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Ashley M. Gjøvik Profile picture
@ashleygjovik
Apr 27 • 3 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
BlueSky Terms of Service gives Jack a 'perpetual' & 'irrevocable' license to all your content (posts, name, likeness, pics)

BlueSky can delete your account for any reason, but may refuse to delete it if you ask

You can't screenshot BlueSky

All disputes = individual arbitration Rights in User Content Gran...General Prohibitions and Bl...Termination. We may termina...Dispute Resolution. Mandato...
BlueSky's Privacy Policy says they'll stalk everything you do on the site, but also what you were doing before you got there & what you do after

They'll use cookies, pixel tags, & web beacons on app, web, & emails to stalk you all over the web

They'll use info for targeted ads Personal Information Collec...Our uses of these Technolog...We use your information for...4. HOW WE DISCLOSE YOUR PER...
BlueSky's Privacy Policy says that there's no such thing as good InfoSec & if anything happens to your data because they don't care, it's 100% not their fault

They 'may' 'attempt' to notify you of a breach

Reminder: if you want to argue this, its individual private arbitration. 6. SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMA...

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Ashley M. Gjøvik Profile picture
Apr 27
1987 docs from CIA's FOIA library, declassified in 2011

Apple writes to the CIA Director asking for favors in the bidding process

Apple says they 'aggressively marketed to the CIA'
& wants 'very much to work with the CIA'

CIA responds complaining of unethical conduct by Apple image of old document writt...image of old document writt...image of old document writt...
Links:

cia.gov/readingroom/do…

cia.gov/readingroom/do…
In 1987, the CIA wrote on an internal document that Apple was "pushing [CIA] very hard to redefine [CIA's] personal computer requirements."

In response to Apple's harassment of the CIA, the CIA developed a dossier on Apple Computer and sent copies to CIA executives. image of old scanned docume...
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Ashley M. Gjøvik Profile picture
Apr 25
The Enron scandal was one of the 1st developments to bring the use of off-balance-sheet entities to the public's attention. The practice of off-balance sheet financing's come under increasing scrutiny after a # of scandals revealed misuse of the practice."
investopedia.com/terms/o/off-ba…
Because Apple hides its off-books numbers in notes, instead of the tables, its hard to pin it all down - but here's what I was able to gather last night.

Combining just the off-books manufacturing, leases, and purchase obligations... Apple's squirreling away $108 Billion a year. line graph showing horizont...
Off-balance sheeting is apparently supposed to be for items that are not a direct asset or obligation

Apple didn't start their off-balance sheet practice until around 2012, after Ron Sugar joined & took over the Finance & Audit Committee

This appears to be another Sugar special
Read 6 tweets
Ashley M. Gjøvik Profile picture
Apr 25
I'm taking a compliance course & there's a big section on Enron

Apple also uses those SVEs/SPEs, mostly for their real estate projects: data centers, manufacturing plants, biogas sales, etc

How do I check if Apple's reporting their SPEs many fines on the parent's balance sheet?
Like, in Dec 2016, 2 of Apple's hazardous waste facilities were fined $450k by the Cal gov

Apple had SPEs for the plants

How do I check if they noted the fine on the parent company's filings? Could they just throw it vaguely under "Accrued expenses"?
sec.gov/Archives/edgar…
I think those Apple SPEs may be under this 'off-balance sheet' section

It expressly includes:
- equipment & facilities
- payments for supplier arrangements, internet & telecomm, & IP licenses
- capital assets including product tooling and manufacturing process equipment
- more Other Off-Balance Sheet Com...Off-Balance Sheet Arrangeme...
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Apr 2
🧵 Recently, I've dramatically changed my perspective on the entire concept of 'whistleblowing' (much more on that later), & perhaps the biggest take away for me personally, is a new clinical view on how to track the efficacy of a person's attempt to blow the whistle.

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Efficacy can be evaluated based on whether the person's disclosures led to the termination of the misconduct in a reasonable time

This can be see in:

1) an investigation into the subject of the disclosures

&/or

2) the exposed institution changing their policies or procedures
There's much fanfare these days about 'whistleblowers' & I realized that as I was thrown into the midst of that chaos, I lost sight of the exit criteria for my project. I struggled to track the efficacy of my work.

When I stepped back, I was incredibly proud of what I achieved.
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Mar 19
In Colorado was "one of the most bitter & violent struggles between workers & corporate capital in the history of the US"

Workers were striking for better work conditions

So the boss, Rockefellers, sent their paramilitary, & then paid the National Guard, to beat & kill strikers
The US intentionally does not teach their people about the country's history of labor & protest

Instead of a history book, Howard Zinn learned about Ludlow Massacre from a Woody Guthrie song

Zinn wrote about it in The People's History

Here's the song:
"We were so afraid youd kill our children
We dug us a cave tht was 7ft deep
Carried our young ones & pregnant women
Down inside the cave to sleep

That v night yr soldiers waited
Until all us miners were asleep
You snuck around our lil tent town
Soaked our tents w/ your kerosene" Ludlow Massacre Words and Music by Woody Guthrie It was ea
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Mar 14
🧵 "#Apple protects the privacy of its users? Not that of its employees-guinea pigs. @ashleygjovik can testify: she was fired for speaking out. With confidential documents to back it up, she reveals an appallingly toxic corporate culture."

-@oliviertesquet via @Telerama
@oliviertesquet @Telerama "At the beginning of her story, which begins like a remake of Erin Brockovich, the toxicity is actually quite literal: in early 2020, she becomes seriously ill & discovers that her life at Apple is built on California soil laden with carcinogenic solvents"
@oliviertesquet @Telerama "She notifies her hierarchy, asks for tests. Insistent. Persistent. She is asked to keep quiet. On an internal Slack channel, she gathers the anger, finds a purpose: 'I became a revolutionary when I understood that they didn't care that we could die'."
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