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This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readApr 15, 2023

There’s only three days left in the Kickstarter campaign for the audiobook of my next novel, a post-cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller about Silicon Valley scams called Red Team Blues. Amazon’s Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they’re DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible.

#20yrsago GM apologizes for “freaks and weirdos ride the bus” ads https://craphound.com/GMresponse.pdf

#20yrsago How GM destroyed America’s public transit https://www.trainweb.org/mts/ctc/ctc06.html

#15yrsago Oregon: our laws are copyrighted and you can’t publish them https://memex.craphound.com/2008/04/15/oregon-our-laws-are-copyrighted-and-you-cant-publish-them/

#15yrsago Ronald Searle’s original dark, weird and hilarious St Trinian’s comics https://memex.craphound.com/2008/04/15/ronald-searles-original-dark-weird-and-hilarious-st-trinians-comics/

#10yrsago Cops in Somerville, MA: “It would endanger the public to tell you what guns we have” https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2013/apr/12/muckrock-appeals-somerville-pd-records-denial/

#5yrsago When your dental insurer sends you a “free” Internet of Shit toothbrush…

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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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