bobgosane99 @bobgosane99@librem.one

Facebook Messenger still scans all messages, even with end-to-end encryption. Scanning is done locally on the device before text messages are sent and after received messages are decrypted.

Facebook privacy lol

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/07/26/the-encryption-debate-is-over-dead-at-the-hands-of-facebook/#3e1668c45362

@notreallyremus @dredmorbius
4. The failures of capitalism and the lack of any compelling theory for what comes next.
5. The software reliability problem.
6. Overpopulation and the need for another doubling of agricultural output in the next few decades.
7. Soil erosion/depletion.
8. Aquifer depletion.
9. Resource depletion: sand, oil, rare earth minerals.
10. The rise of pandemics due to climate change.

“911, this service sponsored by Ring, what’s your emergency?”

“I think someone broke into my house!”

“Are you a Ring customer?”

“No!?”

“I’m sorry, our priority response is reserved for Ring customers.”

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb88za/amazon-requires-police-to-shill-surveillance-cameras-in-secret-agreement

Nobody beats a bacterial or viral infection by arguing it to death

My increasingly convinced take: fascism & demagoguery generally are a communications-based phenomenon in a systems context. It strongly resembles spread of communicable disease.

It's a response to collapse of former mental world models, at societal scale. That triggers an informational overload ... from a loss of formerly-effective filters.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/104092656004159577193/posts/G9E1c5wgC8J

#information
#propaganda
#systems
#cybernetics
#epidemiology