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Cory Doctorow
2 min readApr 17, 2022

#20yrsago The Street Finds its Own Uses for the Law of Unintended Consequences https://web.archive.org/web/20020603160952/http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/04/16/cory.html

#20yrsago Order of the Phoenix on hold indefinitely https://web.archive.org/web/20020609144504/http://www.cinescape.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Books&action=page&type_id=&cat_id=270442&obj_id=34042

#15yrsago Why Debt is creeping into so many science fiction discussions https://www.tor.com/2012/04/16/the-best-science-fiction-ideas-in-any-non-fiction-ever-david-graebers-debt-the-first-five-thousand-years/

#10yrsago New EU ACTA reviewer also recommends not signing it, calls ACTA a threat to civil liberties https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17728045

#10yrsago Florida standardized science tests are a disaster https://web.archive.org/web/20120410195427/https://www.thehappyscientist.com/blog/problems-floridas-science-fcat-test

#5yrsago Customs and Border Patrol can’t find qualified applicants for Trump’s immigration crackdown https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/14/trump-immigration-border-patrol-agents-low-recruitment

#5yrsago Wells Fargo woulda gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for that darn trade union…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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