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2011, 2016, 2020.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readOct 13, 2021

#10yrsago Ryanair declares war on bodily fluids, vows to remove toilets https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/ryanair-unveils-its-latest-plan-save-money-remove-toilets-plane-2369232.html

#10yrsago Agatha H and the Airship City: Girl Genius book is a cross between a comic and a prose novel https://memex.craphound.com/2011/10/13/agatha-h-and-the-airship-city-girl-genius-book-is-a-cross-between-a-comic-and-a-prose-novel/

#5yrsago Bob Dylan is the first songwriter to win the Nobel Prize for literature https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2016/1013/Bob-Dylan-lyrics-as-literature-First-songwriter-to-win-a-Nobel-Prize

#5yrsago Hungary’s Prime Minister shuts down opposition press, then goes after everyone else https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/13/hungary-future-europe-far-right-viktor-orban

#5yrsago Talking about Allan Sherman on the Comedy on Vinyl podcast http://stolendress.com/comedyonvinyl/episode-199-cory-doctorow-on-allan-sherman-my-son-the-nut/

#5yrsago AI’s blind spot: garbage in, garbage out https://www.nature.com/articles/538311a

#5yrsago Wells Fargo’s new CEO previously denied that the bank’s sales culture had any problems…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

Written by Cory Doctorow

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