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Cory Doctorow

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2d ago

America cannot undo Trumpism

The only way out is through.

A pair of wrecked, overturned wagons against a weathered wooden building tinted like a faded US flag; between them is a DEAD END sign. To the left is a 1930s streetcorner with a ONE-WAY sign; entering from that edge is an engraving of an elephant with upraised trunk, decorated in GOP livery and topped with a mop of Trump hair.

Cory Doctorow

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Sep 3

Preparing for a post-Trump internet

You’d better hope it’s also a post-American internet.

A nuclear mushroom cloud wearing a giant Trump wig. A decaying American flag fills the sky behind it.

Cory Doctorow

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Aug 24

How Canada can save Americans and defeat America

True Carneyism has never been tried.

A Canadian flag, its elements replaced with circuit boards. In the foreground, a bent-double, exhausted Uncle Sam trudges over rocky terrain, shlepping a giant sack on his back. Centered in the maple leaf is the word SORRY.

Cory Doctorow

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Aug 4

Post-American compute for a post-American Internet

Building cooperative human rights computing infrastructure in Puerto Rico, the EU, Canada and Mexico

A beautiful 17th century world map. It has been altered. Amongst the various creatures and ships that float in the map’s seas now also float various 1950s and 1960s mainframes and components, along with Trump’s disembodied hair and mouth.

Cory Doctorow

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Jul 22

Trump’s America can’t even win a rigged game

America has created a post-American world.

A vintage world map. The US has been obscured by a roiling black cloud from which squirm many questing tentacles. A large area around the US has been discolored.

Cory Doctorow

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Jun 25

Jailbreaking isn’t theft

It wasn’t progress when they did it, it’s not piracy when we do it back to them.

Cory Doctorow

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May 5

The three armies fighting for the post-American world

Hippies, investors and hawks.

‘The Spirit of 76,’ a famous painting depicting three soldiers marching after a US Revolutionary War battle. The figures heads have been swapped for a man in a top hat, Che Guevara, and a 19th century European general in a silly hat. The US flag in the background has been replaced with the EU flag. The fallen soldier at their feet sports a Trump wig and his skin has been tinted Cheeto orange.

Cory Doctorow

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Mar 5

Blowtorching the frog

If I must have enemies, let them be impatient ones.

Elon Musk wielding a flamethrower; he is roasting the snout of a giant frog Image: Gage Skidmore (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elon_Musk_(54350004945)_(cropped).jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en — Brian Gratwicke (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lithobates_pipiens.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

Cory Doctorow

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Feb 26

If you build it (and it works), Trump will come (and take it)

Trump wants Big Tech to win, not to play fair.

Uncle Sam, peering through a magnifying glass at the planet Earth, which is in the palm of his other hand. His hair has been replaced with a Trump wig and his skin has been tinted Cheeto orange. The background is the Great Seal of the USA, and the arrows in the eagle’s claw have been replaced with a bundle of glowing fiber optics.

Cory Doctorow

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Jan 27

Carney isn’t a hero (and that’s OK)

There is nothing harder to stop than an idea whose time has come to pass.

A triple-masted schooner on a rough sea racing ahead of the wind. Drowning in its wake is a beleaguered caricature of Uncle Sam.