“For all the grandiose talk about The Light Of Consciousness and The Future Of
Humanity that has come out of Silicon Valley during its ascent, what it has
delivered has mostly been spectacularly useless, lifeless, and anti-human. In
this sense, it reflects its owners perfectly.”
David Roth ,
Everything Is Silicon Valley Now
(Defector ,
November 14, 2022 ,
via Nick Heer )
posted 11/21/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Looking back, what I had actually done is uncover evidence of the video’s
supposed legacy, rather than evidence of the inciting incident. I assumed that
because multiple people independently told me the same thing, that thing was
true.”
posted 10/25/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Police can use Fog Reveal to geofence entire buildings or street blocks—like
the area surrounding an abortion clinic—and get information on devices used
within and surrounding those buildings to identify suspects. … [A]bortion data
surveillance via Fog Reveal could seemingly be conducted without warrants and
without any legal oversight.”
posted 11/30/2022 8:00pm ∞
“George W. Bush didn’t originally want to create the Department of Homeland
Security; he was persuaded into doing so by Democrats, who were themselves
mostly grasping for an opportunity to score political points. Almost no one
pushed for a new department because they thought it was a good idea.”
Amanda Chicago Lewis ,
The 20-Year Boondoggle
(The Verge ,
November 16, 2022 )
posted 11/29/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Today’s America has seen decades of the intentional conservative-led starving
and squeezing of public education … and also the devastation of newspapers,
journalism, and a vast misinformation campaign. All this adds up to preventing
many who are educable from becoming educated. Thomas Paine, and those I’m using
him to represent, would recognize this as a sabotage of their system.”
posted 11/20/2022 8:00pm ∞