Surveillance vs guillotines

mostlysignssomeportents : ALT If you&rsquo;d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here&rsquo;s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/11/tragedy-of-the-commoners/#piketty-snowden In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another:…