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2002, 2012, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readJun 2, 2022

#20yrsago WiFi cards for only $35 https://web.archive.org/web/20020803085426/http://www.computers4sure.com/product.asp?productid=327161

#10yrsago Hard words for good spellers: the evil spelling test http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/013957.html

#10yrsago HOWTO make a papercraft Enigma machine http://wiki.franklinheath.co.uk/index.php/Enigma/Paper_Enigma

#5yrsago Audi’s top-of-the-line models implicated in Dieselgate https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-audi-idUSKBN18S5Y5?il=0

#5yrsago US border officials will examine 5 years’ worth of visa-seekers’ social media posts https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-visa-idUSKBN18R3F8

#5yrsago Britain’s preferred car-loans are incomprehensible financialized garbage: what could go wrong? https://timharford.com/2017/06/trapsfordinosaurs/

#1yrago How the Dutch helped CBS cheat on its taxes https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/02/arbitrary-arbitration/#dutch-treat

#1yrago Amazon running scared from arbitration at scale https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/02/arbitrary-arbitration/#petard

#1yrago NYC’s driver-owned Uber alternative https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/02/arbitrary-arbitration/#gig-no-more

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

Written by Cory Doctorow

Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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