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Cory Doctorow #BLM

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6 Feb

Back in January, I got a very odd call from an FBI Special Agent, who wanted to discuss a blog post I'd written summarizing a Popular Mechanics article on the physics of monument toppling, having received a complaint about it.

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@EFF

Thankfully, I have access to some of the very best civil liberties lawyers in the nation, namely my colleagues at @EFF. Andrew Mackey, an EFF lawyer who specializes in this kind of thing, had a talk with the agent, who agreed that I'd broken no laws and dropped the matter.

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Aaron did one better. He helped me draft a Freedom of Information Act request to the FBI along with a demand that my record there be expunged, as is my right under settled precedent.

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Cory Doctorow #BLM

@doctorow

6 Feb

I didn’t tell you before because I wasn’t sure whether it was real or not. But I am sure now. It is real. There’s a man out there.

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (The Twilight Zone, TV Series, 1963)

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Cory Doctorow #BLM

@doctorow

6 Feb

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Klobuchar wants to bust her some fuckin' trusts; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/06/cal…

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Next Tuesday, I'm helping Ed Snowden launch the young readers' version of his spectacular memoir "Permanent Record." Join us for a livestream event with Copperfield Books on Feb 9 at 19h Pacific.

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1357866756509818880

Klobuchar wants to bust her some fuckin' trusts: CALERA is A Big Fucking Deal.

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Cory Doctorow #BLM

@doctorow

6 Feb

@PrimeVideo

Tonight I got invited to a virtual premiere of #BlissMovie from @PrimeVideo and they asked me to post about the movie afterwards.

It was...good. Weird. Good. Phildickian, ambiguous and very plague-escapist, a good and weird thing for a moment of great anxiety and hope.

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Parts of it triggered my, "Sorry, this isn't sf, it's just a cool eyeball kick" complaint, but then again, there was Selma Hayek putting in a genuinely spectacular performance, and Owen Wilson being a lot less goofy (modulo the nose!) than we've come to expect.

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Phildickian is not entirely complementary. I love PK Dick, but he didn't always make a hell of a lot of sense. Some of his most haunting stuff was his least coherent, but as David St Hubbins reminded us, "There's such a fine line between clever and stupid."

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Cory Doctorow #BLM

@doctorow

6 Feb

America has passed four major antitrust bills since the Sherman Act of 1890. Each bill makes it clear that monopolism is a problem in and of itself - that allowing power to be concentrated into few, unaccountable hands perverts public policy and undermines the nation.

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For generations, American regulators fought monopolies because they were monopolies. But in the early 1980s, a disgraced Nixonite criminal named Robert Bork became Ronald Reagan's court sorcerer, backed by a coalition of ultra-wealthy plutes.

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Bork claimed that if you stared at the Sherman Act and its successors long enough, eventually you would have a holy revelation and learn that the lawmakers who crafted these bills - and spoke explicitly about their distrust of monopolies - actually really LIKED monopolies.

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