851
If the legitimacy of the courts come into question at the same time the legitimacy of our elections come into question, from what well does the government draw a mandate to govern? twitter.com/ACLU/status/14…
852
I am beginning to suspect we are not in a good place.
853
Facebook's vision of VR is a derivative, lifeless world full of derivative, lifeless people.
On-brand, really.
854
I struggle to understand why you would invest an incomprehensible fortune to produce something so sanitized and boring that the mere thought of visiting it makes people want to log off.
855
Nobody wants to opt-in to an endless PTA meeting, Mark. This does not excite.
856
congratulations on inventing LinkedIn: The Game
good luck with your stock price twitter.com/Snowden/status…
857
Wikileaks has managed to raise ~$50M seemingly without any notice at all by major media.
Fifty. Million. Dollars.
probably nothing twitter.com/wikileaks/stat…
858
it's not VR if i can't get into a fistfight with kermit the frog
859
Looks like something very interesting may be happening in smartphone security.
(GrapheneOS is a much more secure variant of the Android operating system, but has traditionally only been supported on Google's Pixel phone.) twitter.com/GrapheneOS/sta…
860
The United States Department of Justice seems to be alleging this tweet was authored by a man who was holding three billion dollars in stolen bitcoin... in a cloud account. You know, that place trivially accessible to the US government.
(via @dystopiabreaker) twitter.com/unrealdutch/st…
861
Remember when everybody said this guy was suffering from mental illness? Can't understand why.
862
Setting aside for a moment the politics of it, officials in many countries (see article) clearly fear the spread of working-class bridge blockades as a new protest tactic. There is genuine alarm at the idea a group of laborers can shut a city down.
apnews.com/article/corona…
863
Inflation up 7.5% 📈
Wages down 1.7% 📉
It must be an economic miracle.
cnbc.com/2022/02/10/inf…
864
Once upon a time, just *copying* a top secret document was enough to get you prosecuted.
Ask me how I know. twitter.com/washingtonpost…
865
Huge:
CIA mass ("bulk") surveillance has been carried out “entirely outside the statutory framework, and without any judicial, congressional or even executive branch oversight. The nature and full extent was withheld even from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence." twitter.com/ACLU/status/14…
866
This is the systematic construction of a surveillance state that will dominate the rest of our lives.
People brushing this off with "duh" or "I'm not surprised" should take this seriously: elections are months away. Vote out any politician who defends this in the slightest way. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
867
You are about to witness an enormous political debate in which the spy agencies and their apologists on TV tell you this is normal and OK and the CIA doesn't know how many Americans are in the database or even how they got there anyway.
But it is not ok.
washingtonpost.com/politics/senat…
868
Read this thread. twitter.com/AthertonKD/sta…
869
The CIA is not your friend.
The CIA is not a friend of the United States.
The CIA is a friend of power, and power alone.
washingtonpost.com/politics/senat…
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"Nothing will fundamentally change," he said.
washingtonpost.com/politics/senat…
871
⬇️ Thread: Expert legal analysis on the CIA's backdoor searches of Americans' records. ⬇️ twitter.com/LizaGoitein/st…
872
There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war.
873
When you see snide quote-tweets of this from the boot-licking think-tank crowd, look at the ratio and remember that even if they're loud, they are in the minority.
Being pro-war is not smart, cool, or sophisticated, and their performative outrage doesn't change that. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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"The internet of things — our things — is coming alive around us, digitally frisking us as we walk by to see if we’re carrying anything of interest."
nytimes.com/2022/02/11/tec…
875
“Is it in my shoe?” he asked me at one point, taking his blue Nike off and peering at it. “You have to tell me. I don’t want to destroy my shoe looking for it.”
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