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Cory Doctorow #BLM
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There are lots of problems with ad-tech: * being spied on all the time means that the people of the 21st century are less able to be their authentic selves;
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
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The equilibrium in US elections is a balance of:* pleasing rich people (who give party figures sinecures via consulting/speaking/think tank fees) and;* terrifying the base into turning out by pointing
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
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Periodically, some dimbulb will pop up and say, "Hey, you love unions but you hate police brutality - so how about police unions, huh? Ever think of that? Huh? Huh?"Yeah,
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
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It's been twenty years, to the day, since I published my first blog-post. I'm a blogger. Blogging - publicly breaking down the things that seem significant, then synthesizing them in
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
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I spend a lot of time looking in detail at abusive situations where tech plays a starring role: stalkerware, bossware, remote proctoring, etc. But nothing I'd read really prepared me
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Andrew Scattergood
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Extremely proud of the fantastic work that Momentum members and staff did in helping to get 5 socialist candidates elected to the NEC, and I’m also proud of the collaboration
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).Inside: Stop saying "it's not censorship if it's not the government"; Trump's swamp gators find corporate refuge; and more!Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/24/
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
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Inequality requires narrative stabilizers. When you have too little and someone else has more than they can possibly use, simple logic dictates that you should take what they have. 1/
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
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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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Mallory Moore
Chican3ry
Feel a bit frustrated by the level of trans conversation that goes "are trans guys oppressor class like cis men, Y/N" as if things reduce in that simple way meaningfully
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john milbank
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Thoughts on empire:1. All political power us ambivalent. Vertical violence of ‘the state’ tends to limit horizontal power between people and between tribes. There is new oppression, but also a
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Claire Lehmann
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Since when does having an OAM mean that you support the views of everyone else with an OAM?Whatever happened to respecting difference in a multicultural and pluralistic society?https://twitter.com/TracyWesterman/status/1352944059321442304?s
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
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As Parler disappears from the Android and Ios app stores and faces being kicked off of Amazon's (and other) clouds, people who worry about monopolized corporate control over speech are
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Were the LA riots an outcome of white supremacy?Yes.Why are Black communities segregated in LA? Look at the history of redlining and racial covenants that kept them out of white
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
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In a major new paper, just released as a preprint, the eminent UK computer scientist and digital rights campaigner @1Br0wn makes the case for "Interoperability as a tool for competition
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Jason Segedy 🇺🇲🇭🇺🇮🇹
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1) I have spent my entire life reading a lot of different points of view and talking to a lot of different kinds of people. I have made it my
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