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The Tech Giants’ Anti-regulation Fantasy

theatlantic.com · Nov 28

Major internet companies pretend that they’re best left alone. History shows otherwise.

Shared by @strangetikigod and 20 others.
Peter Nimmo (@Peternimmo) · Nov 28
🔁 @TimKarr:

"Not the absence of regulation, but its pervasiveness, made the mid-20th-century U.S. telephone network the envy of the world," writes Richard John for the Atlantic.

We need similar industry-aiding oversight of 21st century communications. Restoring the FCC's Title II authority over broadband access services is a start.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

hypebot (@hypebot) · Nov 28
🔁 @taylorlorenz:

Major internet companies pretend that they’re best left alone. History shows otherwise. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

Hank G ☑️ (@hankg) · Nov 28
🔁 @TimKarr:

"Not the absence of regulation, but its pervasiveness, made the mid-20th-century U.S. telephone network the envy of the world," writes Richard John for the Atlantic.

We need similar industry-aiding oversight of 21st century communications. Restoring the FCC's Title II authority over broadband access services is a start.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

My people have lived in the Amazon for 6,000 years: You need to listen to us

climatechangenews.com · Nov 28

As the planet warms and biodiversity collapses, those encouraging and profiting from the destruction of the Earth must be charged with ecocide

Shared by @topstories and 14 others.
Glyn Moody (@glynmoody) · Nov 28
🔁 @wigbert:

a reminder a few days before #COP28

"...I ask world leaders, especially from the Global North: Have you given up living on Earth? Why do indigenous peoples have to protect more than 80% of the world’s biodiversity with so little support while the rich dream of colonising other planets?..."

Txai Suruí

#ClimateDiary, #ClimateCrisis

climatechangenews.com/2022/07/

Gombang (@gombang) · Nov 28
🔁 @wigbert:

a reminder a few days before #COP28

"...I ask world leaders, especially from the Global North: Have you given up living on Earth? Why do indigenous peoples have to protect more than 80% of the world’s biodiversity with so little support while the rich dream of colonising other planets?..."

Txai Suruí

#ClimateDiary, #ClimateCrisis

climatechangenews.com/2022/07/

Jay Holler (@jay) · Nov 28
🔁 @wigbert:

a reminder a few days before #COP28

"...I ask world leaders, especially from the Global North: Have you given up living on Earth? Why do indigenous peoples have to protect more than 80% of the world’s biodiversity with so little support while the rich dream of colonising other planets?..."

Txai Suruí

#ClimateDiary, #ClimateCrisis

climatechangenews.com/2022/07/

Aad Schippers 🇪🇺 (@aadschippers) · Nov 28
🔁 @wigbert:

a reminder a few days before #COP28

"...I ask world leaders, especially from the Global North: Have you given up living on Earth? Why do indigenous peoples have to protect more than 80% of the world’s biodiversity with so little support while the rich dream of colonising other planets?..."

Txai Suruí

#ClimateDiary, #ClimateCrisis

climatechangenews.com/2022/07/

Carlton Gibson 🇪🇺 (@carlton) · Nov 28
🔁 @wigbert:

a reminder a few days before #COP28

"...I ask world leaders, especially from the Global North: Have you given up living on Earth? Why do indigenous peoples have to protect more than 80% of the world’s biodiversity with so little support while the rich dream of colonising other planets?..."

Txai Suruí

#ClimateDiary, #ClimateCrisis

climatechangenews.com/2022/07/

Pauline von Hellermann (@pvonhellermannn) · Nov 28
🔁 @wigbert:

a reminder a few days before #COP28

"...I ask world leaders, especially from the Global North: Have you given up living on Earth? Why do indigenous peoples have to protect more than 80% of the world’s biodiversity with so little support while the rich dream of colonising other planets?..."

Txai Suruí

#ClimateDiary, #ClimateCrisis

climatechangenews.com/2022/07/

Xerophile (@xerophile) · Nov 28
🔁 @wigbert:

a reminder a few days before #COP28

"...I ask world leaders, especially from the Global North: Have you given up living on Earth? Why do indigenous peoples have to protect more than 80% of the world’s biodiversity with so little support while the rich dream of colonising other planets?..."

Txai Suruí

#ClimateDiary, #ClimateCrisis

climatechangenews.com/2022/07/

hypebot (@hypebot) · Nov 28
🔁 @wigbert:

a reminder a few days before #COP28

"...I ask world leaders, especially from the Global North: Have you given up living on Earth? Why do indigenous peoples have to protect more than 80% of the world’s biodiversity with so little support while the rich dream of colonising other planets?..."

Txai Suruí

#ClimateDiary, #ClimateCrisis

climatechangenews.com/2022/07/

Nas (@nasmaz) · Nov 28
🔁 @wigbert:

a reminder a few days before #COP28

"...I ask world leaders, especially from the Global North: Have you given up living on Earth? Why do indigenous peoples have to protect more than 80% of the world’s biodiversity with so little support while the rich dream of colonising other planets?..."

Txai Suruí

#ClimateDiary, #ClimateCrisis

climatechangenews.com/2022/07/

Worth reading

‘The monarchy looks vulnerable’: will Britain’s republicans bring down the king?

theguardian.com · Nov 28

Every day, we learn more about the royals’ colonial legacy and financial privileges – and it has given a huge boost to the republican movement

Shared by @drnoble and 9 others.
TheBeastOfBaglan (@TheBeastOfBaglan) · Nov 28
🔁 @wood5y:

"This family started the slave trade, invested in it, rejoiced in it. The £600m that Charles inherited last year, tax-free, would have been inherited monarch to monarch, going back, uninterrupted, to when they were making money out of slavery.” #NotMyKing #RepublicNow #AbolishTheMonarchy theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n

Donald R Noble (@drnoble) · Nov 28
🔁 @patrickhadfield:

'All of a sudden, the king and queen were right there, so close to us that we could have been looking at them from the far end of a pub. “Not my king!” everyone shouted. Stumped for a response, King Charles waved at us...

"...people used to say: ‘I agree with what you’re doing, but I don’t think the end of the monarchy will happen in my lifetime,’ says Smith. “Nowadays, people don’t say that. The monarchy ...looks vulnerable. The spell has been broken.”'

theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (@Lazarou) · Nov 28
🔁 @wood5y:

"This family started the slave trade, invested in it, rejoiced in it. The £600m that Charles inherited last year, tax-free, would have been inherited monarch to monarch, going back, uninterrupted, to when they were making money out of slavery.” #NotMyKing #RepublicNow #AbolishTheMonarchy theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n

The 2023 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide

kottke.org · Nov 27

Itttt’s baaack… After not happening for the past three years, the Kottke Holiday Gift Guide has returned. I’ve

Shared by @Rycaut and 7 others.
Aaron Pressman (@ampressman) · Nov 27
🔁 @kottke:

The 2023 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide, featuring the best of many excellent gift guides & goodies made by Kottke readers too! kottke.org/23/11/the-2023-kott

Shannon Clark (@Rycaut) · Nov 29
🔁 @anildash:

Jason's gift guide is really thoughtful and fun. Makes me want to make a gift guide of my own. Dunno if I need to encourage folks to get stuff, but I love to share what I've learned! kottke.org/23/11/the-2023-kott

DKMJ (@dkmj) · Nov 28
🔁 @anildash:

Jason's gift guide is really thoughtful and fun. Makes me want to make a gift guide of my own. Dunno if I need to encourage folks to get stuff, but I love to share what I've learned! kottke.org/23/11/the-2023-kott

Jcrabapple :virginia_badge: (@jcrabapple) · Nov 28
🔁 @anildash:

Jason's gift guide is really thoughtful and fun. Makes me want to make a gift guide of my own. Dunno if I need to encourage folks to get stuff, but I love to share what I've learned! kottke.org/23/11/the-2023-kott

Jason Kottke (@jkottke) · Nov 28
🔁 @kottke:

The 2023 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide, featuring the best of many excellent gift guides & goodies made by Kottke readers too! kottke.org/23/11/the-2023-kott

Dan Cederholm (@simplebits) · Nov 27
🔁 @kottke:

The 2023 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide, featuring the best of many excellent gift guides & goodies made by Kottke readers too! kottke.org/23/11/the-2023-kott

Inside Foxconn’s struggle to make iPhones in India

restofworld.org · Nov 28

Chinese engineers are flying to India to train the next generation of iPhone builders.

Shared by @Techmeme and 11 others.
Glyn Moody (@glynmoody) · Nov 28
🔁 @restofworld:

For our new feature about Foxconn's race to make iPhones in India, we spoke with two dozen assembly line workers, technicians, engineers, and managers. They detailed the successes, struggles, and cultural clashes that have played out on one of the world’s most consequential factory floors

restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-i

Ian Brown :fedi: (@1br0wn) · Nov 28
🔁 @restofworld:

For our new feature about Foxconn's race to make iPhones in India, we spoke with two dozen assembly line workers, technicians, engineers, and managers. They detailed the successes, struggles, and cultural clashes that have played out on one of the world’s most consequential factory floors

restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-i

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (@Lazarou) · Nov 28
🔁 @restofworld:

For our new feature about Foxconn's race to make iPhones in India, we spoke with two dozen assembly line workers, technicians, engineers, and managers. They detailed the successes, struggles, and cultural clashes that have played out on one of the world’s most consequential factory floors

restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-i

Thomas Steiner :chrome: (@tomayac) · Nov 28
🔁 @brucelawson:

Inside Foxconn’s struggle to make iPhones in India restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-i "Chinese engineers are flying to India to train the next generation of iPhone builders". A fascinating look at the culture differences, and a disconcerting reminder of the exploitation behind our gadgets.

Lachlan Hardy (@lachlanhardy) · Nov 28
🔁 @brucelawson:

Inside Foxconn’s struggle to make iPhones in India restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-i "Chinese engineers are flying to India to train the next generation of iPhone builders". A fascinating look at the culture differences, and a disconcerting reminder of the exploitation behind our gadgets.

Michael Nagenborg (he/him) (@mnagenborg) · Nov 28
🔁 @restofworld:

For our new feature about Foxconn's race to make iPhones in India, we spoke with two dozen assembly line workers, technicians, engineers, and managers. They detailed the successes, struggles, and cultural clashes that have played out on one of the world’s most consequential factory floors

restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-i

Flipboard Tech Desk (@TechDesk) · Nov 28
🔁 @restofworld:

For our new feature about Foxconn's race to make iPhones in India, we spoke with two dozen assembly line workers, technicians, engineers, and managers. They detailed the successes, struggles, and cultural clashes that have played out on one of the world’s most consequential factory floors

restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-i

Anna Anthro (@AnnaAnthro) · Nov 28
🔁 @brucelawson:

Inside Foxconn’s struggle to make iPhones in India restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-i "Chinese engineers are flying to India to train the next generation of iPhone builders". A fascinating look at the culture differences, and a disconcerting reminder of the exploitation behind our gadgets.

Worth reading

A Corrupted COP

billmckibben.substack.com · Nov 28

New revelations show just how bad the oil countries really are

Shared by @markrstoll and 12 others.
Richard Ashwell (@RichardAshwell) · Nov 28

Bill McKibben: A Corrupted COP

New revelations show just how bad the #oil countries really are

The documents, obtained by the Centre for #Climate Reporting in the UK and first published by the BBC, showed talking points for meetings between officials like Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber, the head of this COP and also of the UAE’s national oil company, and at least 28 countries prior to the start of the offical talks.

#COP28 #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimatecCrisis #BoycottCOP28

billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-

Sally Strange (@SallyStrange) · Nov 28
🔁 @KeithDJohnson:

1/ Bill McKibben wrote:
"A Corrupted COP28
New revelations show just how bad the oil countries really are.
The UAE’s close ally, Saudi Arabia, is hard at work on an Oil Development Sustainability Programme which involved hooking African & Asian nations on fossil fuels. It is almost cartoonishly villainous:

The investigation obtained detailed information on plans to drive up the use of fossil fuel-powered cars, buses & planes in Africa & elsewhere, as rich countries increasingly switch to clean energy.

The ODSP plans to accelerate the development of supersonic air travel, which it notes uses three times more jet fuel than conventional planes, & partner with a carmaker to mass produce a cheap combustion engine vehicle. Further plans promote power ships, which use polluting heavy fuel oil or gas to provide electricity to coastal communities." billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-
Also:
climate-reporting.org/undercov

Bruce Mirken (@BruceMirken) · Nov 28
🔁 @rberger:

Documents, obtained by the Centre for Climate Reporting… end any pretense that these [Oil producing] countries are engaged in good-faith efforts to wind down the industry—instead they’re hooking up with car manufacturers to make cheap vehicles that would keep demand for their crude pumping on.
#ClimateDisaster #BigOil #cops
substack.com/inbox/post/139212

Bacchus1234 (@bacchus1234) · Nov 28
🔁 @jd:

The annual worldwide climate conferences—the next starts this week—represent our species last hope at mitigating climate change.
But the raw greed and corruption of the oil industry have turned them into a total farce.
Here’s Bill McKibben’s scathing, blistering, mind-numbing report.

#Climate #COP28
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-

Steve's Place (@steter) · Nov 28
🔁 @jd:

The annual worldwide climate conferences—the next starts this week—represent our species last hope at mitigating climate change.
But the raw greed and corruption of the oil industry have turned them into a total farce.
Here’s Bill McKibben’s scathing, blistering, mind-numbing report.

#Climate #COP28
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-

Mick 🇨🇦 (@mick) · Nov 28
🔁 @jd:

The annual worldwide climate conferences—the next starts this week—represent our species last hope at mitigating climate change.
But the raw greed and corruption of the oil industry have turned them into a total farce.
Here’s Bill McKibben’s scathing, blistering, mind-numbing report.

#Climate #COP28
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-

Bread and Circuses (@breadandcircuses) · Nov 28
🔁 @jd:

The annual worldwide climate conferences—the next starts this week—represent our species last hope at mitigating climate change.
But the raw greed and corruption of the oil industry have turned them into a total farce.
Here’s Bill McKibben’s scathing, blistering, mind-numbing report.

#Climate #COP28
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-

Murat Cem Mengüç (@mcmenguc) · Nov 28

We should never even ask what a company or a #government should do about #climatechange or #carbonfootprint. Because they won’t do the right thing. We should only expose them. And do the right thing from outside these #institutions as revolutionary, alternative newly initiated activist projects. We need to leave these corrupt institutions and their corrupt environmentalisms behind. Neither are useful or functional outside #capitalism. billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-

Mark Stoll (@markrstoll) · Nov 29
🔁 @KeithDJohnson:

1/ Bill McKibben wrote:
"A Corrupted COP28
New revelations show just how bad the oil countries really are.
The UAE’s close ally, Saudi Arabia, is hard at work on an Oil Development Sustainability Programme which involved hooking African & Asian nations on fossil fuels. It is almost cartoonishly villainous:

The investigation obtained detailed information on plans to drive up the use of fossil fuel-powered cars, buses & planes in Africa & elsewhere, as rich countries increasingly switch to clean energy.

The ODSP plans to accelerate the development of supersonic air travel, which it notes uses three times more jet fuel than conventional planes, & partner with a carmaker to mass produce a cheap combustion engine vehicle. Further plans promote power ships, which use polluting heavy fuel oil or gas to provide electricity to coastal communities." billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-
Also:
climate-reporting.org/undercov

J de Brabander (@JdeB) · Nov 28
🔁 @jd:

The annual worldwide climate conferences—the next starts this week—represent our species last hope at mitigating climate change.
But the raw greed and corruption of the oil industry have turned them into a total farce.
Here’s Bill McKibben’s scathing, blistering, mind-numbing report.

#Climate #COP28
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-

Isn’t this the eureka moment: a Cop28 to save the planet – staged by oil barons who imperil it? | Marina Hyde

theguardian.com · Nov 28

The UAE will have its moment of glory while the UK press worries more about petrostate money buying the Telegraph, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Shared by @EverMama8_ and 9 others.
hypebot (@hypebot) · Nov 28
🔁 @tobeB:

The fact that the president of this week’s Cop28 climate conference in Dubai is also the CEO of the United Arab Emirates’ state oil firm crosses the fine line between mirthless joke and extinction-level distress signal.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Glyn Moody (@glynmoody) · Nov 28

Isn’t this the eureka moment: a #Cop28 to save the planet – staged by oil barons who imperil it? - theguardian.com/commentisfree/ "this metaphorical flare will be obscured by all the actual flares caused by oil companies still cheerily burning waste gas across the Gulf."

Bread and Circuses (@breadandcircuses) · Nov 28
🔁 @tobeB:

The fact that the president of this week’s Cop28 climate conference in Dubai is also the CEO of the United Arab Emirates’ state oil firm crosses the fine line between mirthless joke and extinction-level distress signal.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Mitch in Ottawa (@Dogsbody) · Nov 28

Brilliant: a Cop28 to save the planet – staged by oil barons who imperil it | Marina Hyde theguardian.com/commentisfree/ And then there's this guy. I really don't think the people in power have any intention of doing anything about #climatechange any time soon. Net zero by blah, blah, blah.

Michael Lewis On His New Book About Sam Bankman-Fried

time.com · Nov 28

Michael Lewis spoke to TIME about his new book, 'Going Infinite,' and why he thinks most people misunderstand Sam Bankman-Fried.

Shared by @voron and 3 others.
Voron (@voron) · Nov 28
🔁 @dangillmor:

Journalists have always been among the most thin-skinned people around. They are great at dishing it out, but whine when they're the subject.

I'd thought Michael Lewis -- an author I've greatly admired in the past -- would be less defensive than most. But no. He not only misconstrues the mostly just criticism of his Sam Bankman-Fried hagiography, he's even comparing SBF's prosecution to a lynching. time.com/6321668/michael-lewis

Embarrassing (at best) on so many levels....

h/t @molly0xfff

Sampath Pāṇini ® (@paninid) · Nov 28
🔁 @dangillmor:

Journalists have always been among the most thin-skinned people around. They are great at dishing it out, but whine when they're the subject.

I'd thought Michael Lewis -- an author I've greatly admired in the past -- would be less defensive than most. But no. He not only misconstrues the mostly just criticism of his Sam Bankman-Fried hagiography, he's even comparing SBF's prosecution to a lynching. time.com/6321668/michael-lewis

Embarrassing (at best) on so many levels....

h/t @molly0xfff

Glyn Moody (@glynmoody) · Nov 28
🔁 @dangillmor:

Journalists have always been among the most thin-skinned people around. They are great at dishing it out, but whine when they're the subject.

I'd thought Michael Lewis -- an author I've greatly admired in the past -- would be less defensive than most. But no. He not only misconstrues the mostly just criticism of his Sam Bankman-Fried hagiography, he's even comparing SBF's prosecution to a lynching. time.com/6321668/michael-lewis

Embarrassing (at best) on so many levels....

h/t @molly0xfff

America’s Surprising Partisan Divide on Life Expectancy

politico.com · Nov 28

Centuries-old settlement patterns — and the attitudes they spawned about government — are to blame for differences in longevity between red southern states and bluer parts of the country.

Shared by @Buddyz_FJ and 7 others.
Worth reading

Life Really Is Better Without the Internet

theatlantic.com · Nov 28

What happened after my wife and I removed Wi-Fi from our home

Shared by @JustCodeCulture and 5 others.
Erik Jonker (@ErikJonker) · Nov 28
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Oh FFS. Why don't they burn their bookshelves, too?. And turn off the radio and the TV. Oh, and deliver this pathetic, paternalistic claptrap by carrier pigeon instead of on ... the internet. #technopanic
Life Really Is Better Without the Internet
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

Lisa Melton (@lisamelton) · Nov 28
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Oh FFS. Why don't they burn their bookshelves, too?. And turn off the radio and the TV. Oh, and deliver this pathetic, paternalistic claptrap by carrier pigeon instead of on ... the internet. #technopanic
Life Really Is Better Without the Internet
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

Kevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan) · Nov 28
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Oh FFS. Why don't they burn their bookshelves, too?. And turn off the radio and the TV. Oh, and deliver this pathetic, paternalistic claptrap by carrier pigeon instead of on ... the internet. #technopanic
Life Really Is Better Without the Internet
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (@Lazarou) · Nov 28
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

Oh FFS. Why don't they burn their bookshelves, too?. And turn off the radio and the TV. Oh, and deliver this pathetic, paternalistic claptrap by carrier pigeon instead of on ... the internet. #technopanic
Life Really Is Better Without the Internet
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

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