701
Starting to realize how much "expert" coverage of a place is authored by people who haven't lived there in decades—if they ever lived there at all—and don't understand it.
It's like listening to a guy who sells watches on the street seriously explain how to build a time machine.
702
This is enormously courageous, and you should take a second to read it. nytimes.com/2020/12/21/opi…
703
If there's an invasion tomorrow, dunk on me because I have been spectacularly wrong.
But remember, too that the source of my skepticism is that the US IC has (again) been making truly spectacular claims without presenting any evidence -- because you did not require it of them.
704
For those wondering why the politicians who violated your rights for more than a decade are pushing long-discredited propaganda, here is the real "significant consequence" they're worried with: theguardian.com/us-news/2020/s…
705
You're the @washingtonpost. Blowing open the government's unconstitutional mass surveillance program, you win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
A few years later, you invite those who committed what *the courts ruled a crime* to rewrite history.
taibbi.substack.com/p/the-washingt…
706
One well-adjusted gentleman articulates our extremely healthy political culture regarding whistleblowers who reveal unconstitutional activities on the part of government.
Didn't even have to pay Elon $8 for the blue-tick.
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/s… twitter.com/NateBell4AR/st…
707
For what it's worth, I've thought VR/AR meetings are going to be a killer app ever since I lost the ability to travel. But this? This ain't it, and Facebook has gone to extreme lengths to prove it cannot be trusted to respect the boundaries required for private meetings.
708
Our statement at @FreedomofPress on the false charges laid by Brazil's Bolsonaro regime against @ggreenwald for reporting the biggest corruption story in years -- corruption in the Justice Ministry itself! These charges are unbelievable, unsupported, and indefensible.
709
Hell of an endorsement:
"Substack means reporting is back . . . unfiltered and unprogrammed—just the way I like it."
—Seymour M. Hersh
seymourhersh.substack.com/p/why-substack
710
Has there been a single point in the last twentysome years where it has been possible to stomach a news report on the foreign-policy thinking of anonymously-quoted "senior US officials" without suffering a cringing sense of embarrassment?
We really haven't been sending our best.
711
The NSO Group is running a disinformation campaign to undermine the Pegasus Project—because of course they are—but @amnesty just demolished it: twitter.com/AmnestyTech/st…
713
If the legitimacy of the courts come into question at the same time the legitimacy of our elections come into question, from what well does the government draw a mandate to govern? twitter.com/ACLU/status/14…
714
Dangerous by design: How the CIA and German BND conspired to sabotage the communications of allies and adversaries alike. washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/…
715
"We use ZK-proofs!"
Great, clever. Still bad.
The human body is not a ticket-punch.
716
A radical sharpening of tone is occurring in economic discussions—with deepening convictions as to the assignation of blame—as the ailing currencies of the prior century succumb at last to diseases born from generations of neglect.
This has happened before.
It will get worse.
717
The problem with social media is that this got three thousand retweets, but if you look at the replies you'll find about three of them actually bothered to read the article.
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🔥 🔥 this is fine 🐕 🔥 🔥
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719
*Returning* to vacation while the news plays side-by-side footage of people falling to their deaths trying to cling to escaping aircraft is truly difficult to understand. At this point his advisers should be charged with political malpractice. twitter.com/JakeSherman/st…
720
Upon arriving in Saudi Arabia, Biden mimes holding up his half of a ceremonial saw—to bury the memory of murdered Washington Post columnist and US resident Jamal Khashoggi.
721
Domestic surveillance is alive and well. Use @signalapp to protect voice and video calls (for free). twitter.com/rdevro/status/…
722
There is the faintest sense of deja vu with this one.
723
I am beginning to suspect we are not in a good place.
724
I'm sorry, but no.
theguardian.com/science/2022/d…
725
I will always admire your courage to speak up for what is right in the face of adversity. It is a pleasure to know you, but a real honor to work with you. Stay free, my friend. @EnesKanter @FreedomofPress twitter.com/EnesFreedom/st…
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