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Inside: How the Light Gets In; and more!
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I hadn't noticed till you wrote this. Cohen's sort of hopeful album 'Democracy' came out the year Bill became president. 'You Want It Darker' came out the year Donald was voted in.
"Steer your way past the palaces that rise above the rot
Year by year, month by month, day by day
Thought by thought"
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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Hey look at this
* No, liberals were not right about Trump https://www.peoplesline.org/p/no-liberals-were-not-right-about (h/t User Mag)
* Asimov’s Editor Sheila Williams Hospitalized https://locusmag.com/2026/01/sheila-williams-hospitalized/
* Want to understand the K-shaped economy? Go fly on an airplane https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/14/business/k-shaped-economy-delta-nightcap
* How It Stops, How It Ends https://www.againstallenemies.net/p/how-it-stops-how-it-ends
* ‘They’ve pickled each others’ brains’ https://sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickled-each-others-brains?giftLink=ce04b5653afd37bc361bfdaab30b6b62
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#20yrsago Study: how Canadian copyright law is bought by entertainment co’s https://web.archive.org/web/20060207141159/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1075
#20yrsago My Toronto Star editorial about Hollywood’s Member of Parliament https://web.archive.org/web/20060616024225/http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1137279034770
#10yrsago Aaron Swartz’s “Against School” – business leaders have been decrying education since 1845 https://newrepublic.com/article/127317/school
#10yrsago Yosemite agrees to change the names of its significant locations to appease trademark troll https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/yosemite-rename-several-iconic-places/?scope=anon
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#10yrsago Bernie Sanders support soars among actual voters, if not Democratic Party power-brokers https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/14/bernie-sanders-is-winning-with-the-one-group-his-rivals-cant-sway-voters
#5yrsago Tesla's valuation is 1600x its profitability https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/15/hoover-calling/#intangibles
#5yrsago Disneyland kills annual passes https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/15/hoover-calling/#disney-dash
#5yrsago Machine learning is a honeypot for phrenologists https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/15/hoover-calling/#phrenology
#5yrsago Yugoslavia's Cold War obsession with Mexican music https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/15/hoover-calling/#yu-mex
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#5yrsago I was investigated by the FBI https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/15/hoover-calling/#g-man
#5yrsago Facebook says it's the best henhouse fox https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/15/hoover-calling/#hens-need-foxes
#5yrsago Laura Poitras fired from First Look ( https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/15/hoover-calling/#poitras
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