In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Sno…
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In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. -- 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…
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Good sentence: “The market’s most lavish rewards do not go to its most productive participants, but rather, to those participants who have the good fortune to emerge from the luckiest of orifices.” https:// pluralistic.net/2026/08/11/tra gedy-of-the-commoners
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Two thoughts coming to similar conclusions. @ pluralistic : "The problem is that for every plute who realizes that the cheapest way to keep the guillotines off his lawn is to play fair, there are three more who lack the executive function to stop cheating." "Authoritarian societies are inherently corrupt, and corrupt societies are inherently…
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> Surveillance vs guillotines https:// pluralistic.net/2026/08/11/tra gedy-of-the-commoners/#piketty-snowden by @ pluralistic # BringBackGuillotines # RealOwners # BadEconomy # corruption # exploitation # philanthropy # assholes
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This from Doctorow on Surveillance v Guillotines is on point https:// pluralistic.net/2026/08/11/tra gedy-of-the-commoners/