Once a Police Union Ally, Democratic House Candidate Pitches Herself as a Reformer https://theintercept.com/2020/09/10/marilyn-strickland-congress-police-tacoma/
3,000 Dead on 9/11 Meant Everything. 200,000 Dead of Covid-19 Means Nothing. Here's Why. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/11/911-covid-19-and-the-politics-of-illusion/
Monday Sept 21 15:00 EDT (UTC -4) Naomi Klein
Surveillance in an Era of Pandemic and Protest
https://theintercept.com/2020/09/11/coronavirus-black-lives-matter-surveillance/
BlueLeaks Documents Bolster Whistleblower Account of Intelligence Tampering at Homeland Security https://theintercept.com/2020/09/12/homeland-security-whistleblower-corruption/
This Is a Climate Emergency. We Need More Than Half-Measures from Democrats. https://inthesetimes.com/article/climate-change-wildfires-joe-biden-democrats-fossil-fuels-election-trump
Saw article of how USA youth suicides (10-24) were up 60%, and psychologists are wondering why? Hmm...
- Reduced chances to meet or exceed parents standard of living
- Seeing parents not achieving grandparents standard of living
- Headlines overstating deadliness of pandemic
- Youth getting blamed for pandemic spread
- Climate change outcomes looking bleaker
- Youth-supported presidential candidates giving up
- No hope from either party offered for president
Without anonymous speech, some lies powerful people tell would go unchecked.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/right-anonymity-vital-free-expression-now-and-always
Amazon Spent $24,000 To Kill Portland's Facial Recognition Ban
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5p9z3/amazon-spent-dollar24000-to-kill-portlands-facial-recognition-ban?
Predictive policing cannot predict crime, it can only weaponize a person’s proximity to policing. EFF is calling for a ban of police use of predictive policing technology. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/technology-cant-predict-crime-it-can-only-weaponize-proximity-policing
DOJ's unprecedented expansion of DNA collection to include individuals in immigration detention brings us one step closer to genetic surveillance of the entire population. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/doj-moves-forward-dangerous-plan-collect-dna-immigrant-detainees
Debunked 'Antifa' Wildfire Rumors Cause Death Threats, Overloaded 911
https://gizmodo.com/debunked-antifa-wildfire-rumors-spread-on-facebook-over-1845029629
@fatboy You do realize that Microsoft has been putting surveillance backdoors into Windows since at least Windows '98? Windows '98 was sending computer information back to Microsoft, then when it was found out, they moved it to Office, and then there was always the NSA requested backdoors.
Facebook: Privacy Is Cool, but Have You Guys Heard of Money? https://gizmodo.com/facebook-privacy-is-cool-but-have-you-guys-heard-of-m-1845025587 #facebook #bigtech #privacy #purism
I did finally get my new site to a manageable skeleton of a framework. Looks a little bare, but I think it communicates well enough for now.
CSS Grid is fun!
Also... fuck JavaScript.
Corporations love to talk about empowering people of colour, while crushing their attempts to unionise.
Unionisation reduces racist sentiments, but the elites prefer cosmetic changes that blame the workers.
New article: "Corporations love minorities – unless we try to unionise" on Mutual Interest, a free online media #coop owned by readers & writers.
https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2020/09/corporations-love-minorities-unless-we-try-to-unionise
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"Just because there is now a multi-billion-dollar industry based on the abject betrayal of our privacy doesn’t mean the sociopaths who built it have any right whatsoever to continue getting away with it"
Great post!
https://daringfireball.net/2020/09/online_privacy_real_world_privacy
#Humans exploiting and destroying #nature on unprecedented scale – report | #Environment | The Guardian
Toxic pesticides banned for EU use exported from UK https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/10/toxic-pesticides-banned-for-eu-use-exported-from-uk
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa