Cory Doctorow on Nostr: To my surprise, my life's work has turned out to be a long series of attempts to get ...

To my surprise, my life's work has turned out to be a long series of attempts to get people to engage with the abstract, distant issues of tech policy before it's too late. This is hard, because people naturally devote their attention to things that are concrete and immediate (for very good reasons!).

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