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"Why Aren't Millennials Buying New Homes?"
truly a mystery 🤔
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“...The government had access to my private emails and were sharing them with Congress and leaking them to the media. I felt invaded by my own government, punished for leading a civil rights organization.”
theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…
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“They essentially claimed wartime authority to engage in domestic surveillance that is criminal under statutory law,” said Ben Wizner.
theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…
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I agree with this. @Apple must go further than merely "listening"—it must drop entirely its plans to put a backdoor into systems that provide vital protections to the public. Don't make us fight you for basic privacy rights.
eff.org/deeplinks/2021…
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The Snowden documents showed that by 14 September – just three days after the attacks – the then director of the NSA, Michael Hayden, had taken a “tactical decision” to begin snooping on the digital communications of people based in the US.
theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…
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“We should have known what was to come and, looking back at the public record, I think that on an intellectual level many of us did know. But the elite relentlessly repeated that the choice here was obvious: a guarantee of life or a certainty of death.” theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…
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If the Patriot Act was produced in a flash, behind the scenes secret systems for mass surveillance were being built at even greater speed. One of the most audacious plans was drafted by nightfall on the day of 11 September itself.
theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…
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“Panic made us politically vulnerable. That vulnerability was exploited by our own government to entitle itself to radically expanded powers that had for decades been out of reach.” theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…
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yes yes this is an excellent point what has *checks notes* edward snowden ever done to reveal the misbehavior of facebook and google, especially in the last 10 years twitter.com/Ani1u71/status…
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they really underestimated how hard we can screech
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Remember all the tweets about @Apple's insane #spyPhone proposal? Don't ever let anyone tell you that there's nothing you can do when a company announces a plan to screw you.
This is a HUGE victory, but remember: this thing isn't dead yet. Be ready to fight if it comes back. twitter.com/zackwhittaker/…
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And yet you are demanding a sham prosecution of Julian Assange for specific act of journalism that won awards around the world. twitter.com/StateDept/stat…
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1. people who accept climate change and think it is caused by humans
2. people who accept climate change and think it is caused by nature
3. people who don’t accept climate change at all
What do they have in common?
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/the-new-deni…
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If you don’t want to hear about this stuff, you have a choice: you can either look at the other side’s “data” that says the opposite, or you can toss your phone into the ocean... which is littering.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/the-new-deni…
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The true challenge is not to enumerate the risk, but to live with it.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/the-new-deni…
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Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “the perception in the US, in Europe and the media is a narrative of Taliban momentum, and a narrative of Taliban victory. And we need to... try to turn that perception, that narrative around.”
More focused on optics than evacuation
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Somebody leaked the transcript of Biden's 23 July call with the Afghan President:
Biden: "...Things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban, and there is a need, WHETHER IT IS TRUE OR NOT, to project a different picture."
reuters.com/world/exclusiv…
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Data as filtered by what calls itself the media—as opposed to data as filtered by an individual—should be better, but isn’t.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/the-new-deni…
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This mutant strain has become its own pandemic—one that leaves us in denial about our ability to create change.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/the-new-deni…
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Substack is really growing: even Salman Rushdie is bypassing print to publish his next novel there.
theguardian.com/books/2021/sep…
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@WClementeIII Speaking as someone who has dealt with more than a little criticism, you should rarely stop speaking for fear of the crowd -- *especially* on Twitter, where replies are considered engagement and boost your visibility.
Let them talk: it only helps spread your message. Cheers.
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Кто-то перевел на русский мою статью о системе сканирования iPhone от Apple. Это очень важный вопрос для будущего неприкосновенности частной жизни:
web.archive.org/web/2021090115…
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