Kaiser will charge you a monthly premium even if it takes multiple months to see a provider. What if HBO said you can watch Heated Rivalry in July, but only if you pay for April, May and June?

You'll be shocked to learn that Trump has no taste www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots Employees at some companies with defense contracts feel betrayed.

“When I joined the tech industry, I thought tech was about making people’s lives easier,” an Amazon Web Services employee told The Verge, “but now it seems like it’s all about making it easier to surveil and deport and kill people.”

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Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data Microsoft complied with a warrant to hand over BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI, and privacy advocates are worried.

I wouldn't expect tech companies bending over backwards (and forwards?) for the administration to worry about their users' privacy/safety/security

The Trump Administration wants your DNA and social media Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP).

Trump admin wants to force visitors to the US to install spyware on their phones www.privacyinternational.org/news-analysi...

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

How confident are you that this is going to stop at immigration? www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store ICEBlock reportedly has 1.1 million users.

Apple caves to authoritarianism (again) www.theverge.com/news/791170/...

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

3. Follow the Guardian for truly independent news
www.theguardian.com/us

The Guardian is not based in the US. More importantly, they're financially independent, with a massive endowment that enables them to do good reporting without worrying about advertisers or FCC licenses.

2. Get an encrypted Proton mail account
proton.me/mail

Proton is based in Switzerland and protected by privacy laws. All of their stuff is encrypted by default. It's not even conspiratorial to say Google scans your emails -- it's the stated business model.

1. Get Signal for texts and video calls
signal.org/download/

Apple Messages and WhatsApp claim to be encrypted, but at minimum they have your metadata (they know who you talked to and when). Apple's behavior in China and with Trump shows how it caves to authoritarianism and Meta ...is Meta.

Information is important. Most Americans communicate through platforms owned by people who either fear or support Trump.

3 ways to protect yourself now, and in the future:

Apple TV Plus has quietly pulled its new show about domestic extremism The show’s release bas been put on hold for the indefinite future.

Apple pulls a show about domestic terrori-- sorry, Trump suppor-- sorry, patriots. www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

Trump escalates crackdown by designating ‘Antifa’ a domestic terror group It claims ‘Antifa’ is a ‘militarist, anarchist enterprise’

Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the ANTIFA party?

www.theverge.com/news/783158/...

The right wing is creating a society of snitches The Republican Party is making a foray into digital McCarthyism

Truly disturbing
www.theverge.com/policy/77897...

Worth reading the whole post

Valerie Zink For the past eight years I have worked as a stringer for Reuters news agency. My photos covering stories in the prairie provinces have been published by the New York Times, Al Jazeera, and other...

Photojournalist Valerie Zink on resigning from Reuters: "Western media outlets have made possible the killing of more journalists in two years on one tiny strip of land than in WWI, WWII, and the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine combined" www.facebook.com/valerie.zink...

Lawyers call for inquiry after immigration agents fired at truck in San Bernardino Lawyers released surveillance video that they say disputes claims that the truck driver hit and injured federal immigration agents.

They're shooting now www.latimes.com/california/s...

The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S. ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...

NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.

Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.

AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

The threats, intimidation, and extortion are the whole point. Control judges, media, academia. It's an old playbook and anyone viewing this presidency as a normal swing of the pendulum is either not paying attention or lying to themselves.

But will he return to espn as a commentator on first take?

Dudes from the MNBA.

I don’t believe you ever not had diarrhea

They really put that one loser friend from college who won’t stop posting about unpasteurized milk in charge of the nation’s health.

Is that your burner?

Trump signs order making it easier to remove homeless people from streets — CBS News President Trump signed an executive order making it easier for cities and states to remove homeless people from the streets and get them treatment elsewhere.

Trump forcibly institutionalizing people he deems mentally ill. What could go wrong?

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I think a $500 fine is another indication that WNBA players ought to be paid more