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Cory Doctorow
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A followup to yesterday's mystifying story about gun enthusiasts posting photos of themselves with unsaftied guns jammed into their own crotches, fingers on the triggers.https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/27/literal-gunhumping/#youll-shoot
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
I have a weird soft spot in my heart for Hertz, because they were the first company to offer satnav systems, and since I have a sense of direction so
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).Inside: Laundering torturers' reputations with copyfraud; Foxconn's Wisconsin death-rattle; John Deere's dismal infosec; and more!Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/23/rep
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Cory Doctorow
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The phrase "Wall Street Versus Main Street" has a nice ring to it, but what does it actually mean? Here's a very concrete example of how policies can be rigged
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Gig economy delivery apps claim that they're operating "two-sided markets," connecting delivery people with restaurants. Actually, they're useless, overcapitalized, predatory, money-haemorrhaging parasites.1/ They raise ti
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
After the Jan 6 insurrection, there were tons of demoralizing stories about how much pro-insurrection lawmakers like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Josh Hawley were raising in small-dollar donations, suggesting a
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
JACKPOT is the debut book-length work from @MichaelMechanic, the senior editor at @MotherJones. It's a pitiless - but empathic - look at the lives of the (mostly) American super-rich.https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Jackpot/Michae
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
It's been nearly two years since the @FTC's #NixingTheFix workshop on how corporations have sabotage our #RightToRepair. Finally, the Commission has issued its report, and it's hugely vindicating for R2R
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Trumpism is an incompetent death cult. While the movement's incompetence (embodied by the inability of many of its worst monsters to keep their jobs long enough to enact their key
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
When @amyklobuchar introduced her Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act (CALERA), I called it a "big fucking deal," because it would do away with Ronald Reagan and Robert Bork's
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Covid did not escape from a Chinese lab.China is an untrustworthy, paranoid, autocratic state with a history of deadly epidemiological coverups (SARS), and it mishandled and lied about the covid
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Jefri Nazri
JefriNazri
I mentioned @chedetofficial, @Khairykj, @drasyrafwajdi, @FirdausWong, and @netraKL, among others in my article. https://twitter.com/themingyao/status/1252884047895773184 https://link.medium.com/gu3VTJI9m6 @themingyao inspired me to start this d
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).Inside: Experian doxes the world (again); and more!Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/30/dox-the-world/#Pluralistic1/ Experian doxes the world (again): And the breach is still ongoing
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
"Fantascienza" is the Italian word for science fiction, but fantascienza has its own tropes, rhythms and conventions that set it apart in hard-to-summarize ways; these unique characteristics have fired the
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
The USPS is about to declare bankruptcy. It's at the center of the longstanding plans for disaster recover and has been since the Cold War. It's the only institution that
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
For at least a decade, US politicians have made symbolic, unfulfilled promises to do something about the "#CarriedInterest tax loophole," a thing that virtually no one understands. @yvessmith's explanation will
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