<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div class="content-isolator__container"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div class="content-isolator__container"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi there,</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Musk continues to upset people like us - the good guys. But there’s other things happening in the internet world and here’s a sample from the past 2-ish weeks. </div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Feedback welcome. Contributions welcome. Thanks, Sam.</div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-hacked-newsroom-brings-a-spyware-maker-to-us-court-pegasus" class="">A Hacked Newsroom Brings a Spyware Maker to U.S. Court</a> - The New Yorker - 30 Nov 2022 - When Roman Gressier, an American reporter working in El Salvador, found out that he and his colleagues were being surveilled, he feared persecution and worried for his sources’ safety.<br class="">
<br class=""><div class=""><a href="https://restofworld.org/2022/chinese-influencers-youtube-propaganda/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" class="">How Chinese influencers are dodging YouTube’s anti-propaganda rules</a> - Rest of World - 30 Nov 2022 - Content from tense frontiers like Xinjiang is being swamped by a litany of rural scenery and delicious food. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/extinction-internet/" class="">Extinction Internet: Our Inconvenient Truth Moment</a> - INC - 24 Nov 2022 - Extinction Internet marks the end of an era of possibilities and speculations, when adaptation is no longer an option. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://points.datasociety.net/datafying-islamophobia-in-catalonia-b1a87f869cab" class="">Datafying Islamophobia in Catalonia</a> - Data&Society - 24 Nov 2022 - Entire Muslim communities are targeted and surveilled by an expanding “preventive” sociotechnical system</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon/" class="">The Whiteness of Mastodon</a> - Tech Policy News - 23 Nov 2022 - Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is not going well. And yet many have the real sense that something important may be lost if the platform collapses; or if there is a substantial migration away from it to alternatives like Mastodon...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.trueup.io/layoffs" class="">Tech Layoff Tracker</a> - Report - Stay up-to-date on the latest layoffs across big tech, tech unicorns, and top startups...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/11/18/key-facts-about-truth-social-as-donald-trump-runs-for-u-s-president-again/" class="">Key facts about Truth Social as Donald Trump runs for U.S. president again</a> - Pew Research - 18 Nov 2022</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.adnews.com.au/news/social-media-trends-2023" class="">Social media trends 2023</a> - Adnews - 16 Nov 2022</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.protocol.com/workplace/cushy-tech-job" class="">Is this the end of the cushy Big Tech job?</a> - Protocol - 12 Nov 2022 - Silicon Valley will likely see a culture shift after all the carnage at Twitter, Meta, and elsewhere, but it won’t be a long-term switch.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://sentientmedia.org/big-dairy-on-tik-tok/" class="">How Big Dairy Infiltrated TikTok</a> - Sentient Media - 15 Nov 2022 - </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>