I don’t think many of the tooters I see on my feed need convincing that our biggest threat (after a certain certifiable case in charge of a big, bigger than you’ve ever seen, country) lies in the privatisation of #infrastructure crucial to #NationalSecurity. But just in case, I’m tooting this article to make that very point, again. We cannot be warned enough…

”If critical digital infrastructure markets are structurally producing unavoidable private monopolies, what does that mean for economic power, political influence and democratic control more broadly? Starlink may be a particularly visible case, but it is part of a much wider pattern now emerging across the digital economy.”

Read more:
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/from-starlink-to-the-state-when-platform-monopolies-become-political-power

#TechBros #Nepo #Monopolies #OutSourcing #StateCapture
#LEO #Communications

Whatever work you do, understanding typography helps you communicate more clearly and persuasively.

Type designer (Valkyrie, Equity, Advocate) Matthew Butterick’s online book Practical Typography is a fine place to start.

https://practicaltypography.com/ #typography #design #communications

Europe exploring ways to secure Strait of Hormuz – POLITICO

Aspides and Atalanta Kallas also said that EU foreign ministers would look into ch…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AntonioGuterres #Communications #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #exports #FriedrichMerz #GiorgiaMeloni #Grains #Iran #KajaKallas #KeirStarmer #Luxembourg #Missions #Oil #Romania #Russia #Sanctions #Satellites #Trade #Turkey #Ukraine #UnitedStates #War #WarinIran #Water #World #XavierBettel #Yemen
https://www.newsbeep.com/437533/

Today is always a good day to contact your elected and appointed officials and request that they open social #communications channels on the #nonprofit #Fediverse, and move away from billionaire #oligarchy #plutarchy controlled #media.

#Brattleboro #Vermont #VT #Vermonters #VTpol #VTpoli

Opt out of global #data #surveillance programs

Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical! We all have a right to #privacy, which you can exercise today by #encrypting your #communications and ending your reliance on #proprietary services.

There’s a section for nearly ever operating system.

https://prism-break.org/en/

#security #computers #safety #SurveillanceCapitalism #authoritarian #Orwellian #spying