Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Repost of my Mastodon #introductions from November 2022 [moved to new instance]

My name is Paul, and I'm a data protection lawyer from the Hague, the Netherlands. I talk a lot about global privacy and data protection developments, my Serious Privacy podcast, (rail) travel, EU policy and politics in general. You'll see me talking both in English and Dutch, and the occasional other European language. Happy to connect! #nieuwhier

This isn’t the behaviour of a man who made a mistake, and is doing the right thing to correct it. It’s the behaviour of someone with something to hide.

Whether that's at play or not here (and I think there's a good chance it is), it is a fact that we are witnessing a massive increase in hate crimes against Asian people, thanks in large part to to this weaponization of racist conspiracy theory.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/anti-asian-hate-crimes-increased-339-percent-nationwide-last-year-repo-rcna14282

I am eternally angry that public figures like Jon Stewart were able to push this sort of racist Wuhan lab conspiracy theory narrative on hyper-mainstream platforms like Colbert's show with almost no meaningful pushback or damage to their reputations.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jon-stewart-goes-all-in-on-wuhan-lab-leak-theory

Soft snowfall on a quiet morning. #SilentSunday #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

Happy Year of the Rabbit (or Cat) to those who celebrate!

Lunar New Year occurs on the first new moon of the year and marks the beginning of Spring throughout much of Asia. Tag us to show how you are ringing in the new year.
#NASAArtemis #Artemis

@WalterShaub let's talk when it gets to 300 plus documents. ... withheld .... even after a subpoena

@JuliusGoat It’s a completely ‘American male’ world view. It’s not people doing all these mass shootings, it’s just men.

Every bad guy with a gun thinks he's a good guy with a gun.

Every massacre enacts a collective desire for them.

It's time we started viewing those who obstruct basic remedy to massacre as conscious participants in the desire for massacre.

And treating them accordingly.

U.S. Investigators Uncovered Alleged Corruption by Mexico’s Former Security Minister Years Before He Was Indicted
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In what may prove to be one of the more remarkable intelligence failures of the drug war, the U.S. missed warnings that Genaro García Luna, the chief architect of Mexico’s fight against organized crime, could be in league with the criminals.

#DEA #mexico #SinaloaCartel #drugs #bribery

https://www.propublica.org/article/genaro-garcia-luna-bribery-trial-dea-mexico-cartel?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social

Not my essay but a warning: Unless the US develops the stomach for a long-overdue reckoning with the white supremacist Christian theocracy that has been unabashed in its destruction of #RoevWade, abortion rights will not be the only rights it destroyed. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/20/politics/march-for-life-2023-abortion/index.html

Additionally: Our fascism problem and our militarized authoritarian police problem and our gun massacre domestic terror problem are increasingly the same problem.

It's empowered and emboldened white supremacy.

It's time we recognize participation for what it is.

Google likes to claim it loves the web. Google fucking broke the web.

Cookie notices on every fucking website? They need those because they use Google Analytics or Google Ads.

Recipe sites that go on for fucking days? That’s because Google penalises websites when you leave too quickly, and they can’t show as many ads.

Obviously-bullshit machine-generated “content” designed to entice you to click ads? That’s because Google Search is a monopoly.

I’m so tired of Google.

Black Americans facing hardship are less likely than whites to have relatives with socioeconomic resources to draw on, exacerbating disadvantage.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31354178

#NICHDImpact #Race #Disadvantage #Economics #SES

It's a sad start to a Sunday morning. How backward America is when we have the ability to be so progressive and accomplish so much. My heart bleeds for the sheer stupidity of a gun toting, ego-based country that allows it's citizens to own assault rifles & guns meant for war.

'... Javid’s sole aim in doing this is to pave the way for NHS privatisation, and his scheme raises insignificant money.

We need a debate on NHS funding but crass ideas from Sajid Javid and his like on NHS charging need to be dismissed out of hand when vastly better options from taxing the best off more fairly or from borrowing are available.'

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/01/21/as-my-new-report-on-nhs-funding-shows-sajid-javid-is-wrong-we-do-not-need-to-charge-people-to-use-the-nhs-we-just-need-to-tax-more-fairly/

#Ukraine celebrates its Day of Unity 💙💛