Object permanence

2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readJan 26, 2025

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#20yrsago Gilberto Gil’s extraordinary engagement with Brazilians https://web.archive.org/web/20050130034511/http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002400.shtml

#20yrsago Social Security “crisis” commentary that had me laughing aloud https://fafblog.blogspot.com/2005_01_23_fafblog_archive.html#110687103723037689

#20yrsago Details on cracking Apple’s iTunes DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20050129031800/http://osdir.com/Article3823.phtml

#20yrsago Outstanding tips for community moderation https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006036.html#006036

#15yrsago Copyright-maximalist judges plagiarize lawblogger in opinion https://www.24oranges.nl/2010/01/23/judges-plagiarize-blog-posting-in-copyright-case/

#10yrsago Comcast ghost-wrote politicians’ letters in support of Time Warner Cable merger https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/26/7878239/comcast-twc-fcc-merger-letters-politicians-ghostwritten

#10yrsago Koch brothers raise 2016 election warchest that’s on par with either party’s spend https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/us/politics/kochs-plan-to-spend-900-million-on-2016-campaign.html

#10yrsago Podcast: The case for … cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance states https://ia802809.us.archive.org/11/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_325/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_325_-_The_case_for_cities_that_arent_dystopian_surveillance_states.mp3

#5yrsago Listen: loudspeakers broadcast corona virus closure messages to the empty streets of Shanghai Disneyland https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1221812589161799682

#5yrsago Amazon threatened to fire two tech workers who spoke about climate and Amazon’s business, then 357 more workers joined them https://amazonemployees4climatejustice.medium.com/amazon-employees-share-our-views-on-company-business-f5abcdea849

#5yrsago Climate denial has destroyed the libertarian movement https://jacobin.com/2020/01/libertarianism-climate-change-environment-private-property

#5yrsago Why I won’t buy an Ipad: ten years later https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/27/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-ten-years-later/

#5yrsago One of the CIA’s waterboarding torturers called himself “The Preacher” and shouted religious nonsense while performing executions https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/25/some-folks-were-tearful-cia-waterboarding-on-trial-in-guantanamo

#5yrsago The privacy-invading, junk science “home DNA test” industry is cratering https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/01/23/276092/is-the-consumer-genetics-fad-over/

#1yrago Solar is a market for (financial) lemons https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/27/here-comes-the-sun-king/#sign-here

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

Written by Cory Doctorow

Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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