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Rashdah
rashdah_
Lessons from #diliriş_ertuğrul:I have often seen questions like these with either excited Yes's or some excuse for why its boring, lengthy, not well made, etc. Apart from the usual arguments
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
DRM is a system for prohibiting legal conduct that manufacturers and their shareholders don't like.Laws like the US DMCA 1201 (and its equivalents all over the world) ban tampering with
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Looking at Amazon's quarterly financials, it would be easy to mistake the company's $31b ad division as a serious shift in the online advertising industry, but that would be a
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
In his magesterial, longrunning series of papers explaining why Uber is not, and never will be, a viable business, transportation analyst Hubert Horan calls the business a "bezzle."http://horanaviation.com/Uber.html 1/ Bezzle
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
During a 2007 trip to NYC, while taking long walks from one indie bookstore to the next, lugging increasingly heavy bags of pressed vegetable matter, I stumbled on Simon Lovell's
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Writing in @matthewstoller's BIG newsletter, @samhaselby makes the case that US elite universities - the Ivies - are a cartel that uses its monopoly to reproduce its monopoly, to the
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
In 1933, FDR created the Civilian Conservation Corps, which went on to employ 3m workers (5% of the US male workforce!) in projects whose benefit we still feel today: road-
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Media scholars say that the way the US press covered protests changed in the summer of 1968, when Chicago cops turned the same violence on reporters that had previously been
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Deborah Levine
debbylevine
Finalizing my syllabus for an intro to US health policy course that starts next week. Amused by how many readings/discussions that used to take weeks of staging and scaffolding on
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Some stories are so vast and ghastly that they overwhelm our consciousness, beggaring our ability to hold them in our heads all at once. This is one of them, and
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
For a @themarkup feature, @leonyin and @asankin compiled a list of "social and racial justice terms" with help from @ColorOfChange, @mediajustice, @conmijente and @muslimadvocates, then checked if @YouTube would let
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
As Biden lays out ambitious plans to stimulate the US economy and fight inequality with new money creation (spending) and money destruction (higher taxes on corporations, capital gains and the
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
For years, @remixeverything's "Everything is a Remix" video series has traced the links between beloved contemporary art and largely forgotten historical roots, making the case that culture is accretive, and
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
When Oxford University began work on its covid vaccine, it promised that the resulting work would be patent-free, with an active tech-transfer assistance program so that developing nations could manufacture
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
"Every pirate wants to be an admiral." That is a truism of industrial policy: the scrappy upstarts that push the rules to achieve success then turn into law-and-order types who
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Last week, "Marina" - a piano teacher who publishes free lessons her Piano Keys Youtube channel - celebrated her fifth anniversary by announcing that she was quitting Youtube because her
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