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#blacklivesmatter
This bill effectively prohibits divestment from Israel. Worse yet, it creates a condition where any university not invested in Israel ultimately risks having their funding revoked on grounds of discrimination against a foreign country.
Land of the free, by the way.
This is just one example of where surveillance infrastructure has been passed into law and implemented locally...and expanded quickly. The infrastructure is now in place for even further expansion...
Citizens will celebrate the clipping of Flock's wings and won't even notice the school bus driving around with a bus full of kids capturing detailed information about vehicles around it.
The surveillance web is already massive. Flock cameras are just one piece of it.
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Israel has said that paper kites flown by Palestinian children will be treated as weapons of war.
Read that again.
This is the reality of genocide: the total destruction of innocence, freedom and joy.
End all military cooperation with Israel, now.
The Internet Archive is offline following a power failure, taking down access to the main site and its Wayback Machine.
It's hard to overstate this site's importance. It has preserved over 1 trillion web pages, creating a permanent history for an web that constantly deletes its own past. Websites vanish, companies wipe pages, governments edit documents, politicians delete statements, news outlets alter stories, and social posts disappear.
The Wayback Machine lets journalists, researchers, lawyers, OSINT analysts, and the public retrieve earlier versions to verify what was published at any given time.
Without independent archives, whoever controls a website controls its history. The Internet Archive prevents that, making it one of the most vital public resources online. Hope it's back up soon.
In America, having power protects people from being persecuted, being a good person doesn't save you here.
Good people who are disempowered are persecuted here all the time, whilst powerful people who do bad things (for example harming good people) get away with anything, smh.!
I don't understand why more people don't find it viscerally awful to live in a world where all text, images, and music are no longer produced by human beings. This is an existential change that causes me sorrow every waking moment.
A one in three false positive rate is insane until you consider that the purpose of these cameras is not to help everyday people, but to expand the surveillance state
All these Ohio newspapers are teaming up with Palantir to connect your online user behavior with your true identity, all of which they will sell to marketers. Privacy is dead.
Republicans have realized that material needs will absolutely never improve under Trump and have decided their message will instead be "you'll work until you die and you'll have nothing, not even your little treats" and I'm excited to see of it works lol.
@Breliloquy Mainstream music is first and foremost made by rich kids. Even in the most extreme genres.
How can you write those lyrics when they don't relate to your social class?
the overturning of roe v wade fully brought us here, it was already eroded as much as possible because of things like the patriot act, it wasn't just about abortion, it was the fundamental right to privacy