Report // Iran
Iran, the Internet, and the Great Underwater Extension-Cord Panic
No, five cable segments in the Strait of Hormuz are not the planet’s single red extension cord.
Witness Desk Media
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Gary in the Dark
By this week, Gary still carried more than 20,000 outages, making up a huge share of the remaining crisis across the region. Those are the numbers. But numbers do what numbers always do: they behave. They sit there in clean rows and let people pretend this is manageable.
Dispatch // Echoboard
Finally...
A small discussion of Echoboard and the eventual rise of the platform as a way to connect and help people and situations.