By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026The ref must be more powerful than the players on the field, so the smallest government you can have is determined by the size of the largest corporation and the wealth of the richest billionaire you're willing to tolerate. 1213
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026The world is in *really* bad shape right now, but it doesn't have to be. As Mamdani has shown us, it's not that hard to run a well-administered, advanced technological civilization. Fixing potholes and making transit work and enforcing housing rules isn't rocket surgery. 2204
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026We know how to do those things - we just don't do them because billionaires don't want us to, and they are unthwartable: yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/the-revolu...yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.comThe revolutionary art of fixing the thing people are complaining aboutProject Stethoscope, potholes, and everything in between 1170
David M @dmoscotia.bsky.social · 14hMamdani as good as he seems, isn't the first good Leader or the only at this moment in time, he did not invent good leadership. Maybe in your Country he is, but stop insulting the rest of the World by judging it all by US standards. 100
