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Today's threads (a thread).

Inside: My Fellow Americans; Digital manorialism vs neofeudalism; SC GOP moots modest improvements to "magistrate judges"; Pavilions replacing union workers with "gig workers"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/05/man…

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My Fellow Americans: Audio, text and commentary for every president's inaugural address.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1346178368056619009

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Digital manorialism vs neofeudalism: Tech companies as warlords with walled gardens.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1346204966931689477

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South Carolina GOP moots modest improvements to "magistrate judges": Lewis Carroll was an optimist.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1346494515918503943

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Pavilions replacing union workers with "gig workers": Prop 22's other shoe drops.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1346506743635853312

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#15yrsago Study: Best place to advertise to teens is in-game blog.seattlepi.com/buzz/2006/01/0…

#15yrsago Hollywood’s Canadian Member of Parliament digital-copyright.ca/edid/35068

#5yrsago Thomas Piketty on Thomas Piketty crookedtimber.org/2016/01/04/cap…

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Yesterday's threads: Ad-tech is a bezzle; Google's unionizing; The Data Detective; Damon Knight's Why Do Birds is back; Endorsing the Forward 43 slate; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1346152639919099904

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