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Well damn... #Vim Users... https://thehackernews.com/2019/06/linux-vim-vulnerability.html

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In Court, Facebook Blames Users for Destroying Their Own Right To Privacy

"The whole premise of Facebook is to render not private" your activity, said a lawyer for the company, fighting off class action lawsuits over data collection by Cambridge Analytics.

The post In Court, Facebook Blames Users for Destroying Their Own Right To Privacy appeared first on The Intercept.

The Trump Administration’s War on Federal Workers

Claiming over 650,000 members in the United States and overseas, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) stands as the nation’s largest federal and D.C. government employee labor union. The union represents employees who provide care and support for veterans, the elderly and disabled, and people in need of housing through the Social Security Administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, along with other federal agencies.

The only good alternative to cash I've seen as of yet is GNU Taler. All the crypto bullshit making us dependent on shady consortiums of whoever has the most cycles to waste, or worse (PoS) whoever has the most money.

And now Facebook and co. just trying to shackle us to their corporate grip by pretending to make a cryptocurrency when really they're just making Zuck dollars to get even more power and influence

A Researcher Found a Bunch of Voting Machine Passwords Online

A little more than a week ago the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that it was going to forensically analyze computer equipment associated with part of the 2016 elections in North Carolina in association with questions about Russian hacking. The news prompted an information security researcher to announce last week that he’d found evidence of […]

Facebook bucks: a real-world Evil-Coin, with the ethics of Uber, the censorship resistance of Paypal, and the centralization of Visa, all tied together under the proven privacy of Facebook. Just what all of us have been waiting for!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-new-cryptocurrency-gets-big-backers-11560463312

Space Force Yes! Baby Nukes No! What Congress Is Sticking in the Pentagon Budget.

Congress completed its most significant step toward funding the Pentagon for the next year—and it only took close to 21 hours. By 6:53 a.m. this morning, when House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith (D-Wash.) gaveled his panel out of session, members had resurrected President Trump’s beloved Space Force, blocked the Pentagon from using so-called […]

Elizabeth Warren Just Unveiled a Plan to Close the Racial Wealth Gap

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released a plan Friday to close the racial wealth gap by issuing $7 billion in grants to entrepreneurs of color. The grants could be used for startup capital to support an estimated 100,000 new minority-owned businesses, potentially creating 1.1 million jobs. “Every American should have a fair shot at starting a […]

Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan for Winning the White House, and Right Now It’s Working

Elizabeth Warren is having what political reporters like to call “a moment.” This policy maven seeking the White House has risen to third place in the Real Clear Politics national polling average of Democratic voters, trailing frontrunner Joe Biden and second-placer Bernie Sanders but surpassing Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg. Better yet for Warren, she […]

Here Comes “Uncle Joe”!

Biden is just like your REAL uncle! Yeah.

The Texas “Fairies Fiasco”

In the 1970s, a San Antonio gay bar staged a unique protest against police harassment: a play.

Did you know that you can check out source code for things Purism works on (such as Librem One applications and bits relating to the upcoming Librem 5 smartphone) right from https://source.puri.sm?

Source code should be Free.

That's just how we roll.

Revealed: #UK #government failing to tackle rise of serious #air #pollutant | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/13/revealed-uk-government-failing-to-tackle-rise-of-ammonia-serious-air-pollutant

#Pollution #Ammonia #Agriculture

So, Blackwater founder/war criminal Erik Prince goes full Leopold II and expands operations in Democratic Republic of Congo, with a mandate to extract minerals and timber and conduct financial operations
https://af.reuters.com/article/idAFKCN1TE23M-OZATP

Why The Intercept is Reporting on Secret Brazil Archive https://prismo.xyz/posts/09df360e-cfec-457f-aa27-95d2dbd21d11

The Last Black Man in San Francisco’s Walking Tour of a Lost City

Around the bend of Bernal Heights Park, along the path they used to walk as teenagers, Joe Talbot and Jimmie Fails marveled at the scene before them: a trio of people contorting their bodies on yoga mats on an edge overlooking the stark high-rises of downtown San Francisco, the Salesforce Tower rising like a monstrous […]

Rent Control Mainly Helps . . . the Affluent

Because I’m a neoliberal shill I’ve never been a big fan of rent control. I figure that if you want to help poor and working-class folks afford the rent in big cities, you should just let the market work normally and then give them money or vouchers or whatnot that they can use toward their […]