movement, then warned local cops about potential acts of domestic terror from it jezebel.com/exclusive-fbi-warn

    #5yrsago As Macron and Merkel meet to rescue the #CopyrightDirective, the world’s libraries call for its rejection ifla.org/news/ifla-joins-the-c

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    #5yrsago #fbi #abortionextremist #copyrightdirective
  35. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Now EVERYBODY hates the new EU #CopyrightDirective eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/now-

    #1yrago #CareInflation: The inflation no one wants to talk about pluralistic.net/2023/01/18/wag

    #1yrago #EleanorJanega's "Once and Future Sex": The true, weird, horny history of medieval gender and sex pluralistic.net/2023/01/17/ren

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    #5yrsago #copyrightdirective #1yrago #careinflation #eleanorjanega
  36. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Company behind the #GrenfellTower fire says it could have been put out with a simple fire extinguisher theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/d

    #5yrsago Clash of the corporate titans: Who’s spending what in Europe’s #CopyrightDirective battle memex.craphound.com/2018/12/13

    #1yrago Web apps could de-monopolize mobile devices pluralistic.net/2022/12/13/kit

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    #5yrsago #grenfelltower #copyrightdirective #1yrago
  37. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago #TaviGevinson is folding up #Rookie, after seven years: part mediapocalypse, part moving on rookiemag.com/2018/11/editors-">rookiemag.com/2018/11/editors-

    #5yrsago #PeakIndifference has arrived: a majority of Republicans say climate change is real monmouth.edu/polling-institute

    #5yrsago The EU took the word “filters” out of the #CopyrightDirective, but it’s still all about filters eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/yes-

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    #5yrsago #tavigevinson #rookie #peakindifference #copyrightdirective
  38. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Bernie Sanders introduces the Stop Walmart Act: no #StockBuybacks without a $15 minimum wage cnn.com/2018/11/15/business/be

    #1yrago Private equity health-care monopolies are on a profitable killing spree pluralistic.net/2022/11/17/the

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    #5yrsago #stockbuybacks #1yrago
  39. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Youtube CEO: it will be impossible to comply with the EU’s new #CopyrightDirective (adios, #Despacito!) blog.youtube/inside-youtube/i-

    #5yrsago Italian prosecutors have given up on catching the person who hacked and destroyed #HackingTeam vice.com/en/article/3k9zzk/hac

    #5yrsago Wells Fargo: We can’t be sued for lying to shareholders because it was obvious we were lying latimes.com/business/hiltzik/l

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    #5yrsago #copyrightdirective #despacito #hackingteam
  40. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Wells Fargo cuts 26,500 jobs, shutters branches, declares “excess capital” and drops $40.6 billion on #StockBuybacks rooseveltinstitute.org/2018/11

    #5yrsago 90% of Canadians want to kill future Saudi arms deals angusreid.org/saudi-arabia-can

    #1yrago Tech a la carte pluralistic.net/2022/11/08/div

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    #5yrsago #stockbuybacks #1yrago
  41. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago A database of instructions for making different #PaperAirplanes foldnfly.com/#/1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1

    #5yrsago The American right loves forms, paperwork and other bureaucracy currentaffairs.org/2018/10/the

    #5yrsago EFF just sent this letter to every official negotiating the EU’s #CopyrightDirective memex.craphound.com/2018/10/23

    #5yrsago San Francisco spends $3.1m/year on #homeless #toilets and $65m/year cleaning up poop missionlocal.org/2018/10/san-f

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    #5yrsago #paperairplanes #copyrightdirective #homeless #toilets
  42. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #15yrsago Kids who photograph themselves naked are child pornographers and sex offenders in Ohio web.archive.org/web/2008100919

    #15yrsago Reviews of jihadi video-games web.archive.org/web/2008101107

    #10yrsago #SuperMario fully implemented in #HTML5 web.archive.org/web/2013101305

    #10yrsago #ChristopherColumbus: raping, murdering, enslaving, genocidal pedophile theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus

    #5yrsago Not just Europe: EU #CopyrightDirective will censor the world’s internet eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/eu-i

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    #15yrsago #10yrsago #supermario #html5 #christophercolumbus #5yrsago
  43. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the collapse of 2008 and things are much, much worse rollingstone.com/politics/poli

    #5yrsago Father of the catastrophic #CopyrightDirective reveals he didn’t know what he was voting for breakit.se/artikel/15418/copyr

    #5yrsago EU’s top court rules against the UK mass surveillance revealed by #EdwardSnowden theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/s

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    #5yrsago #copyrightdirective #edwardsnowden