The capitalism of fools: Trump's mirror-world New Deal.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-08-28 18:14:16

As Trump rails against free trade, demands public ownership stakes in corporations that receive government funds, and (selectively) enforces antitrust law, some (stupid) people are wondering, "Is Trump a communist?"

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Pluralistic: The capitalism of fools (28 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* Thinking Ahead to the Full Military Takeover of Cities hamiltonnolan.com/p/thinking-a…

* Framework is working on a giant haptic touchpad, Trackpoint nub, and eGPU for its laptops theverge.com/news/766161/frame…

* National says "fuck you" on the right to repair norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/…

* Tax the Rich. They’ll Stay rollingstone.com/politics/poli… (h/t Kottke)

* Welcome to the Free Online Tax Preparation Feedback Survey irsresearch.gov1.qualtrics.com… (h/t Stefan Jones)

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#20yrsago Cops have to pay $41k for stopping man from videoing them web.archive.org/web/2005090501…

#20yrsago Commercial music in podcasts: the end of free expression? memex.craphound.com/2005/08/26…

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#10yrsago Illinois mayor appoints failed censor to town library board ncac.org/news/blog/mayor-appoi…

#10yrsago IBM’s lost, glorious fabric design collection.cooperhewitt.org/us…

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#10yrsago Former mayor of SLC suing NSA for warrantless Olympic surveillance techdirt.com/2015/08/26/promin…

#10yrsago Health’s unkillable urban legend: “You must drink 8 glasses of water/day” nytimes.com/2015/08/25/upshot/…

#10yrsago Austin Grossman’s CROOKED: the awful, cthulhoid truth about Richard Nixon memex.craphound.com/2015/08/26…

#10yrsago After Katrina, FBI prioritized cellphone surveillance muckrock.com/news/archives/201…

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#10yrsago Germany’s spy agency gave the NSA the private data of German citizens in exchange for Xkeyscore access zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/20…

#10yrsago Elaborate spear-phishing attempt against global Iranian and free speech activists, including an EFF staffer citizenlab.ca/2015/08/iran_two…

#10yrsago Commercial for Banksy’s Dismaland youtube.com/watch?v=V2NG-MgHqE…

#5yrsago Outdoor education beat TB in 1907 pluralistic.net/2020/08/27/cul…

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#5yrsago Hagoromo, mathematicians' cult chalk pluralistic.net/2020/08/27/cul…

#5yrsago Principles for platform regulation pluralistic.net/2020/08/27/cul…

#5yrsago It's blursday pluralistic.net/2020/08/26/des…

#5yrsago Surveillance Capitalism is just capitalism, plus surveillance pluralistic.net/2020/08/26/des…

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Tuesday's threads: By all means, tread on those people; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-08-26 20:14:04

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: By all means, tread on those people; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/sol…

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Pluralistic: By all means, tread on those people (26 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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