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Amazon is a perfect #enshittification parable - platforms subsidize end users until they're locked in, then make life good for business customers at users' expense, until *they're* locked in, then claw back all the value they can, leaving just enough to keep the lock-in going.
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In a new report for @SOMO, @margaridasilva2 describes how the end-stage enshittification of Amazon is playing out in the #EU, with Amazon repeating its US playbook.
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media; Hey look at this; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/13/cer…
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Inside: Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media; Hey look at this; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/13/cer…
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Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media: The final installment in my EFF series on saving the news.
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Hey look at this
* Logistics Co Recruiting in American Truck Simulator Amid Driver Shortage gizmodo.com/american-truck…
* Social Case for Bright-Line #Antitrust Rules thesling.org/the-social-cas…
* #Ontario #NDP hearings to lower phone bills/improve ISPs
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* Logistics Co Recruiting in American Truck Simulator Amid Driver Shortage gizmodo.com/american-truck…
* Social Case for Bright-Line #Antitrust Rules thesling.org/the-social-cas…
* #Ontario #NDP hearings to lower phone bills/improve ISPs
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#BigTech steals from news, but what it steals isn't *content*. Talking about the news isn't theft, and neither is linking to it, or excerpting it. But stealing *money*? That's *definitely* theft.
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Big Tech steals money from the news media. 51% of every ad-dollar is claimed by a tech intermediary, a middleman that squats on a chokepoint between advertisers and publishers.
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They said it was impossible. After decades of #antitrust cases over #PredatoryPricing - selling below cost to kill or prevent competitors - the #ChicagoSchool of neoliberal #economists "proved" predatory pricing didn't exist, so courts could stop busting companies for it.
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Predatory pricing - the economists explained - was illegal, but it was also imaginary. A mirage. No one would predatory price, because it was "irrational." Even if someone irrational enough to try it, they would fail. Stand down, American judges - predatory pricing is solved.
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: KPMG audits the nursing homes it advises on how to beat audits; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/09/din…
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Inside: KPMG audits the nursing homes it advises on how to beat audits; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/09/din…
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Tomorrow (May 10), I'm in #Vancouver for a keynote at the #OSSummit:
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And a book event at #HeritageHall:
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On Thu (May 11), I'm in #Calgary for @WordfestTweets:
wordfest.com/2023/event/wor…
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And a book event at #HeritageHall:
eventbrite.ca/e/red-team-blu…
On Thu (May 11), I'm in #Calgary for @WordfestTweets:
wordfest.com/2023/event/wor…
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KPMG audits the nursing homes it advises on how to beat audits: Too big to fail, too big to jail, and an existential risk to civilization.
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Company that makes millions spying on students will get to sue a whistleblower; Red Team Blues Chapter One, part four; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/20/lin…
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Inside: Company that makes millions spying on students will get to sue a whistleblower; Red Team Blues Chapter One, part four; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/20/lin…
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Today (Apr 21), I'm speaking in #Chicago at the @StiglerCenter's #Antitrust and #Competition Conference:
chicagobooth.edu/research/stigl…
This weekend (Apr 23/24), I'm at the @latimes #Bookfest:
events.latimes.com/festivalofbook…
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This weekend (Apr 23/24), I'm at the @latimes #Bookfest:
events.latimes.com/festivalofbook…
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Company that makes millions spying on students will get to sue a whistleblower: The BC Appeals Court drops a *terrible* decision in Ian Linkletter's anti-SLAPP against Proctorio.
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Iowa's starvation strategy; The Red Team Blues tour; Red Team Blues Chapter One, part three; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/19/wha…
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Inside: Iowa's starvation strategy; The Red Team Blues tour; Red Team Blues Chapter One, part three; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/19/wha…
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Tomorrow (Apr 21), I'm speaking in #Chicago at the @StiglerCenter's #Antitrust and #Competition Conference:
chicagobooth.edu/research/stigl…
This weekend (Apr 22/23), I'm at the @latimes #Bookfest:
events.latimes.com/festivalofbook…
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chicagobooth.edu/research/stigl…
This weekend (Apr 22/23), I'm at the @latimes #Bookfest:
events.latimes.com/festivalofbook…
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Iowa's starvation strategy: Maybe the cruelty IS the point?
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#Enshittification is platforms devouring themselves: first they tempt users with goodies. Once users are locked in, goodies are withdrawn and dangled before businesses. Once business customers are stuck, all value is claimed for platform shareholders:
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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/2023/04/12/alg…
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Enshittification isn't just another way of saying "fraud" or "price gouging" or "wage theft." Enshittification is intrinsically digital, because moving all those goodies around requires the flexibility that only comes with a *digital* businesses.
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#Jetblue is trying to buy #SpiritAirlines. It's a terrible idea. Consolidation in the US aviation industry has resulted in higher fares, less reliable planes, spiraling junk-fees, and brutal conditions for flight- and ground-crews. 1/
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:
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The four remaining US major airlines, who gobbled their rivals, are three times more profitable than their European counterparts:
economist.com/leaders/2017/0…
That's great news if you're an airline shareholder. 3/
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That's great news if you're an airline shareholder. 3/
Live now: State of the Net conference #SOTN, featuring Assistant Attorney General for #antitrust Jonathan Kanter & @B_Fung
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#SOTN #Section230 panel opens with @ma_franks claiming the law protects only against liability for defamation and related claims supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/2…
If that were all 230 did, why did Congress spell out things didn't 230 affect completely unrelated to defamation and the like?
If that were all 230 did, why did Congress spell out things didn't 230 affect completely unrelated to defamation and the like?
@ma_franks .@MA_Franks relies entirely on the "Good Samaritan" heading for 230(c) to argue that (c)(1) must require good faith efforts to block content. If Congress had intended to make (c)(1) immunity contingent on good faith, it would have said so, as it did in (c)(2)(A)
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: VW wouldn't help find kidnapped child because his mother wasn't paying for find-my-car subscription; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/28/kin…
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Inside: VW wouldn't help find kidnapped child because his mother wasn't paying for find-my-car subscription; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/28/kin…
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This Thu (Mar 2) I'm in #Brussels for #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy, with a who's-who of EU and US trustbusters. In-person and virtual attendance are free:
brusselsconference.com/registration
On Fri (Mar 3), I'll be in #Graz for @ElevateFestival:
elevate.at/diskurs/progra… 2/
brusselsconference.com/registration
On Fri (Mar 3), I'll be in #Graz for @ElevateFestival:
elevate.at/diskurs/progra… 2/
VW wouldn't help find kidnapped child because his mother wasn't paying for find-my-car subscription: All the harms of surveillance, none of the benefits.
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Podcasting "Twiddler"; Hey look at this; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/27/kno…
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Inside: Podcasting "Twiddler"; Hey look at this; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/27/kno…
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This Thu (Mar 2) I'm in #Brussels for #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy, with a who's-who of EU and US trustbusters. In-person and virtual attendance are free:
brusselsconference.com/registration
On Fri (Mar 3), I'll be in #Graz for @ElevateFestival:
elevate.at/diskurs/progra… 2/
brusselsconference.com/registration
On Fri (Mar 3), I'll be in #Graz for @ElevateFestival:
elevate.at/diskurs/progra… 2/
Podcasting "Twiddler": What makes digital platforms so enshittification prone?
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Dow promised to turn sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/26/car…
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Inside: Dow promised to turn sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/26/car…
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Next Thu (Mar 2) I'm in #Brussels for #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy, with a who's-who of EU and US trustbusters. In-person and virtual attendance are free:
brusselsconference.com/registration
On Fri (Mar 3), I'll be in #Graz for @ElevateFestival:
elevate.at/diskurs/progra… 2/
brusselsconference.com/registration
On Fri (Mar 3), I'll be in #Graz for @ElevateFestival:
elevate.at/diskurs/progra… 2/
Dow promised to turn sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia: Corporate "recycling" programs are just obfuscated landfills.
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: This is your brain on fraud apologetics; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/24/pas…
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Inside: This is your brain on fraud apologetics; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/24/pas…
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Next Thu (3/2) I'm in #Brussels for #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy, with a who's-who of EU and US trustbusters. Both in-person and virtual attendance are free:
brusselsconference.com/registration
On Fri (3/3), I'll be in #Graz for @ElevateFestival:
elevate.at/diskurs/progra… 2/
brusselsconference.com/registration
On Fri (3/3), I'll be in #Graz for @ElevateFestival:
elevate.at/diskurs/progra… 2/
This is your brain on fraud apologetics: The curious comfort of victim-blaming.
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SCOOP: President Joe Biden’s nominee to fill a vacancy on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals is a longtime diversity trainer who has argued for curtailing the First Amendment and conducted training sessions that say "microaggressions" can "kill you." 🧵
freebeacon.com/biden-administ…
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Now an associate justice on the Connecticut State Supreme Court, Maria Araujo Kahn suggested in a 2020 opinion that courts should criminalize speech that offends "oppressed groups."
Since 2013, she has also delivered at least a dozen diversity trainings and presentations to lawyers across the country, with titles like "Cultural Competence, Implicit Association and Racial Anxiety," according to her Senate Judiciary Questionnaire.
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Fighting the privacy wars, state by state; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/23/sta…
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Inside: Fighting the privacy wars, state by state; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/23/sta…
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Next Thu (Mar 2) I'm in #Brussels for #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy, with a who's-who of EU and US trustbusters. Both in-person and virtual attendance are free:
brusselsconference.com/registration
On Fri (Mar 3), I'll be in #Graz for @elevatefestival: 2/
brusselsconference.com/registration
On Fri (Mar 3), I'll be in #Graz for @elevatefestival: 2/
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/21/the…
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Inside: Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/21/the…
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Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds": A return to "Lovecraft Country."
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#20yrsago Bertelsmann sued over #Napster web.archive.org/web/2003040120…
#15yrsago Random House Audio abandons audiobook #DRM craphound.com/DRMLetter22108…
#15yrsago Collective intelligence spontaneously arises among #ARG players — paper from I Love Bees creator avantgame.com/McGonigal_WhyI… 3/
#15yrsago Random House Audio abandons audiobook #DRM craphound.com/DRMLetter22108…
#15yrsago Collective intelligence spontaneously arises among #ARG players — paper from I Love Bees creator avantgame.com/McGonigal_WhyI… 3/
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/20/tur…
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Inside: Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/20/tur…
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Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU: Why do Americans have to pay Intuit to tell the IRS things it already knows?
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Hey look at this
* A Mathematical Theory of Communication web.archive.org/web/1998071501…
* How to Win at Monopoly and Piss Off Your Friends imgur.com/topic/The_More… (h/t @kottke)
* Crowdsourced land-clearing monitoring acfinvestigates.org.au (h/t Michael Pulsford) 3/
* A Mathematical Theory of Communication web.archive.org/web/1998071501…
* How to Win at Monopoly and Piss Off Your Friends imgur.com/topic/The_More… (h/t @kottke)
* Crowdsourced land-clearing monitoring acfinvestigates.org.au (h/t Michael Pulsford) 3/
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Pluralistic is three; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/dre…
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Inside: Pluralistic is three; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/dre…
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Hey look at this
* 'Landlords Are a Scum Class': Everything I've Learnt About London Renting vice.com/en/article/n7z…
* The Lie That's Destroying the Economy
* What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-i… (h/t Tom Jennings) 3/
* 'Landlords Are a Scum Class': Everything I've Learnt About London Renting vice.com/en/article/n7z…
* The Lie That's Destroying the Economy
* What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-i… (h/t Tom Jennings) 3/
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Google's chatbot panic; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/twe…
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Inside: Google's chatbot panic; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/twe…
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This is the last day (Feb 17) of my #Australian tour for my book #ChokepointCapitalism with my co-author, #rgibli. We'll be in #Canberra at the Australian Digital Alliance Copyright Forum:
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Google's chatbot panic: On the infinite insecurities of a self-styled creative genius who really just buys other people's ideas.
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Nathan J. Robinson's "Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/14/nat…
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Inside: Nathan J. Robinson's "Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/14/nat…
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This week (Feb 14-17), I'm in #Australia, touring my book #ChokepointCapitalism* with my co-author, @rgibli. We're in #Sydney tonight (Feb 15) (more tickets just released) and then #Canberra (Feb 16/17).
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Nathan J. Robinson's "Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments": A seriously good look at some seriously bad arguments.
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Obama's turncoat antitrust enforcer is angry about the Google breakup; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/13/the…
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Inside: Obama's turncoat antitrust enforcer is angry about the Google breakup; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/13/the…
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This week (Feb 14-17), I'm in #Australia, touring my book #ChokepointCapitalism* with my co-author, @rgibli. We're in #Melbourne tonight (Feb 14), #Sydney tomorrow (Feb 15) and then #Canberra (Feb 16/17). More tickets just released for Sydney!
chokepointcapitalism.com 2/
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Obama's turncoat antitrust enforcer is angry about the Google breakup: You know you're doing something right when...
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: After Ohio rail disaster, Buttigieg is silent on restoring the safety standards Trump repealed; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/11/din…
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Inside: After Ohio rail disaster, Buttigieg is silent on restoring the safety standards Trump repealed; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/11/din…
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This week (Feb 13-17), I'm in #Australia, touring my book #ChokepointCapitalism* with my co-author, @rgibli. We're doing a remote event for #NZ tomorrow (13/2). Next are #Melbourne (14/2), #Sydney (15/2) and #Canberra. More tickets released for Sydney!
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After Ohio rail disaster, Buttigieg is silent on restoring the safety standards Trump repealed: Civil War-era brake systems were good enough for General Sherman...
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When a #FreightTrain carrying toxic chemicals derailed near #EastPalestine, #Ohio, bursting into flame and sending up clouds of poisonous vinyl chloride smoke and gas, our immediate concerns were for the people in harm's way and the train's crew:
nytimes.com/2023/02/04/us/… 1/
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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:
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Those immediate concerns were soon joined by broader worries: that the entire rail industry presented a systematic danger, and the Ohio #derailment was a symptom of a much deeper pathology that endangered anyone who lives near one of the rail corridors that crisscross the US. 3/
