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Is it just me, or have search results become absolute garbage for basically every site? It's nearly impossible to discover useful information these days (outside the ArchWiki).
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There is a strain of wealthy VC-guy who pretends to do you a favor by "warning" against Bitcoin (or whatever) while hyping centralized garbage-coins that they coincidentally happen to own an enormous stake in.
If you ever make it, don't be that guy. If you are that guy, change.
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I'm significantly more sympathetic to @elonmusk's concern about crazy people showing up at the door than the average person because, well, look at my life, but c'mon, man.
You're a public figure in a position of power in a world where even normal people are constantly tracked.
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Few practices are more primitive than the banning of books.
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This extraordinary recording (which I had never heard before) confirms claims that @wikileaks made for years, but its critics dismissed as lies.
1) Assange DID seek to minimize risks to individuals.
2) Bulk release of cables was forced, not intentional. twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII…
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This is going to cause controversy, but platform censorship had clearly gone too far. Content moderation should be an individual decision, not a corporate prison.
Let people make their own choices—and not just on Twitter. twitter.com/unusual_whales…
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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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These bastards put Daniel Hale in prison for revealing that nine out of ten people they kill with drone strikes are bystanders, but they won't even slap somebody on the wrist when their criminal negligence buries the full ten perfectly innocent lives.
jacobinmag.com/2021/08/daniel…
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One of the most harmful—and overlooked—media "innovations" is the practice of hiring professional (and even criminal) liars from intelligence organizations.
The world in which the nightly news is brought to you by FBI, CIA, and NSA mouthpieces is *shockingly* dystopian. twitter.com/ggreenwald/sta…
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I suspect history will look back on the Suleimani assassination as the moment the US lost the long war in Iraq. The political consequences will cost the government far more presence in the region than any Iranian response. nytimes.com/2020/01/03/wor…
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inflation hits 6.2%—wiping out the raises of those lucky enough to even have a good job—parents are worried about the price of milk for their kids (when the shelves aren't empty) and the establishment is like:
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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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The government may steal a dollar, but it cannot erase the idea that earned it. I wrote this book, Permanent Record, for you, and I hope the government's ruthless desperation to prevent its publication only inspires you read it—and then gift it to another.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/us/…
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À mon avis, chaque parti politique devrait être confronté à une demande de prise de position sur l'extradition de Julian Assange vers un cachot américain pour le crime de dire la vérité.
Il ne doit pas y avoir d'ambiguïté. Qui représente les libertés fondamentales? twitter.com/BenjMathieu/st…
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If you're an ExpressVPN customer, you shouldn't be. twitter.com/josephmenn/sta…
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That Biden refuses to condemn the intentional targeting by Israel of press offices in Gaza is outrageous.
But after the IDF replies "it was a tall building & Hamas uses tall buildings" to @AP's President stating they've seen no Hamas activity there in 15 years, it is monstrous. twitter.com/IDF/status/139…
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This is the raw, unedited audio of the over one hour long Assange phone call warning the @StateDept (again) of publication risks, and requesting them to aid in harm minimization. Primary source material. youtube.com/watch?v=lfZQcV…
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If Assange goes unpardoned because he didn't bribe somebody, it will say everything that needs to be said about this broken age. nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/…
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"Oh no, Jeremy Corbyn would simply be the end of Britain! Theresa May, Boris Johnson, and Liz Truss, though -- now there's the ticket to prosperity."
strong and stable
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Wow, even *I* handled classified documents more securely. At least I kept them encrypted!
(Via @nytimes)
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Let this be the end of it. twitter.com/_taylorhudak/s…
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If you're a reporter and following the Assange Espionage Act extradition case--and you should be, since it's possibly the biggest press freedoms case in a generation--it's worth reading this thread on the defense's first arguments, which really blow a hole in the govt's case. twitter.com/kgosztola/stat…
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The internet giants go offline today and never return. What happens tomorrow?
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