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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Unpermissioned research; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/02/s... #Pluralistic 1/

A car's frosted-over back windscreen, being scraped by a person's hand holding an ice-scraper. The person has scraped a Canadian maple leaf into the windscreen. In the background we see the capitol dome and a depressed caricature of Uncle Sam holding a sign reading 'I am busted.'

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026

Unpermissioned research: Fighting Trump means preserving the internet, which means scraping. bsky.app/profile/doct... 2/

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

After half a century of neoliberalism, we are all drenched in capitalism's established religion, the worship of property rights. 1/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026

Hey look at this * Meta's $17b Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social Media Users www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... * New Twitter launches, says X gave up the name arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... * For The Economist, Mentioning Workers’ Interests Is Heresy jacobin.com/2026/08/acem... 3/

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