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  • Cory Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr
    Aug 8, 2026, 9:11 AM

    NYC PIT Crew's new Click to Cancel site will be live when the policy takes effect on Oct 1. It's a whistleblower site that will make it easy to report merchants who make it *hard* to get shut of their online Roach Motels (users check in, but they don't check out). It's estimated the Click to Cancel rule will save New Yorkers $160m in the first year alone - but only if Mamdani can enforce it, which is why this website is so critical.

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  • Cory Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr
    Aug 8, 2026, 9:11 AM

    This focus on meat-and-potatoes service delivery was once dismissed as "sewer socialism," an unserious form of progressive politics with an undue focus on improving people's daily lives at the expense of high-flying political change.

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  • Cory Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr
    Aug 8, 2026, 9:11 AM

    Today, Mamdani is at the vanguard of an army of proud sewer socialists, who say that once you deliver for people in their day-to-day existence, they will trust you and back you when you fight for deep, structural changes (and the corollary: if you *can't* deliver for people in their daily lives, why should they trust you when you claim that you'll make everything better?):

    prospect.org/2026/04/10/zohran

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  • Cory Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr
    Aug 8, 2026, 9:12 AM

    3,000 techies applied for 35 jobs with NYC's PIT Crews, and, as Levy writes, many of them are high-flying senior coders who are willing to take a massive pay-cut and forfeit their stock options to do something that's both technically excellent and meaningful to their users' lives.

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  • Cory Doctorowpluralistic@mamot.fr
    Aug 8, 2026, 9:12 AM

    It's a clear message to other leaders, at every level of government. Many of the most skilled, ambitious people in every field want to make the world a better place. Every city, county and state could use a squadron of PIT Crews, and there's an army of coders who would give anything for the chance to give everything to make a better world.

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