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In 1947, logician Kurt Gödel claimed to find a flaw in the U.S. Constitution that could legally enable a dictatorship. He mentioned this during his citizenship exam, but the judge chose not to pursue the topic. He never disclosed the loophole and many have speculated about it for decades.

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As it’s Easter, let’s all take a moment to appreciate how the people who bang on the loudest about Christian values are the ones who have utterly failed to understand a single word that Jesus uttered, and would be the first to call him woke and deport him. Hypocrites. #Easter2025

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'Anywhere But Here' is only 99p on Kindle for a limited period. Go go go! amzn.eu/d/6vfyNly

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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... Just another routine tragedy: the product of the Israeli terrorist state and its US and UK government supporters…

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www.cbsnews.com/news/23andme...

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Absolutely shameful regime collaborator behavior on bsky's part; what happened to "mundus sine caesaribus"?

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Regulators telling people how to opt-out of data abuse instead of preventing this from happening. #dataprotection is going great in #Germany. https://datenschutz-hamburg.de/news/meta-starts-ai-training-with-personal-data #DPA #Hamburg #GDPR #AI #LLM #MetaAI #Meta

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The #ICO has issued a second fine in three months. What is going on? 🤔 #DataProtection

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The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly NO it's not due to net-zero YES it is due to GAS Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵

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Some major public institutions in Canada, including a pension management firm and a leading hospital, are advising staff against traveling to the US.

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🚨Today, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its Guidelines on processing of personal data through blockchain technology [*16 years after the beginning of blockchain] 👉 The public consultation is open until June 9th (link below) 👉 Join 58k who never miss my updates (below).

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The EDPB adopted guidelines on the processing of personal data through blockchain technologies to help organisations using blockchain to comply with the GDPR. The guidelines are open for public consultation until 09 June 2025.

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A private equity firm just bought £1.6 BILLION worth of the NHS. It will make bigger profits by hiking rents for hospitals and NHS facilities. Previous govts privatized the estate. That means less money for frontline healthcare. NHS already drained by PFI and private contractors.

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Trafficking victims rejecting UK government support because they fear being deported

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This is why Musk & Co hate GDPR regulation in the EU, why Cambridge Analytica & Meta aided & abetted Brexit, the attack on elections in Kenya and others. What a Digital Coup Looks Like - Carole Cadwalladr www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...

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can we move the bluesky team to canada or switzerland or something so it’s not a US service anymore? 😅

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EDPB publishes report on AI Privacy Risks & Mitigations LLMs. www.edpb.europa.eu/our-work-too...

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We are really sleepwalking into a police state. #privacy www.freevacy.com/news/the-tel...

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Because #AI does not hallucinate and is not riddled with biased data. We are sleeping walking into a dystopia. www.freevacy.com/news/the-gua...

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This morning, everything is conspiring to make me write about the perpetual assumption of innocence when it comes to some kinds of tech, and I do not have time...

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This is pure Philip K Dick. The autonomous soft drinks stands turn nark. Not word salad.

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Delta Airlines earnings call today was apparently pretty clear that transatlantic air travel bookings are taking a nosedive, alongside everything else.

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

It’s been three weeks since Israel broke the ceasefire in Gaza. What’s been happening? Here’s an update from #AJStartHere with Sandra Gathmann ⤵️

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Investors are selling their long term US government bonds - traditionally considered a ‘safe haven’ asset 👇

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GODDAMIT. IT’S NOT A RESURRECTED DIRE WOLF. 20 edits in 19,000 genes. IT’S NOT GOING TO AID CONSERVATION. EVERY WRITE UP THAT SWALLOWS AND REGURGITATES THIS GUFFERY WOLFSHIT IS DOING PR FOR A FUNDING ROUND.

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Also how is this a startup when people have been doing this in the Amazon self-publishing market for a decade now?

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This is tonight's bedtime reading 📚. I think I need a life. 🙆🏽‍♀️ #GDPR

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BOOOOM! UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal dismisses with extreme prejudice (§43) the UK #HomeOffice attempt to cover up the case brought by #Apple against the global snooping order from the Home Office against Advanced Data Protection 🚀 h/t @kind.ac #IPT #ADP #E2EE www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

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