copycat_b @copycat_b@social.privacytools.io

RT @emax@twitter.com

New study finds that anonymous tor users make large numbers of hugely valuable edits to Wikipedia, busting myths that @torproject@twitter.com users seek to spam, vandalise or destroy the commons. Research from friends @makoshark@twitter.com, @ragreens@twitter.com, and others! > https://blog.torproject.org/the-value-of-anonymous-contributions-wikipedia

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/emax/status/1276610737696387075

**In Pictures: Hong Kong protests over China security law**

"Thousands gather downtown for annual rally marking the anniversary of former British colony's handover to China."

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/pictures-hong-kong-protests-china-security-law-200701080338397.html

#news #bot

If you ever wonder where we're at on the dystopia scale, consider that it's normal to believe the government is spying on you, and crazy to believe that they're not.

This. Sure, taking a phone to a protest is unsafe, but *going* to a protest is unsafe, because the problem isn't your phone—it is the decades of authoritarianism that made it a weapon.

Your phone will be safe when everyone is safe, and that won't come without taking some risk. https://t.co/ZtFCCfdTKs

You too can get access to the "100s of petabytes of data"—perfect records of our private lives—that the NSA routinely ingests about people who have never been suspected of any wrongdoing. They'll tell you this is legal. They'll say it's constitutional.

But you'll know better. https://t.co/VKD6rWkttG

Privilege.

If you don't fear the police & don't understand why other folks do.

Let's break it down.

Hundreds of people are killed by the police in incidents of police violence.

Black folks are stopped & searched, restrained, beaten, tasered, handcuffed, transported to jail, charged, sentenced, and imprisoned longer with much higher frequency than whites with similar alleged offenses. There's a huge amount of statistical evidence showing this.

If you don't fear the police, that's privilege.

@OCRbot

"As officials mull steps to tackle police brutality and racism, California’s Santa Cruz has become the first U.S. city to ban predictive policing, which digital rights experts said could spark similar moves across the country.

“Understanding how predictive policing and facial recognition can be disproportionately biased against people of color, we officially banned the use of these technologies in the city of Santa Cruz,” Mayor Justin Cummings said on Wednesday."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-police-tech-trfn/california-city-bans-predictive-policing-in-u-s-first-idUSKBN23V2XC

Laptop gang signs arrived today, this is peak Linux computing for me.