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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

#5yrsago Thanks to a Chinese and Korean fad, California’s wild #succulents are being poached and smuggled to Asia https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2163157/californias-succulent-smugglers-plant-poachers

#5yrsago The sheriffs who cheered #Trump’s attack on the press have long histories of shady dealings, revealed by the press https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/08/sheriffs-donald-trump-media-scrutiny

#5yrsago Good news: California ends #CashBail! Bad news: It’s been replaced with a black-box #algorithm https://qz.com/1375820/california-just-replaced-cash-bail-with-algorithms

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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

#5yrsago nostr:npub1l4052f5la6267hqsxx3jnk7sm2q6ptufuhx7e2k3vw3lccyv7upqujnm43’s VR, Objective Reality, live life as an inert, resentful appliance https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2018/08/automata-farm-objective-reality/

#5yrsago Trump wants to kill the #InternationalCriminalCourt to protect US #WarCriminals from prosecution for #Afghan crimes https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/10/trump-administration-to-take-tough-stance-against-the-hagues-icc.html

#5yrsago #BigTech is losing the public’s trust in just the same way that Big #Finance has https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/technology/internet-industry-hearings.html

#5yrsago Court nukes #Ontario’s Trumpian government bid to gut #TorontoCityCCuncil https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/judge-ruling-city-council-bill-election-1.4816664