Their argument is basically, "Your groceries are too affordable. Please stop.” If your entire business collapses because somebody sells milk and vegetables cheaper, maybe consumers weren't the problem.
"I have nothing to hide."
False.
You have medical history
You have financial behavior
You have location patterns
You have political views
You have relationship data
Privacy was never about hiding crimes. It was always about owning your life.
Trey Parker & Matt Stone announce that ‘SOUTH PARK’ will be renamed to ‘SOUTH AMERICA’.
“Inspired by the bravery & patriotism of Apple & Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA. We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount -- a Skydance Capitulation.”
Aaaaaaand THERE you go. What we all knew this was about. Like every authoritarian surveillance dystopia, it’s not about behavior or crime, but opposition to tyranny
@dx_sphere I saw the news as they shared it, remembered my childhood with her music and all of the books she sent me when I was a kid. This billboard I saw on the way home today is what broke me. I have been on and off crying since. The reaper is getting all of the wrong people this week.
In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.
She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.
The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.
She handed out the checks herself.
In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.
When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.
You've probably heard that part.
Here's the part you haven't:
The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.
Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.
She built her county an entire hospital.
She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.
In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.
Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.
In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.
And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.
She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.
She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.
Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸
‼️ Email host https://t.co/qxhwhdFlli's warrant canary is 5x past its own deadline. Its own rule is to never go 96 hours without a signed update.
A warrant canary works because a gag order can compel silence but not a lie. The provider states on a schedule that no secret order has arrived; when one does, it says nothing and simply stops updating.
The host has run since 2013 on one promise: email with no phone number, no ID, no verification. ~1M people took it. A 2021 FBI/DHS/CISA advisory noted Russian SVR personas were among them, "not exclusively."
Whoever it was protecting, it hasn't chirped in three weeks.
Trump (2024): "Gasoline will be back to $2, and maybe even less than that."
Trump (2026): "For you to pay a tiny, little bit more for your gasoline…You're at $4, it's okay, I'll never apologize."