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Cory Doctorow Apr 8, 2024

Audre Lorde counsels us: "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House," MLK said "the law cannot make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me." Somewhere between *replacing* the system and *using* the system lies a pragmatic - if easily derailed - course.

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:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/08/money-talks/#bullshit-walks

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Andrew Reid Apr 8, 2024

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That investigate-and-short scheme reminds me of a TV series, "Leverage", which I recall having a similar dynamic -- a team of white-hat hackers and thieves punishes corporate evil-doers and funds themselves by shorting the relevant corp.

The wikipedia page doesn't exactly support this recollection, but that's how I remember it going.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leverage_(American_TV_series)

Leverage (American TV series) - Wikipedia

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@reid @pluralistic
I remember that show!
Defitiely was what you recall. I really liked how they showed all the forms of hacking, from social engineering, making false histories, computer hacking and lock picking.
It was total fantasy but the stories were great
I think they rebooted it actually. I gotta check it out.