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DuckDuckGo's Tracker Radar (list used in Safari's Privacy Report) has found calls to Google on 82% of all sites. Facebook scripts come second (34% of sites).
Google Analytics is the most popular third-party connection (Google owns 8 of top 10 calls).
…and here, #DouglasMurray urges the “silent majority” to stop being silent and to face the illiberal mob with courage.
I see a common pattern among the intelligent commentators.
#IdentityPolitics #woke
http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/douglas-murray-2
Here [subscriber edition], #JohnMcWhorter encourages honest #Americans to be brave to stand their ground against the mob of the “elect” (generally ...
That explains why I just got a transfer of $18,160.23 and two hundred boxes of lollipops in the mail from you.
Note to self: Don't touch your @Yubico key with Gmail open with keyboard shortcuts enabled. Turns out cccccchrlulhrkhlvrnrjfevftinefhuurdfinkdctiu ...
Here [subscriber edition], #JohnMcWhorter encourages honest #Americans to be brave to stand their ground against the mob of the “elect” (generally well-intentioned #progressives caught up in the new religion of #IdentityPolitics), to politely express disagreement, and to resist the urge to try to reason with them (it's futile) and instead let the petty scandal of the day dissolve by itself.
Listening to the conversation, I was thinking I should extend that pessimistic, if also liberating, piece of advice to my own country (#Spain) and to other topics beside #racism (#sexism, #EconomicInequality, #nationalism), and try to apply it myself — if nothing else, for my own sanity.
https://samharris.org/podcasts/217-new-religion-anti-racism/
Melomaniac like me?
Mistrustful like me of #Shazam and their use of your mic and your data?
Can't be bothered to keep an app just for identifying music you hear?
https://www.aha-music.com/ just helped me find
https://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/rival-consoles-vibrations-on-a-string
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In China, smart locks are being used to track citizens and enforce lockdowns
In some regions, they're mandatory.
https://reclaimthenet.org/in-china-smart-locks-are-being-used-to-track-citizens/ #surveillance
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Just published a list of all the best marketing practices we say "no" to when growing our startup.
Turns out you can grow your project without funding Google and Facebook, and their stranglehold on the web
@gasull
I think that within secular, liberal, parliamentary democracies, that distinction between monarchies and republics is moot. Switzerland could very well have a King and be as prosperous as it is, and I don't think replacing the King of Norway with a President would change much, either…
@gasull
I took that to mean that #capitalism and #markets tend inherently towards #cronyism *as long as there is central power to grab*, ie when there is a government to be lobbied and there are laws that can be distorted.
Of course among the different types of government, autarchies and oligarchies will be very crony (almost by definition), while democracies should be less corruptible. In anarcho-capitalist societies and minarchist states, on the other hand, capitalists simply would have no government institutions to bend to their will.
So the point, I think, is that if we want both capitalism and democracy, we have to be on guard against that danger.
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If it weren't for Arabs, 9/11 wouldn't have happened. It would have been IX/XI instead. #badmathjokes
This. This all the time.
On #FakeNews and #DeepFakes (and #PersonalResponsibility!):
“It's not really the #journalists that are being taken in by things. It's readers. […] The only solution that I could imagine is some kind of new norm by readers. That is, by consumers of media. Right now, I don't get a sense that people feel much shame when they find out that they've been had. If you share a video […] and it turned out not to be real, then: ‘yeah, too bad’. […] I would certainly like more of a burden to be placed on readers. That is, if you're not going to feel ashamed about that kind of thing, then I would hope that the people you shared it to, encourage you to feel that shame. […] I don't see the #media as being the problem here.”
— #GraemeWood, on the #MakingSense podcast (in the subscriber version)
https://samharris.org/podcasts/216-september-3-2020/
“There is an inherent tendency in #capitalism towards cronyism, and democracy enhances it. That means that capitalism is not sustainable in a #democracy, and those of us who defend #markets need to take that part of the argument from the left seriously. #Cronyism is not the opposite of capitalism. It is something that capitalism turns into in a political system that allows #freedom, and we should be worried about that. We should credit that as legitimate #criticism.”
— #MichaelMunger, on the #FreeThoughts podcast
https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/capitalism-and-its-critics
@mathlover FT: I can't either (I'm in Spain). Someone else copypasted it for me.
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@freemo All the more reason to stop using #Google to host your stuff and install #fdroid on your phone. #freespeech
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Why Trump will win:
"What began as peaceful protests against incidences of lethal police misconduct has devolved into vandalism, arson, and mayhem. Trump, incongruously but so far effectively, has cast himself as the protector in chief of social order."
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/31/opinion/biden-is-track-lose-electoral-college/
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Holy crap, google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from google play on the grounds that that some servers in the fediverse engage in hate speech. At least three apps I know of anyway and I'd imagine the others will follow soon under the exact same reasoning.} Seems to be the case with Husky, Fedilab, and "subway" tooter.
this is a scary precedent if google play is going to ban any apps that can in any way be used to access content with hate speech. So what about a forum client, do they take that down just because there is a forum somewhere on the internet posting hate speech?
This is particularly worrisome because for most people Google Play is the only way they understand to install apps at all.
Picture attached of one of the notices received by fedilab.
https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104761140268193772
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818
@fedilab @tateisu #fediverse #mastoadmin #freespeech #censorship
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“This threatens to change the web from a hyperlinked collection of resources (that can be audited, selectively fetched, or even replaced), to opaque all-or-nothing ‘blobs’ (like PDFs or SWFs),”
https://archive.is/5VNe1
