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The complicit silence as the US seeks to force the extradition of a publisher—for daring to publish true information—is even harder to justify when you discover that the FBI's star witness is an admitted fraud and child predator... who was just jailed.
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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.
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i'm getting old twitter.com/VP/status/1452…
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Very legal, very cool. twitter.com/business/statu…
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#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…
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#Brexit seems to be going about as well as expected. I'm surprised I haven't seen "Bare Shelves Boris" trending. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Asparagus is transitory.
theguardian.com/business/2021/…
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You think you understand the nature of difficulty, and then you try to teach a baby to be patient.
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Distribution isn't the core public need: people will clearly buy bitcoin at nearly any price. *Disintermediation* is the demand.
Rinse out the middlemen (corporate and state), enabling them to transact with anyone, anywhere, for anything.
Don't insert yourself as another one.
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With respect, the docs say the "sequencer nodes" save the hashes (identifiers) produced by scanning people's eyes to your database.
Apple does not, IIRC, catalog raw bio hashes—they're encrypted on-device (via enclave).
The result of Worldcoin's "Phase 1" is an eyeball catalog. twitter.com/sama/status/14…
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VC guys keep trying to make cryptocurrency a global standard by spending billions to invent less-attractive versions of Bitcoin, instead of just buying payment-system companies to make the most common cash registers and apps support crypto payments by default.
Pro-gamer move.
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"We use ZK-proofs!"
Great, clever. Still bad.
The human body is not a ticket-punch.
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Don't use biometrics for anti-fraud.
In fact, don't use biometrics for anything.
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This looks like it produces a global (hash) database of people's iris scans (for "fairness"), and waves away the implications by saying "we deleted the scans!"
Yeah, but you save the *hashes* produced by the scans. Hashes that match *future* scans.
Don't catalogue eyeballs. twitter.com/sama/status/14…
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It is crucial to bear in mind that the industry's problem is not data "protection," it is data COLLECTION. Mass surveillance must be recognized as a crime, not a business model. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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European lawmakers, data regulators, and privacy authorities must recognize that It is time to revise your approach to the internet giants, who have for the entirety of the post-2013 era actively, intentionally sabotaged the process of reform.
nytimes.com/2021/10/22/tec…
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من به شدت سطح فعالیت توییتر فارسی را دست کم گرفتم.
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This article, on US spy agencies' self-awareness of the legal weakness of their drone-killing program, is the first fresh document I've seen published from the archive in years.
@attackerman is always worth reading: twitter.com/attackerman/st…
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One of the funniest things about Twitter is seeing which tweets people will absolutely smash the like-button for, but are simultaneously terrified to retweet.
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Am I the only one who found Stardew Valley a beautiful experience, but Animal Crossing painfully, almost aggressively bland?
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من فقط می گویم دلیلی وجود دارد که گربه ها محبوب هستند twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Don't believe their lies. twitter.com/darrenboey/sta…
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This is my way of saying that if you're a university student pursuing agricultural science, I wish you a long and happy life. We don't deserve you.
You can find me on #nostr @ pubkey: #npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9. (use Damus on iOS, Amethyst on Android, or snort.social)