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Kinda nice to make it through 2018 without being murdered by the GRU.
Still, there's always next year!
FYI future Twitter users and police, I definitely didn't jump off that balcony.
Also, check the teapot.
And door handles.
@GRU at least do a honeypot first.
There's going to be a Russia Today article about this thread.
Multiple Bellingcat articles about Masha and The Bear planned for 2019.
Probably something about Tweets too.
Gonna hire a Tweet scientist for some Tweet analysis.
With pie charts and stuff.
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I always find these theories about Bellingcat being created to do this or that, or being some sort of government project fascinating, because there's clearly a community of people who believe it even though it's false. They're living in a world made up of their delusions.
It's impossible and pointless to engage with these people as their world view is based on delusions, and any challenge to those delusions are just seen by them as more proof their delusions are correct.
In the end we didn't need virtual reality to create alternative worlds, people just ended up doing it in their own heads.
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One of General Haftar's minions gets off scot-free for mass executions, currently subject of an ICC arrest warrant. The videos of the executions were posted on social media by his own unit.
In late 2017 we geolocated one of the execution sites following the publication of the ICC arrest warrant. Bloodstains from the execution could be seen on satellite imagery bellingcat.com/news/mena/2017…
Despite the issuing of the arrest warrant by the ICC, Werfalli continued to participate in public mass executions bellingcat.com/news/mena/2018…
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The first part of Seaborne Freight's Privacy Policy is word for word identical to Romney Marsh Wools Privacy Policy, with just the name changed. romneymarshwools.co.uk/pages/privacy/…
The Seaborne Freight GDPR policy is word for word the same as Virtual College's GDPR policy as well. virtual-college.co.uk/gdpr-complianc…
The second part of the Seaborne Freight privacy page talks about members, and appears on a few other websites. The biggest clue this is just some generic template is they've forgot to fill in the [Business Name] fields.
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This will be my #GiletsJaunes Thread of Tomorrow in #Paris and across #France! Keep this Thread open and refresh once it will start! I Will be reporting again in my Home Studio of the situation.
#Breaking: It's happening! Reports of the First #GiletsJaunes protestors arriving in #Paris. #ActeVIII
#Update: People are preparing their signs to go and protest. #GiletsJaunes #ActeVIII
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I have liberal friend, Denny. He is a good guy, I really like Denny. However, we think very differently. We had a conversation the other day that greatly pronounced this difference.
My conversation with Denny: a thread 👇
Denny hates Donald Trump.
Obviously he can deal with people of opposing opinions, unlike others of his cloth, but he doesn’t hide his disapproval, and that’s OK.
Denny likes to rib me and I poke him back. That’s what we do.
Just give him the last word and it’s all good. 👍
After making some sort of joke, referencing the NYT article on Trump’s inheritance, Denny says, “the rich just get richer and the poor get poorer.”

“Incorrect.” I quickly interject.
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1/ Financial predictions are amusing. You get "talking heads" that offer a constant stream of predictions, and then usually only remind us of their good ones. Such predictions are usually worthless and their value is entertainment or to sell a related service.
2/ In contrast, savvy investors that make occasional prognostications, like Seth Klarman, or Ray Dalio, do so very selectively, and are careful to frame such predictions as probabilistic - educated guesses.
3/ I try to follow the latter model, very rarely making any sort of concrete prediction. About once a year I make an exception though, and engage in the thought experiment of a long list of humbly offered guesses. These were mine from a year ago.
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A few interesting things about the #Skripal briefing:
Apparently the parfume bottle was a strange Nina Ricci fake. It's not particular clear how to apply a gel with it.
The two suspects had a room in the CityStay Hotel near Bow Road. The investigators took samples on 4th May (one month after the suspects left). Two samples had harmless traces of Novichok. "Just to be sure" they took new samples from the same spots and found nothing.
The investigators explained the negative result by "brushing away" the Novichok when they took the first samples. It means they had a lot of luck in the first place to find the invisible spots on the wall and accidentally decontaminated the hotel room with a cotton swap.
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#Twitter: what is it good for? How do you get good at it? And what will we do when it's gone? Today in pulp I share a few insights I've gleaned from almost five years of running this account.

Its about to get all meta...
Most people's tweets are a stream of consciousness, and Twitter itself is a daily flow of 500 million of these across the surface of your phone. You are currently looking at the collective unconscious of the planet...
And like any examination of the unconscious you will see things on Twitter that fascinate you and things that disgust you. This is part of its attraction: the filters of discourse become permeable, allowing the unsayable to leak across.
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(1) Wut?

Twitter censorship is "HERE TO STAY?" [emphasis mine]

The EFF?

What would happen to @jack-azz if he walked down a street & STOPPED people from conversing with each other?

Would he not get arrested?

Violations of First Amendment, much?

dailycaller.com/2018/07/29/twi…
(2) Violations of the 1st Amendment Rights of people of their speeches are a crimes, yes?

Violations of the 1st Amendment Rights of people of free assembly are a crimes, yes?

A telephone company that interferes with phone calls based on political content commits crimes, right?
So, HOW IN THE HELL is it different when Twitter commits THOSE SAME CRIMES?

What sort of "legal angle" is anyone looking for?

@Jack, and #Twitter's #deranged #liberal employees, have COMMITTED CRIMINAL ACTS in numerous violations of the Rights of Twitter users.

#MAGA
#KAG
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