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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

20 Mar

@SDonziger

On Fri, I published an article about @SDonziger, an environmental lawyer who won a historic victory over @Chevron, only to find himself disbarred and held under house arrest through a conspiracy between Chevron and two corporate-friendly NY judges.

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@jackholmes0

I wrote, "Donziger is the only person in the entire USA who is in pre-trial detention for a misdemeanor." I was quoting @jackholmes0's @esquire interview with Donziger: "I'm the only person in the entire country held on a misdemeanor pre-trial."

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This is incorrect. Many, many people in America are in pre-trial detention over a misdemeanor. I don't know if Donziger misspoke (perhaps he meant he's had the longest pre-trial misdemeanor detention, at ~600 days, or maybe he was misquoted).

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

20 Mar

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Department of Truth; Support Amazon workers today; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/03/20/aga…

#Pluralistic

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1373047231503233025

Department of Truth: What if reality was a democracy?

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1373047231503233025

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1373283496286855170

Support Amazon workers today: Events in 45 cities in support of the Bessemer, Alabama union drive.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1373283496286855170

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

20 Mar

Amazon is an innovator: the company has invented some of the most sophisticated techniques ever seen to avoid taxation, the minimum wage, worker safety, and climate justice.

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They pioneered worker misclassification, allowing them to treat their drivers as independent contractors or even subcontractors to independent contractors, even as they subjected those workers to supervision to rival the most invasive workplaces.

pluralistic.net/2021/03/19/the…

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They summoned into existence the "Mechanical Turks," among the lowest-paid pieceworkers in existence, largely overseas, receiving pennies (or fractional pennies) to backstop "AI" applications, proving that AI really stands for "absent Indians".

pluralistic.net/2021/02/17/rev…

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