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My good friend @johncusack on the PRESS Act. It's important to keep the limits on the White House's ability to spy on journalists from changing at the stroke of an Attorney General's pen.
chicago.suntimes.com/2022/12/5/2349…
952
Read this. "It is the endorsement by one of the largest industry players of the principle that ubiquitous spyware on consumer computing devices is normal and acceptable in free societies." twitter.com/normative/stat…
953
WaPo's editorial solution to the NSO scandal is so embarrassingly weak that it is itself a scandal. These companies (and their hosts) claim "transparency, accountability, and licensing requirements" are already in place!
You ask for less than nothing.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
954
Montesquieu on checks and balances, 1748: "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, there can be no liberty."
American politicians, 2021: "Liberty is your check adding to my balance." twitter.com/dellcam/status…
955
Don't believe their lies. twitter.com/darrenboey/sta…
956
On Feb 9th, I'll be unveiling the new Young Reader's edition of my first book, Permanent Record, with the far-sighted @doctorow. There are very few books like this accessible for children. copperfieldsbooks.com/event/edward-s…
957
He has since issued a statement drafted by his staff:
twitter.com/The_Mod_Mill/s…
958
A story of the government spying on journalists should not be buried on a Friday: washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
959
they'll probably bring back some of those 800,000 too. i mean, i doubt we're just going to pretend like it didn't happen otherwise.
960
"Nothing will fundamentally change," he said.
washingtonpost.com/politics/senat…
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"Those who did [the hacking] were looking to take undue advantage of their position of power... It is an attack on the democratic foundations of our country. It must be thoroughly investigated and those responsible be identified and punished.”
theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/…
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people be like "well it worked out for Sam in the end" and I'm like hello survivorship bias
they tried to pay my man in exposure
964
"Almost all the projects of social reformers in these days are really 𝙡𝙞𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙙𝙚."
— John Stuart Mill, discussing the need for a book "on liberty." January 15th, 𝟭𝟴𝟱𝟱.
965
Asking people to pay $8/month to read tweets by NGOs and Hillary Clinton is only going to shrink the user base, because there's no audience for boring. It's short-term revenue at the cost of network itself.
966
rage demons in the replies ngmi twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…
967
For what reason do we aspire to maintain—or achieve—a nation of laws, if not to establish justice?
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/americas-ope…
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And if you think the profligate military spending Eisenhower us warned against amounts to less than < $1,000,000,000,000.00/year based on the headline figure from defense bills, I have some bad news:
thenation.com/article/archiv…
969
for the three people who don't get it:
twitter.com/Snowden/status…
970
"Women couldn't own property, they couldn't sign contracts, couldn't get a mortage, couldn't testify in court, they couldn't vote. It wasn't until [1974], after decades of women's struggles, that they could have credit cards... They are not going to be forced back into the home." twitter.com/EmpireFiles/st…
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This looks like the first confirmed case of digital weapons made by Israel's NSO group being used against a major US reporter. NSO has repeatedly, falsely sworn their hacks are only used against "terrorists" and "serious criminals." Which one is @NYTBen? twitter.com/RonDeibert/sta…
972
"Apple restricts the access researchers have to iOS in a way that limits the ability of consumers to discover when they’ve been hacked." washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
973
竹帛烟销帝业虚，
关河空锁祖龙居。
坑灰未冷山东乱，
刘项原来不读书。
a.temporaryrecord.com/Permanent_Reco…
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Y'all that answered "every ten minutes" might just wanna go ahead and throw your phone in the river before you read the answer, because you're not going to like it.
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