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Bitcoin fixes this. twitter.com/business/statu…
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before you complain about me not citing your random coin with a market cap of $37 that is developed by forest animals in romania, remember that bitcoin is essentially shorthand for cryptocurrency and also your time is better spent making little outfits for the animals to wear
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Shamefully, it took me a very long time, peering down from my technocratic perch at the CIA and later the NSA, to apprehend the nature of my work: transforming the internet—a liberating, democratizing tool—into an architecture of oppression.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/kabul
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The reasoning behind the old "I have nothing to hide" defense of surveillance abuses is humiliating, if you think it through.
Essentially:
1) Only those who stand out are targeted
2) I do not stand out
3) I cannot stand out
4) Phew, I'm safe
weird flex but ok
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Congratulations on making insignificance an aspiration, I guess? We're all very happy for you.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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/…
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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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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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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.
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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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The government's new declassification reforms are... classified.
"Some things are truly crooked." twitter.com/saftergood/sta…
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I don't think you should miss this one.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Painfully relevant article today: 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
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