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noahpinion.blog

Progressives have been howling about tech company surveillance for over a decade, but they all still have The iPhone in their pockets. Shoshana Zuboff wrote a book about surveillance capitalism, with the main result being that people can now remark that Shoshana Zuboff wrote a book about surveillance capitalism.
— Noah Smith

1mo ago

It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend it. And that is a political choice that each of us has to make.

1mo ago

It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend it. And to defend it, you must love it.

2mo ago

longreads.com

A Day with England’s Hunt Saboteurs

For most of their history, hunting was legal, so the police responded with covert infiltration and mass arrests. Meanwhile, the hunters responded with violence, trampling sabs with horses, blasting shotguns at vans, and assaulting them with blunt instruments.

5mo ago

platformer.news

Why Meta is retreating from encryption

At the same time, for the majority of people, encryption is a protective technology. Activists, sex workers, LGBTQ users in authoritarian states, people discussing reproductive rights in post-Dobbs America, and journalists and their sources are among the many groups that benefit from being able to talk in private.

6mo ago

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