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@jwz seems like the main site is always the last to get the changes?

how is it that am seeing quoted posts from the Bluesky bridge but not MastodonSocial posts?

and lest we forget, Apple’s Chief Executive Officer, Tim Cook, has become the face of the #techbro fascist supplicant during this second Trump coup:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/115175766706618302

the darling of the #infosec community, the past 9 months are filled with far too much evidence that #Apple is a safety and security risk for all, especially the low-to-zero tech skills consumers it attracts with their closed and “trust me bro” hardware & software ecosystem.

it’s time to look at Apple with critical eyes. /🧵

here is a VICE Mag article on #FISA from 2017, featuring Marci Wheeler ―aka @emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social ― whom i consider the pre-eminent expert on everything #FISA and surveillance under USA law

❝ The NSA's 12-Year Struggle to Follow the Law - https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-nsas-12-year-struggle-to-follow-the-law/

notice this article came out during Cheetolini’s first coup; exactly because his fascist handlers were dismantling the safeguards for unfettered wiretapping that were put in place under the Obama admin …🧵

here is the standard intro to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act put together by the US Congress:

❝ Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) | Congress.gov | Library of Congress - https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF11451

here is the Wikipedia page with a general timeline of changes and controversies involving #FISA

❝ Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act

here is the #ACLU American Civil Liberties Union

❝ Fix FISA - End Warrantless Wiretapping https://www.aclu.org/documents/fix-fisa-end-warrantless-wiretapping …🧵

❝ Live Translation with AirPods is not going to be available in the EU.❞
https://mastodon.social/@mysk/115185815044652443

GOOD!

and everybody else, especially Americans, should NOT use it either.

Apple will have to warehouse your conversations and make them available to the United States government thanks to the infamous #FISA aka Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

it is criminal for #Apple #iOs #tech “journalists” to not question how this wouldn’t be more stalkerware available to #USgov to give to #ICE …🧵

BTW
there is no reason you shouldn’t have full access to your #computers. there is also no reason whatsoever you shouldn’t install software you’ve developed or is developed by sources you vetted and trust.

this is a post about the (micro)computers in your pockets and purses that are marketed under the moniker of “smart phone”.

don’t matter if it’s an #iOS #iPhone or an #Android #Pixel: they’re #microcomputers.

we should have full access to and use of their hardware & operating systems.

if you’ve been living under a rock these past few months before today’s #AppleEvent here’s two links as a quick refresher on Tim Cook’s latest fascist bootlicking asshattery:

Apple CEO Tim Cook bends the knee to Donald Trump https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-ceo-tim-cook-bends-173140460.html

Tim Cook says ‘thank you’ 8 times in less than two minutes at dinner with Donald Trump https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India/tim-cook-says-thank-you-8-times-in-less-than-two-minutes-at-dinner-with-donald-trump-he-was-super-nervous/ar-AA1LZ4X5

FWIW : if you’re a minority targeted by fascists, Apple’s closed ecosystem is now a hostage situation with Cook’s allegiance to Trump

SCREAM IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS!

❝…the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave.❞

I Am An AI Hater | moser’s frame shop - https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

#fascism #techbros #ai #slavery

@tess yup. it’s amazing how big of a sellout were white Gen Xers and some of their Black peers when you look at the movies produced (and are still being produced) with our Hollywood cohorts. it’s very icky. it’s why i have very little political affinity with the people of my generation. the yuppie and buppie scum won.

AUGUST 2024: Gallant revealed Netanyahu's didn't want a hostage deal. in an earlier article i read, it said Gallant had come out of retirement because he saw himself as the stop gap between Netanyahu & genocide.

"Netanyahu’s talk of “total victory” over Hamas is “nonsense,” Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said during a classified meeting with the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee… Gallant’s comment came as part of his argument in favor of a hostage deal. "

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-814414

FROM MAY 2024: this is the biggest thorn between Gallant & Netanyahu: Israel's complete colonial expansion. remember that Netanyahu is complicit in the murder of Yitzak Rabin, the prime minister who signed the Oslo Accord

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Gallant to Netanyahu: You must publicly reject Israeli civil or military governance of Gaza after Hamas; I won't allow it | The Times of Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/gallant-to-netanyahu-you-must-publicly-reject-israeli-civil-or-military-governance-of-gaza-after-hamas-i-wont-allow-it/

Gallant Is Fourth Defense Minister to Be Fired or Resign Over Disputes With Netanyahu - Israel News - Haaretz.com

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-11-06/ty-article/.premium/gallant-is-fourth-defense-minister-to-be-fired-or-resign-over-disputes-with-netanyahu/00000192-ff85-d2ff-af9f-ffa746ad0000

"This affair attests to the complete chaos in the most important place in the country, against the backdrop of the longest and most complex war in Israel's history. This is what a dictatorship looks like, so on Tuesday night, the demonstration on Tel Aviv's Kaplan Street and elsewhere around the country quickly doubled in size, at least."

"The Terrifying Reason Netanyahu Fired His Defense Minister, as the War in Gaza and Lebanon Rages" - Haaretz
https://archive.ph/jFWpu

(link bypasses paywall)

BTW what's wild about the Yoav Gallant warrant is that he has been one of Netanyahu's biggest critics and detractors and was FIRED because he wouldn't co-sign Netanyahu's ethnic cleansing nor his invasion of Lebanon.

TL;DR Netanyahu detests Gallant and saw him as an impediment to this genocidal plans.

h/t @andrewstroehlein and his poll
https://mastodon.social/@andrewstroehlein/113526403505370246

thanks for reminding me the International Criminal Court has warrants our for both Putin and Netanyahu

WOW
had forgotten the ICC also wants Putin:

"Situation in Ukraine: ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova | International Criminal Court"
https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and

"Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant | International Criminal Court"
https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-state-palestine-icc-pre-trial-chamber-i-rejects-state-israels-challenges

#Ukraine #Palestine