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Cory Doctorow #BLM

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8 Nov

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Villainry revealed by Monty Python Latin; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/08/big…

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I'm giving a talk tomorrow at the Reboot Conference at 12PM Pacific:

How to Fix the Internet

rebootconference.org/day-two

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1325490967340744705

Villainry revealed by Monty Python Latin: "Bravus" means "crooked," not "brave."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1325490967340744705

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Cory Doctorow #BLM

@doctorow

8 Nov

Adani is an Australian mining company that is so corrupt and brutal that it's a wonder that it's not a Canadian mining company.

Its signature initiative is a massive coalmine on stolen Aboriginal land in Queensland.

theguardian.com/environment/ca…

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The mine, and its associated railroad and port, are a toxic mix of long-term (CO2) and immediate (reef-killing dredging) environmental consequences. It's so bad that Australia's major insurers will not write a policy for the project:

theguardian.com/environment/20…

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The company's response to its critics has been predictably brutal as well, from hiring private investigators to follow activists' children around:

theguardian.com/business/2020/…

to seeking the power to execute no-knock search-warrants on activists' homes:

theguardian.com/australia-news…

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Cory Doctorow #BLM

@doctorow

7 Nov

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: QE, inflation, slave labor and a People's Bailout; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/07/oba…

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Baycon 2020 - where I was scheduled to be guest of honor - has reconstituted as a series of online panels; mine's today at 1:45 Pacific:

How do we survive Social Engineering?
baycon.org/baycon-2021-zo…

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1325138159408050176

QE, inflation, slave labor and a People's Bailout: Uber is a (terrible) job guarantee program.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1325138159408050176

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Cory Doctorow #BLM

@doctorow

7 Nov

The Obama administration inherited a vast economic crisis. They responded with Quantitative Easing, pumping trillions into the finance sector to rescue the banks that had knowingly gambled on bad mortgages, losing so much they were about to go under.

cnbc.com/2017/11/24/the…

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At the time, deficit hawks predicted inflation, which is a commonsense prediction: inflation is what happens when the amount of money chasing goods and services goes up faster than the supply of those goods and services, creating bidding wars.

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They were right...and wrong. What we got was asset bubbles, especially in housing markets, driving up the price of putting a roof over your head rewarding speculators and landlords, especially Wall Street landlords.

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Cory Doctorow #BLM

@doctorow

6 Nov

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: HP ends its customers' lives; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/06/hor…

#Pluralistic

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Baycon 2020 - where I was scheduled to be guest of honor - has reconstituted as a series of online panels; mine's tomorrow:

How do we survive Social Engineering?
baycon.org/baycon-2021-zo…

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