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I have started Kim Stanley Robinson "Ministry of the future", got to around 40% with mixed feelings — to say it's one sided is to say nothing. I dumped it after a whole chapter praising Vandana Shiva, an actual activist today (the book, fiction novel, happens in 2030's), famous for her anti-scientific stance and inventor of " heritable infertility"...

@kravietz This stuff was going on long before social media was even popular. Did you know all the unhealthy food scares for years and years came from one two-man law firm in Northern California?

The scares all came from one of them, the other was just the financer that got the company going. The one that caused the whole thing was completely open about it. He said he was doing it so he could sue food companies. He became richer than rich and is probably still going.

All the scare about things that have been in food forever come from that one guy. He and the fact that people won’t research are why there are things like calorie content on the menus at fast food restaurants and such.

Look into my eyes. No one buying the double bacon cheeseburger at Carl’s Jr. cares what the calorie content is (except me, who looks for the highest caloric content 😀). One guy, being completely honest about what he was doing to a public that believes everything on TV, magazines, and the web, cause all of it. It’s proper to say one two-man law firm.

"The largest anti-vaxxer influencer on social media, according to the report, is Joseph Mercola. Mercola is an alternative medicine promoter who runs a multimillion dollar online business selling treatments and dietary supplements. The FDA recently sent Mercola a warning over his sham treatments for COVID-19. "

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"If you catch your old college roommate sharing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on Facebook, the odds are that these falsehoods are coming from one of twelve people."

mashable.com/article/disinform

I just moved moved everything from Lastpass over to Bitwarden. I also exported all saved passwords from Chrome, and imported that into Bitwarden (because for some reason there are somethings saved in Chrome, that weren't in Lastpass), and disabled Chrome's password manager. Now I have a bunch of duplicates in Bitwarden 😅

Rogozin: "Navalny has been officially reprimanded for getting up ten minutes ahead of schedule. This may become an obstacle for his early release. He doesn’t get to sleep much because of pain and prison wardens waking him up every hour to make sure he hasn’t fled."

My suggestion: go and read the history of arrest & death of Sergey Magnitsky. It may become very relevant soon...

znak.com/2021-03-26/advokat_na

#OtD 26 Mar 1889, Ukranian Jewish anarchist and Makhnovist, Jacques Doubinsky was born. This is a short biography: libcom.org/history/doubinsky-j

"A British professor corresponded for months with a man called only "Ivan", seeking assistance to discredit an organisation that helps bring Syrian war criminals to justice. He also asked "Ivan" to investigate other British academics and journalists."

bbc.co.uk/news/stories-5652455

AMA at /r/privacy/! 🙉

Starting from now, and for three days, you can Ask Me Anything on Reddit.

Thanks to the /r/privacy mods for inviting me to this.

#degoogled #smartphone #privacy #opensource

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Lekarze, z co najmniej kilkunastu krajów, wspierani przez amerykańskich działaczy Christian Right, zapewniają kobietom niebezpieczne i kontrowersyjne “leczenie”, które, jak twierdzą, „cofa” aborcje farmakologiczne - ujawnia openDemocracy.

Własne tłumaczenie jednej z użytkowniczek szmeru, jedyna szansa przeczytać o tym bez paywalla;
szmer.info/post/3499

@accountabletech@twitter.com 🇬🇧 A broad coalition of 30+ leading advocacy organizations say it's time to #BanSurveillanceAdvertising, the toxic business model that relies on pervasively tracking our every click. See their open letter and join the fight: bansurveillanceadvertising.com @accountabletech@twitter.com

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This was later corrected on the website that first posted this nonsense - but comments from angry readers still refer to these 1/7 values. Unsure if that was journalist, or the original source in gov.

money.pl/gospodarka/przecieki-

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