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Inside: Washington State's capital gains tax proves we can have nice things; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/03/whe…

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1/ The Washington State flag; ...
Today (3/6) at 1:30PM, I'm in #Edinburgh for @CymeraF on a panel with Nina Allen and @iannmcdonald:

cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera23-event…

Mon 5/6 at 7:15PM, I'm at the #BritishLibrary with my book *Red Team Blues* for an event hosted by @Marthalanefox:

bl.uk/events/an-even…

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Washington State's capital gains tax proves we can have nice things: We just need to tax the rich.



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That look you make when Alex Jones calls you out for building Billionaire End-of-Times Bunkers on Kauai Zuck?
-More than 20 billionaires building underground bunkers
-Large dome tents to hide excavation at his house
-Underground sub bases Image
Mark Zuckerberg building underground infrastructure on Kauai (Hawaii) checks out... here are some Satellite images of his operation. First image: The Zuck compo...Image
You can see on the left of the second image, there is a ton of heavy duty equipment on site, heaps of vehicles and all sorts of tents to hide what he is digging up building. What a bizarre situation going on in beautiful north shore Kauai
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1/7 This was a FASCINATING article from @FortuneMagazine

Overconfident #tech #CEOs have overpaid for ‘box tickers’ and ‘taskmasters.’ Here’s why the real ‘creators’ will survive the mass #layoffs

yahoo.com/entertainment/…
2/7 "$CRM CEO Marc #Benioff and $META CEO Mark #Zuckerberg have admitted that they hired too many employees under the assumption that the growth their #sector experienced during the pandemic would continue."
3/7 "In periods of growth, the errors made by overconfident #CEOs are often buffered by the upswing of the economic cycle. In contrast, during upswings, underconfident CEOs lose out because they stay hamstrung with #risk aversion."
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A common refrain from anti-anonymity #Facebook apologists is that its #RealNamesPolicy promoted "civility" by making users "accountable" for their words. In this conception, snuffing out anonymous speech is key to protecting "the vulnerable" from trolls and other bad actors. 1/ Cambodian dictator Hun Sen's Facebook photo of himself swimm
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2023/01/24/nat… 2/
But while some trolls hide behind anonymity, others are only too happy to sign their vitriol. #DonaldTrump didn't need an anonymous account. #TuckerCarlson is right there in the chyron. 3/
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🔴 #USA #Trump
Donald Trump exige d'être déclaré PRÉSIDENT ou l’organisation IMMÉDIATE d’élections présidentielles. L'ancien président a publié sur son compte Truth Social un message cinglant à l’adresse du FBI, qui a dissimulé l'histoire de l'ordinateur portable de 🔽
Hunter Biden, accusant le FBI d’avoir joué un role décisif dans les elections présidentielles.
Dans le message, Trump a écrit:
"Il s'avère donc, de manière écrasante, que le FBI a enterré l'histoire de l'ordinateur portable de Hunter #Biden avant les élections, sachant que 🔽
s'ils ne l'avaient pas fait, Trump aurait facilement remporté l'élection présidentielle de 2020."

Mai départ, le 45e président des États-Unis a qualifié cette manœuvre du FBI de "fraude" sans précédent dans l'histoire de l'Amérique.

Il a exigé d'être déclaré vainqueur 🔽
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Jepp, Sheryl #Sandberg tritt nach 14 Jahren als Kopf von #Facebook/#Meta zurück. Mal abgesehen davon, was sie danach so vor hat und wie ihr Verhältnis zu #Zuckerberg so ist, sollte man auch immer im Hinterkopf behalten, aus welcher Familie sie stammt.

Die war nämlich den 1/
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Leuten sehr nahe, die unter anderem #Netanjahu hervorgebracht haben. Ohne den weder das Phänomen #Trump, noch #CambridgeAnalytica/#Brexit noch irgendetwas in der Form der #GOP/#GPQ möglich gewesen wäre.

Netanjahu war und ist, wie ich nicht müde werde zu betonen, ein enger
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Freund der Familie von Jared #Kushner, der eine beispiellos fragwürde Karriere im Weißen Haus hingelegt hat. Karriere im Sinne von: Bekommt keine Sicherheitsfreigabe, erhält aber trotzdem Zugang zu Geheimnissen aller Art, macht magischerweise völlig zufällig Milliardendeals
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30.07 > #Métavers - Quand #Zuckerberg rêve d’un monde 100% #Facebook bit.ly/3ARWixO via @USBEKetRICA #LaMethSci
.@Alex_BOUCH3T > l'une des 1ères traces du #metavers : le roman Snowcrash, qui dépeint déjà l'idée d'un monde virtuel dans lequel les citoyens peuvent vivre des expériences. Puis le film Ready Player One, qui s'inspire de Player One d'Ernest Cline #LaMethSci
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‼️#Facebook programmed its algorithm that decides what people see in their news feeds to push content likely to make them ANGRY, treating ANGRY emoji reactions 5x more valuable than “likes.”

Anger kept users more engaged, making #Facebook more money.🤬

washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
#Facebook’s researchers warned that favoring “controversial” posts—including those making users angry—could open “the door to more spam/abuse/clickbait.”

2 yrs later, posts that sparked ANGRY reaction emoji were more likely to have disinformation, toxicity and low-quality news🙄
“Anger and hate is the easiest way to grow on #Facebook,” testified whistleblower @FrancesHaugen to British Parliament.
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🔥FACEBOOK🔥

Internal documents show that #Facebook tracked real-world harms exacerbated by its platforms, ignored warnings from employees about risks of their decisions & exposed vulnerable communities around the world to a cocktail of dangerous content.
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
‼️Mark #Zuckerberg testified *under oath* to Congress in 2020 that #Facebook removes 94% of the hate speech it finds before a human reports it.

Zuck LIED.

In internal documents, researchers estimated that Facebook was removing <5% of all hate speech.🤬

#DeleteFacebook
▶️A personal decision by Zuckerberg led to a crackdown on dissent in #Vietnam
▶️Measures to suppress hateful content are lifted after the 2020 US presidential election, allowing pro-Trump groups falsely disputing the legitimacy of the election to experience “meteoric” growth.
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🚨Internal #Facebook documents show that posts—including by Trump—fueled the #January6thInsurrection. User reports of “false news” hit ~40,000 per hour.

On Instagram, the account reported most often for inciting violence was @realdonaldtrump.🤬

washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
One FB employee fumed, “This is not a new problem. We have been watching this behavior from politicians like Trump, and the—at best—wishy washy actions of company leadership, for years now….”
“… We have been reading the [farewell] posts from trusted, experienced and loved colleagues who write that they simply cannot conscience working for a company that does not do more to mitigate the negative effects on its platform.”💥

EXACTLY.

#DeleteFacebook
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24/. It may be tempting to frame this as “a battle btw democracies & autocracies” BUT the problem of malign surveillance is inseparable from the wider assaults on our privacy that are intrinsic to our daily online life.
#Pegasus #PegasusProject @NewYorker
newyorker.com/magazine/2021/… ImageImageImageImage
25/. “My work to expose the crimes of the Saudi regime led to a hacking attempt on my phone. Today, I am overwhelmed by feelings of vulnerability & intrusion.”

Analyst @MadawiDr, on how #PegasusProject findings have affected her. #Pegasus @declassifiedUK
middleeasteye.net/opinion/pegasu…
26/. Alarmed by #PegasusProject revelations that #Pegasus has been used to facilitate worldwide human rights violations on a mass scale, 146 NGOs call on states to implement an immediate moratorium on the sale, transfer & use of surveillance technology
amnesty.org/en/documents/d… Image
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1/. Gross press freedom violations revealed by #PegasusProject can’t be met with impunity

Govts & agencies who’ve spied on journalists must provide answers on this misuse of NSO technology #Pegasus #PegasusSnoopgate @amnesty @globalfreemedia @pressfreedom forbiddenstories.org/pegasus-the-ne…
2/. Journalists, MPs & human rights activists were selected as targets for surveillance by authoritarian regimes

#Pegasus is the spyware developed, marketed & licensed to govts around the world by the Israeli company NSO Group.
@citizenlab #PegasusProject
3/. In the months before he died & a year after his murder, people associated with Jamal Khashoggi, were selected for potential surveillance by clients of NSO

Hungary’s far-right govt is suspected of hacking phones of journalists & targeting owners
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Another "Big Tech" hearing today (noon ET) with G, TW & FB CEOs

Dems will complain that tech companies don't moderate enough content and Republicans will say they're being "censored"

Both sides will attack 230, but the real issue is the First Amendment

energycommerce.house.gov/committee-acti…
Websites have the same First Amendment rights as parade organizers, newspapers or other media to exclude speech they find objectionable, however "unfair" their decisions may be

It's just not the government's job to second-guess those content moderation decisions
Republicans used to understand this. They spent 80 years attacking Fairness Doctrine mandates for broadcasting, yet are now demanding a Fairness Doctrine of their own

Here's Rep @CathyMcMorris Rodgers firmly rejecting such nonsense in late 2019
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This thread will follow Feb 5 2021 thread [India
#FarmersProtests Goes Vogue] exploring sudden #celebrity uptake - as gov't struggled to contain #resistance.

Here we can study #GlobalCitizen & structure/mechanisms of such NGOs, financed to serve corporate/imperial interests. ImageImageImageImage
#GlobalCitizen model: nurturing of #celebrity worship as a "pop & policy" model to harvest/exploit targeted youth demographic. Via partnerships w/ #Rihanna, celebrities, influencers, athletes, - it intends to become world's "leading international voice, educator, & influencer". ImageImageImageImage
#GlobalCitizen is the Global Poverty Project, Inc.
UK: "We are a sub recipient of funding from the #Gates Foundation (via Global Poverty Project Inc)."

2019: $8,445,887.00 "To mobilize global public support for the Sustainable Development Goals" #SDGs

gatesfoundation.org/search#q/k=Glo… ImageImageImageImage
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1/ Mrktplc 1.0 vs Mrktplc 2.0

Mrktplc 1.0 focusd on dmnd sourcing, price discvry, & efficiency 2 deliver consistent exprnc 2 usrs who wr, 4 d 1st tm, using intrnt 2 buy prodcts/servcs.

$BABA, $AMZN, $MELI, $JD - wr built on this underlying idea. Mktplc 2.0 is dfrnt.

Thrd 👇 Image
2/ Mktplc 2.0 focus on monetizing individuality, creativity, community etc.
$ETSY > monetize creative skills
#medium > writers monetize blogs
#TikTok > plat4m 4 bldng persnl brnd
#udemy > teaching skills
$PDD > community

Mktplc 2.0 hs unleashed a slew of internet entrepreneurs. Image
3/ Social E-Commerce (SECM) is a manifestation of monetization of individuality.

$PDD hs bn the biggest success story, $PDD went 4m a startup to $175bn mkt cap in 5 yrs.

In 5 yrs, $PDD's user base hs reached 97% of $BABA's user base, it took $BABA 2.5 decades 2 do the same. Image
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Was passiert wenn die eigenen Fans nur aus Schwurblern und Verschwörungs-Anhängern bestehen?

Irgendwann wird man zwangsläufig auch Teil der "globalen Verschwörung".

Hier schön zu sehen am Beispiel von #AttilaHildmann.
Eine Nachricht bezeichnet ihn als "V-Mann" (verdeckter Informant), der seit 25.08.2020 aktiv wäre.

Natürlich schön belegt mit Schwurbel-Links.

Die Reaktion vom Reiskanzler ließ natürlich nicht lange auf sich warten.
"[...] erste Regel: nicht jeden scheiss auf Telegram glauben"
Kommt da etwa sowas wie eine Erkenntnis?!

"zweite Regel: NUR AH GLAUBEN!"
Ok. Doch keine Erkenntnis.

Bei Sekten sagt das Oberhaupt auch oft, dass man nur ihm glauben soll. Zufall? Wir glauben nicht.
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🔴 #EEUU 🇺🇸

El Senado realizó duras críticas a #Twitter, #Google y #Facebook en el Senado de EEUU por la moderación de contenidos durante las elecciones 🗳
Sundar Pichai (Google), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) y Jack Dorsey (Twitter) por videoconferencia, explicaron al Comité de Comercio de la Cámara alta, y se ampararon en la Sección 230 de la Ley de Decencia en las Comunicaciones, informó la @AFP.
(En la imagen, Jack Dorsey de TW)
"Mi preocupación es que estas plataformas, se convirtieron en un poderoso árbitro de la verdad y el contenido al que los usuarios pueden acceder", dijo el senador de Mississippi, el republicano Roger Wicker, que preside el comité; quien en 2013 recibió una carta con veneno.
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"Ich wünschte", sagt Silicon-Valley-Investor und Facebook-Kritiker Roger McNamee, "wir könnten die ganzen Plattformen von jetzt bis zur Amtseinsetzung des Präsidenten im Januar einfach komplett ausschalten. Weg damit für eine Weile. Weg mit dem Lärm." 👍🔥
spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/s…
"Die sozialen Medien - und das Zerrbild, das sie erzeugen - sind zur realen Gefahr für die demokratischen Prozesse und Institutionen der USA geworden. Das glauben keineswegs nur die üblichen Kritiker."
spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/s…
"Der Mann, Steven Carrillo, war kein linker Plünderer, sondern ein Rechtsterrorist, ein Anhänger der "Boogaloo"-Bewegung, die sich teilweise über Facebook organisiert hat und einen neuen amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg herbeiführen will."
spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/s…
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Two years ago Zuck told @karaswisher “I’m Jewish, and there’s a set of people who deny that the Holocaust happened. I find that deeply offensive. But at the end of the day, I don’t believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different..."
On Monday, #Zuckerberg said his thoughts on holocaust denial had changed "with rising anti-Semitism, we're expanding our policy to prohibit any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust.”
#Zuck says "I've struggled with the tension between standing for free expression and the harm caused by minimizing or denying the horror of the Holocaust.”
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Der #ORF vermeldet in d #zib2 "keine Erklärung" seitens d Behörden v #Kenosha, wieso Beamte geschossen hätten. Das #FS3 erlaubt sich d aufgeblähten "Nach-Richter" diese als Bild nachzureichen. #Journalismus wäre eigentlich ganz einfach...

#C4Q

Die angebl. "friedlichen" #AntiFa Rabauken (Neusprech: Protestierer) in #Kenosha attakierten d Mann v d "Bürgerwehr" mit d autom.Waffe, was in d #zib2 tunlichst verschwiegen wurde. "Helfer" mit einer Walther-PPK? #Journalismus ist doch gar nicht so schwer, oder?

#C4Q ImageImageImage
In slow motion erkennt man genau, dass d Schütze mit der AR in #Notwehr gegen d bewaffnetwn Angreifer d #AntiFa/#InterNazis Schergen in #Kenosha handelte. Er war bereits z Boden gerissen & wurde v diesen dummen "Zombies dennoch weiter attackiert...

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Manche Admins von #QAnon Kanälen könnten nicht einmal Satire erkennen, wenn es um ihr Leben ginge.

Hier am Beispiel einer angeblichen #Facebook News.

"Neue Facebook-AGBs: Mark #Zuckerberg hat Anrecht auf Erstgeborenen eines jeden Users." Image
"Hat wahrscheinlich kaum einer registriert. [...] Vieles ergibt jetzt einen Sinn. Das muss man sich noch einmal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Zuckerberg wollte das Anrecht jedes Erstgeborenen der FB User!"

dietagespresse.com/neue-facebook-…
Quelle ist die Satireseite @DieTagespresse.

Wenn der Admin sich die Mühe gemacht hätte mal auf "Über diese Seite" zu klicken hätte er das auch gelernt.

"Stimmt das, was in der Tagespresse steht?
Noch nicht, aber bald." Image
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Whats going on #Facebook? Why it became a platform for the fundamentalist to propagate all the proofless shit? why #FreeThinkers cant question the very authenticity of the #Quran and Hadith and how those books came about?
#MarkZuckerberg secularisminbangladesh.home.blog/to_mark_zucker… @BanglaBrit1972
It is valid to point out that such a belief system that maintains the notion of “I blindly believe and hence it must be true”, is against all forms of rational reasoning and proof.
Mr #Zuckerberg, many of our FB accounts have been deactivated including my own. pls take action
We also think FB is succumbing to requests from the govt of countries like Bangladesh to muzzle our voice.Many atheists, #exmuslims,writers, bloggers, leaders of non-Muslim, #LGBT rights activists have been killed in #Bangladesh by #Islamic terrorists, all in the name of #Islam
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