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5 Feb
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The Open Courts Act isn't open enough; AT&T customer complains...via WSJ ad; Amazon's brutal warehouse "megacycle"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/05/la-…

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Next Tuesday, I'm helping Ed Snowden launch the young readers' version of his spectacular memoir "Permanent Record." Join us for a livestream event with Copperfield Books on Feb 9 at 19h Pacific.

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The Open Courts Act isn't open enough: America's laws should be free.



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5 Feb
Amazon's Chicago DCH1 warehouse workers are pioneers of Amazon labor organizing. They met brutal treatment with walkouts, petitions and protests that wrung real concessions from Amazon, a company that pioneered worker brutality.

cnbc.com/2020/03/23/ama…

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But now DCH1 is being made to suffer. The company has demanded that these workers knuckle under to a new scheduling system called "Megacycles," which is corporatespeak for a ten-hour shift that runs from 1:20AM to 11:50AM.

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Workers that refuse the new schedule - because there is no transit option to get them to their job at that hour, because they are caring for elderly relatives, because they have kids in distance ed - will lose their jobs.

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5 Feb
Aaron Epstein is a 90 year old who lives a couple miles from me in North Hollywood. He's been an AT&T customer since 1960 and holy shit, is he ever DONE WITH THEIR SHIT.

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Epstein gets 3mbps (nominal)/1.5 mbps (actual) from AT&T, in the heart of the entertainment industry's company town, where the studios are serviced by a 100gb fiber loop built at public expense (it passes under my house's foundation slab).

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Like all of us in this part of LA, Epstein is not able to access this publicly funded fiber, because his city has given monopoly franchises to AT&T and Charter, two of the most despicable monopoly companies in America.

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4 Feb
One of the quiet, grotesque, longrunning scandals of the US legal system is PACER, the paywall that separates the people of America from their court records. It's a hard drive of non-searchable PDFs, and it costs Americans $150m+/year to run.

pluralistic.net/2020/08/08/tur…

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After decades of fights - including the stunt that put @aaronsw in the FBI's crosshairs - Congress is finally moving on the Open Courts Act, which makes substantial reforms to the PACER system.

congress.gov/bill/116th-con…

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But as @carlmalamud - who has been a leader in the fight to free PACER - writes in an open letter to the bill's Congressional and Senate advocates, the Act doesn't go nearly far enough.

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4 Feb
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Organic fascism; Stop the "Stop the Steal" steal; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/04/vot…

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Organic fascism: The Pastel Q/organic food crossover.


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Stop the "Stop the Steal" steal: My op-ed on ES&S's bullying of e-voting critics.


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4 Feb
I've got an op-ed in today's @washingtonpost, about the legal threats that ES&S - the litigious, private-equity-backed voting machine monopolist - sent to SMART Elections, a citizen group that criticized ES&S products to NY election officials.

washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…

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I blogged the story in Jan, after reading Princeton's Andrew Appel's defense of SMART; Appel has done important, careful, peer-reviewed research on defects in ES&S's Expressvote XL, and he defended the claims that ES&S was threatening to sue over.

pluralistic.net/2021/01/11/see…

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The point that Appel made, that really struck home with me, was that the timing and character of ES&S's claims echoed the claims of Dominion Voting Systems against trumpland's most unhinged conspiratorialists, like Rudy Giuliani.

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