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“I remember all of the day’s misinformation very clearly, and I also remember this, and I wish I did not: I remember that no one was surprised.”
Joan Didion
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On banking, bitcoin, and the future of money: a response to a governor of the Federal Reserve, Christopher J. Waller.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/cbdcs
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@stacksacker Yeah they're probably just one big kitten shelter now.
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I keep reading these scientific papers that are like "no, a baby is not capable of consciously manipulating you" and I'm like "yes, yes, so you mean the child must be possessed by an ancient spirit."
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Very few on either side of modern conflicts are thinking critically about the consequences of their methods. Scarce are the genuine attempts at persuasion, and what passes for argument has become the tired recitation of slogan and slur.
Amidst fire, we slumber and calcify.
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Many stanning for billionaires on here seem unaware that labor—the only commodity they possess—is being continuously devalued. "Just buy stocks!" they cry.
With what, bro? Your wages are vanishing. In real terms, the value of your hour is 📉 while the prices you pay are 📈. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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With the FBI breaking into US systems to delete malware from Microsoft exchange servers and now this, the government is engaged in a breathtaking sprint to protect the Microsoft brand.
Have the Solarwinds hacks led to a quiet embrace of "national champions" style infosec policy? twitter.com/NSACyber/statu…
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today in my mentions: a furious romanian altcoin team no one has ever heard of that thinks i was calling them forest animals. it was a joke, guys. i'm sure your project is very cool.
also it's amazing you can type with those itty bitty paws twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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mark zuckerberg suggests congress consider limiting teen secretion of tears
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We have built databases of ruin—archives of intensely-detailed personal records so vast as to hold every individual life at ransom.
The inevitable leaks are ineradicable, and cannot be cleaned up: "The Internet never forgets." In time, the mosaic will leave no life unrevealed. twitter.com/opinion/status…
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Everything is under control. There's nothing to see here. Move along. twitter.com/John_Hudson/st…
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Great to hear, but there's no record of you speaking like this last week when your close partners in Israel—who, unlike China, you can definitely influence—were exposed by the #PegasusProject for their involvement in the actual *deaths and detentions* of journalists.
Why not? twitter.com/SecBlinken/sta…
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Turns out McAfee was American, but born British. I regret the error.
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Love is to journey through miles and years, blistered and dusty, and still smile at the road ahead.
May it never end. twitter.com/lsjourneys/sta…
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Ordinary Chinese readers and translators united to help me remove all censorship from the mainland edition of my first book, entitled《永久记录》. Now we're making it available it to the world for free. Please download and share it everywhere. Link: a.temporaryrecord.com twitter.com/aiww/status/12…
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Too many have been content to accept the US government’s determination that what should properly be the highest purpose of the media — the uncovering of truth, in the face of attempts to hide it — is suddenly in doubt and quite possibly illegal.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/assange01
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"Good news, sir! There's enough money in the budget to build that global surveillance system you asked for, as long as we put off affordable housing policies til next year."
Repeat forever. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Nine years before September 11th, AG Barr secretly became the godfather of mass surveillance. Today Senators are finally calling for an ethics investigation into how such an obviously unconstitutional program ever came to be authorized, and how it currently operates. twitter.com/charlie_savage…
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The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks twitter.com/financialjuice…
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Today, the country this describes is Afghanistan. Tomorrow, the country this describes might be my own.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/kabul
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Before people accuse going unpardoned as influencing my rhetoric, here are the receipts showing me saying exactly the same thing last year on national TV: newsweek.com/edward-snowden…
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No matter what side of the aisle you're on, everyone agrees 2016 was an ugly, ugly election: two parties ready to burn civility to the ground in a mad contest for power at any price.
The core question today is if 2024 will be better... or worse. twitter.com/ggreenwald/sta…
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