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Reading the latest Facebook exposé was the final straw for me. Today I deleted all Facebook apps from my iPhone, and I wish I’d never installed them in the first place.
Unlike some folks I never got hooked on Facebook; thought the software was ugly, busy and confusing. But what really turned me off was the creepy prying attitude, always trying to entice people to share more and more personal information.
That's why I never used their Facebook login on other sites, because they were obviously using that to track people across the net.
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I find it absolutely baffling that Trump's comments about declaring a state of national emergency and using the military to seize land at the border haven't caused a MUCH bigger outcry. This is one of his most disturbing threats yet.
Trump is now playing out the bad ideas of autocrats down through history. A completely phony "crisis" with heavily racist overtones, leading to a massive power grab under the guise of an emergency.
Maybe it's just me, but I think we should take the guy who has the ability to launch nuclear war seriously.
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He’s already lying like a rug, boasting wildly, and repeating himself again and again. lgf.bz/2R93sMm
“You’ll see vast numbers of vehicles driving through the desert and entering where you don’t have a very powerful fence or a wall.” He’s just making this shit up.
This is wild. Some of the most incoherent babbling I’ve seen yet from this loon.
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“Iran is a MUCH DIFFERENT COUNTRY than it was when I became president.”
Trump has now repeated this boast at least five times.
Trump says he had a meeting with generals who had a "lot of computer boards. More computer boards than they've ever made."
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In just fifteen minutes a full day of #techhearings begins. This morning Jack Dorsey, Sheryl Sandberg, and an empty chair (representing Google) will testify before the Senate Intel Committee. Later today Jack Dorsey will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
I'll be live-tweeting both #techhearings today. If you'd like to follow along here are some handy resources to help you get the most out of them, starting with the post I wrote previewing today's hearings for @mmfa. mediamatters.org/blog/2018/09/0…
This morning's #techhearing is on social media companies' responses to foreign influence operations. Expect it to be a more subdued affair with less partisan theater and more on-topic questions. @MarkWarner & @SenatorBurr tend to keep things on track & nonpartisan.
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(1) The #California Legislature is panicking tonight. They're currently presented with a watered-down #ConsumerProtection bill that would require tech companies to disclose the data collected on users, and delete the data collected on them at request. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavC…
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Why is it such a problem, though?
(3) The #CCPA is actually quite milquetoast, as it's written now. But if they don't pass this bill, California has a much bigger problem coming for them in November: the will of the people.
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After 70 years of imperial/neoliberal indoctrination the web of lies is so obviously absurde (9/11, Skripal, WH = ISIS, etc.), that it is dissoluting. The empathetic humanity connects, closes ranks and sends their eternal psychopathic rulers and their lackeys into nowhere land.
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A great documentary about psychopathy and society:
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For those who have not followed this closely and are just learning, the very latest post by #Q begins to lay the groundwork for the big reveal, which involves broad, illegal #SPYING by #Obama/#HRC/#DEMs against political enemies, including #Trump.
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I'm obviously very excitedly watching this Zuckerberg hearing but I'm skeptical about the quality of the impending questions. Hope to be proven wrong!
The reality is that the people doing the questioning do not fully understand Facebook or APIs or how online data exchanges work. So, I'm not really expecting a lot of meaningful, actionable pressure other than some political grandstanding from this.
The preparedness of Zuckerberg is clearly much higher than the Congress.
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(Thread) To all @UKLabour candidates in the upcoming May local elections:

Unfortunately I will not be able to vote for you as a representative of the Labour Party; this is despite having been a #Labour voter myself in the past. Please allow me to explain briefly my reasons why.
After the sacking of Owen Smith, I cannot vote for @UKLabour in any shape or form at the moment due to Jeremy Corybn's approach towards #Brexit which I view as highly undemocratic and contradictory to what the Labour party is meant to stand for ("for the many, not the few"?).
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