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The terrible secrets of Taiwan’s Stasi files

from The Economist

The internet sucks now–but it doesn’t have to.

From here

Unfortunately, this is what all of the internet is right now: social media, owned by large corporations that make changes to them to limit or suppress your speech, in order to make themselves more attractive to advertisers or just pursue their owners’ ends. Even the best Twitter alternatives, like Bluesky, aren’t immune to any of this—the more you centralize onto one single website, the more power that website has over you and what you post there

Read here

Also watched this, Stephen Colbert 2006 White House correspondents dinner

Plan B: Using Secondary Protests to Undermine Repression | New Tactics in Human Rights
— Read on www.newtactics.org/resource/plan-b-using-secondary-protests-undermine-repression

Fresh from Ellis Island, Stavros gets a job shining shoes at Grand Central Terminal. It is the last scene of Elia Kazan’s film America, America, the story of a young Greek’s fierce determination to…
— Read on time.com/archive/6724360/on-the-backs-of-blacks/

Over the last 8 years, a number of prominent members of the Republican party have come out to say how the current Republican Party is a threat to democracy. Some of these people have even left the …
— Read on www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/2/2250251/-Top-Comments-A-Message-for-the-So-Called-Sane-Republicans-Former-Republicans-Edition

if we don’t wrestle with anger, we never get to the heartbreak. And if we don’t get to the heartbreak, we dont get to the healing.

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