happy mutants Puerto Rico didn't suffer a "natural disaster": it was looted and starved long before the hurricanes Cory Doctorow
disasters NYT: In times of global shock people help each other, while the elite panic Mark Frauenfelder
climate change Republicans get billions of dollars in public funding to fight climate change by pretending that it isn't real Thom Dunn
donotpay Donotpay adds a feature that waits on hold for you, and now I'm ready to subscribe Cory Doctorow
bucket brigade Hong Kong protestors using mesh-networking messaging app to evade authorities Clive Thompson
gop After killing disaster-recovery rules, Ajit Pai can't understand why carriers aren't helping hurricane-hit Florida Cory Doctorow
happy mutants OLIVE: a system for emulating old OSes on old processors that saves old data from extinction Cory Doctorow
class war Puerto Rico is a tax-haven for rich mainlanders and is also too broke to survive hurricanes: are these facts possibly related, somehow? Cory Doctorow
Science Study finds that false news spreads faster than truth online, thanks to humans (not bots) Cory Doctorow
usausausa $300,000,000,000+: 2017's American "natural disaster" bill was by far the highest in history Cory Doctorow
climate Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren introduce a bill to provide $146B in aid to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Cory Doctorow
trumpism Puerto Rico, abandoned by Trump and facing disaster capitalism looting by big business, turns to socialist and anarchist collectives to rebuild Cory Doctorow
