WesternInfidels

I was surprised that this isn’t more famous, but it’s apparently very new, just finished in July. “El rumor de la discordia,” or “The Rumor of Discord.”

Firefox’s translate gave me the gist of things:

No es un “desgraciado chirimbolo” más: así es la escultura de Gonzalo Lebrija que aviva el discurso del arte público

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That’s not my attitude at all.

The basic “they really are spying on you” issue at the heart of the Flock scandal has bubbled up before, abuses have come to light before, there was alarm and pushback before, and then nothing in particular changed before, and the surveillance came to be accepted as the status quo before.

I don’t want this go the same way. How can we connect this version to a bigger picture of freedom and liberty, instead of letting the news story run its course, letting it fade away, as has happened every other time?

This was my attitude when I was younger. But as my financial arrangements have gotten more complicated, more intertwined with those of other people, as I’ve accumulated weird experiences straightening out banking problems, I can see that while there is wisdom in the rule, its never going to be enough. I’m human, I don’t remember everything I need to remember.

The scammers don’t send out “link to confirm your bank details” because zillions of people are stupid, they do it because everyone is a little stupid sometimes.

The company has partnered with 6,000 law enforcement agencies and 1,000 private customers, leading to terrifying false arrests and even crooked cops stalking innocent women.

How can we make people see that these problems were happening before anyone had heard of Flock? Flock is just amplifying the worst things about American policing.

Flock isn’t even the first system of surveillance cameras and ALPR cameras, they’re just the first with national-scale panopticon ambitions.

Would a remark like this one count as positive or negative?

…the records reveal the breadth of alleged database abuse by CBP employees…

AKA “criminals.” Committers of crimes.

In my rich fantasy life, this announcement is just a ruse, to get Facebook to drop its guard.

Real life is never as good as my rich fantasy life though.

Aw heck I thought that spec said “insecurity coprocessor.” My bad.

a colander perched on a gate post

Which Was The Style At The Time

Why aren’t they just making the new version better, so that people are happy to use it?