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Oculus: "We're going to be requiring you to have a Facebook account to use our stuff."
Germany: "Ahem."
Oculus: "We are *entirely voluntarily* halting sales in Germany..."

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/09/facebook-halts-oculus-quest-sales-in-germany-amid-privacy-concerns/

Brexiters "don’t just want what they can’t have, but they want what they don’t want". https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2020/09/back-to-school.html

Sublime from Professor Chris Grey, as always 👏👨‍🏫🇪🇺

#Brexit

Big Tech Extortion Racket: How Google, Amazon, and Facebook Control Our Lives

These companies are the most powerful middlemen in history. Each guards the gate to innumerable sources of essential information, services, and products. Yet thus far no governmental entity in the United States has signaled any intention of limiting the license these corporations enjoy to serve only the customers they choose to, at whatever price they decide.

https://harpers.org/archive/2020/09/the-big-tech-extortion-racket/

#monopoly #google #facebook #amazon #apple #microsoft #antitrust #BarryCLynn

This is despicable:

"White US professor admits she has pretended to be Black for years

"Jessica Krug, an activist who teaches African American history, writes Medium post apologizing for false identity..."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/03/jessica-krug-white-professor-pretended-black

Dear Americans,

Over the next two months, you will be assaulted by a next level, non-stop barrage of divisive media propaganda - to pit you against each other, get you emotionally jacked up, fearing for your life, and encouraging you to hate 'the other side'.

Don't fall for it. https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1301787508217393154 #Zuby #Propaganda

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New Tapes Show Salon Owner Luring In Unsuspecting Pelosi With Her Favorite Ice Cream https://buff.ly/3h09KFU https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1301628361727451141 #Comedy #Pelosi

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Progress

fun fact about the middle ages: no cow milk, lots of almond milk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_cuisine

> 75th anniversary of Japan's Surrender, here's a pic reminding us that Canada signed in the wrong place, forcing all subsequent signers to do likewise.

https://twitter.com/smsaideman/status/1301159688646647810

this is your occasional reminder that "overpopulation" is a racist white myth

Looks like writing whiny plaintive letters to a Big Tech executive is the thing to do today. If the business is indeed interfering with the democratic process and the employees abusing elected leaders, how does writing to CEO help? Why not just ban the app family?

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind.
-- Peter Kropotkin

#anarchism #quote #bot

To consider mankind otherwise than brethren, to think favors are peculiar to one nation and exclude others, plainly supposes a darkness in the understanding.
-- John Woolman

#anarchism #quote #bot

#Arctic #wildfires emit 35% more #CO2 so far in #2020 than for whole of #2019 | World news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/31/arctic-wildfires-emit-35-more-co2-so-far-in-2020-than-for-whole-of-2019

#Environment #Tundra #GreenhouseGases #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming