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Cory Doctorow

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Jul 19, 2024

FCC strikes a blow against prison profiteering

The cost of a prison phone-call drops from $11.35 to $0.90.

A black-and-white photo of a late 19th century French prison; prisoners crowd against the bars in the background while a guard stands in front of the cell, holding a rifle with a fixed bayonet. The guard’s has been tinted purple and head has been replaced with the glaring eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ A mountain of jumbled, bundled US$100s crowd the bottom of the image. An ATM is superimposed on the bars. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi

Cory Doctorow

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Apr 8, 2024

How to shatter the class solidarity of the ruling class

Maybe we can use the master’s tools to dismantle the master’s house?

A period oil-painting depicting ‘The Defenestrations of Prague,’ in which wealthy people were thrown out of windows. This image contains two of these wealthy people, one about to be pushed backwards out the window by other stolid burghers, the other being dragged toward the same window to face a similar fate. Both look terrified. The skyline outside of the window has been replaced with the Manhattan skyline. The wall behind them has been replaced with a green-on-black stock ticker. Image: KMJ (

Cory Doctorow

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Apr 2, 2024

Prison-tech company bribed jails to ban in-person visits

”The Bezzle” is everting.

A black-and-white photo of a late 19th century French prison; prisoners crowd against the bars in the background while a guard stands in front of the cell, holding a rifle with a fixed bayonet. The guard’s has been tinted purple and head has been replaced with the glaring eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ A mountain of jumbled, bundled US$100s crowd the bottom of the image. An ATM is superimposed on the bars. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi

Cory Doctorow

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Feb 14, 2024

Prison-tech is a scam — and a harbinger of your future

My next novel predicts the present.

Prison-tech is a scam — and a harbinger of your future

Cory Doctorow

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Nov 18, 2023

Pinkdrunk Linkdump

Your semi-regular weekend declaration of link bankruptcy.

Pinkdrunk Linkdump

Cory Doctorow

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Jun 11, 2023

The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve Has a Business Model

It is difficult to get a public procurement officer to understand something, when a vendor’s salary depends on his not understanding it.

A jail cell, seen through the bars. Bundles of US $100 bills are piled up on the floor of the cell.

Cory Doctorow

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May 8, 2023

California to smash prison e-profiteers

The Public Utility Commission to the rescue!

A prison cell. Behind the bars is the bear from the California state flag. There is an old-fashioned telephone headset near his ear, such that he appears to be making a call.