Thursday, 8 April 2021
quote [ ?BREAKING: More Perfect Union has obtained emails showing that Amazon privately pressured USPS to install an illegal ballot dropbox during the union election in Bessemer, AL.
The emails directly contradict public statements by USPS about the box's origins. There's more.? ]
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Tuesday, 9 March 2021
quote [ Between the 1930s and the 1970s, approximately one-third of the female population of Puerto Rico was sterilized, making it highest rate of sterilization in the world. Despite the high rate of sterilizations, the dark history of these operations remains understudied and hidden in the shadows of history. ]
As a professional historian, I consider myself reasonably well informed about American history, particularly about topics related to science, technology, and medicine. I had no idea this mass sterilization took place. It boggles the mind!
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Tuesday, 23 February 2021
quote [ Robot Dog name is Digidog. It weighs about 70 pounds and is able to run about three and a half miles per hour and climb stairs. It's covered with cameras and lights to get a real-time look at things. ]
I'd probably be more concerned if cops didn't have a horrible habit of shooting dogs, but it is just a matter of time before they start weaponizing these things.
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Wednesday, 27 January 2021
quote [ At that point, in 1983, after 13 years of litigation, it seemed as if the historical record was complete and the true narrative of the raid established: Chicago police officers, under the command of the Cook County state?s attorney, and at the behest of the FBI and its COINTELPRO program, targeted BPP leader Fred Hampton, and assassinated him while he lay asleep as part of a murderous pre-dawn raid during which the police fired more than 90 shots that also killed Panther Mark Clark and left several other survivors badly wounded.
And so stood that record, until December 4, 2020, 51 years after the raid, when historian and writer Aaron Leonard received from the FBI a redacted copy of Mitchell?s personnel file in response to his 2015 Freedom of Information Act request. ] No surprise, but always nice to see these things confirmed.
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Friday, 22 January 2021
quote [ Link feature thingy, doesn't play well. ]
With the ABC. or us it those amp.
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Thursday, 21 January 2021
quote [ Security Researcher RamaDhan found a Open Redirect vulnerability affecting sensibleendowment.com website and its users. ]
So was this every fixed?!
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Tuesday, 19 January 2021
quote [ Dozens of British women say they fell in love with men who they later discovered were members of a secret London police unit sent to gather information on them and their friends. ]
I feel like every few years we find out a different country is doing this.
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Monday, 18 January 2021
quote [ According to American linguist and political activist, Noam Chomsky, media operate through 5 filters: ownership, advertising, the media elite, flak and the common enemy. ]
Got this from avid a while back. Sadly I never finished reading Manufacturing Consent, it's on my list to get back to. This is a great summary of the concepts though. And all the more relevant as we get deeper and deeper in the weeds.
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Thursday, 10 December 2020
quote [ The FTC's suit asks a federal court to force the sell-off of assets such as Instagram and WhatsApp. ]
About damn time. Fuck Zuckerberg. In the thumb, the more lifelike face is the wax figure. More info here: The Smoking Gun in the Facebook Antitrust Case
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Tuesday, 8 December 2020
quote [ Florida law enforcement agents searched the home of former state data scientist Rebekah Jones on Monday, entering her house with weapons drawn as they carried out a warrant as part of an investigation into an unauthorized message that was sent on a state communications system. ]
Rebekah Jones' twitter thread on being raided.
How Florida Gov. DeSantis misled the public on COVID crisis - South Florida Sun-Sentinel So, things in Florida are going well.
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They're counting the votes now. I don't have high hopes given how dirty amazon was being. Illegal post office boxes, massive billboards with misinformation, manipulating the timing of traffic lights to mess with canvassing efforts, etc...