Some links I thought worth reading the past few days

• Bought the book. Experienced how it looked from inside the region after MH17: The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder review – chilling and unignorable
• Straight out of Doctorow’s Walkaway, drones as counter measures: Criminal Gang Swarmed FBI With Drones
• “The very act of constructing an archive is a form of power,” says Cairo-based writer Amir-Hussein Radjy (ht Gerrit Eicker): Information ephemerality, and our lack of a model for noncorporate control of digital information
• What’s a fish to do when the water it swims in might change to another liquid?: Mark Bernstein and Dave Winer are Dependent Developers
• Signal circumvents blocking in Egypt and Iran by domainfronting. Google and Amazon aren’t having it: No more routing around internet damage