Pluralistic: Switzerland's Goldilocks fiber (07 Apr 2026)

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Switzerland's Goldilocks fiber: Public provision is a layered question.
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EU ready to cave to Trump on tech: Surrendermonkeys ahoy.
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Object permanence: "Among a Thousand Fireflies"; "fiscal" not "physical"; Ontario's pusher premiere can't distribute vaccines; You need your head examined (if you trust an AI therapist); Women tell Pence about their periods; Zombie economy and digital arm-breakers; The trouble with tariffs.
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The Post-American Internet: My speech from Hamburg's Chaos Communications Congress.
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Object permanence: Error code 451; Public email address Mansplaining Lolita; NSA backdoor in Juniper Networks; Don't bug out; Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app.
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(Digital) Elbows Up: How Canada Can Become a Nation of Jailbreakers, Reclaim Our Digital Sovereignty, Win the Trade-War, and Disenshittify Our Technology.
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Object permanence: Workaholic Goethe; Prehistory of the Sony rootkit; Wunderkammer front room; Dolphin teleportation symposium: now with more Eisenhowers
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O(N^2) nationalism: Trumpism can only be defeated through international nationalism.
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Object permanence: Paywall kremlinology; How to fix everything; Office365 is spyware; State-owned Amazon.
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There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech: The path to a post-American internet.
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Object permanence: D2020; Sony rootkit; Public Enemy vs the internet; NYC plute Hallowe'en.
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The mad king's digital killswitch: Every accusation is a confession.
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Object permanence: Use RSS; Lifehackers in the NYT; Banned Verminous Dickens cake; Fake CIA Fox guy; Ferris wheel offices; EFF finds printer snitch-dots; Officer Bubbles sues Youtube; Sued for criticizing Proctorio; Can I sing Happy Birthday? "Under the Poppy"; International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo.
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Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! What the Eurostack is missing.
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Object permanence: Giga pudding; What Technology Wants; Blue Screens of Death; Bernie outperforming Obama; DRM in JPEGs; Dirty words are politically potent; Fury Road 8-bit side-scroller; History of web auth; Prop 22 is a scam.
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Plenty of room at the bottom (of the tech stack): Apple is out of low-hanging fruit.
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Object permanence: "Julia," HP DRM talk; Atheists know more theology than "Christians"; D&D v MMORPGs; Scandanavia's CSAM filter-creep; Snowden's on Twitter; Limbaugh says Martian water is a leftist plot.
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