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Governments are not going to save you from corporations.

Corporations are not going to liberate you from government interference.

Opinion | Welcome to the United States of ‘Idiocracy’

This toxic idiocy is getting people killed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/30/welcome-united-states-idiocracy/

Tor Browser 9.5.1 released, fixes several security vulnerabilities:

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-951

– Based on FF 68.10.0esr.
– Updates for NoScript (11.0.32).
– Includes several bug fixes.

#tor #torbrowser #webbrowser #anonymity #privacy

Tails 4.8 is out: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.8/

It disables the Unsafe Browser by default, adds a beta feature of the Persistent Storage to save the settings from the Welcome Screen, and more.

Some users have received a message from Google that announces that the /e/ mail app will soon be prevented to use Gmail accounts. Please read more about it and how to fix at:
https://community.e.foundation/t/e-os-mail-application-and-gmail/18390

#degoogled #android #privacy

France bans Dutch bike TV ad for creating 'climate of fear' - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jul/01/france-bans-dutch-bike-tv-ad-for-creating-climate-of-fear pathetic

#China’s Software Stalked Uighurs Earlier and More Widely, Researchers Learn - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/technology/china-uighurs-hackers-malware-hackers-smartphones.html first tibetans, now uyghurs, next hong kongers... #surveillance

Renew Economy: Australia’s luxury car tax threshold quietly lifted for electric vehicles https://reneweconomy.com.au/?p=149063 #Australian #Federal #Government #Electric #Vehicles #Governments

So apparently #parler is not as unbiased and censorship-free as advertised.

Thanks to @shebang for this!

Om-nom-nom! 🐝 🌺

#photography #nature #bees #bumblebees
#FujifilmXT2 #FujinonXF90mm
(photo: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

For comparison, about 2000 *fewer* people attended the Trump rally in Tulsa tonight than attend your average Tulsa Oilers minor league hockey game, in an arena roughly the size of the Rose Garden Arena in Portland.

"For decentralized applications to reach their full potential, there needs to be much more collective strategizing, coalition building, and community organizing – not just around the particular technologies, but around the overarching mission and values of the movement towards decentralization. Given the economic threat that decentralization poses to existing power structures, we can expect more measures – legal or political – to be put in place as decentralized technologies grow in popularity. Yet many projects are focused on their products and not on this wider concern."

https://decentpatterns.xyz/report

Refreshed the data in our #covid19 tool for comparing countries/regions on the development.
Example: eight states in trouble in the USA
https://datagraver.com/corona/#/?regions=alabama:hexB28EA1,arizona:hexD41C2D,arkansas:hex12C9AC,florida:hex662D2E,louisiana:hexB5A9F4,north%20carolina:hexD62385,south%20carolina:hex356251,utah:hexCE9615&logScale=false&perCapita=true&cutYaxis=true&cumulative=false&types=1,2,3&mappingType=date&mappingMaxDays=120&mappingStartNumber=100&mappingNumberStyle=absolute&mappingEventType=lockdown&mappingDate=2020-4-12&smoothening=undefined&description=Tool%20for%20comparison%20on%20Covid%2019%20development%20for%20countries%20and%20regions

[ https://tweets.newsbots.eu/Datagraver/status/1272620627262877699 — #bot]