#Palantir

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The "lawful interception" industry is a hive of scum and villainy: these are powerful, wildly profitable companies who search out defects in widely used software, then weaponize them and sell

Sasha Costanza-Chock

schock

The users we need to prioritize, from a design perspective, in contact tracing #CovTech are 1. contact tracers, and 2. people who are being contacted. What do contact tracing teams

Bhaskar Sarma

bhas

What happens when #LOTR characters land on a badly optimized ecommerce site: a story told through GIFs.Thread (with an ice and fire twist at the end): They land on the

John West 🕯

JohnWest_JAWS

Another thread - indulge me.On both sides of the Atlantic, an effective Right Wing coup has taken place.Against expectations - and with probable criminal activity in both, Leave won the

Jacob 'Means-Tested' Metcalf

undersequoias

Contact tracing via mobile location data is having a moment rn, but it seems entirely beside the point even if it is rigorously privacy-preserving. It smells like tech solutionism to

Shortsighted Capital

ShortSightedCap

Did not realize the AckSPAC would be filing its S-1 yesterday:https://twitter.com/ShortSightedCap/status/1275063963831721984?s=20 It turns out the one thing I thought was known (the $1b size) was wrong. It's a $3b SPAC,

blmohr

blmohr

16/ Milner runs Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment firm that’s invested billions of dollars in U.S. startups like Zynga,… 17/ …Groupon, Twitter, Airbnb, Slack, Flexport, Wish and Boxed.http://bit.ly/2iDUMgp 18/

Kevin Gosztola

kgosztola

President-elect Joe Biden announced his first batch of appointments. As I've done throughout #BidenTransition, here's a thread on the national security elites and corporate consultants named to his administration. Tony

Christine Neale 🔶 #FBPE

ChrisJDawson

Long Threadbut worthwhile:Remember John Bercow, former speaker in the House of Commons: “Or-der, Orr-derrr” This is from him...------------------- I hope the Prime Minister is enjoying a well deserved rest so

Olivier Tesquet

oliviertesquet

Tandis que le @Conseil_Etat doit déterminer si la France a le droit de conserver l'ensemble de nos données de connexion, le prochain projet de loi renseignement donne encore un peu

Matthew Grave-Warden

thetowerofstars

It’s time for another #TalkingTolkien.I love me some tragedy in my epic tales. That sense that but for the alignment of fate and personality, things could have been – if

Russ Jones

RussInCheshire

#TheWeekInTory 1. The govt launched a “Fix your bike” voucher website2. It broke in less than an hour3. The govt said we should all lose weight 4. The govt is

Phil Booth

EinsteinsAttic

Da fuck?!https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/david-cameron-lobbied-no-10-and-hancock-for-greensill-nht3x2c5z@MattHancock, Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of @NHSEngland, and @didoharding, Chair of #NHSImprovement (now merged with #NHSE) in #c

Gareth Hanrahan

mytholder

All right, here's thread #3, as we go through THE WAR OF THE RING, the next volume of the HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH The War of the Ring, by the way,

Alex Garcia 🔍

alexgarcia_atx

Ever heard of the PayPal Mafia?It's a team of former PayPal employees so prolific that Business Insider labeled them "The Richest Group Of Men In Silicon Valley."After leaving PayPal, many

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IlluminateDark8

Switzerland and the DEEPSTATE HQ.[NEW THREAD]These are the ten reasons why Switzerland became the Deep State’s HQ; 1. Switzerland is located in central Europe.2. It is the only neutral nation