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2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readJun 27, 2022

#20yrsago Meetup: Meatspace camaraderie for Internet shut-ins https://www.meetup.com/

#15yrsago Rolling Stone: the record industry committed suicide https://web.archive.org/web/20070626045150/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/15137581/the_record_industrys_decline/print

#10yrsago TSA dumps Grandpa’s cremains all over airport, laughs at distraught relative as he picks bone fragments off the floor https://web.archive.org/web/20120627102524/http://www.theindychannel.com/news/31224633/detail.html

#10yrsago Rasputin’s Bastards: epic, psychic cold war thriller https://memex.craphound.com/2012/06/27/rasputins-bastards-epic-psychic-cold-war-thriller/

#10yrsago Anti-cheating ring brands I’M MARRIED into the flesh of your finger https://web.archive.org/web/20120121065435/https://thecheeky.com/anti-cheating-ring

#5yrsago Thailand’s thin-skinned king demands Youtube take down Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” https://globalvoices.org/2017/06/27/at-thailands-request-youtube-blocks-video-clip-of-charlie-chaplins-the-great-dictator/

#5yrsago How an obscure law allowed white, rich developers to steal African-Americans’ land for a century…

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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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