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Germany: Migration background abolished in police database(bild.de)
3 points by tarakat 4y ago|0 comments
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by tarakat 4y ago
The World Lost Two-Thirds Of Its Wildlife In 50 Years. We Are to Blame - https://www.npr.org/2020/09/10/911500907/the-world-lost-two-... > There is no freezing or turning back the clock without the
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by tarakat 4y ago
> The west is captured by Malthusian thinking, and their solution is “less brown people,” Ironic then that brown people is the only group still growing in the west then: America’s white population declined for the first time [..] Mean
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But that's just it - the silent re-ranking of stories, algorithmic or editorial, can also flip elections. Not just elections, it can entirely change the direction a culture is headed. And it causes no backlash - you wouldn't eve
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Another of those banned books articles that only lists books the author likes, and wouldn't dream of mentioning any of the books banned so effectively that they never made it into school libraries and reading lists: In 2019, Amazon pu
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We're not even close to ready for the population growth we're getting(nationalpost.com)
29 points by tarakat 4y ago|39 comments
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How very brave of a Chinese-American, whose country or origin was 94% ethnically Han in 1953, and is still 91% Han in 2020 [1], to write a story where the evil whites in the US (87% in 1970, down to 61% a short 50 years later, and falling)
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Bike Theft and Policing Considerations(sfbike.org)
3 points by tarakat 4y ago|1 comments
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Ironically it's the kind of censorship the Biden laptop story got that scares me the least . Brazen, obvious, and now widely known about. What's really scary is the silent implicit algorithmic ranking that decides which stories,
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> Do you work at a company that handles netflow data? Do you work at an ISP distributing that data? Or do you know anything else about the trade or use of netflow data? We'd love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer,
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And people followed your advice, and when not every group was equally successful, were accused of racism, because we know ability (in every area... well, every intellectual area) is equally distributed, so what else could it be? And not j
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A study from 1985 found that: The authors also submitted different test studies to different peer-review boards. The methodology was identical, and the variable was that the purported findings either went for, or against, the liberal world
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This would be impossible with paper. Digitization enables so much business innovation.
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That's the privilege of institutional power - you can control reading lists and access to books, and it doesn't register as a ban.
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Books that are actually banned aren't in school libraries, reading lists, and Amazon won't carry them [1]. But the temptation to feel like a rebel for buying a "banned book", prominently advertised in a large corporate
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And we must ensure that choice remains economically viable, and not just for the largest member states. Because a union maintained by compulsion, even economic compulsion, is not a union, but an empire.
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1. You're using "no privacy" to mean both "overheard by the grandma in the next row" and "recorded by a centralized mass surveillance system to be analyzed and correlated with the millions of other data points
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> Cancel Ring Nation’s letter emphasizes how, in a post-Roe world especially, people should understand how Ring cameras can be weaponized against them And Ring Nation will help them understand. Surveillance should not be discreet. Unless
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At my (non-US) voting location, we put marked ballots into big plastic boxes. After the polls closed, the ballots were counted by volunteers, and the counting was supervised by other people to make sure it was done correctly. Nobody had to
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by tarakat 4y ago
The US invasion of Iraq that the CIA helped start [1] resulted in about 200k civilian deaths [2]. I don't feel like tallying the deaths from all of CIA's projects (or deciding how to split responsibility between the CIA and the
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We've seen where this leads to in the US, where the federal government financially extorts states to fall in line on issues that are supposed to be up to the states, such as what happened with speed limits: https://en.wikipe
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You're looking at it all wrong. From Cloudflare's point of view, this kind of blocking is a feature . Anyone doing legitimate web crawling, or offering alternative web services such as Starlink, now needs Cloudflare's permis
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> A bit hypocritical of Snowden to criticize the USA while holed up in Russia. So you have no problem with the substance of the article, only with the author's place of residence? The article itself references several instances of t
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> Why is it such a long shot to believe they don't interfere locally? > Because this goes strongly against the culture of the organization? No it doesn't, and I'm curious where you got that impression: A Brief History
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> In Baltimore, wiretap laws only apply where there is a 'reasonable expectation of privacy' ( https://cite.case.law/a3d/197/27/#p685 ) per Fourth Amendment standards (which would suggest that any
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Plus it's no longer relevant since this program, and mass surveillance in general, are slowly being phased out /s
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I wonder if that means they've since stopped.
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Public buses across country adding microphones to record conversations (2012)(wired.com)
193 points by tarakat 4y ago|71 comments
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> “the development of a set of best practices and centralized resources for monitoring and evaluation of extremist activities as well as a series of training workshops for the monitoring, detection, and prevention of extremist exploitati

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