1052
Another unequivocal claim by Biden that the question of war has been decided.
I've been a huge skeptic, and I very much hope he's wrong, but he's putting generational credibility on the line in a way that worries even me. If he's right, stonewalling Minsk II is hard to justify. twitter.com/laurenegambino…
1053
The authors of the 36,000 furious pieces that hyped a secret plot by the Communists to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids—which perhaps could have merited more skepticism—should probably pause and reflect on how their work affected the discourse.
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
1054
@jodestiii @signalapp @moxie Their servers are overloaded because so many people are signing up right now. Try again later: twitter.com/signalapp/stat…
1055
@thezoulasylum I have no ownership stake in any tech company, full stop. Not a single share. Nor have I ever done a paid endorsement of any kind. That's how much I love you.
1056
Read this thread. twitter.com/silkiecarlo/st…
1057
Read this thread. twitter.com/AthertonKD/sta…
1058
"By the end of next year, America’s war in Afghanistan will be over." — @BarackObama, 2013
obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/realitycheck/t…
1059
Start the year off right: join the 20,000 who have already signed to oppose the US government's indefinite detention of Chelsea Manning -- a situation the United Nations' Rapporteur has just found legally equivalent to torture. #FreeChelsea twitter.com/fightfortheftr…
1060
The central property of cash is fungibility—meaning a dollar spent by a plumber is honored equally to one spent by a sex worker: they are indiscriminable. Adversarial chain analysis of Bitcoin's public ledger reduces its fungibility over time. Only privacy guarantees fungibility.
1061
@xor let us give thanks that anime is a thing now
1062
If you are reporting on or at all interested in the legal aspects of yesterday's NSA court ruling, you will want to read this thread by the brilliant @AlexanderAbdo. He's the one who actually argued the case in front of the court for @ACLU! twitter.com/AlexanderAbdo/…
1063
We're live in a half hour. twitter.com/MijenteComite/…
1064
One way to view my life's work is a struggle against the dangers of centralized power, so watching the accelerating adoption of decentralization as a strategy for ensuring fairness—and increasingly, as a source of philanthropy—is tremendously gratifying.
Thank you, @FFDWeb! twitter.com/FFDWeb/status/…
1065
From the gutter, a voice emerges: "Never let a crisisss go to wassste." twitter.com/tier10k/status…
1066
Winner was denied a fair trial due to be charged under the unconstitutional Espionage Act—for working with journalists to inform the public. Biden has a responsibility to correct this injustice by pardoning her—and ensuring journalists' sources are never again treated as spies. twitter.com/bjwinnerdavis/…
1067
#Facebook's reply here is a near copy-paste of the Obama administration's response to the revelation of the NSA's unlawful mass surveillance program.
Mark seems unaware that the "false picture" defense did not do well in court. It did not do well at all:
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/s… twitter.com/MikeIsaac/stat…
1068
The true challenge is not to enumerate the risk, but to live with it.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/the-new-deni…
1069
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex (MIC).” — President Eisenhower
How did we do?
1070
If you object to this particular act of violence, Hurt-Feelings Reports are available at the following organizational resource. Have a blessed day.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/on-censorshi…
1071
If you agreed with this, you may enjoy exploring what precisely the nature of that thing *is*:
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/conspiracy-p…
1072
@MichaelToole It's like a lifetime achievement award. Lupin is one of my favorite series.
1073
@magi_jay But I do agree: decades-long wars in foreign lands with no plan and for no benefit, followed by a disastrous pull-out that leaves everyone worse-off than they were before shows that "America"—as politicians understand it—is, in fact, "back."
Nothing partisan to that history.
1074
Wait til somebody tells them what's planned for the dollar:
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/cbdcs
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