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Look at how overwhelming public support is for an Assange pardon—in EVERY poll like this—and think about what it says about any President who refuses to shut down THE most dangerous legal case in the journalism because he's afraid of criticism from the worst people in government. twitter.com/ericbolling/st…
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Amazon announces Spyware-as-a-Service: theverge.com/2020/9/9/21429…
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As a measure of journalistic impact, the Pulitzer Prize holds significantly less prestige than the CIA plotting to murder you.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/assange01
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We went in to Afghanistan with clear goals? We were not there for nation-building?
This speech is already not going well.
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1) The consensus of the infosec community is that Telegram is significantly less secure than @signalapp.
2) Signal is an independent non-profit with a $50m endowment—they can't be meaningfully influenced by money for a very long time. Telegram is a standard private company. twitter.com/matthewloop/st…
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Laura Poitras, the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist who was the first to work on the top secret NSA mass surveillance story, has been fired by @theintercept in retaliation for speaking to the media about their mishandling of the Reality Winner case. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…
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The world's foremost human rights organization, @amnesty, has issued an extremely strong statement denouncing the Biden administration's political persecution of Julian Assange -- which reignites tomorrow.
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
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Big print on Apple billboard vs. small print on Apple license:
"Apple reserves the right, at any time and from time to time, to update, revise, supplement, and otherwise modify this Agreement and to impose new or additional rules, policies, terms, or conditions on your use." twitter.com/matthew_d_gree…
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the central bank ate 17.5% of your pringles twitter.com/WallStreetSilv…
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1) Combined share of total US wealth held by everybody except the richest 10%, 1990-2020.
2) The share of US wealth held by *just* the top 1%, 1990-2020.
What it means: 10% of Americans control *70%* of national wealth. And the top 1% own more than the bottom 90% COMBINED.
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Our monetary system is commanded by people who literally believe changing the "one dollar" stamp on a platinum coin to "one trillion dollars" is the solution to running out of money.
Imagine if you tried that with your student loans.
axios.com/trillion-dolla…
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The Israeli company behind this -- the NSO group -- should bear direct, criminal liability for the deaths and detentions of those targeted by the digital infection vectors it sells, which have no legitimate use. twitter.com/wcathcart/stat…
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This would be more persuasive if the White House weren't aggressively seeking an 175-year sentence for the publisher of award-winning journalism of global importance—despite pleas from every significant press freedom and human rights organization: nytimes.com/2021/02/12/us/… twitter.com/SecBlinken/sta…
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This is an industry that should not exist: they don't make vaccines—the only thing they sell is the virus.
theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/…
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"bUt YoU'rE iN rUsSiA"
Not the jab you think it is, since otherwise I'd be muzzled in a dungeon right next to Assange. What does it say about our system if a whistleblower opposed by Washington can walk free in *Russia,* but not in the US—or EU?
Don't like it? Then fix it.
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Twitter just introduced downvotes: an exciting new feature that lets you help the algorithm make this place an even bigger echo chamber than it already is.
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Body language. twitter.com/chi_un_lee/sta…
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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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Apple's new iPhone contraband-scanning system is now a national security issue. They just openly admitted they have no answer for what to do when China comes knocking.
Hard to understate how disastrous this new system is for iPhone security. Tim Cook needs to intervene. twitter.com/josephfcox/sta…
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Facebook's vision of VR is a derivative, lifeless world full of derivative, lifeless people.
On-brand, really.
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Wikileaks has managed to raise ~$50M seemingly without any notice at all by major media.
Fifty. Million. Dollars.
probably nothing twitter.com/wikileaks/stat…
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Democracy depends on factual consensus, which requires access to information--especially the sort some would rather not hear. What you see before you is the path to a world without witnesses, and it is our lawmakers who will decide if we continue down it--as we have for decades. twitter.com/nytimes/status…
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Bitcoin is the continuation of politics by other means.
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Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
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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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