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Inside: Excuseflation; and more!

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Excuseflation: Monopolists will never let a good emergency go to waste.

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Hey look at this

* Letter from Daniel Ellsberg, diagnosed with terminal cancer ceasefire.ca/wp-content/upl… (h/t Gord Doctorow) 3/

#20yrsago @mkapor quits #Groove board, reportedly over Total Info Awareness nytimes.com/2003/03/11/bus…

#15yrsago @lessig publicly humiliates Andrew Keen web.archive.org/web/2008031321… 4/

#15yrsago New-old stock of Bell Labs’s cardboard teaching computer, the #CARDIAC web.archive.org/web/2008040406…

#15yrsago HOWTO Be blogged web.archive.org/web/2008031315… 5/

#10yrsago Inside the awful world of #RATters – the men who spy on people through their computers with “remote administration tools” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrsago New Brazilian environmental political party based on social networking globalvoices.org/2013/03/09/for… 6/

#5yrsago RIP #KateWilhelm, science fiction great and co-founder of the Clarion Workshop facebook.com/richard.wilhel… 7/

#5yrsago Singapore, where the government owns most of the land and housing and a stake in most business is the American right’s “capitalist ideal” peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/03/09/how…

#1yrsago The SEC must not legitimize fake "#CarbonOffsets" pluralistic.net/2022/03/11/a-m… 8/

Yesterday's threads: The Right accuses their critics of the conspiracy they themselves engage in; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1634197060143529985

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