Ariella @ellabellafull@librem.one

@GivMeCoffee The media is not always our friend, especially when bookended by advertisements that need users in a state of alarm to be more receptive to advertisements.

A really good read:

The Unraveling of America
Anthropologist Wade Davis on how COVID-19 signals the end of the American era

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206/

#unitedstates #politics #culture #exceptionalism #military #covid19

A look into NYPD's Jump-Boys, a.k.a Warrant Squad. Black residents have suffered being disappeared for decades, and now white people are starting to "see" it.

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The NYPD unit that snatched a protester off the street has been accosting people for years

https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/7/31/21348110/nypd-warrant-squad-snatched-nikki-stone-protester

#police #brutality #defundthepolice #kidnapping #lgbt

Meanwhile in intersectionality :

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/08/black-trans-woman-stabbed-death-vigil-another-murder-victim/

North Carolina is looking to succeed at promoting hate again with a new statue of yet-another-hateful-white-guy.

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Statue of white supremacist will be replaced with one of man who said #AIDS is God’s punishment

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/08/statue-white-supremacist-will-replaced-one-man-said-aids-gods-punishment/

#hate #discrimination #whitepeople #religion

Surprising no one who removes their money-making glasses:

"These population studies suggest that, despite the widespread use of statins, there has been no accompanying decline in the risk of cardiovascular events or cardiovascular mortality. In fact, there is some evidence that statin usage may lead to unhealthy behaviours that may actually increase the risk of cardiovascular disease."

https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2020/07/20/bmjebm-2020-111413

#Statins are a harmful #scam.

#medicine #health #cvd #cholestrol

Hollywood hacking vs reality 😂 https://twitter.com/hacknotcrime/status/1290746461781622785?s=20

Coronavirus thanks you for your donation of hosts.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/07/us/georgia-teen-photo-crowded-school-hallway-trnd/index.html

New study models ways of emerging from a #pandemic lockdown

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/new-study-models-ways-of-emerging-from-a-pandemic-lockdown/

Happy Friday. Getting through weekdays in 2020 is sometimes like: https://mobile.twitter.com/owenhabel2/status/1289002281883643905

I didn't know Arch Linux was started by a #Canadian. That makes this Canadian smile, eh. 🇨🇦

https://zeroflux.org/

Learned how to install #Arch #Linux today. Huzzah! I added some nice icing after like a desktop environment (gnome), disabled root login, added sudo and edited sudoers, tweaked user groups, common GUI desktop apps etc.

It was in a virtual machine, so I'm considering this an "easy mode" success, but I think I'm comfortable enough to try it on hardware next time. I have a #ThinkPenguin wifi USB device I could try to work with instead of ethernet too.

I have to giggle when companies who dare the pandemic and fail say,”we take safety seriously”. If they did, they wouldn’t have done the thing that was a safety risk, no?

It’s employee and customer lives who are risked, not the execs. Lol. Money dictates that the salivation of the few outweighs the risk to the many.

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First cruises to set sail post COVID-19 abruptly canceled due to outbreak
More than 40 aboard the ship have been infected as cruise CEO admits failure.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/we-have-made-mistakes-norwegian-cruises-halted-after-covid-19-outbreak/