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This is not a drill. twitter.com/matthew_d_gree…
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Domestically and internationally, the mass surveillance regime that we exposed in 2013 has been repeatedly found to be a violation of both the law as written and human rights.
What a road we have traveled! Thank you so much to everyone who fought this case to the highest level. twitter.com/privacyint/sta…
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It will never stop being funny to me that there is some kind of long-running mutual suspicion between the Danes and the Swedes, and if you ever ask them what it's all about, as soon as they overcome their shock at your total ignorance they start talking about cannons and kings.
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People clowning on The @guardian for doing news explainers on Tik Tok about 9/11 and the Taliban should bear in mind that about one in four Americans today were not even *born* until after 9/11.
They weren't even children when it happened.
We're just that old. twitter.com/tadejstrok/sta…
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You could literally check boxes to opt-in to community moderation lists. You can outsource these decisions to people you trust. There is a whole universe of possibility out there, and every point within it is superior to letting some underpaid Facebook drone decide what you read.
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ok yes i am for sure and very genuinely sorry to all concerned by the potential impact of this joke on the bad man's feelings
we should show greater sensitivity toward those struggling with inflation
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With the hubris of a man who had looked long at the screen, I thought I had seen it all. I was wrong. twitter.com/cass0hs/status…
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Would you risk prison to expose the truth? She did, and it cost her five years.
Let's pay her back.
#RealityWinner
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I'm surprised the Stable Diffusion / ChatGPT / Generative AI projects haven't come hard for (at least instrumental) music, yet. If they can cop Caravaggio, surely they can remix chiptunes.
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The greatest happiness never comes in a box. twitter.com/lsjourneys/sta…
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Look, @Apple has so much money that they literally don't know what to do with it — like $190 billion cash on hand. They could launch a Manhattan Project to secure the future of personal devices, rather than just keeping pace with industry.
Think different, guys. Revolutionize! twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Between 1999 and 2014, the percentage who imagine the Sun revolves around the Earth *went up*.
In this kind of world, time I spend on politics increasingly feels like a mistake. Drowning in the tide of imbeciles, we nod to sermons from the flotsam.
abcnews.go.com/US/quarter-ame…
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Every time I hear her, I am reminded @AbbyMartin has things to say that will never be spoken on the corpo media nightlies. The very definition of a "dangerous voice." twitter.com/EmpireFiles/st…
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PERMANENT RECORD has just been adapted for young readers and schools. It took a lot of work, but making the systems that will control and influence our children's entire lives understandable to them is something I feel very important. Order link: read.macmillan.com/mcpg/permanent…
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"...young people are terrified to tweet. The assumption of good faith is dead. What matters is not goodness but the appearance of goodness. We are no longer human beings. We are now angels jostling to out-angel one another. God help us. It is obscene." chimamanda.com
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Question for actual-scientist Twitter: how long until we have a reasonable (but tentative) grasp of Omicron's novel characteristics? How many weeks are we talking?
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When Daniel Hale did just that, you threw him in prison. Reality Winner did it. Guess what? Prison. Chelsea Manning did it—still prison.
The answer isn't for the government to stop talking like this—the answer is to stop ruling in a way that makes it the blackest kind of lie. twitter.com/StateDeptSpox/…
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new season just dropped twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Those who looked the other way because they personally disliked Julian Assange when the DOJ indicted him under a legal theory that merely publishing clear, public-interest journalism could constitute multiple Espionage Act violations should reconsider where that road leads. twitter.com/DavidUberti/st…
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Re-read this thread, but with the understanding that the Iraq War could have been avoided if this Senator (or any other with similar knowledge) had cared more about his country than a TOP SECRET stamp.
This is the cost of classifying information the public needs to know. twitter.com/vermontgmg/sta…
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Remember when everybody said this guy was suffering from mental illness? Can't understand why.
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There are certain industries, certain sectors, from which there is no protection. We don’t allow a commercial market in nuclear weapons. If you want to protect yourself you have to change the game, and the way we do that is by ending this trade.
theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/…
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Politifact: True ✔️
gizmodo.com/snowden-people…
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Yeah, China censoring the ending of Fight Club was bad but at least they left Star Wars alo—oh
#ChinaEditChallenge
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