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Not to be overlooked: twitter.com/CraigMWhitlock…
802
The most surprising part to me in all this is not that the White House lied—that, life teaches us, is a reliable constant.
It is that even after the White House openly admits that something was a cynical lie, 30% of the population will continue to prefer that lie to reality. twitter.com/ggreenwald/sta…
803
This is an evacuation from an active war zone. If an American shows up at the airport and says "this is my family," I don't care if they're followed by three mice and a giraffe—you let them in.
Quibbling about visas and stamps can happen when the plane lands on the other side. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
804
It is grotesque that media repeats the political language of "Americans who want to leave," when "Americans who don't want to leave" is being used to categorize those who WANT to leave, but are being refused permission to take their Afghan families.
They can't just abandon them.
805
Stay out of our phones, @tim_cook.
Apple's entire brand is built on the idea that you respect that boundary. The minute you roll out a "client-side scanning" system, you have broken that promise.
Whatever you're doing here is not worth that. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Every iPhone will search itself for whatever Apple wants, or for whatever Apple is directed to want. They are inventing a world in which every product you purchase owes its highest loyalty to someone other than its owner.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
808
Painfully relevant article today: twitter.com/Snowden/status…
809
Apple’s new system, regardless of how anyone tries to justify it, will permanently redefine what belongs to you, and what belongs to them. edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
810
Apple's system was never designed to protect children, as they would have you believe, but rather to protect their brand.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
811
How long do we have left before the iPhone in your pocket begins quietly filing reports about encountering “extremist” political material, or about your presence at a "civil disturbance"? edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
812
Apple’s proposal to make their phones inform on and betray their owners marks the dawn of a dark future.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
813
I don't think you should miss this one.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
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The government's new declassification reforms are... classified.
"Some things are truly crooked." twitter.com/saftergood/sta…
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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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they'll probably bring back some of those 800,000 too. i mean, i doubt we're just going to pretend like it didn't happen otherwise.
817
twenty years of war and we're back where we started.
at least the politicians & military-industrial complex that forced it on us for personal profit will be forced to give back most of the public's $6,400,000,000,000 to avoid jail time—right?
...right?
brown.edu/news/2019-11-1…
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Here is the well-qualified final word on the Secretary of State's "This is not Saigon" statement——from a Vietnam vet (1965-1966), reporter among the last to be evacuated from Saigon (1975), who also covered the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1980).
politico.com/news/magazine/…
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In light of the deeply troubling Facebook VR thing this week, this talk struck me as extremely far-sighted and valuable—well worth watching.
I found the thing fascinating, but for those looking for the Facebook-specific part, it begins just after 30 minutes in. twitter.com/gfodor/status/…
820
Today in the news:
Americans beaten by the Taliban just outside the airport, infants tossed over razor wire by desperate parents, and press summaries leading with the image of the President's turned back as he escapes unanswered questions.
Hard times.
mediaite.com/news/why-do-yo…
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Journalists should press HARD on the #spyPhone scandal. It is indefensible for @Apple, which positions itself as a pro-privacy company, to push a harshly criticized surveillance paradigm into one billion phones despite condemnations by both security experts and rights groups. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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90+ policy and rights groups around the world wrote @tim_cook today to warn @Apple that releasing its new, universally-condemned #spyPhone update "will have laid the foundation for censorship, surveillance and persecution on a global basis."
Source:
scribd.com/embeds/5208140…
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For what it's worth, I've thought VR/AR meetings are going to be a killer app ever since I lost the ability to travel. But this? This ain't it, and Facebook has gone to extreme lengths to prove it cannot be trusted to respect the boundaries required for private meetings.
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Facebook's vision of the future is seen in how they steal and repackage the VRchat concept.
They could have you meet in a designer lounge, on a tropical island, or even atop the helicopter pad of a ship at sea.
Instead they trap you in a low-rez workplace and cut off your legs. twitter.com/boztank/status…
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today in my mentions: a furious romanian altcoin team no one has ever heard of that thinks i was calling them forest animals. it was a joke, guys. i'm sure your project is very cool.
also it's amazing you can type with those itty bitty paws twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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