Indigenous communities in Oaxaca are setting up their own mobile networks, cutting out big corporate interests and making modern communication work for them. Great story: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/oaxaca-hacke...
The Oaxacan vision of community, indigenous rights, and autonomy from which Telecomunicaciones Indígenas Comunitarias has emerged can be tied to a far more familiar story: that of the Zapatista indige...
Another Russian opposition leader murdered by Putin. Is there any doubt Navalny was murdered? Putin murdered him because he finally feels comfortable doing so. Because Trump is inviting attacks on NATO, Tucker Carlson is cheering Putin, the GOP is blocking aid to Ukraine, so time to kill Navalny.
Very rattle-ey cars.
A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco - https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/11/24069251/waymo-driverless-taxi-fire-vandalized-video-san-francisco-china-town
No one was inside a Waymo car as it was destroyed.
NYT hasn’t even mentioned ot yet
Does the Democratic party(whoever is in charge) now need to get real and insert another candidate? We can gripe about media until November, but it seems that the die is cast otherwise.
Tennessee school voucher news. “Freedom” from an obligation to educate children.
Dear Editor,
Jon Stewart coined it: “confusion enema”
"The world, should Russia win, will face remarkable new dangers—and for what? Because in 2024 some astonishingly venal and ambitious politicians wanted to hedge their bets and kiss Trump’s ring one more time?" www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Republican obstructionism could lead to global disaster.
Hard to monetize, I guess. I sure do miss it but have recently given it another go with a newer reader.