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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

10 Jul

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Biden's Right to Repair will include electronics, too; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/07/10/unn…

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@unshavedmouse

Today (Saturday) at 2PM PT, I'm helping @unshavedmouse launch his debut novel,"When the Sparrow Falls" at an event with @MystGalaxyBooks:
mystgalaxy.com/sharpson71021

My review:
pluralistic.net/2021/07/01/bas…

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Biden's Right to Repair will include electronics, too: Part of a broad antimonopoly agenda.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1413908241638068233

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

10 Jul

@johndeere

The Biden administration teased a sweeping antimonopoly executive order last week, including a #RightToRepair provision that was to be aimed at agricultural equipment - a direct assault on the corporate power of repair archnemesis @johndeere. It

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But it turns out that the executive order goes far beyond tractors and other agricultural equipment - it also applies to consumer electronics, including mobile phones, and this is a HUGE FUCKING DEAL.

vice.com/en/article/y3d…

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

9 Jul

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) dir. Roger Corman starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/656209316…

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

8 Jul

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Indonesia's gig work tech resistance; Owning a sports-team is a plute's get-out-of-tax-free card; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/07/08/tuy…

#Pluralistic

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@unshavedmouse

This Saturday, July 10, I'm helping @unshavedmouse launch his debut novel,"When the Sparrow Falls" at an event with @MystGalaxyBooks:
mystgalaxy.com/sharpson71021

My review:
pluralistic.net/2021/07/01/bas…

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1412923242273140736

Indonesia's gig work tech resistance: Tuyul apps and the IT of the Road.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1412923242273140736

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

8 Jul

@Steven_Ballmer

When Microsoft CEO (and Linux archnemesis) @Steven_Ballmer retired and bought the @LAClippers, it was easy to assume that the billionaire was engaged in a jolly or a folly, buying a major league sports team as a folly.

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But far from it: Ballmer made his bones (and his billions) by cheating - lying about free software; secretly funding absurd, crippling, pretextual lawsuits over GNU/Linux; and leading a vast, corrupt monopoly - and his foray into sports ownership was no different.

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