Waxwing
@waxw.ing
Techy luddite working to create democratically accountable digital infrastructure. Surveillance, Sociology, Digital Justice, Programming, Social Movements, Infosec
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A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
Chattanooga’s Municipal Fiber Network Has Delivered $5.3 Billion in Community Benefits, New Study Finds | Welcome to Community Networks
Since 2011, a new study finds that Chattanooga's city-owned fiber network has generated $5.3 billion in net community benefits for Hamilton County. Conducted by researchers at the University of Tennes...
communitynets.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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Persistently annoyed by liberal refusal to see the longstanding system of immigration, the one that effectively places undocumented workers outside of the protections of labor law and subjects them to racial terror, as a strategy of labor discipline that affects all workers.
December 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Persistently annoyed by liberal refusal to see the longstanding system of immigration, the one that effectively places undocumented workers outside of the protections of labor law and subjects them to racial terror, as a strategy of labor discipline that affects all workers.
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1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12
December 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12
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There is truth to this, just as a sociological fact, but I think we also should focus on the RATIONALITY of the oligarchs turn to fascism. There are no natural digital monopolies, and they now realize they need state capture to maintain their rent seeking
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
December 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
There is truth to this, just as a sociological fact, but I think we also should focus on the RATIONALITY of the oligarchs turn to fascism. There are no natural digital monopolies, and they now realize they need state capture to maintain their rent seeking
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Striking a boat full of unarmed civilians is murder. The first strike was murder. The followup strike was also murder.
We're not at war. It's not a "war crime". Everyone involved, including the POTUS, SecDef, the Admiral who relayed it and the person who pressed the button needs to be on trial.
We're not at war. It's not a "war crime". Everyone involved, including the POTUS, SecDef, the Admiral who relayed it and the person who pressed the button needs to be on trial.
December 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Striking a boat full of unarmed civilians is murder. The first strike was murder. The followup strike was also murder.
We're not at war. It's not a "war crime". Everyone involved, including the POTUS, SecDef, the Admiral who relayed it and the person who pressed the button needs to be on trial.
We're not at war. It's not a "war crime". Everyone involved, including the POTUS, SecDef, the Admiral who relayed it and the person who pressed the button needs to be on trial.
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it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
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The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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This is what fusion centers do, their entire purpose is to make it easier for local cops & feds to share information.
Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide
theintercept.com/2025/11/21/f...
theintercept.com/2025/11/21/f...
How Universities Used Counterterror Intelligence-Sharing Hubs to Surveil Pro-Palestine Students
Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.
theintercept.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This is what fusion centers do, their entire purpose is to make it easier for local cops & feds to share information.
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I just want to be 100% clear:
The most important thing that is happening in tech fascism right now is that on Sunday there are elections in Honduras.
We are literally at risk of Honduras falling to tech fascism in front of our eyes.
The most important thing that is happening in tech fascism right now is that on Sunday there are elections in Honduras.
We are literally at risk of Honduras falling to tech fascism in front of our eyes.
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I just want to be 100% clear:
The most important thing that is happening in tech fascism right now is that on Sunday there are elections in Honduras.
We are literally at risk of Honduras falling to tech fascism in front of our eyes.
The most important thing that is happening in tech fascism right now is that on Sunday there are elections in Honduras.
We are literally at risk of Honduras falling to tech fascism in front of our eyes.
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This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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The purpose of DOGE was to exfiltrate the private data of hundreds of millions of Americans to Palantir's servers
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The purpose of DOGE was to exfiltrate the private data of hundreds of millions of Americans to Palantir's servers
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I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
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New: cops used Flock AI-enabled cameras to monitor No Kings protests around the country. Also monitored No Hands protests and protests against DOGE.
"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."
www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."
www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country
A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New: cops used Flock AI-enabled cameras to monitor No Kings protests around the country. Also monitored No Hands protests and protests against DOGE.
"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."
www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."
www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
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Remember when I said the true risk of any impending recession/market crash is that everyone is vastly underrating the political risks of a sick man regime that seems incapable of providing effective countercyclical fiscal policy nor maintaining a half century of stable central banking?
Anyway lol
Anyway lol
TRUMP SAYS HE WOULD LIKE TO FIRE POWELL, CALLS HIM GROSSLY INCOMPETENT.
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Remember when I said the true risk of any impending recession/market crash is that everyone is vastly underrating the political risks of a sick man regime that seems incapable of providing effective countercyclical fiscal policy nor maintaining a half century of stable central banking?
Anyway lol
Anyway lol
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‘Slow down, hyperscalers’: For the first time in 20 years, investors say companies are overinvesting, Bank of America says
‘Slow down, hyperscalers’: For the first time in 20 years, investors say companies are overinvesting, Bank of America says
Bank of America’s Global Fund Manager Survey found concerns about an AI bubble are mounting.
cnb.cx
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 AM
‘Slow down, hyperscalers’: For the first time in 20 years, investors say companies are overinvesting, Bank of America says
"Investors may be seeking safety from U.S. tech stocks, which have remained weak on persistent worries about stretched AI overvaluations," they wrote.
Yen bid, dollar choppy as investors look for safety from global selloff reut.rs/3LFgZbB
Yen bid, dollar choppy as investors look for safety from global selloff
The yen regained its footing and the U.S. dollar veered between gains and losses against most of its biggest peers in volatile trading in Asia on Wednesday that sent investors to safe havens like gold and Treasury bonds after a days-long global selloff in stocks.
reut.rs
November 19, 2025 at 7:26 AM
"Investors may be seeking safety from U.S. tech stocks, which have remained weak on persistent worries about stretched AI overvaluations," they wrote.
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What would those records help reveal? Where Epstein got his money. How he acquired and controlled his victims. Who he trafficked them to. What individuals and banks enabled the trafficking. Who else had control of Epstein’s accounts, and what crimes they committed.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
What would those records help reveal? Where Epstein got his money. How he acquired and controlled his victims. Who he trafficked them to. What individuals and banks enabled the trafficking. Who else had control of Epstein’s accounts, and what crimes they committed.
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The end of dollar hegemony will transform U.S. debt from a fiscal drag into a high-yield fusion bomb.
For decades dollarization has generated structural demand for U.S. treasuries, depressing the interest rates the U.S. needs to offer to service its debt.
For decades dollarization has generated structural demand for U.S. treasuries, depressing the interest rates the U.S. needs to offer to service its debt.
one thing that I think we really don't think about is if Trump fucks up America's macro privileges or role in the international system and Americans are forced to end up dealing with a economic system that doesn't allow for the same old fiscal fixes as before
god I remember the fandom Russian zoomers on Twitter during the start of the war who were either "what can I do, I can't be held responsible" or "wow it's so mean that the West sanctioned us from our favourite fandoms"
November 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The end of dollar hegemony will transform U.S. debt from a fiscal drag into a high-yield fusion bomb.
For decades dollarization has generated structural demand for U.S. treasuries, depressing the interest rates the U.S. needs to offer to service its debt.
For decades dollarization has generated structural demand for U.S. treasuries, depressing the interest rates the U.S. needs to offer to service its debt.
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Looking the through the whole trove of Epstein emails, beyond the most newsworthy bits there's also lots of interesting (i.e. repulsive) insights into how these super-elites move and think.
November 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Looking the through the whole trove of Epstein emails, beyond the most newsworthy bits there's also lots of interesting (i.e. repulsive) insights into how these super-elites move and think.
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WA state never stopped sharing drivers' license data with ICE
Exclusive: Democratic-led states are inadvertently sharing drivers' data with ICE, officials say reut.rs/3WOChG3
Exclusive: Democratic-led states are inadvertently sharing drivers' data with ICE, officials say
Democratic-led states are inadvertently making their drivers' data available to U.S. immigration authorities through a little-understood digital loophole, a group of lawmakers said.
reut.rs
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
WA state never stopped sharing drivers' license data with ICE
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“It’s been a pleasure these past 4 years pretending I’ve done anything other than pad the wallets of the city’s richest people, greediest corporations, and blatantly corrupt cops, but the time has come for me to enjoy more time with the part of my family that best fit into my political narrative."
Harrell to Spend More Time with Most Of His Family: tinyurl.com/z5z3xvd4
November 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
“It’s been a pleasure these past 4 years pretending I’ve done anything other than pad the wallets of the city’s richest people, greediest corporations, and blatantly corrupt cops, but the time has come for me to enjoy more time with the part of my family that best fit into my political narrative."
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...