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This is also my favorite Halloween song (spooky, scary)
October 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This is also my favorite Halloween song (spooky, scary)
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Leaking on the clock: What your sources need to know
Last week, Eric Trump tweeted a screenshot of an email that circulated through the Trump Organization by Washington Post reporter David Fahrentholt. Although the tweet sensationalized Fahrentholt’s em...
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January 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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[There are huge differences between flashing an ID at a brick and mortar location versus an online company storing and processing personally identifiable information associated with your viewing of adult content]
January 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
[There are huge differences between flashing an ID at a brick and mortar location versus an online company storing and processing personally identifiable information associated with your viewing of adult content]
The fact that the TikTok panic did not lead to a data privacy law is shameful. But I suppose it also makes transparent the goal of the whole thing: to ensure Americans are monitored, controlled, and manipulated only by American companies.
January 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The fact that the TikTok panic did not lead to a data privacy law is shameful. But I suppose it also makes transparent the goal of the whole thing: to ensure Americans are monitored, controlled, and manipulated only by American companies.
When those winds change in the direction of oppression, having control over what you've said or given to that platform could be life-saving. It could keep you out of jail. We don't have models for that right now, not really. But we desperately need them.
January 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
When those winds change in the direction of oppression, having control over what you've said or given to that platform could be life-saving. It could keep you out of jail. We don't have models for that right now, not really. But we desperately need them.