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Cory Doctorow

Sure, sometimes it makes sense to do your own research. There's times when you really do need to take personal responsibility for the way things are going. But there's limits. We live in a highly technical world, in which hundreds of esoteric, potentially lethal factors impinge on your life every day.

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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/2023/10/23/get

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The US Capitol building. In the bottom left corner are a man and a woman sitting at a computer control panel, adjusting switches and reading a manual. In the bottom right corner are two men at another control panel. One man is looking over his shoulder at the capitol, the other is talking on a phone. Behind the Capitol looms a man in overalls, holding a giant test-tube in one hand and a set of tongs with a stylized atom. Inside the tube is a telephone.
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