Sheldon Adelson has passed away.
Submitted by Nastarana on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 1:37pmThis was reported by Howie Klein, at Down with Tyranny this morning.
A short poem
Submitted by smiley7 on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 12:03pm~
Signal Wave
Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 5:18am
I'm starting to think that perhaps one can stop the signal.
What Joss Whedon meant when he had Mr. Universe say "You can't stop the signal, Mal," in his movie Serenity, is that it's ultimately impossible to achieve absolute repression of an idea.
70 TB of information collected in Parler data scrape
Submitted by bondibox on Mon, 01/11/2021 - 1:52pmN.B. I'm not applauding or condoning what has transpired.
On Sunday, before Amazon web hosting pulled the plug on Parler, some hackers downloaded 70 Terabytes of information, including deleted posts, private messages, images with EXIF data intact, and the drivers licenses of Parler's "Verified Citizens."
The Evening Blues - 1-11-21
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 01/11/2021 - 1:48pm
Pence's inaction and Congress' foot-dragging on Trump Removal is dangerous
Submitted by BayAreaLefty on Mon, 01/11/2021 - 9:37amTrump needs to be out. As of the 6th, really, but any day since then would have been better than now, or later.
Monday OT: 01/11/21 is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day (US)
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 01/11/2021 - 5:00am
Today is day 11 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Sweetmorn, Chaos 11, 3187 YOLD
And let us not forget 13.0.8.3.3 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)
Sweetmorn, Chaos 11, 3187 YOLD
And let us not forget 13.0.8.3.3 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)
Slave auction at Richmond, Virginia, public domain via VCU Libraries Commons
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Houston, we have a problem
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 01/10/2021 - 4:19pmThis is an unsustainable situation.
polls: yougov and rasmussen
We Should be Dancing in the Streets about Trump's Suspension from Twitter
Submitted by RantingRooster on Sun, 01/10/2021 - 3:25pmJust think, Trump has finally been held accountable for his actions, just like the rest of us suspended, former Twitter users. We should be dancing in the streets rather than getting “emotional” about a private, for profit corporation, using it's “legal power” to punish those that break their rules.
Republishing ‘When Google Met WikiLeaks’
Submitted by wendy davis on Sun, 01/10/2021 - 10:42amOriginally published at Café Babylon on Oct. 6, 2014. It seems even more relevant today than it did then. It’s longish, so hang in there if you're able. In these post-‘Capitol’ social media de-platforming days, remember that (Chrome) Google algorithms suppress websites from the conservative and religious right to the ‘subversive left (wsws and popular resistance, for instance). And Google bought Youtube in Oct. of 2006 for a paltry $1.65 billion.
If you haven’t read it and seen the captioned photos, you’ll love ‘Google Is Not What It Seems’ by Julian Assange, an extract from his new book When Google Met Wikileaks, wikileaks.org
Also see Scott Ritter’s ‘By banning Trump and his supporters, Google and Twitter are turning the US into a facsimile of the regimes we once condemned’, RT.com, Jan. 9, 2021 Two excerpts:
“Digital democracy became privatized when its primary architect, Jared Cohen, left the State Department in September 2010 to take a new position with internet giant Google as the head of ‘Google Ideas’ now known as ‘Jigsaw’. Jigsaw is a global initiative ‘think tank’ intended to “spearhead initiatives to apply technology solutions to problems faced by the developing world.” This was the same job Cohen was doing while at the State Department.
