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# ![@doctorow Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::2729061.png) @doctorow Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK

Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK posts on X about ai, art, if you, twitter the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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### Social Influence

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[finance](/list/finance)  XXXX% [countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[ai](/topic/ai) 4.33%, [art](/topic/art) 1.81%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 1.44%, [twitter](/topic/twitter) #3637, [books](/topic/books) 1.08%, [university of](/topic/university-of) #1005, [target](/topic/target) 1.08%, [llm](/topic/llm) 1.08%, [art of](/topic/art-of) #2, [deere company](/topic/deere-company) #29

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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Alternate Armies:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1997991070710350144)  2025-12-08T11:26Z 452.2K followers, 1844 engagements


"The John Deere company sent a kill command to those tractors and bricked them rendering them permanently inoperable: Sure there's a certain cyberpunk frisson in this tale of a digital comeuppance for Russian aggressors. 67/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1993667356334358760)  2025-11-26T13:05Z 452.2K followers, 2332 engagements


"If you are an exec at a dominant company with a growth stock you have to live in constant fear that the market will decide that you're not likely to grow any further. Think of what happened to Facebook in the first quarter of 2022. 42/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996962471928803639)  2025-12-05T15:18Z 452.2K followers, XXX engagements


"Best of all Twitter wouldn't do much verifying - you could give Twitter $X claim to be anyone at all and chances are you would be able to assume any identity you wanted post any bullshit you wanted and get priority placement in millions of users' feeds. 33/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1998019186397008168)  2025-12-08T13:17Z 452.2K followers, 1693 engagements


"Theodora Goss's latest book of short stories is 'Letters From an Imaginary Country' and it manages to be one of the most voraciously delightfully *readable* books I've ever read *and* it's one of the most *writerly* books too. What a treat 1/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1988189592991003055)  2025-11-11T10:18Z 451.3K followers, 6755 engagements


"The case for dollar clearing is similar to the case for linking all the world's fiber through US data-centers. It's a big lift to ask every seller to price their goods in every potential buyer's currency. 17/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1993665435460620664)  2025-11-26T12:57Z 451.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Upcoming appearances: * Toronto: Jailbreaking Canada (OCAD U) Nov XX * San Diego: Enshittification at the Mission Hills Branch Library Dec X * Seattle: Neuroscience AI and Society (University of Washington) Dec X * Virtual: Poetic Technologies with Brian Eno (David Graeber Institute) Dec X * Madison CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia Dec X * Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress Dec 27-30 10/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1994018856658944411)  2025-11-27T12:21Z 451.9K followers, XX engagements


"That's fair isn't it It's certainly how Big Tech operates. When Amazon started Jeff Bezos said to the publishers "Your margin is my opportunity." $100b/year off a XX% payment processing fee is a hell of a margin and a hell of an opportunity. 95/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1994390778110775505)  2025-11-28T12:59Z 451.8K followers, XXX engagements


"This isn't a strictly US affair either. In the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer rang in 2025 by firing the country's top competition regulator and replacing him with the former head of Amazon UK. 11/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1995535114445750710)  2025-12-01T16:47Z 451.7K followers, XXX engagements


"John Bevis explores the various feats of cunning and subterfuge undertaken by the Kearton brothers among the very first professional wildlife photographers in their pioneering attempts to get ever closer to their subjects:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996717559870378173)  2025-12-04T23:05Z 451.3K followers, 1878 engagements


"Dr Suess art posting for no reason at all on this very normal day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996739644902592528)  2025-12-05T00:33Z 451.4K followers, 2168 engagements


"Erica Synths x Hexinverter HexDrums // analog drum machine (Latvia 2025)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996939761022611515)  2025-12-05T13:48Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


"And then when I made it clear that I *did* understand crypto insisted that I must be a paid shill. This is literally what happens when you argue with Scientologists and life is Just. Too. Short. 11/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996961173481357337)  2025-12-05T15:13Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


"So I didn't want to get lured into another one of those quagmires because on the one hand I just don't think AI is that important of a technology. 12/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996961176065044648)  2025-12-05T15:13Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


"When you buy a share in a growth stock you're making a bet that it will continue to grow. So growth stocks trade at a huge multiple of their earnings. This is called the "price to earnings ratio" or "P/E ratio." 34/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996961989521035533)  2025-12-05T15:16Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


"But once a company stops growing it is a "mature" stock and it trades at a much *lower* P/E ratio. So for ever dollar that Target - a mature company - brings in it is worth ten dollars. 35/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996962048941650303)  2025-12-05T15:17Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


"*Dollars* are much harder to come by. A company can only get dollars from customers or creditors. So when Amazon bids against Target for a key acquisition or a key hire Amazon can bid with shares they make by typing zeroes into a spreadsheet. 38/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996962252897829056)  2025-12-05T15:17Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Target can only bid with dollars they get from selling stuff to us or taking out loans. which is why Amazon generally wins those bidding wars. That's the *upside* of having a growth stock. 39/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996962334569648189)  2025-12-05T15:18Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


"But I am saying that winning the bet - creating a viable metaverse - is the secondary goal. The primary goal is to keep the market convinced that your company will continue to grow and to remain convinced until the next bubble comes along. 49/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996962915380089222)  2025-12-05T15:20Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


"So this is *why* they're hyping AI: the material basis for the hundreds of billions in AI investment. 50/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996962951144571385)  2025-12-05T15:20Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


"These bugs are literally statistically indistinguishable from working code (except that they're bugs). Here's an example: code libraries are standard utilities that programmers can incorporate into their apps so they don't have to do a bunch of repetitive programming. 82/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996964928331387144)  2025-12-05T15:28Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Like if you want to process some text you'll use a standard library. If it's an HTML file that library might be called something like lib.html.text.parsing; and if it's a DOCX file it'll be lib.docx.text.parsing. 83/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996964973616959785)  2025-12-05T15:28Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Because those letters were a pain in the ass to write. So if you advertised for a postdoc and you heard from a candidate with a reference letter from a respected prof the mere existence of that letter told you that the prof really thought highly of that student. 107/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996966551636119843)  2025-12-05T15:35Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


"But then we got chatbots and everyone knows that you generate a reference letter by feeding three bullet points to an LLM and it'll barf up five paragraphs of florid nonsense about the student. 108/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996966594459623844)  2025-12-05T15:35Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Let's break down the steps in AI training. First you scrape a bunch of web-pages This is unambiguously legal under present copyright law. 129/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996967617383617017)  2025-12-05T15:39Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


"You do *not* need a license to make a transient copy of a copyrighted work in order to analyze it otherwise search engines would be illegal. Ban scraping and Google will be the last search engine we ever get. 130/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996967675650789716)  2025-12-05T15:39Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


"I was out on the line with my comrades from the Writers Guild offering solidarity on behalf of my union IATSE XXX The Animation Guild where I'm a member of the writers' unit. 158/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996969742230515779)  2025-12-05T15:47Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


"And I'll never forget when one writer turned to me and said "You know you prompt an LLM exactly the same way an exec gives shitty notes to a writers' room. 159/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996969804851528077)  2025-12-05T15:47Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


""You know: 'Make me ET except it's about a dog and put a love interest in there and a car chase in the second act.' The difference is you say that to a writers' room and they all make fun of you and call you a fucking idiot suit. 160/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996969860866478354)  2025-12-05T15:48Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


""But you say it to an LLM and it will cheerfully shit out a terrible script that conforms exactly to that spec (you know *Air Bud*)." These companies are *desperate* to use AI to displace workers. 161/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996969912993001739)  2025-12-05T15:48Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


"OK I need to bring this talk in for a landing now because I'm out of time so I'm going to close out with this: AI is a bubble and bubbles are terrible. 182/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996970940778078579)  2025-12-05T15:52Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


"And we'll have the open source models that run on commodity hardware AI tools that can do a lot of useful stuff like transcribing audio and video describing images summarizing documents automating a lot of labor-intensive graphic editing. 190/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996971316415803680)  2025-12-05T15:53Z 451.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Hey look at this * Politics and Capitalist Stagnation * An Analysis of the Proposed Spirit Financial-Credit Union X Merger. The Consequences for the Credit Union System * Zillow deletes climate risk data from listings after complaints it harms sales (h/t Naked Capitalism) * After Years of Controversy the EUs Chat Control Nears Its Final Hurdle: What to Know * How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices (h/t Naked Capitalism) 4/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996975120494268709)  2025-12-05T16:09Z 451.4K followers, XXX engagements


"Wednesday's threads: A year in illustration (2025 edition); and more 6/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996975127477854653)  2025-12-05T16:09Z 451.3K followers, XX engagements


"My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels" a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC about Ponzi schemes techbros and the dawn of enshittification: 7/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996975129935700412)  2025-12-05T16:09Z 451.3K followers, XX engagements


"Account of meeting an 8-year-old Mozart (who would die only XX yrs later #onthisday in 1791). As well as dazzling the narrator with his musical genius Mozart would also sometimes run about the room with a stick between his legs by way of horse #OTD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996980142091260257)  2025-12-05T16:29Z 451.3K followers, XX engagements


"Jaguar E Type G.T. (1961)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996980144200995057)  2025-12-05T16:29Z 451.3K followers, 1174 engagements


"Chrysler Turbine (1963)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996980146121986064)  2025-12-05T16:29Z 451.3K followers, 1149 engagements


"Since when have you been making such delicious coffee Edna Its not me its my automatic Sunbeam CoffeemasterI cant miss (1942)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996984729204326772)  2025-12-05T16:47Z 451.3K followers, 1497 engagements


"Message from Space lobby cards (1978)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1997019450915360825)  2025-12-05T19:05Z 451.3K followers, XX engagements


"In the Bone Hills in Thunder Rift Scorch the red dragon has moved into the abandoned lair of his slain cousin Ash. He is obsessed with finding Ash's missing treasure. "To recompense himself for his troubles he preys upon the farmers and the occasional 'stupid' party of adventurers taking all their goods for himself. If he's in a good mood he might allow them to leave alive." (Karl Waller D&D adventure and campaign setting Thunder Rift by Colin McComb TSR 1992)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1997019453616455716)  2025-12-05T19:05Z 451.3K followers, 1651 engagements


"House Weyers (1962) in Brussels Belgium by Willy van der Meeren & Leon Palm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1997031330580939255)  2025-12-05T19:52Z 451.3K followers, 1498 engagements


"Unlike profits rents are "largely or completely divorced from material production" " they create no wealth and that they reduce economic growth and reallocate incomes from the bottom to the top." 63/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1997418282367041629)  2025-12-06T21:30Z 451.8K followers, XXX engagements


"To make a rent you need an asset and in today's system high asset prices are a top political priority: governments intervene to keep the prices of houses high to protect corporate bonds and of course to keep AI companies' shares and IOUs from going to zero. 64/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1997418337673036097)  2025-12-06T21:30Z 451.9K followers, XXX engagements


"Concept art of retro futurist 70s era studio desks and DJ booths: Credit to Romanovna Works"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1998112844697702702)  2025-12-08T19:29Z 451.8K followers, XX engagements


"Concept art of retro futurist 70s era studio desks and DJ booths: Credit to Romanovna Works"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1998112848090636486)  2025-12-08T19:30Z 451.8K followers, XXX engagements


"Concept art of retro futurist 70s era studio desks and DJ booths: Credit to Romanovna Works"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1998112850854777195)  2025-12-08T19:30Z 451.8K followers, XXX engagements


"Delivery Entry of the Department Store De Bijenkorf (1953-57) in Rotterdam the Netherlands by Marcel Breuer & Abraham Elzas. Photo by Jan Versnel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1984717574568055004)  2025-11-01T20:21Z 452K followers, 3182 engagements


"Gonna need a framed litho of this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1986175483826917591)  2025-11-05T20:55Z 452.2K followers, 642.4K engagements


"This has sold out across most of the five boroughs and copies are selling on Ebay for $XX. Here's a 4000px+ wide JPEG if you want to run a copy on archival paper and frame it as a commemoration of the day things started to get better:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1986207347728130295)  2025-11-05T23:01Z 452.2K followers, 730K engagements


"This was quite a cool little comeuppance the kind of thing a cyberpunk writer like me can certainly relish. 117/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1994391642284212585)  2025-11-28T13:03Z 452.2K followers, XXX engagements


"But anyone who thinks about this for oh ten seconds will immediately realise that anyone who can push around the John Deere company can order the permanent immobilization of any tractor in the world or all the tractors in your country. 118/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1994391663725469731)  2025-11-28T13:03Z 452.2K followers, XXX engagements


"The clauses in Wynn-Williams contract are very similar (if not identical) to the clauses that the US National Labor Relations Board ruled unenforceable: 41/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1995536035946922360)  2025-12-01T16:50Z 451.9K followers, XXX engagements


"Wynn-Williams appeared on stage with me last month at London's Barbican Centre in a book-tour event moderated by Chris Morris. 42/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1995536086563786979)  2025-12-01T16:50Z 452.2K followers, XXX engagements


"Yuri Gagarin Valentina Tereshkova 1963"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1995589175798817120)  2025-12-01T20:21Z 451.9K followers, 2409 engagements


"*VII. Little Bosses Everywhere Bridget Read* Read an investigative journalist at Curbed takes us through the history of the multi-level marketing "industry" which evolved out of Depression-era snake oil salesmen Tupperware parties and magical thinking cults built around books like Think and Grow Rich. This fetid swamp gives rise to a group of self-mythologizing scam artists who founded companies like Amway and Mary Kay claiming outlandish and easily debunked origin stories that the credulous press repeats alongside their equally nonsensical claims about the "opportunities" they are creating"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1995849774462108139)  2025-12-02T13:37Z 452.2K followers, XXX engagements


"*VIII. Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams Wynn-Williams was a lot closer to three of the key personalities in Facebook's upper echelon than anyone in my orbit: Mark Zuckerberg Sheryl Sandberg and Joel Kaplan who was elevated to VP of Global Policy after the Trump II election. I already harbor an atavistic loathing of these three based on their public statements and conduct but the events Wynn-Williams reveals from their private lives make them out to be beyond despicable. There's Zuck whose underlings let him win at board-games like Settlers of Catan because he's a manbaby who can't lose"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1995849777465229360)  2025-12-02T13:37Z 452.2K followers, XXX engagements


"All the books I reviewed in 2025: A year in books. 3/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1995853735428591741)  2025-12-02T13:53Z 452K followers, XXX engagements


"Hey look at this * RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient Glyphosate for Humans * Prisoners Inventions * Inside a Group of Vigilantes with One Goal: Painting Crosswalks to Protect Pedestrians * The AI bubble isnt new Karl Marx explained the mechanisms behind it nearly XXX years ago * Let's See What's Going On Down At The Piss Factory 4/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1995853741984285078)  2025-12-02T13:53Z 451.9K followers, XX engagements


"But like I said the job of an sf writer is to do more than think about what the gadget does and drill down on who the gadget does it *for* and who the gadget does it *to*. Tech bosses want us to believe that there is only one way a technology can be used. 24/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996961297741615367)  2025-12-05T15:14Z 452.2K followers, XXX engagements


"Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think that it's technologically impossible to have a conversation with a friend without him listening in. 25/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996961299767623869)  2025-12-05T15:14Z 452.2K followers, XXX engagements


"The Reverse Centaurs Guide to Criticizing AI: My speech for U Washington's Neuroscience AI and Society lecture series. 3/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1996975117394702594)  2025-12-05T16:09Z 451.9K followers, XXX engagements


"The Carolers - The Addams Family by Charles Addams (1946)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1997432426839310631)  2025-12-06T22:26Z 452.2K followers, 9315 engagements


"A Charlie Brown Christmas animation cel (1965)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1997991083142254611)  2025-12-08T11:26Z 452.2K followers, 1745 engagements


"Elon Musk's Blue Tick scam: The EU bans giant teddybears. 3/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1998022332091339261)  2025-12-08T13:30Z 452.2K followers, XXX engagements


"Saturday's threads: Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism"; and more 6/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1998022345131544866)  2025-12-08T13:30Z 452.2K followers, XXX engagements


"My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels" a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC about Ponzi schemes techbros and the dawn of enshittification: 7/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1998022348973498734)  2025-12-08T13:30Z 452.2K followers, XXX engagements


"@JosephDiRosa @AaronBastani Sorry do you think "Chicago School" means a franchised MBA program "The Chicago School" is the most influential and destructive economic movement of the 20th century headquartered at the University of Chicago School of Business"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1998079845499334812)  2025-12-08T17:18Z 451.9K followers, XX engagements


"The Nebra Sky Disc - the oldest depiction of the cosmos in the world; showing the sun moon and several other celestial constellations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1998339372135882943)  2025-12-09T10:30Z 452.2K followers, 1279 engagements


"Artist: Angus McKie art for The Planet Runner (1981)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1998339375118037230)  2025-12-09T10:30Z 452.2K followers, XX engagements


"Witches (1981) by Erica Jong and illustrated by Jos. A. Smith"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1998339378268029084)  2025-12-09T10:30Z 452.2K followers, XX engagements


"Witches (1981) by Erica Jong and illustrated by Jos. A. Smith"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1998339382000922632)  2025-12-09T10:30Z 452.2K followers, XX engagements


"Witches (1981) by Erica Jong and illustrated by Jos. A. Smith"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1998339385817805012)  2025-12-09T10:30Z 452.2K followers, XX engagements


"Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer & Other Christmas Favorites Gene Autry Design Records/USA (1967)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1998339389135433852)  2025-12-09T10:30Z 452.2K followers, XX engagements


"January 1960 cover Artist: Kelly Freas Mad Logo Artist: Harvey Kurtzman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1998339392784458206)  2025-12-09T10:30Z 452.2K followers, XX engagements


"They told investors that they experienced slightly slower growth in the USA than they had anticipated and investors *panicked*. They staged a one-day $240B sell off. A quarter-trillion dollars in XX hours 43/"  
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""That's fine we just care about finding all those tumors." If that's what they said I'd be delighted. But no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI because they think AI will make radiology more expensive not even if it that also makes radiology more accurate. 59/"  
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"The market's bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: "Look you fire 9/10s of your radiologists saving $20m/year you give us $10m/year and you net $10m/year. 60/"  
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"Bush's Prescription Drug Act didn't seek to recoup public investment in pharma research through lower prices - it offered a (further) subsidy to pharma companies in exchange for (paltry/nonexistent) price breaks. 68/"  
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"Obama's Affordable Care Act transferred hundreds of billions to investors in health corporations who raised prices and increased their profits. Trump's CARES Act bailed out every corporate debtor in the country. 69/"  
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"O Holey Night Better Homes and Gardens Treasury of Christmas Ideas - 1966"  
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"What splendid fellows are these"  
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"This was a massive gift to scammers trolls and disinformation peddlers. For $X you could pretend to be a celebrity in order to endorse a stock swindle shitcoin hustle or identity theft scheme. 34/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1998019224951021687)  2025-12-08T13:17Z 452.2K followers, 1696 engagements


"Hey look at this * Netflix Is Trying to Buy Warner Bros Discovery. That Would Be a Disaster for America. * How popular is ecosocialist transformation * Luigi Mangione Official Legal Fund for all X Cases (read the comments) * Trumps Katrina Is Coming * DEFT: DSPs for Equitable and Fair Treatment 4/"  
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"Unit d'Habitation (1953-55) in Nantes France by Le Corbusier"  
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"Apartment Building ""Huize Boschzicht" (1918-20) in Den Haag the Netherlands by W. Verschoor & C. Rutten"  
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"I have a weird fascination with early-stage Bill Gates after his mother convinced a pal of hers - chairman of IBM's board of directors - to give her son the contract to provide the operating system for the new IBM PC. 1/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/doctorow/status/1998350072770179149)  2025-12-09T11:12Z 452.2K followers, 6102 engagements


"But while tech companies employed programmers to develop this kind of bossware to be used on *other* companies' employees they were loathe to apply them to their own workers. 15/"  
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"For one thing it's just a very stupid way to manage a workforce as Bill Gates himself would be the first to tell you (candidly provided he wasn't trying to sell you an enterprise Office XXX license). For another tech workers wouldn't stand for it. 16/"  
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