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Johnathan at Limbo — 404

During the campaign of 2016, Americans took a step toward totalitarianism without even noticing by accepting as normal the violation of electronic privacy. Whether it is done by American or Russian intelligence agencies, or for that matter by any institution, the theft, discussion, or publication of personal communications destroys a basic

Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

One of the harbingers of autocratic takeovers is an attempt to control writers and artists, either by censoring them and dictating to them what sort of art they should produce – we saw a certain amount of that coming from the so-called academic left in North America and Britain over the past decade, twinned with online mobbing generally known as... See more

Margaret Atwood • Handmaid's Tale Banned in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Schools

Some proponents of the new “moi criticism” began writing full-fledged academic autobiographies,

Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want | Rebecca Solnit

theguardian.com

How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook

Darren Loucaides wired.com

If we don’t change course, he fears we are headed toward a world where “there’s going to be an upper class of people that are very aware” of the risks to their attention and find ways to live within their limits, and then there will be the rest of the society with “fewer resources to resist the manipulation, and they’re going to be living more and

Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

Understanding Authoritarianism

belonging.berkeley.edu

A challenge for any mutual aid platform will be privacy, surveillance, and ethics — building in safety to protect the most vulnerable communities.