There is also, of course, Julian Assange. Most know the name, but have no idea what he really did. He has been detained or in prison since 2012. Kept under maximum-security conditions today for the "crime" of publishing true information -- despite having never been convicted.
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Government bans on privacy only make the need for privacy stronger.
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A very sad day, what an amazing and inspirational woman. My thoughts are with her family, friends and the many whose life she touched. Such a loss.
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An incredible loss to the nation today.
Vicky Phelan, who uncovered one of the biggest medical and political scandals of our time, and campaigned tirelessly for justice, has died. Gone far too soon and before her time. RIP.
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The White House sanctions and arrests kids for the "crime" of building privacy tools to protect you, while "regulators" were quietly palling around with the thieves who just robbed 5 million people.
The difference? The thieves were big political donors.
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Zooko, Vitalik, Satoshi, Back, Szabo, Odell, Eric Wall, Eric Voorhees, 6529, Polynya, Suzuha, Selkis, etc. etc.
I try to curate them here:
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If folks ex Stripe or Twitter are finding their feet all of a sudden & want to hang out in Dogpatch for free next week just DM me. Loads of amazing Irish startups are hiring. Or explore starting something.
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Coca Cola is the single largest plastic polluter in the world— at over 3 million tonnes of plastic packaging each year.
Now Coke is sponsoring the world's largest climate conference (#COP27), in a desperate attempt to greenwash their legacy of ecocide.
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Control the money control the world.
The greatest form of tyrannical control is upon us and it’s called a Central Bank Digital Currency.
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NOW - ECB chief Lagarde says she does not like to see a new period of "free banking" due to cryptocurrencies.
Central bank digital currencies (CBDC) are required to maintain the role of central banks.
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Our grandparents were addicted to cigarettes, our parents were addicted to sugar, and we are addicted to our phones.
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The European Central Bank made its largest-ever interest rate increase to combat record inflation. The bank's governing council raised its key benchmarks by an unprecedented three-quarters of a percentage point for the 19 countries that use the euro. apnews.com/article/inflat
"When you lack privacy, then you're vulnerable to most powerful and least ethical actor around; because they can extort and exploit anyone they have information about."
Great, simple insight into why privacy matters by
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1. You should have the choice re what you want to share
2. It’s normal to want this choice
3. The internet inherently leaks data, so requires privacy
4. Those outside the crypto industry may not see an option out
5. Important to look back at history and educate the public
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5️⃣ Response to those that are against total privacy
▪️ Many push-back against privacy saying that surveillance required to catch bad guys
▪️ Response: bad actors have been in every society and have always been a threat
▪️ Every thriving society needs a balance
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4️⃣ Crypto industry sees options
▪️ General public have nihilistic/defeatist view i.e. big corp + gov have my data and nothing can be done about it
▪️ Crypto industry see options and see possibility of alternate reality
▪️ Important to look back at history + educate the public
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3️⃣ Internet requires privacy to be added back in
▪️ Using internet inherently causes data leakage
▪️ Google/Facebook $$$ based on this "public" data. Slippery slope started with advertising and scaled up to surveillance capitalism
▪️ Door was open for the gov to come in
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2️⃣ Privacy is and has always been normal
▪️ Never been a time in human history where we have been surveilled to this extent
▪️ Fighting for privacy = fighting against the current radical social experiment
▪️ Crypto values may seem futurist but align with conservative values
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1️⃣ Cont.
▪️ Someone else shouldn’t have the choice on what they get to know about you without your consent
▪️ Powerful companies + gov have resources to use info for > $$ or power
▪️ Info being accessed without consent = situation where we're vulnerable to the most powerful
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1️⃣ Privacy should be a choice
▪️ Privacy is not necessarily a value but is essential for freedom
▪️ People can’t be their authentic selves under scrutiny. Worse for those on the margins of society
▪️ You should have a choice what data you share and who you share it with
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I prefer people who talk about ideas instead of other people
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could be extradited to the U.S. as soon as this fall. We implore the Biden administration to end the prosecution that virtually every major civil liberties org agrees is a clear and present danger to U.S. press freedom:
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Love this image from the 1940s showing Limerick's grid. Image from Britain From Above
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Sit Bach and enjoy some cello in the west of Ireland summer breeze. From JS Bach's Cello Suite No. 1
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I get constant messages like this:
"It's inevitable. Don't want to be tracked, don't use technology"
Most people feel helpless when it comes to digital surveillance, but they're more empowered than they realize.
Surveillance is absolutely not inevitable. Stop normalizing it.
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“Housing, and the basic needs of society, should never have been left to the marketplace.”
is one of the only public figures anywhere in the West prepared to speak this obvious truth.
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Pfizer's profit this quarter was $9.9 billion dollars, 100% of which came from governments, which agreed to waive your right to sue them.
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This is how the game works.
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The FDA's top tobacco scientist has left his job to go work for Philip Morris International in what marks the company's second high-profile FDA hire in recent months.
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#Breaking
AIB decides not to proceed with cashless move.
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The thing that shocks me most about AIB's decision to turn 70 branches cashless is the fact they only just collaborated with Women's Aid in 2019 to highlight financial abuse here. How, in the space of 3 yrs, have they forgotten how important cash is to domestic violence victims
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AIB reveals details of branches in Limerick which are going 'cashless' limerickleader.ie/news/home/8650
1/ Thrilled to announce that is the first company in the world to be registered as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) by the Central Bank of Ireland !
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Privacy matters!
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Dear @Walgreens I received this package today a week after purchasing a pregnancy test at your store. I was asked to take the test by my doctor despite having no Fallopian tubes. 1/X
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This is the real reason Assange is in prison. #FreeAssange
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The US has been on an insane orgy of military spending since 9/11 at least. This big, bad war machine couldn't even defeat the Taliban after 20 years.
That's because the real purpose isn't to win wars or security. It's this, as explained by Assange:
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It's not JUST that people have no idea what's going on -- they also have no idea what to do about it.
I feel the same way, and just try to share what I learn as I go along.
It's time to normalize privacy.
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The more privacy videos I put out, the more I'm convinced that:
It's not that people don't care about privacy --
it's that they have no idea what's going on.
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Star gazing. A very small drawing
Those pictures from yesterday of stars and galaxies and space and all that. Woah. Impossible for my brain to comprehend any wee bit of it. Probably even makes a giant feel small
Black paper, chalk, paint, 19 billion galaxies and stars probably
