Jason @[email protected]

ever wonder why your train is late in the mornings sometimes? well,

RT @yanisvaroufakis
I do. All the time! The West is utterly responsible for the waves of refugees that are coming to the... West. And it is doubly culpable for the fact that, once they are at our shores, we turn them back or incarcerate them in dystopian camps.

How can the eclipse be real if America isn't real

today an older lady came on the bus wearing a big fluffy pink sweater with huskies all over it... i did not know that such powerful entities needed to use public transport like us low-energy mortals

A US judge rejects a bid by a woman Roman Polanski raped as a teenager to close the case http://u.afp.com/4uWJ https://quitter.im/attachment/622483

Plex is no longer going to allow their paying customers to opt-out of having their viewing metadata collected and used by Plex (presumably for direct or indirect profit).

Remember when it was enough to pay a company for a piece of software without them pimping out your personal information for a little extra profit on the side?

Leading elephant conservationist shot dead in Tanzania
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/17/leading-elephant-conservationist-ivory-shot-dead-in-tanzania

(submitted by adamnemecek)

Une bonne question à se poser avant les manifs de la rentrée :

Faut-il former les services de secours à soigner des blessures « de guerre » ou arrêter d’utiliser des armes à feu sur des civils susceptibles de mutiler et tuer, contrairement à ce que suppose leur « non-létalité » ?

http://vmc.camp/2017/08/17/a-bure-la-prefecture-continue-sa-strategie-descalade-brutale-au-prix-de-nombreux-ses-blesse-e-s-continuons-le-soutien/

Pressure builds to remove the 1,500 symbols of the Confederacy located on US public lands http://u.afp.com/4u43 https://quitter.im/attachment/618831

Most of today’s #censorship circumvention #tools use the same fundamental approach: they encrypt the user’s traffic to make it look innocuous, and channel it to a #proxy server located outside the censored network. This leads to a fundamental problem: Once the censor discovers the proxy server, the proxy itself becomes just another site to block. If users can find the proxy servers, the censors can too.

In this race to find and use—or find and block—proxy servers, censoring governments enjoy natural, growing advantages over censored users. For example, they can examine all data flowing across their borders in search of disfavored activity. Strategies that rely on friendly servers are failing against increasingly sophisticated state-level censors who can see and control a country’s entire network.

#Refraction networking takes a different approach.

https://refraction.network/

Stop the lies about San Francisco being progressive.

* Tech industry sexism and racism infecting and destroying politically progressive communities

* Govt corruption underbuilding low income housing and permitting the destruction of existing low income housing

* Progressive people, unionized workers, even teachers can no longer afford it, and have been displaced.

Its a feelgood neoliberal consumerist shithole, with only a thin veener of "ethical consumption" over the real inequality behind.

The reason you don't see many white policemen at a Klan rally is the same reason Spider-Man and Peter Parker are never in same room.
#LaysMicDownGently #BecauseThatsHowYouTreatStageEquipment #AndThatImpactisLoudEnough #Boom

İyi olan kazansın.

It's not difficult to tell crocodiles and alligators apart.
One will see you in a while whereas the other will see you later.

A Short History of the Many, Many Ways Uber Screwed Up #wired #technology https://www.wired.com/story/timeline-uber-crises

Pentagon spends $93mln on forest camouflage in Afghanistan… where forests cover 2.1% of total land area… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/877782064120123392

Message à tous les couche-tard !

Ne vous est-il jamais arrivé de vous lever tôt, de passer une journée de type zombie... pour finir la journée en pleine forme et vous coucher de nouveau tard.

Alors on nous fait la morale : tu ne fais pas d'efforts, tu n'est pas sérieux. (je connais ça...)

Et ben sachez que c'est biologique, ce n'est pas un manque de volonté ou de détermination.

(d'ailleurs pour les curieux, le dernier magazine de Cerveau & psycho traite du sujet)

osund in @dfri's IRC channel made a short demonstrational video on how #WhatsApp leaks metadata (URLs are _accessed_ while composing a message even though e2e etc. is enabled and privacy is expected): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNP8PUh7J7c !security
Non-Google link: https://social.umeahackerspace.se/attachment/188763

It should be standard practice - not to trust a journalist who says you will be able to review his/her work before publishing.

It would avoid scenarios like this one.

"Poitras has also violated her promise ... [their would be] an opportunity to review the film in advance and request changes, and that they could decline to appear if they or their lawyers felt that the movie put them at risk."

http://www.newsweek.com/wikileaks-attorneys-blast-citizenfour-maker-poitras-610362