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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

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Inside: Apple threatens to stop selling iPhones in the EU; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/26/empty-threats/

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Pluralistic: Apple threatens to stop selling iPhones in the EU (26 Sep 2025)

The EU flag. Behind the ring of golden stars is a rotten apple. Above the apple is the Apple 'Think different' wordmark. A worm climbs through the 'd' in 'different' and rests on the apple.

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The EU flag. Behind the ring of golden stars is a rotten apple. Above the apple is the Apple 'Think different' wordmark. A worm climbs through the 'd' in 'different' and rests on the apple. Image: Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil from Brazil (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annelid_worm,_Atlantic_forest,_northern_littoral_of_Bahia,_Brazil_%2816107326533%29.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en -- Hubertl (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2015-03-04_Elstar_%28apple%29_starting_putrefying_IMG_9761_bis_9772.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
The EU flag. Behind the ring of golden stars is a rotten apple. Above the apple is the Apple 'Think different' wordmark. A worm climbs through the 'd' in 'different' and rests on the apple. Image: Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil from Brazil (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annelid_worm,_Atlantic_forest,_northern_littoral_of_Bahia,_Brazil_%2816107326533%29.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en -- Hubertl (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2015-03-04_Elstar_%28apple%29_starting_putrefying_IMG_9761_bis_9772.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
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@MusiqueNow@todon.eu replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@pluralistic

A threat or a promise

#FuckApple

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Apple threatens to stop selling iPhones in the EU: Yeah, right.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115271300104707706

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Image: Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil from Brazil (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annelid_worm,_Atlantic_forest,_northern_littoral_of_Bahia,_Brazil_%2816107326533%29.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en -- Hubertl (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2015-03-04_Elstar_%28apple%29_starting_putrefying_IMG_9761_bis_9772.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
Image: Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil from Brazil (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annelid_worm,_Atlantic_forest,_northern_littoral_of_Bahia,_Brazil_%2816107326533%29.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en -- Hubertl (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2015-03-04_Elstar_%28apple%29_starting_putrefying_IMG_9761_bis_9772.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Hey look at this

* They Pump So Much Stuff Into Those Beautiful Little Babies https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/they-pump-so-much-stuff-into-those-beautiful-little-babies (h/t Kottke)

* The climate solution both the right and the left can get behind https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/07/solar-power-rightwing-trump

* Anti-Religious Politics https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/anti-religious-politics

* She Fought the Far Right Online for Years. Now She Wants to Do It in Congress https://www.wired.com/story/kat-abughazaleh-youtuber-for-congress/

* Day Two: Can the Open Web Be Restored? And an Annoyed Judge Tries to Move Things Along. https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/day-two-can-the-open-web-be-restored

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Day Two: Can the Open Web Be Restored? And an Annoyed Judge Tries to Move Things Along.

The Google remedy trial finishes up with business, looks forward to the technical possibilities of a remedy. One witness discussed journalism: “They’re starving. They just need food.”
WIRED

She Fought the Far Right Online for Years. Now She Wants to Do It in Congress

Kat Abughazaleh, 26, made her name swatting down right-wing talking points on social media. Now she’s hoping internet fame can propel her to Congress.

Anti-Religious Politics

One party needs to stand against god in public policy.
the Guardian

The climate solution both the right and the left can get behind | Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben: We’re beyond Mel Gibson’s Mad Max era. We no longer need oil to make it through the apocalypse
McSweeney's Internet Tendency

They Pump So Much Stuff Into Those Beautiful Little Babies

So I’ve been waiting for this meeting for twenty years, actually. And it’s not that everything’s a hundred percent understood or known, but I think...
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

#20yrsago MPAA/RIAA subvert democracy with super-broadcast-flag bid https://web.archive.org/web/20050926233646/http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004000.php

#20yrsago Islam in science fiction https://web.archive.org/web/20051002030829/https://www.cs.rit.edu/~maa2454/SCIFI/sci_lit.html

#15yrsago Philosophy of Thomas Ligotti, a horror writer who can’t feel happiness https://web.archive.org/web/20061119163754/https://theteemingbrain.wordpress.com/interview-with-thomas-ligotti/

#10yrsago Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth, a fantastic middle-grade adventure comic https://memex.craphound.com/2015/09/26/hilo-the-boy-who-crashed-to-earth-a-fantastic-middle-grade-adventure-comic/

#10yrsago Molly Crabapple’s illustrations from Syria https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/07/inside-aleppo-syria

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Vanity Fair

Scenes from Inside Aleppo: How Life Has Been Transformed by Rebel Rule

A Syrian writer revisits the city he attended college in, with sketches by Molly Crabapple.
https://memex.craphound.com

Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth, a fantastic middle-grade adventure comic

Interview with Thomas Ligotti « The Teeming Brain

Islam in Sci-fi Literature

EFF: DeepLinks

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