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1/8/2025

@naomibrockwell
“Privacy is the foundation of dignity and freedom—it’s about your right to choose what stays private and what gets shared. No one else should get to decide that for you.”

Weld Pond | Chris Wysopal @WeldPond
Isn’t our telecom system being owned by state actors a bigger national security risk than Panama and Greenland right now? I’m interested in hearing how we are going to secure basic comms.

Hundreds of police license plate cameras are misconfigured to stream to the open internet
A privacy researcher took these streams and turned them into a real-time database that tracks car movements & information, highlighting how invasive this tech is Researcher Turns Insecure License Plate Cameras Into Open Source Surveillance Tool

Video The Justice Department of suing six of the nation’s largest landlords for illegally raising rents on over one million people using algorithmic pricing. The DOJ and multiple states added these landlords to their suit against RealPage, the rental software company.
RealPage has denied the allegations. Greystar Real Estate Partners, Blackstone’s LivCor, Camden Property Trust, Pinnacle Property Management Services and Willow Bridge Property Co. were also named in the lawsuit. Cortland Management has agreed to settle the claims, the DOJ said.

“Science paper piracy site Sci-Hub shares lots of retracted papers”–“The availability of [unlabeled retracted articles] in the field of #health sciences is particularly high”:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/01/science-paper-piracy-site-sci-hub-shares-lots-of-retracted-papers/

Hackers claim massive breach of location data giant, threaten to leak data Gravy Analytics has been one of the most important companies in the location data industry for years, selling data to the U.S. government. Gravy gives data to Venntel, which sells it to U.S. government (FBI, DHS, etc). Data includes customer lists, and even peoples’ location data.

Why pay the CEO 33 million dollars when AI is developing so quickly it’ll be able to their job soon!!!

165 million working people pay into Social Security all year long.
But the ultra-wealthy get to stop after they’ve made $176,100.
That’s $388 BILLION Social Security is missing out on.
Want to protect Social Security?
Don’t raise the retirement age. Scrap the damn cap.

Lina Khan @linakhanFTC
The @FTC took action against three oil producers for engaging in illegal pre-merger coordination.
This unlawful activity contributed to a crude oil supply shortage at a time when Americans were already paying skyrocketing prices at the pump.

@RBReich
Los Angeles received just 0.16 inches of rain since May 2024, the second-driest period on record. Wildfires are now engulfing the city in January.
But some politicians still claim the climate crisis is a “hoax” as they do the bidding of Big Oil. What planet are they living on?
– The irony of James Woods, known for his skepticism about climate change, losing his home to the very wildfires linked to climate change impacts in California, is striking.

THREAD @RoKhanna Due to an unforced error by Democrats, we lost the National Labor Relations Board majority two years earlier than expected. This is a huge setback for the hundreds of thousands of workers across this country organizing for a better contract.
-> @davidsirota This entire thread is a microcosm of why so many people loathe the current iteration of the Democratic Party and see it as a sham organization that believes in absolutely nothing other than the preservation of its leaders and the protection of its donors.

President Joe Biden has “absolute immunity” for “official acts.”

The 11th Circuit can overrule Judge Cannon–or President Biden could release the report. It is a national security matter that the IC and Defense should be aware of, at the very least. Trump is sure in a panic about hiding it.

Dear President Biden: You have “immunity” for “official acts.” Releasing Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report would be an “official act.” Time to play some hardball on your way out, Mr. President.
xoxo
We the People

trump urges Garland to BLOCK release of Jack Smith’s final report

Donald Trump and his lawyers are trying to block the release of Jack Smith’s report on the mishandling of classified documents. That a lowly Trump-appointed judge could hide Trump’s corruption because she is corrupt and has been covering for him since Day One is infuriating.

JACK SMITH
Page 15 Trump tells family members he will stay in power no matter what.

Jack Smith Immunity Filing Raw
Jack Smith Case 1:23-cr-00257-TSC Document 252 Filed 10/02/24 Page 1 of 165
GOVERNMENT’S MOTION FOR IMMUNITY DETERMINATIONS

Unpaid medical bills will no longer appear on credit reports, where they can block people from getting mortgages, car loans or small business loans, according to a final rule announced by the Biden WH. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule will remove $49 billion in medical debt from the credit reports of more than 15 million Americans, raising the credit scores by ~20 points and could lead to 22,000 additional mortgages being approved every year.

ONE THING WE CAN ALL COUNT ON IS EVENTUALLY THEY WILL DIE
jean-Marie Le Pen, the Holocaust denier who brought Nazism back into French politics, is dead at 96.

Trump just announced that he will place massive tariffs on Denmark if they don’t immediately relinquish all control of Greenland. “We need Greenland for national security purposes.”
***Several MAGA fans who flew to Greenland to try and start an American colony they intend to call “Trumpland” have been detained at the airport for being sex offenders.

Since we are re-naming things, I say we rename Palm Beach, FL to Pedo Beach, FL.

NEW: Trump files 502-page revised Article 78 Petition and Memo of Law in First Department, in advance of argument today.

Donald Trump just announced a massive new deal with a man connected to a $600,000 payment to the FBI informant convicted of lying to the FBI about Hunter Biden’s business decisions.

The nomination of Kash Patel to head the FBI is evidence that Trump values personal loyalty to the rule of law. We’re suing for records that could shed light on whether Patel was involved in efforts to politicize a federal intelligence agency.

EU FATF’s Travel Rule, designed to combat financial crime, requires financial institutions to share customer information and is now being applied to Bitcoin transactions, raising concerns about privacy breaches, per Forbes.
EU seems to have the perfect record of getting EVERYTHING wrong.
Offshore property is likely where our embezzled public funds are. Corruption doesn’t stay hidden forever. DUBAI

Why is Zuckerberg kissing Trump’s ring?
Perhaps it’s because of the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta.
Follow the money.

Meta just lost dismissal motion of FTC lawsuit to break it up -FTC also has show cause to ban Meta from collecting minors’ data -Zuckerberg is personally named in massive Delaware suit –last week SCOTUS rejected Meta’s appeal for Cambridge cover-up.

Meta is a public company. This time next year their user numbers will tell us exactly what consumers think.

Facebook is deleting internal employee criticism of its new board hire UFC president and CEO Dana White. Facebook also deleting internal employee posts asking why the first ones deleted.

Zuck Wore $1M Watch To Unveil End To Fact-Checking

Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World’s First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking.
“At press time, Zuckerberg had reportedly died after a longtime battle with werewolf gonorrhea.”
Zuckerberg said on Fox News that he loves his rat penis because it’s much bigger than his original one. Many people are saying he has the best rat penis. Very charming they say.
“For ten years I worked tirelessly to moderate content, but now it’s simply not my responsibility to verify if Mark Zuckerberg is sexually intimate with a haunted porcelain doll that bears a striking resemblance to himself,” said Gutierrez.”

“#Meta rolled out a number of changes to its ‘Hateful Conduct’ policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward #contentmoderation” Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’ Mark Zuckerberg was wearing a nearly $1,000,000. dollar watch in his community notes announcement video.

Zuckerberg wears $900,000 watch to announce end of Meta fact checks | Toronto Sun
In what looks almost like a hostage video, Zuckerberg bends the knee to Trump entirely — doing away with Facebook fact-checkers and moving the process to Texas under the guise of protecting free expression. “We’re gonna get rid of fact-checkers…” Nothing says I understand the culture shift of the community more than a watch that costs more than most people’s houses. Trump, Bezos, and Musk want to know where they too also acquire one of those swinging rat penises, cause Bezos wants to send another Dick Pic to someone special.

@tedlieu
Twitter got rid of content moderation and what happened?
Revenues declined but stupid tweets by your cousin’s friend about stopping the polio vaccine increased. I expect any platform that gets rid of content moderation will also see more disinformation, and a decline in revenues.

@SethAbramson Bezos is paying the Trumps $40 million to make a documentary on Melania that no one asked for or wants and is certain to obscure any interesting fact—like her initial immigration status, whether her marriage is a sham, Trump’s affairs—a viewer might want.
Seems like… Bribery?

BITCOIN VS CHOKEPOINT 1.0 – 2.0

Michael Barr stepped down as Fed vice chair because he was about to become the first Fed officer fired by a US President for cause (malfeasance), because Barr was the Fed’s “debanker-in-chief.”

If Warrens propagandist lackey “Better Markets” is against it, you know it’s a good thing! The opposite of bad, arbitrary and anti-innovation regulation is not “anti-regulation”…it’s smart regulation that doesn’t seek to protect Big Bank incumbents. Good riddance Barr!

Others were frustrated by the decision. Dennis Kelleher, head of the advocacy group Better Markets, said Monday would go down as a “dark day in the history of the Fed,” arguing in a lengthy written statement that Barr’s decision would effectively hand control of the central bank’s oversight functions to “deregulation zealots.”
Like others, Kelleher also pointed to the Fed Board’s commitment not to take on major rulemakings until a new vice chair for supervision has been named, as a sign that the institution was acquiescing to the political whims of the incoming administration.
“Facilitating that — while destroying the independence of the vice chair position and gutting a key post-2008 crash reform — is an abdication of responsibility proved by the Fed’s simultaneous statement that it ‘does not intend to take up any major rulemakings until a vice chair for supervision successor is confirmed,'” Kelleher wrote. “The entire mission and mandate
of the vice chair for supervision will now likely be a dead letter as a deregulator will undoubtedly be installed in that position.”

@CFTCbehnam Announces Departure from CFTC:

BULLISH: KULR Technology predicts $200K #Bitcoin in 2025 after buying $21M $BTC at $97K, citing adoption of $BTC reserves by nations as a key catalyst.

“Bitcoin is too volatile.”
Perhaps the volatility is from growth?
Considering your first heard about bitcoin at $1,000, almost bought some at $10,000, and now it’s at $100,000.

You watched #Bitcoin crash from $69K -> $15K and kept stacking.
You ignored sarcastic remarks and sideways glances from family and friends.
You watched as Bitcoin fell through the previous all time high for the first time as the crypto ponzis imploded.
It had never been so over.
In that moment everyone doubted you, but you knew what you owned.
You trusted your own logic and decision making.
And now you get to reap the rewards.
Remember this as we edge towards price discovery.
If you hodled, you didn’t get lucky.
You demonstrated sound decision making, courage, and conviction.
And you did it in the face of pressure that would have caused most people to fold like a cheap lawn chair at a sumo convention.
Bitcoin tested you.
And you proved that your hands, spirit, and mind are strong enough to deserve what’s coming your way.
Stay strong and enjoy.

Superintelligent AI’s max-bidding Bitcoin isn’t priced in.

Video Comedian Chris Farley, who often portrayed Speaker Newt Gingrich on “Saturday Night Live”, paid a surprise visit to the House Republican Conference & did an impersonation of the speaker for Congress in 1995

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