Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Antitrust defies politics' law of gravity; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/28/mamdani/
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Antitrust defies politics' law of gravity; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/28/mamdani/
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I'm at the end of my 24-city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels!
Catch me in #LONDON with RILEY QUINN from #TRASHFUTURE on TUESDAY (July 1):
https://howtoacademy.com/events/cory-doctorow-the-fight-against-the-big-tech-oligarchy/
And in #MANCHESTER at Blackwell's Bookshop on WEDNESDAY (July 2):
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1308451968059
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Antitrust defies politics' law of gravity: Anything that can't go on forever eventually stops.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114761205402644923
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Hey look at this
* What's a democratic socialist? https://coreyrobin.com/2025/06/26/what-is-a-democratic-socialist/
* Republicans flagged more often than Dems for sharing misinformation on X’s Community Notes https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2502053122 (h/t Marginal Revolution)
* Emergency decontamination tool for Chemical Crowd Control Agent (CCCA) exposure and app for protestor mobilization https://nedc.mesausa.org/team/california-2025/ (h/t Ray Gulick)
* Promises The Trump Phone Would Be ‘Made In USA’ Lasted 1/100th Of A Scaramucci https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/27/promises-the-trump-phone-would-be-made-in-usa-lasted-1-100th-of-a-scaramucci/
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#20yrsago Brazil to US pharma co: slash AIDS drug prices or lose patent https://web.archive.org/web/20190918065156/https://www.ft.com/content/816699fe-e50a-11d9-95f3-00000e2511c8
#20yrsago Hilary Rosen: Killing Napster didn’t bring market control https://web.archive.org/web/20050629010724/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/hilary-rosen/the-wisdom-of-the-court-_3259.html
#15yrsago Canadian cops’ history of agents provocateurs and the G20 https://memex.craphound.com/2010/06/27/canadian-cops-history-of-agents-provocateurs-and-the-g20/
#15yrsago Stiglitz: spending cuts won’t cure recession https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/osborne-s-first-budget-it-s-wrong-wrong-wrong-2011501.html
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#5yrsago Santa Cruz bans predictive policing https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/27/belated-oppenheimers/#banana-slugs
#1yrago Copyright takedowns are a cautionary tale that few are heeding https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/27/nuke-first/#ask-questions-never
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Yesterday's threads: Bill Griffith's 'Three Rocks'; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114755905420046858
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This is a small personal instance of Bonfire in the Fediverse.