The Nearly $1 Trillion US Military Budget Doesn’t Provide Safety, Only Profit https://truthout.org/articles/the-nearly-1-trillion-us-military-budget-doesnt-provide-safety-only-profit/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.
⚠"iPhones and iPads are not computers," Apple has publicly stated. ⚠
🔔 We should not allow gatekeepers like Apple to threaten our rights and freedoms!
Pro-Palestinian protesters are still harassing Biden. Yet last night at the debate, Trump said "Let Israel finish the job" and accused Biden of being a Palestinian because he's been trying to get rabid Netanyahu on a leash. And they plan to protest the Democratic convention. Do they realize they are actually working for Trump, who has promised concentration camps for them? .
Hey, CNN, fact-checking should be something you do during the debate, not as this afterthought.
You let Trump lie incessantly on LIVE TV and you did it on purpose.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/27/politics/fact-checking-the-cnn-presidential-debate/index.html
CNN has decided, based on its pre-debate "coverage", that the two major-party candidates are very much equivalent.
The network's correspondents surely know that they are pushing the worst kind of false balance, but it is what they do routinely.
Business as usual in Big Journalism will be seen by honest historians as one of the most effective enablers of fascism in America.
Supreme Court just legalized bribery of public officials. A perfect and grotesque endorsement of the kind of corruption that Trump world stands for. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/26/supreme-court-bribes-gratuities-corruption-mayor/
#Apple takes out a billboard to dunk on Google #Chrome's #privacy problems. (They are not wrong, but Safari could be improved as well). https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/apple-google-billboard-safari-privacy-19532631.php