826
The semantic contortions the government engages in for the pageantry of a "National Whistleblower Day"—while refusing to acknowledge any of the actual whistleblowers it put in prison (such as the source of the revelation below)—are more than offensive. They are shameful. twitter.com/DevlinBarrett/…
827
Wer hätte es wissen können? twitter.com/BVerfG/status/…
828
the parenting phase where you're like oh my goodness his little teeth 😍 ow ow OW YOU LITTLE ZOMBIE
829
Anybody at Twitter who cares about what advertisers think should not be working at Twitter. Twitter lives or dies based on a single metric: is the most important conversation in the world happening here?
Make it fun and make it matter. That's how you win.
830
With respect, I would be more sympathetic to this defense had you not been using substantially the same language in 2016 (and perhaps earlier) about subjects entirely unrelated to Bitcoin—which at the time was largely ignored at $700.
Exhibit A: twitter.com/nntaleb/status…
831
*chuckles* you mean the chaos emeralds? twitter.com/BNONews/status…
832
This gaggle of spies and neos ran a disinformation campaign against the biggest corporate newsdesks in the world, knowingly misrepresenting ordinary Twitter users who simply disagreed with their politics as foreign agents and dupes.
Incredible thread blowing the hoax wide open: twitter.com/mtaibbi/status…
833
When I get my wife a cake for her birthday, she carves out the frosting until all that remains is a sad little skeleton of barren cake.
She has invented the Minecraft of desserts.
834
if you don't remember this you are blessed
835
Shamefully, it took me a very long time, peering down from my technocratic perch at the CIA and later the NSA, to apprehend the nature of my work: transforming the internet—a liberating, democratizing tool—into an architecture of oppression.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/kabul
836
Roskomnadzor (Russia's censorship bureau) is attempting to block one of the most important rights-respecting networks in the world without issuing so much as a press release.
This is like banning the entire cell phone network because a drug dealer used it—without explanation. twitter.com/torproject/sta…
837
I want you to try and imagine a public intellectual arguing the proper response to the revelation of his years-long harrassment of critics is to claim:
1) His victims were the real bullies
2) He is the real victim
3) The true problem is my speaking out
And then attacking *me.* twitter.com/Snowden/status…
838
Just hours before I sat down to draft this, the President of the United States gave a speech in which he tried to defend the honor of this war—a defense that is frankly offensive, and that I think most offends the families of the injured and the dead.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/kabul
839
I'm just imagining some dude spending his last moments on earth drafting an unfinished tweet about M&Ms. Carpe diem.
840
I understand people feel socially obligated to be like "reeeeeee glenn greenwald REEEEEE" these days because he is a reliably disagreeable obstacle to The Consensus, but few of his peers have been as loud or consistent in opposing the growing campaign against press freedoms. twitter.com/ggreenwald/sta…
841
I've already expressed my opposition to the fighting in Ukraine, and pray it ends soon. The difference between us is that when *I* realized that sharing my thoughts on the matter did more harm than good, I found the humility to stop. Best regards.
twitter.com/Snowden/status…
842
Encryption is the foundation of modern security. thenextweb.com/news/edward-sn…
843
Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “the perception in the US, in Europe and the media is a narrative of Taliban momentum, and a narrative of Taliban victory. And we need to... try to turn that perception, that narrative around.”
More focused on optics than evacuation
845
This 2014 story of the NSA and FBI using FISA warrants to spy on a slate of ordinary Americans--including a Republican campaign--was almost entirely ignored by major media at the time. Hard to imagine how differently it would be covered today. twitter.com/ggreenwald/sta…
846
“Human rights have not been in a crisis like this since the end of the Second World War,” says Manfred Nowak, the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture. We should listen. shhhcretly.com/2020/02/02/shh…
847
There are solutions to the censorship problem that will keep Twitter out of bankruptcy, @elonmusk. You've seen them. You could change the world within twelve months. It will work. Take the risk. twitter.com/ryangrim/statu…
848
"Twitter will still have a free tier."
Yeah, but if pay-to-win accounts are prioritized for visibility, as Elon suggested, you're going to be drowned in tweets by the lethally boring blob that will expense annual Twitter Blue subs via line items in institutional budgets.
849
P.S. @GIMP_Official, I'm really hoping for a major UI overhaul. You guys could be eating Adobe's lunch.
850
@doyourweb You can't trust anything anyone says from anywhere. Don't trust: check the facts.
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