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

Inside: A denialism taxonomy; Urban broadband deserts; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/10/fli…

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A denialism taxonomy: FLICC (fake experts, logical fallacies, impossible expectations, cherry picking, conspiracy theories).



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Urban broadband deserts: Digital redlining is a policy, not an accident.



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10 Jun
The Biden broadband plan set aside $100B to build out universal fiber; that number was way too low (it was derived from the fraudulent broadband maps the monopoly telcos produce).

cnet.com/features/milli…

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The true figure is much higher ($240B!), and ::sad trombone:: the GOP whittled Biden down to $65B. It's easy to see this as the GOP stabbing its rural base in the back (and yup, that's what they're doing), but there's a LOT of urban broadband deserts.

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Apologists for shitty broadband - and Musk cultists who insist that we can provide high speed broadband with satellites that all share the same, contested spectrum, physics be damned - say the US's terrible internet is due to its vast open spaces, too spread out to wire up.

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10 Jun
The science denial industry has deep roots - tobacco-cancer denial, lead paint/gas denial and other ancestral forms of commercial denial gave birth to modern forms of denial: anti-vax, anti-mask, "stop the steal" and, of course, climate denial.

doctorow.medium.com/i-quit-9ae7b60…

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The denial industry has a well-developed and constantly evolving playbook. Wealthy interest seeking to sow doubt about reality - about WHETHER REALITY CAN EVEN BE KNOWN - can pay for skilled denialists to plan and execute denial on their behalf.

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The reality-based community has long made efforts to catalogue denial techniques, and in 2007, @MarkHoofnagle proposed a five-point denial taxonomy: conspiracy, selectivity, fake experts, impossible expectations, and general fallacies of logic.

scienceblogs.com/denialism/2007…

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9 Jun
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Prisoners' Inventions; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/09/kin…

#Pluralistic

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Prisoners' Inventions: The unmissable new edition of a maker classic for a carceral nation.



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#15yrsago @DougCoupland's JPod: the Anti-Microserfs memex.craphound.com/2006/06/09/cou…

#10yrsago Lisa Goldstein’s The Uncertain Places: Grimm fairytale in California vibrates with believable unreality memex.craphound.com/2011/06/09/lis…

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9 Jun
2003's PRISONERS INVENTIONS is an underground classic, a high-stakes precursor to MAKE Magazine, combining ingenuity, adversarial interoperability, and user-centered design. After 13 years out of print, @halfletter's published a new, expanded edition.

halfletterpress.com/prisoners-inve…

1/ The cover of the new edition of Prisoners' Inventions, featu
If you'd like an unrolled 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:

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Prisoners' Inventions was created by Angelo, a pseudonymous, long-serving incarcerated American who entered into a collaboration with the Temporary Services collective, who both published Angelo's work and staged multiple gallery showings of his work.

3/ Spread from 2020 edition of Prisoners' Inventions, depicting
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