516 words on “Once Is Enemy Action,” a science fiction novel about the origins of modern technofascism. (35512 words total) #dailywords

509 words on “Once Is Enemy Action,” a science fiction novel about the origins of modern technofascism. (35003 words total) #dailywords

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The EU should go big and hard over border IT failure; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/10/worst-of-all-worlds/

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If the EU has a future as a political project, it will have to be as a living, breathing repudiation of Ronald Reagan's maxim that "The nine most terrifying words are 'I’m from the government and I’m here to help.'"

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True Carneyism has never been tried. When Canadian PM Carney traveled to Davos to declare a "rupture" in the old order (admitting this old order was never great to begin with) he told us that there was no going back from Trumpism. The only way out of Trumpism was *through*:

https://www.weforum.org/stories/forum-institutional/davos-2026-special-address-by-mark-carney-prime-minister-of-canada/

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526 words on “Once Is Enemy Action,” a science fiction novel about the origins of modern technofascism. (34498 words total) #dailywords

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: America cannot undo Trumpism; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/09/brunch-is-canceled-forever/

#Pluralistic

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True Carneyism has never been tried. When Canadian PM Carney traveled to Davos to declare a "rupture" in the old order (admitting this old order was never great to begin with) he told us that there was no going back from Trumpism. The only way out of Trumpism was *through*:

https://www.weforum.org/stories/forum-institutional/davos-2026-special-address-by-mark-carney-prime-minister-of-canada/

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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 surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine's "Against Tech Oligarchy"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/07/aeiou-but-sometimes-why/

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JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine are veterans of union drives at tech shops that started with astounding successes but hit ferocious resistance in the second Trump term; their book about tech labor, *Against Tech Oligarchy*, is a superb analysis of tech labor's challenges/potential:

https://againsttecholigarchy.com/

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https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/07/aeiou-but-sometimes-why/#unrecognizable-playbook

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#shanda

#LieDownWithNazisWakeUpALampshade

532 words on “Once Is Enemy Action,” a science fiction novel about the origins of modern technofascism. (33976 words total) #dailywords