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https://youtu.be/G4zrA8Knnk8?si=quXgu8EvBbdfHHcg Brian talks about how Musk is talking rubbish as nobody can access GPS data at scale. Not only is Brian wrong, I remember a university showed that they could identify the home address of a senior pentagon official by correlating public device location data. They took the data and pattern matched finding that one device from a home went to the pentagon and the other to a university where the wife worked. I can’t find that article but there are a number of others. https://www.wired.com/story/phone-data-us-soldiers-spies-nuclear-germany/ The biggest concern is that it is likely that everyone who is going to these rallies are being monitored and on a “watch list”. It’s scary to think that based on freely available information that doesn’t require warrants and other legal due process, you could be identified. The possibilities of abuse are sobering. A couple that come to mind. Being individually targeted for IRS or other increased scrutiny, being doxxed, if in a high density of “protestors” possibly having your neighbourhood funding and services targeted, targeted political ads. Maybe the price of Facebook and our smart phones is higher than we realised.

Hi Nigel, Elon needs to get with the modern world; he can work from home in South Africa. Jerry Baumchen

Are you calling me young and vibrant? I’m liking SC more every day! First Joe tells me “I need more time in the pickle barrel “ because I’m young and dumb , now this :)

Perfect encapsulation of the new Right. There is not a single governing principle they will not sell down the river in the blink of an eye in exchange for more power.

FOX News take: This leak is a very good thing overall, because "after years of secrecy and incompetence, if you read the content of these messages, I think you will come away proud that these are the leaders making these decisions in America." Nothing says "competence" like sending top secret war plans to random people.

What worries me about this is two things. First, Jeffery Goldberg was responsible and honest enough to 1) not reveal all the leaked plans (since that would be a national security problem) and 2) inform both the government and the public that it happened. How many times have top secret plans been leaked in this manner to someone who either forwards them to friends ("hey, look what I got!") or worse yet, sells them to China/Russia/Saudi Arabia? Because you know this isn't the first time it's happened. Second, adding journalists to a chat was done without a second thought, almost as if they had done this before. How much top secret government information has been going out to FOX News, Breitbart, OAN etc?

I need to reread it along with Animal Farm

And think Orwell wrote "1984" in 1948. Prescient!

I learned recently there was an army air corps officer named Dan Cooper on Howland Island awaiting Amelia Earhart’s arrival. I remember there being a lot of speculation about the Dan cooper comic book character as inspiration of the name being an important clue. But I don’t remember ever hearing this Amelia Earhart connection being a possible clue.