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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/07/2026

Then they faced such a massive backlash that they had to make another announcement bemoaning the fact that we'd all misunderstood their (unambiguous and extremely damning) announcement and they were actually going to do no such thing: pluralistic.net/2025/07/30/e... 21/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/07/2026

One thing the Mamdani campaign impressed upon every politician in the country is that people are *pissed* about affordability and they will support anyone who stands up for the public against AI-equipped price gougers. 22/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/07/2026

The problem of course is that those price gougers are highly organized and have deep treasuries (stuffed with money they stole from us). With surveillance pricing, politicians face a familiar conundrum: if they do the thing that's popular with voters, they'll enrage donors. 23/

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SirFox @sirfox.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I wish the pro-corporate wing of the democrats didn't decide the best reply to this was stuffing fingers in their ears and going "LA LA LA CAN'T HEAR YOUUUU!!!!!"

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