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For those of you who read me at edwardsnowden.substack.com, I've got my very first audio encounter dropping tomorrow: a conversation with the legendary @DanielEllsberg. Don't miss it.
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FIVE POINT FIVE MILLION from @PleasrDAO. It feels like the whole staff of @FreedomofPress is watching live, and we've never seen anything like this. This is more than a spectacle -- this is drama. All eyes turn to the dark horse. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Much discussion of former TI reporters' failings misses:
1) No reporter could have prevented Winner's discovery as the news source.
2) That doesn't require Winner to be "naive" (NYT) or "clumsy" (WP). It is heroism to prioritize the public's right to know over one's own safety. twitter.com/theintercept/s…
1129
I agree with @MartaBelcher. twitter.com/BlockchainAssn…
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Whether you're the President or a pizza guy, you take a risk by trusting your secret to another in a free society, because what is truly "secret" is established by consensus, not law. The concept is encoded in our very language: "to share a secret."
We've been made to forget.
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The Greatest Conspiracies are Open and Notorious:
youtube.com/watch?v=e0zAJf…
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“We don’t negotiate surrenders.” —Donald Rumsfeld, 2001.
Now, some are looking back at a missed chance that could have halted America’s longest war in its infancy.
nytimes.com/2021/08/23/wor…
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You have to give @SubstackInc credit: they really do have all the most interesting writers. twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status…
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for the three people who don't get it:
twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Plötzlich wird klar, warum #Reichelt sich schon immer durch die Existenz von Whistleblowern bedroht gefühlt hat.
tagesschau.de/investigativ/n…
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PROTIP:
You can leave the phone from your bag here and forget to do the same with the one in your pocket, or vice versa—an easy mistake for those with two phones, or carrying an aide's phone.
Sometimes this makes it hard to freeze the public out of public policy discussions. twitter.com/christianjhall…
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We're live in half an hour. twitter.com/PleasrDAO/stat…
1139
“Crypto as shorthand for cryptography really was in widespread use. You could talk about crypto even on Capitol Hill and people would know what you were talking about – that really did hold a lot of, forgive this, but currency.” –@xor
theguardian.com/technology/202…
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I hope that The Intercept will, in time, come to recognize that they have not handled Laura's concerns appropriately and apologize—if not to Laura, then at least to their source. #FreeRealityWinner
1141
Have you ever wanted to ask one of us a question? Here's your chance. twitter.com/PleasrDAO/stat…
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This year risks establishing the US judiciary as a failed institution, with any judges that retain a meaningful concept of justice consistently diluted into a powerless minority.
You know what I'm talking about. twitter.com/PatrickCToomey…
1143
I wonder how many other decisions in the history of monetary policy managed to blow up this quickly. I mean, like, a year? Jpow is basically doing a speedrun.
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"I wanted PGP to be used for human rights applications—to spread all over the world, especially to places where people needed protection from their own governments. But I couldn't say that out loud, because it would help the prosecutor prove intent." philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/PGP_…
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This is the most important report you will read today. twitter.com/RonDeibert/sta…
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This is Laura's statement: praxisfilms.org/open-letter-fr…
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@v3ritas1337 I'd recommend donating to the families that helped me in Hong Kong. They need it more than I do. You can find a link here: fortherefugees.com/donate/
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Don't tell me @telegram didn't know about the scam-ring running this account, either: they were contacted by the media about it ages ago, which even wrote a story about it.
What did @telegram do when asked for comment? They refused to even respond! twitter.com/MikaelThalen/s…
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👀 gonna be a big week twitter.com/mtaibbi/status…
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"Although virtual currencies are occasionally used for illicit transactions, the volume is small compared to the volume of illicit activity through traditional financial services."
You'll never believe who said it.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/cbdcs
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