The Lord of the Rings: a story where the social elite coerce a trust-fund kid's hard-working gardener into shouldering global risks. Before it's over, he has to physically carry his useless employer (and their jewelry collection) up an active volcano. Ahead of its time, really.

Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram all going down at the same time sure seems like an easily-understandable and publicly-popular example of why breaking up a certain monopoly into at least three pieces might not be a bad idea. Somebody should tell Elizabeth Warren.

This mutant strain has become its own pandemic—one that leaves us in denial about our ability to create change. https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/the-new-denialism

Emmanuel Le Pen! https://t.co/gcjsmuzdbo

I use Signal every day. #notesforFBI (Spoiler: they already know) https://t.co/KNy0xppsN0