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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
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That's what's happened with antitrust this decade, where the divisions between billionaire rentiers like Apple/Google and the millionaire capitalists who want to escape their 30% app tax has allowed a rush of effective antitrust enforcement to sweep the world, to the detriment of both:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/28/mamdani/#trustbusting

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
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By not hanging together, the rich let us hang them separately. And since there is no honor among thieves - since the rich want nothing more to eat one anothers' lunches - there is disunity aplenty for us to exploit. We just have to remember that we are the (very large) majority and act like it.

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
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Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller Red Team Blues and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/red-team-blues-auf-deutsche-drm-freie

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
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