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"Researchers recently caught Meta using an egregious new tracking technique to spy on you... yet another reason to distrust Meta, block web tracking, and end surveillance advertising." #Meta #SurveillanceCapitalism #BigTech

😏 #StarWars #Moviesky

"... the web has been dying for a while now, costing us over $100 billion in spam, ad fraud, scams, and bot traffic that’s set to overtake human activity in less than two years at its current rate..."

🚨BREAKING -- Iran has confirmed that it attacked US forces stationed at Al Udeid air base in Qatar. This air base also houses the Royal Air Force (RAF) No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group.

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June 23 is St John’s Eve — Midsummer Night. In Welsh folklore, it was a night to beware the Cŵn Annwn —ghostly hounds from the Otherworld — who roam the lonely roads and byways of Wales in eerie procession. Listen carefully, they might be closer than you think... #Wales #Folklore

Doh! 😆

The Four Fuckwits of the Apocalypse.

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"We actually have proof that Facebook purposefully built a machine that can affect your mood, experimented with it, found that outrage and fear get the most user time spent on the platform, and left the machine’s dial on “lies and paranoia” to meet quarterly financial goals..." #meta #BigTech

"A controversial US spy tech firm has landed a contract with UK police to develop a surveillance network that will incorporate data about citizens’ political opinions, philosophical beliefs, health records and other sensitive personal information..." #privacy #BigTech

"We’ve always had hotspots that seem to flare up,” says Halliday. “Bonnybridge in the nineties was like that – a sudden burst of reports, more than anywhere else in Scotland. “But these older cases suggest there was always something simmering below the surface..." #ufosky #Bonnybridge #Fortean

I knew it! 🤨 #cryptid #Bigfoot #Fortean

Worth a try...

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Zuckerberg slowly shows true self... #meta #techbro #techfascism

An old article, still worth a read. "... if you have a sense of reality you are going to be really troubled. Anybody in this culture who watches the news and can be happy - there's something wrong with them."

Trump: "I'm not going to start wars, I'm going to stop wars"

"When a meme-rich conspiracy ecosystem converges with unlimited billionaire wealth and precision-targeted social media algorithms, the result is a political accelerant capable of warping policy at the speed of trending hashtags... Who benefits from what we believe?" #ufosky

"... we wouldn’t be dealing with a secret police notified of our every stray breath with real time alert, but with weaponized incompetence where any stray shred of data of almost certainly dubious origin and accuracy could be used against us at a moment’s notice..."

If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.

Tattyfilariously terrifying! #horrorsky

"The Network State is scaling. It is doing well. It is healthy and executing on its priorities and achieving its goals and making money and moving cash and people and infrastructure around the world. It is not a dream. It is not a fantasy. The Network State already exists."