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Cory Doctorow

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May 23, 2024

Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp

Using class warfare as cover for looting.

An old Red Lobster ad, showing a fisherman on a pier amid a bounteous catch, standing under an old fashioned . He grins and brandishes a large lobster at a grinning family. The image has been modified to add four symbols of rapacious capitalism. There is a dancing Monopoly Rich Uncle Pennybags with a skull-like face, his cane replaced by a scythe. There is a stern, impatient, grey-haired business-man looming over a rooftop, staring at his watch impatiently. There is a portly, shouting man in a s

Cory Doctorow

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Feb 24, 2024

Vice surrenders

Literally the stupidest publishing strategy I’ve ever heard of (ever).

Piles of magazines in boxes. The top two magazines’ covers have been replaced with faked up Vice covers. On one, a man’s shoe is about to be punctured by a nail sticking up out of a board left on the ground. On the other, a rotary saw blade has amputated several fingers from someone’s hand.