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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 18 hours ago

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Inside: Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/price-discrimination/

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A busy 1950s grocery store. The scene has been altered: the massive, menacing, glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' hovers over the store, shooting red beams into the cash register. The store -- but not the shoppers at its front -- is suffused with red light.

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A busy 1950s grocery store. The scene has been altered: the massive, menacing, glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' hovers over the store, shooting red beams into the cash register. The store -- but not the shoppers at its front -- is suffused with red light. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
A busy 1950s grocery store. The scene has been altered: the massive, menacing, glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' hovers over the store, shooting red beams into the cash register. The store -- but not the shoppers at its front -- is suffused with red light. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The case for a Canadian wealth tax; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/23/billionaires-eh/

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A gilt-roofed, gabled mansion with a hole chopped in its side. From within glitters a weath of gold coins. In the foreground stands a lumberjack, swinging an axe at the mansion. The background is a blown-up, half-toned late 20th century Canadian $50 bill.
A gilt-roofed, gabled mansion with a hole chopped in its side. From within glitters a weath of gold coins. In the foreground stands a lumberjack, swinging an axe at the mansion. The background is a blown-up, half-toned late 20th century Canadian $50 bill.
A gilt-roofed, gabled mansion with a hole chopped in its side. From within glitters a weath of gold coins. In the foreground stands a lumberjack, swinging an axe at the mansion. The background is a blown-up, half-toned late 20th century Canadian $50 bill.
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

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Inside: Daniel de Visé's 'The Blues Brothers'; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/21/1060-west-addison

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The Grove Atlantic cover for Daniel de Visé's 'The Blues Brothers.'
The Grove Atlantic cover for Daniel de Visé's 'The Blues Brothers.'
The Grove Atlantic cover for Daniel de Visé's 'The Blues Brothers.'
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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Inside: Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People'; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/

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The Crown Books cover for Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People.'
The Crown Books cover for Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People.'
The Crown Books cover for Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People.'
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