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Cory Doctorow

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Inside: Blowtorching the frog; and more!

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Pluralistic: Blowtorching the frog (05 Mar 2026) executive-dysfunction

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Protocols can beat services by providing capabilities no service can.

Cory Doctorow

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Blowtorching the frog: If I must have enemies, let them be impatient ones.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116178287302461459

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Cory Doctorow

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The Ticketmaster Monopoly Trial Starts

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Cory Doctorow

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The Christian Science Monitor

Home prices falling to level of 1890s

In real terms, home prices today are comparable to 120 years ago.

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Forget Apple's fight with the FBI – our privacy catastrophe has only just begun

The privacy crisis is a disaster of our own making – and now the tech firms who gathered our data are trying to make money out of privacy

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Algebra II Drives Dropout Rates and Is Mostly Useless. Here’s a Plan for Getting Rid of It.

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Amazon Quietly Removes Encryption Support from its Gadgets

As Apple fights for encryption, Amazon disables it.

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New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new...

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