Microsoft and Digital Sovereignty are rarely used in the same sentence. This week, a few people learned why.
Special thanks to @ai6yr who gave permission to use his image.
https://knowprose.com/2026/11/microsoft-is-sorry-sovereignty-is-not/
Well, I suppose I procrastinated enough, and procrastinated about procrastination enough... time to start writing about the past week's adventures.
Ok, less depressed now!
YES YES YES YES DarkSky International now has templates for YOU to refuse sunlight reflected from orbit! Templates for declarations of non-consent, model ordinance for cities and towns, a model state bill, and an international adaptation guide https://darksky.org/news/say-no-to-sunlight-for-sale/
SHARE WIDELY. Bring these templates to your towns and cities! Make it clear Reflect Orbital is not wanted anywhere!!!
As one shrewd political commentator had remarked: “We want a President who has to be carried screaming and kicking into the White House — but will then do the best job he possibly can, so that he’ll get time off for good behavior.”
Arthur C Clarke, Imperial Earth
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The developer of a new AI system now under scrutiny as airplanes stand grounded nationwide funneled cash into the political campaign of Transportation chief Sean Duffy's son-in-law, records show.
https://www.rawstory.com/amp/us-flights-grounded-2678397225
RE: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/115916333817755928
So it was artificial scarcity and price manipulation all along? Shocking, who would have thought!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/117614297513925972
"… Cisco is Off the Hook for Aiding and Abetting Horrific Human Rights Abuses
The Supreme Court’s ending of the plaintiffs’ case against Cisco is hugely disappointing given that the case has been going on since 2011 and the Ninth Circuit in 2023 allowed the case to move forward in an excellent and well-reasoned opinion. …"
Cc @mmasnick
#Cisco #AlienTortStatute #CorporateAccountability #HumanRights #FalunGong #SupremeCourt #AidingAndAbetting #TVPA #Surveillance #China
Massive waves forecast to hit California’s Central Coast this weekend | KTLA
https://ktla.com/news/california/massive-waves-central-california-forecast/
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/117614385763555414
This is the end of a long walk, with appropriate receipts. If you really want to understand, this is a great thread.
Microsoft should bookmark it. 🤣
The Guardian has a good liveblog on the Microsoft outage issue.
Has info on how various organizations around the world have been affected and how their services have been disrupted, including UK's NHS.
A policy infographic weighs the case for and against limiting single-company dominance in satellite infrastructure. It compares five approaches—from hard prevention to a light-touch status quo—and considers effects on competition, resilience, innovation, orbital safety, public interest, national security, and economic growth.
Microsoft ‘deeply sorry’ for global disruption that could have billion-dollar impact on Australia https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/nov/14/microsoft-deeply-sorry-for-global-disruption-that-could-have-billion-dollar-impact-on-australia #AustraliaNews #Microsoft #Business #AustralianEconomy
Apparently while I was asleep everyone figured out Jensen Huang had an affair with a Microsoft router that the FAA was using.
👀
In a week of dumb narratives, I just wove them together with my first cup of coffee.
I mean...
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"I didn't anticipate we'd have an outage like this," replies Secretary Duffy to a reporter asking why the FAA didn't have an emergency backup plan.
I was so busy watching the FAA ground stop I missed SPACEX SPACE JUNK SHUT DOWN WEST COAST air traffic to Hawaii too today.
(now lifted, this preceded the whole ground stop thing)
After 26 years, the US has lost its measles elimination status
https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/13/health/us-measles-elimination-status