SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org

FB privacy breach train keeps rolling. From just past few weeks:

• Evading Android permissions to get call & text logs: https://gizmodo.com/how-facebook-schemed-against-its-users-1830916368
• Leaking private photos: https://m.facebook.com/help/200632800873098?ref=photonotice
• Sharing private messages with partners: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-privacy.html

Original tweet: https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1076126906393726976

Soros Gave $1.35M to ‘Nonpartisan’ Watchdog Inundating Trump with Lawsuits

https://freebeacon.com/politics/soros-gave-1-35m-to-nonpartisan-watchdog-inundating-trump-with-lawsuits/

"Damn #Capitalism and it's..."

*shuffles papers*

"ever shrinking numbers living in extreme poverty!"
http://bit.ly/2SfLpAD

Poll: 74% of Americans now believe in the concept of the "deep State" (an unelected, manipulative security complex having undue influence over national policy). 53% of Americans are worried about it spying on them. The concern is bipartisan. https://t.co/0HId4VZl8v https://t.co/XMjd8CAzCk

#fakenews

JOURNOLIST IS DEAD.

LONG LIVE JOURNOLIST!

‘The Walls Are Closing In’: Cable Journalists Chant Dems' New Mantra Five Times a Day

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/bill-dagostino/2018/12/20/walls-are-closing-cable-journalists-chant-dems-new-mantra

I found a listing of five published Ph.D meteorologists (climate scientists) who are prominent skeptics of AGW, and suddenly I want to read their material before it is suppressed: Lennart Bengtsson, John Christy, Judith Curry, Richard Lindzen, and Nir Shaviv. Science is not about consensus (as modern day Scientism has become) - it is about data and its interpretation to falsify a hypothesis or not.

An 88-year-old lady with dementia has had to wait for days to get surgery after a hip fracture, due to personnel shortages at a hospital in Norway.

Our public health system has been like this for years. Understaffed and underfunded. It offers universal healthcare as best it can, but it's always on the verge of collapse.

We pay some pretty steep taxes in this country, but it never seems to be enough.

If I had the money for it, I'd pay for some insurance. I don't want to be at the mercy of this system when I get old.

The Internet never forgets. There's a nonzero chance this will happen to your Mastodon thoughts as well.

RT @MichaelJordaan@twitter.com

Picture paints a thousand posts

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MichaelJordaan/status/1075294637642928129

How it Works: The Internet

Hoping to figure out one day whether I actually liked Java or if it's just Stockholm syndrome

RT @AndrewScheer@twitter.com

Thankfully, more Canadians are seeing the light on this scam! Source: @Dolighan@twitter.com @TheTorontoSun@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AndrewScheer/status/1073373974837379072

Cheery QOTD:

"Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them."

— Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

Missing emails. Deleted texts. Missing 302’s. Cell phones smashed. Phones wiped clean. Hard drives not produced for evidence. Leaked docs to friends & news. Media has the FISA docs. What a Banana Republic America has become under this previous Administration. #Sickening

@Elizafox "hm i dont like this build system, i should make my own that's even more inferior and frustrating"
- maintainers of several projects

Netflix users, beware: Netflix aims to entice you to watch programming by tailoring the thumbnail images users see based on personal data such as preferences in genres and location. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/arts/television/netflix-race-targeting-personalization.html

Original tweet: https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1073952572799676417