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GEEK: How To (Kinda) Get An Edit Button For Twitter Tweets With One Weird Trick: #macroblogging
Historically, one of the greatest issues with Social Media has been one of sovereignty over one’s own content, or – put differently – the predilection for social networks, once they are past the initial growth spurt, to attempt to lock-down user-generated content (UGC) so that they don’t become essentially content-delivery networks (CDNs) for their competitors,
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NEWS: Walk this way: army of hikers will road-test new map of footpaths
In January, Slow Ways will launch its website, asking 10,000 people to help walk, verify and review the 7,000 routes that their 700 volunteers drafted digitally during the spring lockdown. The purpose of the project, says Raven-Ellison, “is to connect the places where most people are – so towns and cities – to where most
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INFO: Lunar Craters vs: The Size Of Wales
via https://web.archive.org/web/20021228163450/http://www.weasner.com/etx/guests/images/hatwood-moon01.jpg and:
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NEWS: Lib Dems hook up with 5G cranks and give a boost to wild conspiracy
“Oh dear.” Instead of rebutting them, the Lib Dems have encouraged them. When 343 Bath residents objected to the council granting planning permission for the mast upgrade, Lib Dem councillors, with the support of Bath’s Lib Dem MP, Wera Hobhouse, decided to comply with the wishes of the dupes and cranks. I can guess the political calculation.
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“If it Hadn’t Been for the Prompt Work of the Medics”: FSB Officer Inadvertently Confesses Murder Plot to Navalny
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/21/if-it-hadnt-been-for-the-prompt-work-of-the-medics-fsb-officer-inadvertently-confesses-murder-plot-to-navalny/ I’m a big fan of Bellingcat’s work: Prior to offering these rights-of-reply, Alexey Navalny requested the opportunity to confront, by telephone, members of the FSB squad implicated in his poisoning. Bellingcat agreed and arranged for its representatives to be present during the calls, for the purpose of obtaining any additional information that might be
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NEWS: “Swaggering Jewish Gangster Mayor Hennadiy Kernes, Reluctant Savior of Kharkiv, Is Felled by COVID” – now *that’s* a headline
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/hennadiey-kernes-obituary-covid?s=09 Known for his weightlifting and trash-talking, the gangster mayor was an intense and canny political survivor who had found himself starting out on the wrong side of two Ukrainian political revolutions, both of which he somehow managed to survive politically. A diminutive, physically brave wise-guy hoodlum, he enjoyed posting pictures of his jacked up
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NEWS: An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming Services Didn’t Want It.
tl;dr – they’re all scared of being hacked “The Dissident” is not the only political documentary that has failed to secure a home on a streaming service. This year, Magnolia Pictures, which has a streaming deal with Disney-owned Hulu, backed out of a deal with the makers of the documentary “The Assassins,” which tells the
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NEWS: Censorship doesn’t stop at Christmas – #Pakistan Telecommunication Authority notifies Google, Wikipedia: demands religious censorship, threatens blocks
More evidence, if more is needed, that provision of backdoors into message encryption would be abused by states in illiberal ways that are not considered by those who demand them. Complaints were also received regarding hosting of caricatures of Holy Prophet (PBUH) & dissemination of misleading, wrong, deceptive and deceitful information through articles published on