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Princeton Computer Scientists: @Apple is "gambling with security, privacy and free speech worldwide."
The core design of Apple's new "child safety" system—comparing your photos against a secret blacklist—is "dangerous" and "easily repurposed for surveillance and censorship." twitter.com/evacide/status…
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This is an evacuation from an active war zone. If an American shows up at the airport and says "this is my family," I don't care if they're followed by three mice and a giraffe—you let them in.
Quibbling about visas and stamps can happen when the plane lands on the other side. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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"But her emails," demands the partisan. "Russia!"
The charges against Assange have nothing to do with either. As even @nytimes puts it, the government's case is against the award-winning "2010 publication of diplomatic and military files leaked by Chelsea Manning."
779
Watch this film. twitter.com/Collectivemovi…
780
Asparagus is transitory.
theguardian.com/business/2021/…
781
Members of Congress should be making calls about this. Journalists should be asking the White House and DOJ questions.
The founder of Sci-hub—unquestionably one of the most important sites for academics in the world—should not be subject to persecution for their work. twitter.com/ringo_ring/sta…
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Worry not about the highest inflation since the collapse of the Soviet Union, fellow citizen. The people in charge know what they're doing, and you can be sure that they will always put your interests first.
wsj.com/articles/us-in…
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Setting aside for a moment the politics of it, officials in many countries (see article) clearly fear the spread of working-class bridge blockades as a new protest tactic. There is genuine alarm at the idea a group of laborers can shut a city down.
apnews.com/article/corona…
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If you host a website on Amazon (or are a regulator) and you're not in the US, read about "Section 702," the law the NSA and FBI uses to demand data from US companies about non-US persons—without individual warrants! cdt.org/wp-content/upl… twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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"The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools **for us** to manage the public conversation, versus building tools **for the people using Twitter** to easily manage it for themselves." twitter.com/jack/status/16…
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“The history of military conflict in Afghanistan [has] been one of initial success, followed by long years of floundering and ultimate failure. We’re not going to repeat that mistake.”
— George W. Bush
April 17th, 2002 twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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you remember when the science teacher terrified all the children by saying the sun will eat the earth and nothing will remain? yeah they forgot to tell you we can just pack up the whole planet and drive it down the road like a van.
galaxy brains right here: twitter.com/DavidSHolz/sta…
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Agree.
Gating off speech rights via an implied threat (the point of identification)—on a site famous for exhuming and scandalizing the forgotten tweets of youth—leads not to debate but recrimination and group-think, culminating in the endless recitation of orthodoxies.
Mistake. twitter.com/jack/status/15…
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If you're blocked, don't feel badly; it's nothing personal. Just trying to improve signal to noise ratio for people who don't want to wade through crypto spam and off-topic screeching.
791
Somebody needs to pull records on the turkey's campaign donations.
792
I want to see an end to the conflict in Ukraine, and frankly, I think all reasonable people share that position. The question nobody seems to want to contend with is whether amplifying official claims made without evidence are reducing hostilities, or are in fact provoking them.
793
"No other candidate specifically aims to make the United States more closely resemble a freer country." Provocative article from the last cycle. niskanencenter.org/is-there-a-lib…
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Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.
—Carl Sagan
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I talked to Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) about privacy, surveillance, and more. Here's a part about how your phone is used to keep track of your movements—even if you uninstall every app in the drawer and disable "location services": youtube.com/watch?v=2jxdwI…
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Many of the questions I'm getting about @signalapp can be answered by reading this article a lot of folks missed about its founder, @moxie. newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
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September 12th was the first day of a new era, which America faced with a unified resolve, strengthened by the goodwill and sympathy of the world. In retrospect, my country could have done so much with this opportunity.
Instead, it went to war.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/9-12
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corruption in congress? land sakes alive, can you imagine? twitter.com/RobertFaturech…
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“Panic made us politically vulnerable. That vulnerability was exploited by our own government to entitle itself to radically expanded powers that had for decades been out of reach.” theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…
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I'm just trying to imagine the mindset of the kid graduating high school this year, after missing years of class time, and realizing they're about to step into the world with the difficulty slider locked on Nightmare Mode.
How are you handling it? twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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