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2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.

Cory Doctorow
3 min readOct 3, 2023

Next weekend (October 7–8), I’m in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest.

#15yrsago Will Rogers talks to the bankers: keynote roast from 1924 https://ia904504.us.archive.org/24/items/WillRogersTalksToTheBankers/WILLROGERSTALKSTOTHEBANKERS_WillRogers_VICTOR_45374-A.mp3

#15yrsago Liar’s Poker: a timely moment to revisit 20-year-old memoir of the rise and fall of a financial bubble https://memex.craphound.com/2008/10/03/liars-poker-a-timely-moment-to-revisit-20-year-old-memoir-of-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-financial-bubble/

#10yrsago Fortunately the Milk: Gaiman’s kid-novel is a tribute to fatherly trolling https://memex.craphound.com/2013/10/03/fortunately-the-milk-gaimans-kid-novel-is-a-tribute-to-fatherly-trolling/

#10yrsago Unsealed Lavabit docs show that Feds demanded SSL keys https://www.wired.com/2013/10/lavabit-unsealed/

#10yrsago EFF: the NSA has endangered us all by sabotaging security https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/nsa-making-us-less-safe

#10yrsago Disney World extends hours for part timers so they get health-care https://archive.thinkprogress.org/under-obamacare-disney-world-will-promote-its-part-time-workers-to-full-time-status-eefa61bd314b/

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Cory Doctorow
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