We Need To Rewild The Internet
https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/
"Up close, internet concentration seems too intricate to untangle; from far away, it seems too difficult to deal with. But what if we thought of the internet not as a doomsday “hyperobject,” but as a damaged and struggling ecosystem facing destruction? What if we looked at it not with helpless horror at the eldritch encroachment of its current controllers, but with compassion, constructiveness and hope?"
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Rishi Sunak Takes Staged Election Questions from Conservative Councillors Posing as Ordinary Voters
Well, this election lead up is going well, only days into.
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Legal Fiction
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/april/legal-fiction
Somewhat related:
"The Rwanda Bill is a different kind of legal fiction: not a tool of the courts that solves an injustice, but an assertion by Parliament that creates one. In the Supreme Court judgment R(AAA) v. Home Secretary, the justices unanimously found that removing asylum-seekers to Rwanda ‘would expose them to real risk of ill-treatment by reason of refoulement’. That is still true, despite what the British statute book now says."
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Thames Water
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n09/james-meek/short-cuts
Or this doozy...
"The marvel of water privatisation was its creation of a system that is too expensive and too cheap at the same time. Too expensive, because while it’s not wrong for a universal network – a service that society agrees everyone must have permanent access to – to break even or to borrow to build things, it’s wrong for it to be run as a rent-seeking operation. And too cheap because even if all the dividends skimmed off our bills over the years had never been taken, it’s not clear the amount saved would have been enough to fix the system – the leaks, the water shortages and, most pressingly, the sewers."