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@NSAGov Look, I'm just saying if a fat man comes down my chimney, I'm not taking any chances.
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He doesn't actually *know* if you've been bad or good, but historically speaking, people who engage in these kinds of unconstitutional activities (like @NSAGov) simply *pretend* to know. Instead, they make a guess and then kill people on the basis of that guess.
Merry Christmas.
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He knows when you've been sleeping. He knows when you're awake.
He knows this because your pattern-of-life can be inferred by looking at records of your phone's basic internet activity—called "metadata." This is the core of modern mass surveillance.
He should be in jail.
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Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
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The FBI assigned so many agents to search for ways to deplatform accounts they didn't like (by gaming Twitter's Terms of Service) that it was even making the FBI's former top lawyer uncomfortable. The FBI's former top lawyer **who had left to go work at Twitter.** twitter.com/mtaibbi/status…
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The more things change, the more they stay the same. The only solution is taking platforms out of the moderation game. The content-layer of the internet should be moved to neutral protocols.
*You* should be the one who decides what you can read. Not a company. Not a government. twitter.com/mtaibbi/status…
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The hardest work was done by @bunniestudios. In the end, we freely published our research in an academic journal (you can read here: tjoe.org/pub/direct-rad…) so anybody from the mobile industry (and the third-party gadget ecosystem) could adopt and commercialize the techniques. twitter.com/SamRoseAuthor/…
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I talked about this back in early 2020 and was dismissed as paranoid—as is our tradition when someone points to the predictable outcome of a dangerous but popular new trend. Stopping this will be harder, now.
You can watch the original interview here:
youtube.com/watch?v=yMMoEJ… twitter.com/AP/status/1606…
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“Do you truly believe that when the first wave, this second wave, the 16th wave of the coronavirus is a long-forgotten memory, that these capabilities will not be kept? That these datasets will not be kept?”
Got a lot of flak for that on April 9th, 2020.
vice.com/en/article/bvg… twitter.com/AP/status/1606…
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I'm surprised the Stable Diffusion / ChatGPT / Generative AI projects haven't come hard for (at least instrumental) music, yet. If they can cop Caravaggio, surely they can remix chiptunes.
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So now that we know who it wasn't, anyone care to venture a guess as to who it was?
"The explosions may never be definitively attributed" sounds a bit like the groundwork being laid to let an "ally" off the hook for dynamiting Europe's energy policy. twitter.com/John_Hudson/st…
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@anshelsag On the off-chance you were genuinely misled by some garbage headline, I am in fact still an American citizen. As it turns out, you can collect citizenships like Pokemon cards.
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The worst people in politics from both parties have teamed up to demand Congress rubber-stamp a 4,155-page blank check—many times the length of the Bible.
A check for $1,700,000,000,000 of your money.
And they want it stamped before anyone can actually read it.
Sounds legit.
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I agree with @MartaBelcher. twitter.com/BlockchainAssn…
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Do you think other major internet companies are secretly aiding the US military's psychological operations?
Reporters (and Congress, and governments around the world) should be *all over* Facebook, YouTube, and Reddit for answers. Where there's smoke, there's fire. twitter.com/lhfang/status/…
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This thread is a remarkable case study on how the FBI overcame a major tech company's resistance to running favors for the Feds by basically running an influence operation against key staffers—and paying to rent others—until they had the censorship crew eating out of their hands. twitter.com/shellenberger/…
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I take payment in Bitcoin. twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…
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Adults are at times farther from comprehending the world than children. Children have yet to educated, but remain open to learning, while adults have often been 𝘮𝘪𝘴-educated, and so jealously guard the granite of their preconception from being cracked by a contrary truth.
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Do you feel safer? twitter.com/mtaibbi/status…
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