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"The Central Intelligence Agency and another agency that officials wouldn’t name remain undecided between the lab-leak and natural-transmission theories, the people who have read the classified report said."
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Do you remember the "institutional" and social media corpo response in the first half of 2020 when someone contradicted the consensus? They were punished for the "crime" of "disinformation."
Corporations must never again be permitted to police speech.
wsj.com/articles/covid…
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It's not OK to algorithmically blackmail parents into eradicating family photos. The idea that some random engineer's half-baked code forces you to make a choice between keeping your account or deleting your baby photos is straight-up dystopian.
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@TwitterSupport @elonmusk It seems to me the result of an algorithm run amok, rather than human decision. Wife asks me if she should just give up, delete the pic and move on. I say no--because how many others have been victimized by the same stupid algo?
This is a problem, and it needs to be fixed.
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My wife's Twitter has been locked for a week for posting a baby picture. She appealed the ban. I mentioned it to @TwitterSupport. I mentioned it to @elonmusk. Zero response.
Instagram etc have no prob with the same pic.
You can put *porn* on Twitter, but not a baby? Bad policy. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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ok yes i am for sure and very genuinely sorry to all concerned by the potential impact of this joke on the bad man's feelings
we should show greater sensitivity toward those struggling with inflation
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replies like "how dare you shame this magnificent creature" as the most iconic figure in american comic history tries once again to pick their pocket
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_cat
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man couldn't even win the battle against the international house of pancakes and he's out here trying to eulogize his enemies
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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The @ACLU is exactly right, here. Call Congress. twitter.com/ACLU/status/16…
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Ten years ago, the government defended unconstitutional surveillance by saying it was necessary to "balance" your right to liberty against their preference for security. The courts at the time viewed that skeptically.
Under the new Court, lawless spying is no longer questioned. twitter.com/ACLU/status/16…
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Does this look like pornography to you, @elonmusk? If you have a machine handing out bans for pictures that could be on a Hallmark Card, it's time to dial back the algorithm.
Just my opinion. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Twitter just locked my wife @lsjourneys's account for an ancient baby photo that even *spineless Instagram* had no problem with. Do parents need to worry? Are baby butts, happy bath photos, etc. banworthy now?
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...beginning to suspect my wife may secretly be a witch. twitter.com/lsjourneys/sta…
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please tell me the white house did not spend the month of february scrambling jets to fire $400,000 missiles at the local hobby club's TWELVE DOLLAR BALLOON
lord have mercy
aviationweek.com/defense-space/…
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new season just dropped 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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"Originally, tracking phones was the only way to deliver service, but that’s not true anymore—now the carriers are lining their pockets by tracking us while turning a blind eye to techniques that can protect our privacy."
Worth reading:
aclu.org/news/privacy-t…
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Love is to journey through miles and years, blistered and dusty, and still smile at the road ahead.
May it never end. twitter.com/lsjourneys/sta…
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To the Davinci Resolve people: please improve Linux support for common file formats in release 19. License problems have good workarounds.
Requiring users to ffmpeg-transcode Memaw's iPhone videos to VP9/pcm_s24le in an mkv container just to open them on normcore Ubuntu is jank. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Because Windows collects and reports information about your computer and how you use it, and this behavior cannot be fully disabled.
If we had a single functioning major government on this planet, that would be illegal. twitter.com/sequitur_broke…
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Davinci Resolve is crippled in the most anger-inducing ways.
A Linux CLI from 1989 can convert a file format intended for CLAY TABLETS into ALIEN BEAT POETRY.
DR in *2023* is like "oh, wow, h.264? pretty exotic, there fella. aac audio? can't, sorry."
Then points you to Paypal.
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@gainzy222 i am sorry to hear that you lost all of your money placing all those sports bets
the ones i specifically warned you not to place
twice
but i hope you can still afford to go to the library and read the book i wrote that answers precisely your question
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After 25 years in the CIA: twitter.com/BankerWeimar/s…
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