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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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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.
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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…
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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…
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Not to be overlooked: twitter.com/CraigMWhitlock…
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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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@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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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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This mutant strain has become its own pandemic—one that leaves us in denial about our ability to create change.
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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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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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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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The true challenge is not to enumerate the risk, but to live with it.
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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.
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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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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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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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they really underestimated how hard we can screech
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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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“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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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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“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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