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2012, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readJun 16, 2022

#10yrsago FunnyJunk’s lawyer vows revenge on The Oatmeal and Matthew Inman https://www.popehat.com/2012/06/15/the-oatmeal-v-funnyjunk-part-iii-charles-carreons-lifetime-movie-style-dysfunctional-relationship-with-the-internet/

#10yrsago Rev. Ivan Stang retires from Church of the Subgenius, appoints successor https://revstang.blogspot.com/2012/06/news-release.html

#10yrsago Valve’s new economist-in-residence will publish notes on the political economy of games https://web.archive.org/web/20120617233156/http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/it-all-began-with-a-strange-email/

#10yrsago Class action against PublishAmerica; claims the business is a ripoff for would-be writers http://accrispin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/class-action-lawsuit-filed-against.html

#5yrsago In Rhode Island, students and parents must let schools spy on them day and night through their laptops https://web.archive.org/web/20170622123813/https://riaclu.org/images/uploads/ACLU_1-1_School_Privacy_Report_Final.pdf

#5yrsago Trump’s no-experience, fake-degree wedding planner will be in charge of billions in NYC housing spending https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-chooses-family-event-planner-run-n-y-housing-programs-article-1.3251314

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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