Leetaur @leetaur@librem.one

Trump and Biden both demanded Google turn over the private emails of reporters in a bid to hunt down their sources. The new administration went so far as to seek a gag order on the Times to keep the public from learning about it.

It didn't work:
https://t.co/a6Llpp5L8u

Librem 5 USA is shipping! "The smart phone retains the software security and privacy features of the Librem 5 while adding a transparent, secure supply chain with manufacturing in the USA.” https://puri.sm/posts/purism-launches-a-privacy-first-made-in-usa-smartphone-librem-5-usa-as-an-alternative-to-big-tech-offerings/

We're told that your last opportunity to opt out of the surveillance network known as Amazon Sidewalk is on June 8th. For best results, we recommend the tried and true method of smashing any Alexa or Echo devices you have with a hammer.

Humans used to live to 40 and live lives of drudgery and misery.

What got us out? The ability to freely think, reason, and argue.

What LBRY is fighting for, and what big tech opposes, is responsible for all of human civilization.

Another week with the @purism Librem 14 and I’m quite pleased.

https://ajmartinez.com/tech/posts/202121-001-librem14

Without journalists to tell the story, the public would not have known about it.

Without human right lawyers defending that public, the courts would not have cared about it.

Without those courts, politicians would still be denying it.

I could not have done this alone. https://t.co/TqqLzEj3Ht

Apple's testimony today describes their future for computing. In the name of security, Apple wants to vet (and get a cut from) all software installed on all Macs, not just iPhones. This has always been the plan, but it takes time to boil the frog that is traditional computers.

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. https://t.co/zItaLszuJc

Amazon Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen: one in 10 US police departments can now access videos from millions of Ring cameras without a warrant: https://u.fsf.org/3cq