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

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13 Nov
At long last, @EFF has a podcast! "How to Fix the Internet" has been in the works for a long time, and now it's finally a reality, with two spectacular episodes dropping more-or-less simultaneously this week.

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12 Nov
Obviously, there was a LOT of stuff on the ballot on Nov 3.

In Massachusetts, there was a chance to vote on #RightToRepair.

Again.

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Back in 2012, 75% of Bay Staters backed a ballot initiative to force auto manufacturers to allow independent mechanics to access diagnostic data carried on cars' wired networks (but not their wireless nets).

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8 years later, the state's voters got another ballot initiative, Question 1, closing the wireless loophole. Big Car threw everything at scaring people out of voting for it, including telling them that enabling independent repair would MURDER THEM.

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

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12 Nov
Back in April, Xi Jinping gave a (just released) speech about his "dual circulation" plan for China's economy:

* stimulating consumer spending and reducing China's dependence on trade, and

* increasing other countries' dependence on Chinese tech."

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The strategy speaks volumes about the issues of most urgency in our current political economy, grounded as it is in competing bids to strengthen one's own autonomy while reducing other economic actors' capacity for self-determination.

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In "Constantly Wrong," @remixeverything continues his brilliant mashup video work on conspiracy theories with a new, 47 minute documentary that contrasts real-world conspiracies (crimes) with conspiracy theories.



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It's an argument others have made, but he makes it very well, in part through of his dazzling video-editing and encyclopedic storehouse of snippets that go into his mashups. It's what made Ferguson's "Everything Is a Remix" videos so stunning.

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