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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: All (antitrust) politics are local; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/02/act-locally/

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A modest Grecian revival columnated building amidst leafy trees, with gilded letters over the door reading CITY HALL. To one side is a guillotine with a gilded blade. In the foreground are the silhouettes of Victorian onlookers in elaborate hats.

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Peter Atwood

@patwood@mastodon.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@pluralistic An (obvious) addendum to your point that mayors are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Mayors are our best defense against climate change. Not only are they the politicians who face its real impacts, but how cities run has a huge effect on carbon emissions and other contributors to global warming. Mayors have always been politicians who punch above their weight!

Jonathan Stanis

@jonstanis@mastodon.social replied · 3 weeks ago

@pluralistic Hey Corey. Curious how you post these threads? Do you have an RSS automation that takes the body copy and converts it into a thread, or do you do it manually?

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 2 weeks ago

@jonstanis manually

Steffen Christensen

@Wikisteff@mastodon.social replied · 3 weeks ago

@pluralistic I did a big project on the Future of Consolidation for work... remind me to send you a copy... there are some decent insights in there.

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 3 weeks ago

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