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Commonplace book entries: climate, slop, defence

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Those American candy gift shops, that one usually assumes are some sort of money laundering scheme, are in fact multilevel tax dodges .  Valerie Aurora writes about how to start an internet resiliency club. There's a nice map of Digital Public Infrastructure at  https://dpimap.org/ Thanks to Full Fact for drawing attention to how Google is making web content harder to trust: In a change buried in a little-known technical blog , Google has announced that it will abandon a key element of its tagging system for fact checks, effectively de-prioritising this content and making it harder for people to access reliable information. Stuart Schechter writes a powerful reflection :  Not everyone will miss Ross Anderson. Ross was not afraid to speak truths that made people uncomfortable. His ideas and arguments threatened the beliefs, status, power, ego, and bank balances of others — often those with power. His writings and talks undermined proponents of hardware attestation, ...