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NEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.
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What the actual fuck? Me in 2024: «All anyone will have to say is that they saw you with a banned book or they suspect you of being antifa.» Reality in 2026: «30 years in prison after he was convicted of moving boxes containing leftwing zines» www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
I keep on pointing to Past Patricia shit, but also half my posts are of the format: «I can’t believe this shit is actually happening» How did we get here? Wtf happened to us?
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Replying to @patigallardo.bsky.social
8/ Data privacy is antifascist. Not by accident. By design. Data privacy legislation all over Europe was built around the information the Nazis used to target people. Look over the lists of information deemed «sensitive», then look at the groups of people explicitly targeted by the Nazis.
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it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter
Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.
i love wikipedia, this is such efficient use of the english language en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differe...
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so what i am learning from github.com/axios/axios/... is that you should simply never join a Microsoft Teams call for any reason --- because of security
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Stop what you're doing and look 🌍 The full globe? That is the NIGHT SIDE. I'm pretty sure I can see some satellites/debris glinting away on the periphery. Also the Aurora?! What a bonkers beautiful world that supports and holds everyone and everything you've ever known and loved, and so much more.
😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int
tin foil hat inspired wearables, but the hat isn't even a tin foil hat, wtf slnt.com/collections/...
apnews.com/article/iran... the one thing i'm sure of is that every fucking authoritarian with a cctv fetish and inability to use a password manager reading this is going to double down and say the solution to this problem is more surveillance
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You are up to date.