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Tell me again about "proper channels." nytimes.com/2020/02/07/us/…
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If they changed their mascot from a porcupine to a cat, they'd probably win the White House just on marketing.
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I'm beginning to sense a pattern in Streamlabs' behavior. twitter.com/Lightstream/st…
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Absent sweeping reform, this is the whole world in ten years. Remember: both parties in the US defend mass surveillance programs. China's "advantage" here is not technological, but that there's no strong civil opposition to slow the descent into nightmare. nytimes.com/2019/12/17/tec…
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Enormous: official confirmation of the allegations regarding Israeli hacking-for-hire company NSO Group's involvement in targeted attacks on EU journalists.
If they will do it in France, they will do it anywhere. Shut them down—ban the exploit trade.
theguardian.com/news/2021/aug/…
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Spotting guide for attacks on whistleblowers:
1) Extraordinary claims made without evidence (she gave information to the Chinese, he got people killed)
2) Demands for obedience to process ("proper channels!") with no consideration for the consequences
3) Personal dislike
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Wrong. If I can in one command pull a blocklist of mean tweets you don't like (see pictures), there's no reason @elonmusk can't add a tool for you to auto-block people talking about your personal list of "things I don't want to see."
It's not hard. Corps just give you bad tools. twitter.com/DrunkVoltron/s…
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Think about the worst economic injustice you've ever seen.
Think about how much it would cost to make better.
And then think about the T R I L L I O N dollar budget bastards like this get Congress to rob from the nation *every year.* twitter.com/nick_cleveland…
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Fact-checkers out here leaping on hand grenades to shelter (precious baby angel) corporations from any suggestion that (fair, well-earned) profit margins might have a closer connection to (reluctant, justifiable) price inflation than (wicked, hell-born) modest wage increases. twitter.com/TeddieRedder/s…
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Many have yet to realize that history has discredited the old propaganda. It has been nearly *ten years* since I revealed the system of global mass surveillance, and not one person has died.
On the other hand, courts since ruled the *gov* broke the law!
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/s… twitter.com/SaltzmanJason/…
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Hopefully he's feeling nice and rested after that timely vacation. twitter.com/kaitlancollins…
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🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Which corporatist authoritarian sect will you vote for? 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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you do know if we fail the raid, the server goes down, right
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There have been thousands of Afghan civilians trapped and panicking on the civilian side of the airport with their commercial jets unable to take off all night, and DOD is crowing about flying out just 500 people?
People that could be on that other side stamping emergency visas? twitter.com/PeterAlexander…
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Buyer's remorse. twitter.com/JeffBezos/stat…
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This possibility is frankly so terrible to me it is difficult to even contemplate. I still remember red scars on the streets of Sarajevo, the "Sarajevska ruža" remembering those killed by mortar fire.
Kyiv is bigger than Sarajevo. Than Grozny. Than Fallujah.
Just unthinkable. twitter.com/KevinRothrock/…
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No one is safe from the out-of-control designer spyware industry. Export controls have failed as a means of regulating this easily abused technology. Without an immediate global moratorium on the trade, this will only get worse. washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/…
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look i'm just saying you are captives of a two-cola system
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Can you think of any examples from history of a secret operation that the White House was responsible for, but strongly denied? Besides, you know, that little "mass surveillance" kerfuffle.
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They literally re-arrested him on the day of his trial. For those keeping note: yes, they re-arrested a man already in prison. This entire process is less trial than Soviet joke. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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They spied on the opposition. They spied on judges, journalists, and even teachers. They spied on their wives and children, their doctors -- and priests. It is unbelievable how deep this story goes.
theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/…
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Bitcoin was ~$5,000. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Did they seriously just self-censor stablediffusion?
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