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Australia - like many English-speaking countries - is full of lovely people who somehow manage to keep electing far-right, genocidal, climate-denying governments of surpassing administrative incompetence.1/ The most likely explanation:
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If you want someone to stay loyal to your cult, you could do worse than demanding the impossible of them: "I can do $IMPOSSIBLE_THING and so will you, if your
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People with passports from poor nations know what it's like to be denied access to most of the world, or subjected to humiliating and expensive visa procedures just to go
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My latest @locusmag column is "Full Employment," in which I forswear "Fully Automated Luxury Communism" as totally incompatible with the climate emergency, which will consume 100%+ of all human labor
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Finfisher/Finspy is malware made by Gamma, an Anglo-German cyber-arms dealer, and sold to the world's most despicable dictators and torturers. Microsoft Security has just published an extensive, fascinating analysis of
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Medtronic's 20-year-old PB840 ventilators are workhorses, but the company has used DRM to prevent repairs by third parties. Controlling repair gives medtechs monopolist two benefits:1/ 1. They can charge higher-than-market
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In my novella Unauthorized Bread, I explore how "smart" devices can be turned into rent-extraction services, enabling firms to convert the property we own into systems that we license, with
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US cities spend 20-45% of their budgets on policing on but cops run foundations that solicit millions from large corporations, which then take tax breaks for their donations. The money
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I've been following @DailyFrail's work for more than a decade: he's an open-access musician and music teacher who has taught hundreds - thousands - of people to play banjo through
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Disney made a LOT of...uh, problematic...movies, but none quite so indefensible as Song of the South, a Reconstruction movie in which a formerly enslaved man tells a young, wealthy white
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On Jul 1, I'm giving a seminar on how Big Tech distorts our discourse for the @oiioxford. It's free to attend, but you need to RSVP: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6015930181073/WN_MnlH5x2XTRqiKKmhU0QPAg1/ This is a
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This week marks publication of The Case for a Job Guarantee, @ptcherneva's brilliant, lucid pamphlet laying out the case for a radical rethinking of work and the creation of a
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