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My latest @locusmag column is "The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have A Point," about all the ways that I agree with the Right's paranoid fringe, whom I mostly *disagree* with:

locusmag.com/2023/05/commen…

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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:

pluralistic.net/2023/05/03/par…

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The impetus for the article was a widely reported, bizarre protest against the plan to create a #15MinuteCity in Oxford, England.

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Gezocht
om een afwijkende
opinie/mening/opvatting.
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#5G #reclame-spot uit China
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De Totale Bewaking in het #SociaalKredietSysteem
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#Spoedwet / #Sleepwet
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Straks in Nederland,
te beginnen met de #QRcode
The EU’s biometric power-grab is sinister and grotesque

Brussels is rolling out an invasive new border system that will cause massive delays, and further undermine our liberty

archive.ph/768hV

#masssurveillance
#datamining
#SocialCreditSystem
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Here are some of the big reasons #ensdomains have been getting so much attention!

For those who are wondering:

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1a. - DNS

To really understand #ensdomain you first need to know their web2 counterpart: #dns, which means "domain name system". We take for granted what it does for us because we don't have to remember numbers like "142.250.188.238" in order to get to google.com.
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But, without DNS, we would have to (sort of; there were other protocols developed as solutions before DNS, but DNS is what we have been using since 1983. The previous solutions were not very efficient, but I won't go into a tangent about them).
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