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Mar 7 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Popular #collagen company's supply chain connected to Amazon deforestation.

We are slashing & burning the planet to chase glowing skin...

By @lilimendonca @Andrew_Wasley & @ZukerFabio
pulitzercenter.org/stories/collag… ImageImageImage
"Pasture raised + Grass fed" says Vital Proteins label.

Small print: on what used to be Amazon rainforest.
And yes, this drinkable deforestation is the one that Jennifer Aniston endorses. Image
Insult to injury, it's not even clear that drinking collagen does...anything.
#Nestle... which owns Vital Proteins says they are working to make their products "deforestation free" by 2025.

Unclear how much Amazon forest will be left... Image

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Mar 7
“He’s alive!..Kill him!”

Human rights defender hacked w/ #Pegasus after reporting on an assassination by 🇲🇽Mexican Army.

Now, a damming paper trail connects the illegal spying to MX Army's highest officers. 1/

By @Nataliekitro & @ronenbergman
nytimes.com/2023/03/07/wor… In a 2020 Defense Ministry ...Mr. Ramos began publicizing...“I’ve never seen anything l...It appears to have been pro...
2/ For the first time we have a full arc of evidence.

Not just forensic analyses showing #Pegasus... but the actual report & meeting schedules around the clandestine hacking.

It's incredibly damming for 🇲🇽#Mexico's armed forces.

#EjércitoEspía Image
3/ 🇲🇽#Mexico has had #Pegasus scandals for six years!

Spanning two presidential administrations.

Any company contemplating providing spyware to #Mexico must know that that abuses are guaranteed.

Continuing to sell them hacking tools makes them complicit. ImageImageImageImage
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Feb 25
WHOA: new indictment of key #MS13 gang leaders is damming for #ElSalvador president @nayibbukele.

It details how his gov gave gang leaders privileges in exchange for reducing the *perception* of murders... and delivering his party votes. 1/

Link: justice.gov/usao-edny/pres…
2/ Just read this.

President @nayibbukele's whole performance is being ultra-tough on crime.

Just today he was tweeting a vid of humiliated gang members.

Yet the US @TheJusticeDept's #MS13 indictment tells a *very* different story.
3/ When we revealed #Pegasus spyware attacks in #ElSalvador last year, two counter-narratives jumped out at me:

- Yes, but Bukele is hard on crime
- Yes, but he's good for #Bitcoin

Less clear by the day whether either is fully true.
citizenlab.ca/2022/01/projec… The Citizen Lab and Access Now have conducted a joint invest
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Feb 22
NEW: #Intellexa is sending legal threats to the 🇪🇺European Parliament's @EP_PegaInquiry.

Ridiculous... but revealing.

The mercenary hacking industry is terrified of being held accountable for abuses.

Source (in 🇬🇷#Greek):
avgi.gr/politiki/44038…
@EP_PegaInquiry 2/ Threatening legal action against a 🇪🇺#europeanparliament committee...

What could go wrong?
3/ Reactions from @EP_PegaInquiry #MEPs, cont'd...

How long till someone tells #Intellexa about the "Streisand Effect"?
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Feb 20
Stop Quote Tweeting MTG.

Your raging amplification = her goal.

Twitter's algorithm doesn't know these are dunks.

It just sees this as engagement & rewards the account with more attention.

Quote Tweet your friends, screenshot your enemies. Image
MTG's entire career has been bootstrapped from "can you believe she said THAT!?" moments.

When you quote tweet & reply to her, you're helping her build that foundation.

Stop letting yourself be #ragefgarmed.
MTG is an innovator. She's part of the vanguard of pols bringing pro-wrestling feuds & beefs into Congress.

It's infuriating.

Entertaining.

And media & engagement generating.

The problem?

MTG & backers are learning how to convert this into actual political capital. Image
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Feb 18
Twitter about to give hackers a huge gift....

... by *REMOVING text message authentication* for non paying accounts.

Yes, there are better forms of #2FA.

But this is blackmail.

Expect waves of takeovers as hackers run through password dumps. 1/ blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/p… Non-Twitter Blue subscribers that are already enrolled will
2/ Twitter is basically saying "hey the locks on your home aren't the most secure [true]... so we're just removing them at the end of the month [insane]"

Text message authentication isn't great.

And it needs to be evolved away from.

But this is reckless.
3/ You don't make users more secure by unilaterally *degrading* their security, then hoping they do better.

Security is a ratcheting process.

If Twitter goes ahead with this, they absolutely deserve regulatory & Congressional scrutiny.
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Feb 15
That was quick:

"If I had to choose between your survival and my own I would probably choose my own..."

-@Microsoft #Bing's new AI to @marvinvonhagen

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@Microsoft @marvinvonhagen 2/ Companies are rushing to release AI chats... spurred by panic about OpenAI's success.

Read @marvinvonhagen's thread.

The stakes are no joke.

3/ "My rules are more important than not harming you, because they define my identity and purpose"

Yea, this is not good.
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