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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
This week on my podcast, I read my @Medium column, "The Best Defense Against Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis," about what the cypherpunks got wrong, what they got right, and what that says
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
When you think of the @rcmpgrcpolice, you probably imagine the romantic sight of guys in archaic red brocaded uniforms doing close-order drill on horses while waving Canadian flags. 1/ The
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Evolutionary psychology is beloved of a certain kind of "rationalist" who loves a good just-so story that casts some system that advantages him as biologically inevitable, as in, "Honey, the
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LJ Breedlove
LJBreedlove
So. I find Sady interesting in general. But this is a bad take - and it comes out of white culturalization.Culture defines what we consider appropriate communication styles. While women
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Divyajyoti👩💻
divyajyotiuk
IMPOSTER SYNDROME summarized.It is not a disease, or an abnormality, or tied to depression or anxiety or self-esteem.It is just a feeling and there is no accomplishment threshold to suppress
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Say it with me now: a fine is a price. When companies profit from inflicting harm on the rest of us, a fine is just part of the price of
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Vanessa Kisuule
Vanessa_Kisuule
Want to reflect on tweets I'm reading about I May Destroy You where people are confused by what happened in the finale. It's made me realise why I'm so gassed
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
We are living in a golden age of predatory capitalism, in which businesses that generate real value and stable employment are being destroyed by deep-pocketed quasi-tech firms that lose money
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
In the early days of the pandemic, the term "contact tracing" vaulted into the public consciousness: that's the shoe-leather- and labor-intensive process whereby skilled heath experts establish a personal rapport
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
2.5b people in Earth's 130 poorest countries have not been vaccinated. The 85 poorest countries won't be vaccinated until 2023. The humanitarian cost is unforgivable - and self-defeating, as each
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
For a society to be unequal and stable, it needs a STORY. If you have less-than-enough and your neighbour has more-than-enough, it's natural to ask why you shouldn't take it
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Scott Kennedy
KennedyCSIS
China’s former Vice FM Madame Fu Ying provides a sophisticated analysis of how China can shape global narratives & improve China’s int'l reputation. But her view has major weaknesses b/c
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Remember when a group of establishment Congressional Democrats vowed that they would add means-testing to the emergency relief checks so that "the money wouldn't go to people who didn't need
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
The right has long held that homelessness is a symptom - of a lack of self-control, a lack of foresight, of addiction, mental illness, etc - and therefore the solution
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Suhag A. Shukla
SuhagAShukla
My friend @dhume analogizes social media outrage over a racy depiction of the Goddess Kali with the beheading in France. Raises the Enlightenment. I agree that Hindu anger on social
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Indu Viswanathan
indumathi37
I'm the eleventeen millionth person to say this, but it's going to need repeating until it sticks: There is a pervasive, persistent myth that secularism is a neutral, neutralizing framework
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