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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Trump's not gonna protect workers from forced labor; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/03/states-rights-trumps-wrongs/

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A kneeling figure, shackled hand-and-foot with ball-and-chains at his ankles. His face is that of a turn-of-the-century newsie, grinning broadly under a torn cloth cap. Behind him is a heavily halftoned neon HELP WANTED sign, askew over a indistinct black hellscape ganked from the third panel of Boschs's 'Garden of Earthly Delights.'
A kneeling figure, shackled hand-and-foot with ball-and-chains at his ankles. His face is that of a turn-of-the-century newsie, grinning broadly under a torn cloth cap. Behind him is a heavily halftoned neon HELP WANTED sign, askew over a indistinct black hellscape ganked from the third panel of Boschs's 'Garden of Earthly Delights.'
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I'm going offline for a family vacation, so this is the last Pluralistic until July 14. See you then!

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Tom Roberts
@troberts@theblower.au  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@pluralistic Have fun!
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Simon 🐮
@Firesphere@cloudisland.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@pluralistic Enjoy your vacation, "see" you in a fortnight!
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Trump's not gonna protect workers from forced labor: But states hate noncompete "agreements."

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114788604055811898

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Hey look at this

* What's Going on Online https://www.ninetiesinternet.com/

* State Department Wants to Know Student Visa Applicants’ Myspace Accounts https://theintercept.com/2025/07/01/trump-student-visa-social-media/

* The bug in the letter, part 2 https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/bug-in-the-letter-2/

* Turns Out Appeasing Trump Only Emboldened Him https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-03-trump-prosecution-law-felonies-fascism/

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#15yrsago Futures for SF writers that aren’t the Singularity https://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/08/25/fresh-sf-futures/

#10yrsago Secret court will let NSA do mass surveillance for another six months https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/secret-us-court-allows-resumption-of-bulk-phone-metadata-spying/

#10yrsago Bigoted officials: First Amendment means we don’t have to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples https://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/30/us/same-sex-marriage-supreme-court-ruling-holdouts/index.html

#10yrsago McKinney, TX wants $79K to retreive emails of the cop who tackled bikini-clad teen https://www.techdirt.com/2015/06/30/city-claims-it-will-take-9000-hours-79000-to-fulfill-gawkers-request-emails-related-to-abusive-police-officer/

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#10yrsago We’ve evolved to disbelieve evolution https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/06/29/418289762/don-t-believe-in-evolution-try-thinking-harder

#10yrsago US Customs and Border Protection: America’s largest, most corrupt police force https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-patrol-20150630-story.html#page=1

#5yrsago Snowden on Little Brother https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#omnibus

#5yrsago Sun Ra's syllabus https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#sun-ra

#5yrsago Invigilation CEO doxes student https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#moral-exemplar

#5yrsago Big Cop's corporate armorers https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#charitable-laundering

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#5yrsago Bossware https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#bossware

#5yrsago EFF on EU interoperability policy https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#eu-interop

#1yrago Austin Grossman's 'Fight Me' https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/01/the-big-genx-chill/#im-super-thanks-for-asking

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