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2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readMar 15, 2022

#15yrsago Allen Ginsberg’s “Put Down Your Cigarette Rag” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geKV5aWMXPc

#10yrsago America’s 55-hour work weeks ruin workers’ lives and don’t produce extra value for employers https://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_week/

#10yrsago Bunnie Huang’s open Geiger counter: design notes and reference https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2218

#5yrsago Uber uses its in-app podcasts to broadcast anti-union messages to drivers https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/14/14912524/uber-driver-app-podcast-seattle-union

#5yrsago In defense of left-wing space utopias https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/03/the-regrettable-decline-of-space-utopias

#5yrsago What’s the difference between a CEO and a president? https://medium.com/newco/youre-fired-democracy-dystopia-and-the-cult-of-the-ceo-83a3a9b24531

#5yrsago In a wide-ranging interview, Edward Snowden offers surveillance advice to Trump https://theintercept.com/2017/03/15/intercepted-podcast-snowden-vs-trump/

#5yrsago Podcast: how to secure software by caring about humans, not security https://www.oreilly.com/content/scout-brody-on-crafting-usable-and-secure-technologies/

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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