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11 Nov
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Interactive UK covid omnishambles explorer; Win 6 free sf/f hardcovers; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/11/omn…

#Pluralistic

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I'm on a Texas Book Festival panel tomorrow:

Cyberterrorists, Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes, and Were-Pomeranians

texasbookfestival.org/events/cyberte…

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Interactive UK covid omnishambles explorer: Tories gonna tory.



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11 Nov
The US and the UK have been locked in a fierce competition since March, to see who can bungle their coronavirus response worse. The US is the clear leader here, both in per-capita deaths and infections and in elevating lethal junk-science to a conservative loyalty test.

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But the UK has put in a remarkable showing.

Remember "cumgate" (Prime Ministerial advisor Dominic Cummings' breathtaking violation of his own lockdown rules)?

theguardian.com/politics/2020/…

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Then there's Boris Johnson, who beat Trump in the who-gets-infected-first race by months.

For all that the UK has lost most of the events in Infection Olympics to its American cousins, it continues to lead in that most quintessentially ENGLISH of events: the omnishambles.

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10 Nov
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Microchip "dark matter"; Reset; Rights of Nature and legal standing; Broadband wins the 2020 election; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/10/dar…

#Pluralistic

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I'm on a Texas Book Festival panel this Thursday:

Cyberterrorists, Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes, and Were-Pomeranians

texasbookfestival.org/events/cyberte…

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Microchip "dark matter": An unpatchable, ecosystem-shattering security break.



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10 Nov
(Almost) all Americans hate their ISP. The exception? People who get their internet from their municipal governments.

consumerreports.org/telecom-servic…

Over 750 municipalities (mostly conservative towns) have rolled out blazing-fast municipal fiber:

vice.com/en/article/a3n…

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However, very few large cities have done the same. Telcoms apologists who argue that America simply can't do broadband argue that big cities can't have municipal fiber because they're too dense, and small towns can't have it because they're too spread out.

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Reality has a well-known bias in favor of muni fiber. When we look inside large telcoms monopolists (as we did when Frontier went bankrupt), we learn they don't connect us because execs make more (AND companies lose money) when they withhold fiber.

pluralistic.net/2020/05/01/ica…

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10 Nov
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10 Nov
To understand the levers of power under the rule of law, you have to understand "standing" - the right to seek justice for some bad act. Courts and legislatures guard standing jealously; the worst-case scenario is that anyone can sue over an injustice done to someone else.

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You and your neighbor agree that it's fine for them to park their car in a way that impedes a driveway you never use anyway, and then some stranger sues your neighbor to make them stop - it's not just court-clogging, it's also a barrier to justice.

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But many of our gravest, most urgent harms affect whole populations, so it can be hard to identify which person is harmed. This is where we get class action suits from - a million people sue over a $2.83 ripoff, not to get their $2.83 back, but to hold the grifter to account.

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