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Cory Doctorow

When it comes to the modern world of , terrible businesses, no addition to your vocabulary is more essential than "," 's term for "the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"

pluralistic.net/2023/08/09/acc

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An image of the Hindenberg, mid-explosion. The Verizon logo has been added to the side of the doomed zeppelin. To its left looms the person of Paul Marcarelli in his guise as Verizon's 'test man' from the 'Can you hear me now?' ads.
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Cory Doctorow

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2023/08/10/sma

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pluralistic.netPluralistic: The long bezzle (10 August 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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