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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Surveillance vs guillotines; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/08/11/t... #Pluralistic 1/

"Eugène Delacroix's painting 'La Liberté guidant le peuple' ('Liberty Leading the People'), depicting the French revolution as a ragtag group of peasants led by a flag-waving, bare-breasted incarnation of 'Liberty.' The painting has been altered: the scene is now being observed with a giant, smoke-shrouded CCTV dome, and the distant building have been replaced with a mainframe computer.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026

Surveillance vs guillotines: Someone's gonna fleece these rubes, why not me? bsky.app/profile/doct... 2/

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net

In 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/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026

Hey look at this * If You Get in a Car Crash, the Risk Is Growing Your Insurance Won’t Pay archive.is/7t58c#select... * Zack Polanski Promotes Radical Plan to Break Up Britain’s ‘Billionaire Media’ bylinetimes.com/2026/08/10/z... 3/

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