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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 14 min. ago

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Inside: How Canada can save Americans and defeat America; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/elbows-really-up//

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A Canadian flag, its elements replaced with circuit boards. In the foreground, a bent-double, exhausted Uncle Sam trudges over rocky terrain, shlepping a giant sack on his back. Centered in the maple leaf is the word SORRY.

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Pluralistic: How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026)

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 13 min. ago

How Canada can save Americans and defeat America: True Carneyism has never been tried.

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As Canada is learning (the hard way), the "art" of all of Trump's deals can be summed up in a single word: "renege": https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/22/table-flipper/#graveyard-of-indispensable-nations 1/

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 13 min. ago

Hey look at this

* Shielded from Shame: Civil Immunity for Ontario's Long-Term Care Facilities in the Wake of Covid-19 https://www.canlii.org/en/commentary/doc/2021CanLIIDocs13991#!fragment//BQCwhgziBcwMYgK4DsDWszIQewE4BUBTADwBdoByCgSgBpltTCIBFRQ3AT0otokLC4EbDtyp8BQkAGU8pAELcASgFEAMioBqAQQByAYRW1SYAEbRS2ONWpA

* Many recent grads say AI is making it harder to get a job. Economists aren't so sure https://www.npr.org/2026/08/18/nx-s1-5910677/recent-college-graduates-employment-job-artificial-intelligence

* Shitbot https://dodoeraser.org/2026/07/29/shitbot/

* Nonfeasance, Misfeasance, and Malfeasance: Academic Freedom in a Nutshell https://3d.laboratorium.net/2026-08-23-academic-misfeasance

The Laboratorium (3d ser.)

Nonfeasance, Misfeasance, and Malfeasance: Academic Freedom in a Nutshell

Here’s a simple taxonomy for thinking about academic duties and freedoms. There are basically three kinds of reasons why a university could take disciplinary action against an academic:

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 12 min. ago

#25yrsago Kevin Mitnick is out of prison https://web.archive.org/web/20010000000000*/https://www.techtv.com/screensavers/showtell/story/0,23008,3343816,00.html

#25yrsago Brazil to nationalize AIDS drug patents https://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/08/22/aids.drug/index.html

#25yrsago Copyright your DNA https://web.archive.org/web/20010827170510/http://www.cosmiverse.com/science08230102.html

#25yrsago The internet is boring now https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/26/us/exploration-of-world-wide-web-tilts-from-eclectic-to-mudane.html

#20yrsago TSA busts “explosive water” that turns out to be cosmetics https://web.archive.org/web/20060822123448/http://www.kxma.com/getARticle.asp?ArticleId=35223

#20yrsago Windows Media DRM cracked, no one cares https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/cmusings/2006/08/25/#a1889

A Copyfighter’s Musings » 2006 » August » 25

Explosive Liquids In West Virginia Turns Out To Be Makeup

Earlier I posted on the breaking story about a woman detained for possibly trying to carry liquid explosives onto an airplane. Now it turns out that the substance in question wasn't so much an "explosive" as "makeup."

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Exploration of World Wide Web Tilts From Eclectic to Mudane (Published 2001)

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CNN.com - Brazil to break patent, make AIDS drug - August 22, 2001

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 12 min. ago

#20yrsago Canadian music label puts fans and artists first https://web.archive.org/web/20060830211418/http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.09/nettwerk_pr.html

#20yrsago After the Siege in Russian https://craphound.com/Cory_Doctorow_-_After_the_Siege_Russian.html

#20yrsago Victory in War on Moisture: Gel-bras once again safe! https://web.archive.org/web/20060820185006/http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/permitted-prohibited-items.shtm

#20yrsago EFF sues Barney the humorless, copyright maximalist dinosaur https://web.archive.org/web/20060813093642/http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_08.php#004884

#15yrsago MP3tunes verdict: music lockers are legal https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/mp3tunes-victory-music-lockers-is-good

Electronic Frontier Foundation

MP3tunes: A Victory for Music Lockers Is Good News for Music Fans

We've watched this year as Amazon, Google, and Apple have raced to roll out cloud-based music locker services. Each of these company's services signals something in common: an apparent fear of liability for de-duplicating files uploaded by their customers. (De-duplicating means that the service...

EFF: Breaking News

TSA: Permitted and Prohibited Items

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Wired 14.09: No Suit Required

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Cory Doctorow

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#15yrsago Lolita on Wikipedia: 2,300 edits later https://web.archive.org/web/20111008072145/http://www.theawl.com/2011/08/case-history-of-a-wikipedia-page-nabokov’s-lolita

#15yrsago SF mockumentary: ‘Ghosts With Shit Jobs’ — China looks at westerners with awful jobs https://ghostswithshitjobs.com/

#15yrsago Information consumes attention: focus in the age of abundant stimulus https://web.archive.org/web/20111113004501/http://nymag.com/print/?/news/features/56793/

#15yrsago Jack Layton’s final public words: “Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear.” https://web.archive.org/web/20110829050308/http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/01310/Jack_Layton_s_lett_1310744a.pdf

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Ghosts With Shit Jobs

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 12 min. ago

#15yrsago Getting people’s names right in software design: a LOT harder than it looks https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/08/why-im-not-on-google-plus.html

#15yrsago Internet Archive’s cache of 24/7 TV footage from 9/11 and beyond https://archive.org/details/911

#10yrsago Peter Thiel & Y Combinator fund a “litigation financing” startup to make money off other peoples’ lawsuits https://gizmodo.com/a-startup-backed-by-peter-thiel-makes-bankrolling-civil-1785707590

#10yrsago Universities fought unionization’s ‘one-size-fits-all’ using identical arguments https://crookedtimber.org/2016/08/25/great-minds-think-alike/

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'Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive. Internet Archive

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#10yrsago 5 years after Texas GOP’s attack on women’s reproductive health, TX leads developed world in maternal mortality https://web.archive.org/web/20160820212602/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/texas-maternal-mortality-rate-health-clinics-funding

#10yrsago You didn’t find a meteorite https://sites.wustl.edu/meteoritesite/

#10yrsago Young Conservatives’ “leadership seminar” featured food & water deprivation, sexist epithets, physical abuse https://web.archive.org/web/20160824145226/https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2016/08/23/ontario-tories-apologize-to-party-activists-after-controversial-youth-seminar.html

#10yrsago The 2017 Ikea Catalog considered as dystopian urban microapartment futurism https://web.archive.org/web/20160817154440/https://www.fastcodesign.com/3062854/ikeas-2017-catalog-is-a-terrifying-glimpse-into-the-tiny-apartments-of-the-future

Co.Design

Ikea's 2017 Catalog Is A Terrifying Glimpse Into The Tiny Apartments Of The Future

Time to move to Alaska, kids. The cities are officially full.

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Ontario Tories apologize to party activists after controversial youth seminar | Toronto Star

The Progressive Conservatives are doing damage control after a training session for young party activists sparked complaints of shoe-throwing by an official and inadequate food and water.

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Meteorite information

the Guardian

Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world, study finds

As the Republican-led state legislature has slashed funding to reproductive healthcare clinics, the maternal mortality rate doubled over just a two-year period

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 11 min. ago

#10yrsago Singapore will disconnect entire civil service from the internet https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/24/singapore-to-cut-off-public-servants-from-the-internet

#10yrsago They’re making a Twits ale from Roald Dahl’s body-yeast https://web.archive.org/web/20160817154531/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/beer-to-be-made-from-yeast-swabbed-from-roald-dahls-writing-chair-a7195721.html

#10yrsago As America’s temperatures soar, prisoners are dropping dead https://web.archive.org/web/20160825000426/https://theintercept.com/2016/08/24/deadly-heat-in-u-s-prisons-is-killing-inmates-and-spawning-lawsuits/

#5yrsago Are privacy and antitrust on a collision course? https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/24/illegitimate-greatness/#peanut-butter-in-my-antitrust

#5yrsago What kind of emergency is our emergency? https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/23/dont-wanna-spoil-the-surprise/#monocausotaxophilia

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The Intercept

“Deadly Heat” in U.S. Prisons Is Killing Inmates and Spawning Lawsuits

Many state officials would rather spend money on legal fees than provide air conditioning to prisoners.

The Independent

Beer to be made from yeast swabbed from Roald Dahl's writing chair

London's dining elite are always after the most strange and unusual of culinary delights - and this certainly is both strange and unusual. Mr. Twit's Odious Ale has been brewed utilising yeast swabbed from the wood of Roald Dahl's famous writing chair; a specially-adapted armchair created to ease the pain of a back injury sustained during WWII, as the author avoided writing at a desk. With the permission of Dahl's estate, brewers took a swab from the chair itself, which will be used to culture all the yeast needed for the beer.

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Singapore to cut off public servants from the internet

Government declares its systems will be ‘air-gapped’ to guard against cyber attack but some analysts warn hi-tech nation risks falling behind

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 11 min. ago

#5yrsago The secrets of hospital bills https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/23/dont-wanna-spoil-the-surprise/#surprise

#5yrsago Belarusian dictator pwned by "cyber-partisans" https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/25/taxes-are-for-the-little-stores/#cyber-partisans

#5yrsago Big Box stores' other shoe drops https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/25/taxes-are-for-the-little-stores/#metastatic-parasites

#5yrsago The Unraveling https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/23/dont-wanna-spoil-the-surprise/#the-two-genders

#1yrago Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/23/become-unoptimizable/#downward-redistribution

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 11 min. ago

Friday's threads: Born on technology's third base; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117136600592645407

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