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Inside: Sorry, eh; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not-sorry/
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@pluralistic Yes! Thank you! This is excellent, and exactly what we need 🇨🇦✊
Send a copy to Mark Carney please ;)
I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Jan 22 at The Tattered Cover:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937
And in #ColoradoSprings from Jan 23-25, where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:
https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:
https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/
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Sorry, eh: I sincerely regret that all my ideas will not lose billions of dollars, destroy jobs or make your country more dependent on American tech.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115888970296152807
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Hey look at this
* Bruce Sterling going very, very hard https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/561/State-of-the-World-2026-with-Bru-page05.html#post116
* Get Lost, 2025 https://www.loweringthebar.net/2026/01/get-lost-2025.html?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=loweringthebar
* How to know if that job will crush your soul https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/12/will-that-job-crush-your-soul/
* Why Did Trump Just Attack the Fed and Corporate America? https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-why-did-trump-just
* The Top Ten Policies Your State Can Use to Target Monopoly Harms https://ilsr.org/article/independent-business/top-ten-policies-your-state-can-use-to-target-monopoly-harms/
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#25yrsago Hey, Mark made me a guest editor! https://memex.craphound.com/2001/01/13/hey-mark-made-me-a/
#15yrsago Woz on Network Neutrality https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/steve-wozniak-to-the-fcc-keep-the-internet-free/68294/
#15yrsago Disney World’s awful Tiki Room catches fire https://web.archive.org/web/20110116093950/http://thedisneyblog.com/2011/01/12/fire-reported-at-magic-kingdom-tiki-room/
#10yrsago For the first time in 15 years, there’s a new Violent Femmes album https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2016/01/13/462656061/hear-a-song-from-violent-femmes-first-album-in-15-years
#10yrsago 3D Systems abandons its Cube printers, but DRM means you can’t buy filament from anyone else https://michaelweinberg.org/post/137045828005/free-the-cube
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#10yrsago Why Moveon endorsed Bernie Sanders https://medium.com/middle-of-nowhere-center-of-everything/the-top-5-reasons-moveon-members-voted-to-endorse-bernie-with-the-most-votes-and-widest-margin-in-78c2e69990ec#.py5rdi9xc
#10yrsago Sneak-privatization of public schools: attacking teachers, unions and standards https://web.archive.org/web/20160112065749/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/01/07/a-primer-on-the-damaging-movement-to-privatize-public-schools/
#10yrsago Income inequality makes the 1% sad, too https://hbr.org/2016/01/income-inequality-makes-whole-countries-less-happy
#5yrsago Will Biden bust trusts? https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/13/two-decades/#thanks-obama
#5yrsago 20 years a blogger https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/13/two-decades/#hfbd
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Yesterday's threads: A winning trade war strategy for Canada; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115883083018506697
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