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Cory Doctorow
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A common pathology among experts in quantitative field is to assume that when they are dealing with problems with qualitative dimensions that they can simply model the quantitative part and
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Softbank's investments - Uber, Doordash, Wework, etc - are cons. They launder Saudi oil billions with "businesses" that lose titanic amount of money for many years, while also preying on
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Though I love good rants, I struggle to differentiate good rants from their tedious, far more common cousins, bad rants. It's all about staying power. It's been 18 years since
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Amazon is an "essential business" because it sells things like sex toys and hammer drills (don't mix these up!). But they also sell books. Your local indie bookseller is likely
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
It sure feels like we're living through an unprecedented boom in newsletters, but while email-based newsletters are experiencing a major surge, newsletters themselves have a long and honorable history.https://www.wired.com/story/peak-ne
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Timothy Kleiser
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To celebrate #StGeorgesDay / #WorldBookDay, I'm giving away 6 books that I've enjoyed in 2021—plus one bonus gift!To enter the drawings, just retweet this and click "like" on at least
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Between research about microplastics in the environment, China ceasing plastic recycling, and revelations about Big Oil's decades of disinformation about the recyclability of plastic overall, I've been feeling a sense
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Today, @ProjectReboot pubished "Unfair Use," an updated version of "IP," my September 2020 column for @locusmag, which I consider to be the most important piece I have written in my
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Lex Rofeberg🔥
Lexaphus
A reminder, as Jewish institutions and leaders celebrate the Jewishness of Kamala Harris's spouse, that a huge percentage of synagogues, today, wouldn't allow them to be married in their building.
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
One of the GOP's tells is that it accuses Democrats of its own sins. Take "packing the court," a process we watched unfold with Trump's appointments of Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Los Angeles has a geometry problem. Multiply the space that even the smallest car occupies by the number of Angelenos who need to get from A-B and you'll see that
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
The "lawful interception" industry is a hive of scum and villainy: these are powerful, wildly profitable companies who search out defects in widely used software, then weaponize them and sell
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Google has announced a step to kill the third-party cookie, a source of enormous and pernicious privacy violations. This would be great news, except for the fact that Google is
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Jonathan West 🌺🕉️🇺🇸🇮🇳🇪🇨
MycoJonathan
My thoughts on this video:https://youtu.be/0wTiCxXgrJw There is an elite/government interface. Hollywood/MSM and even now “Progressive” media (to catch the far left) are completely intertwined in the US government through the
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
2.5 billion people in the Earth's 125 poorest countries have received zero vaccine doses. The 85 poorest countries are projecting full vaccination in 2023 or 2024. This isn't just a
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Francis Bebbington
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1. I think that the conclusions here are in line with the work done by Arendt Lijphart in his book/study "Patterns of Democracy." An argument used, particularly in the UK,
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