It doesn’t authorize ICE to conduct searches in the Netherlands. Would work better if it was Underground Railroad related.
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Today’s the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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Auschwitz anniversary is the lead story here today.
As you know, the Soviet Army liberated the survivors in 1945 but Russian representatives are now not invited to attend because of Putin’s conduct. Sad.
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The leopards are eating well.
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To be fair she could plausibly claim to not know who the Republican candidate would be when she made the earlier post, although to think there was any chance that they would be friendlier to Muslims is laughable.
And I suspect she did not vote for Trump. But still…
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No?? Who did you think it could be? Haley?
She could claim that - but not plausibly.
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Hmmm, I guess I’m wrong. By October the writing was on the wall. His lead dipped into single digits in early 2023 (and well under 50%), but it had surged by then.
This. Everyone here appreciates how much information you can pull out of what seems like unimportant, unrelated data.
I’ve seen this type of thing before. Many years ago, AOL IIRC released a ton of anonymized search queries. All nice and anonymous. Except folks combed the data and with a bit of thinking, un-anonymized some of the data. They were able to pinpoint people and a lot of personal information based on that.
IIRC, it went something like, someone searches that indicates that they’re a teacher. Somehow other searches indicate where they are, and now the researcher knows exactly who that person is - and has all their searches. And with their searches they obtained a lot of personal information.
I imagine 20 years later, and with the amount of data that tiktok has, that they have access to some very uncomfortable information about a lot of people.
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And we trust TikTok less that Twitter, Facebook and Google despite knowing they share data with the US government all the time? And with people willing to pay for the data?
Who’s “we”?
I don’t trust any of them, otoh, unless you don’t put anything out there it’s difficult to prevent being compiled in as data somewhere.
I’ve heard stories that the US gov’t forces installs of black boxes at large colocation facilities and ISP facilities to monitor all traffic, then requires that the ISP not disclose that this is happening. Sort of a conspiracy theory, I don’t know if it’s actually true, but I don’t find the idea that unreasonable. And if that’s the case, we’re all tracked by the gov’t already.
All I do is take a normal but not crazy level of caution when posting stuff online.
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Those are all untrustworthy. Google is the only one I’m unwilling to divest from. It’s too convenient to have a password saved on my computer, look at my phone, and have it enter the same login. Google provides far more benefit in exchange for every personal detail of my life. Doesn’t mean they’re trustworthy, but Facebook and Twitter provide little of value while they actively seek to manipulate me against my self-interests.
Google attempts to manipulate me too, they just provide a service.
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I thought this was all revealed shortly after the PATRIOT Act. Not tin hat stuff. Just fact that our government can spy on any of us at any time with a warrant by a court that’s rubber-stamped like 99% of the time. And that’s just if they want it to be done legally.
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I’m guessing Trump won’t be serving Fritos corn chips when he invites sports champions to the White House.
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It’s more efficient, because you can malign and dehumanize more groups at once!
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That’s government efficiency right there. Elon and DOGE already making a difference!
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