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2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readMar 19, 2022

#20yrsago Teenagers have assimilated 9–11 and given us a rich, bountiful harvest of insensitive slang to thrill to https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/03/19/in-times-of-terror-teens-talk-the-talk/a775ede4-1677-4db9-b147-7b130cd3df06/

#15yrsago FBI: terrorists might drive school-buses, but they probably won’t (but they might) https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/03/terrorist_bus_d.html

#15yrsago P2P is killing DVD piracy https://torrentfreak.com/p2p-file-sharing-ruins-physical-piracy-business/

#10yrsago 3D-printed adapter bricks allow interconnection between ten kids’ construction toys http://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/

#10yrsago TSA searches body-casted three-year-old in a wheelchair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNO-AzPxS4U

#5yrsago Bernie Sanders is (by far!) the most popular politician in America https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/17/everyone-loves-bernie-sanders-except-democratic-party

#1yrago Announcing “The Shakedown”: Rebecca Giblin and I wrote a book about creative worker exploitation! https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/19/the-shakedown/#monopsony

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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