Yep. But not just the Kremlin. It’s a free-for-all out there and our data is being used to widen those social cracks. Embracing diversity is not just a feel-good California hippie concept anymore. It never really was. But now it’s a matter of national security for many countries.
Americans have to understand creating a truly egalitarian society with opportunities for all is in our best interest as a country — and for the world. We’ve lived under division, austerity, and hypermilitarization for so long we’ve forgotten what hope looks like.
During my time at Snopes and now at Truth or Fiction the greatest volume of stories to debunk are also the most corrosive ones, playing on bigotry and xenophobia and misogyny, because our two weakest points here are our unexamined legacies of colonization and patriarchal norms.
And we really don’t have time to fuck around with this anymore, the world’s melting and our oceans are turning into toxic turd soup
But the good news is that climate change-induced flooding will almost certainly end up destroying all the servers on which our personal data is kept
So consider that too, techbros. Your time is coming
