By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/ 14851428
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/08/11/t... 2/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. 214824
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026The second was Thomas Piketty's *Capital in the 21st Century*, a book about the economic inevitability (and political instability) of oligarchy: memex.craphound.com/2014/06/24/t... 3/memex.craphound.comThomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX 222741
lizziec.bsky.social @lizziec.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Thank you Cory, I’ve just started reading your work and it’s changing how I think about the world. 170
