What happens when the dystopian future imagined by George Orwell in the 1940s shows up in real life? The new documentary Orwell 2 plus 2 equals 5 attempts to answer that question. The film is directed by Raul Peek and produced by the acclaimed Alex Gibney and it premiered at the Can Film Festival this May. The audience was visibly shaken. LA Times staff writer Josh Rottenberg writes, quote, "The crowd reacted with the startled tension of a horror scraping screening, gasps, murmurss, a few cries before final ...

RT sacha 🦣 (@ssaintleger)this comparison between bitcoin and zcash is full of broken mental modelsenabling e2e encryption at the base layer fundamentally changes the targeted censorship attack vectors against a shielded zec user vs a bitcoin user (neither the nodes, the miners, or even the receiver receive any information about a z-> z transfer; the receiver only sees that they've received funds)in @ebfull's words:"there is no quantum computer or powerful AI that will be able to look back at the Zcash block ...

RT stephanie (@ravenwhiteclaw)reunited with the incomparable @MikeBenzCyber for the God Complex premiere.watch it for a deep dive on the origins of the censorship industrial complex, oct. 16. https://t.co/1zPJzOIPJp ...

RT ADF International (@ADFIntl)BREAKING: More than 100 free speech experts from around the world today wrote to the European Commission, warning the EU’s Digital Services Act risks censoring global speech online.The experts’ letter was signed by @shellenberger, @Ayaan and many others.Link to full letter⬇️ https://t.co/M5JCHgNsfM ...

[Music] Hi, I'm a children's book author, but more importantly, I'm a mom. This is Harper Lee. She's four, has very loud opinions about my car playlist, and was named after, yes, that Harper Lee because I'm a sucker for symbolism and literary justice, I guess. The other day, we were at the bookstore and she saw a rainbow sticker and she asked me what it meant. I said, "Well, baby, it means everyone belongs. " She looked at me, nodded very seriously and said, "Even dinosaurs. " And that's it. That's the stor ...

Insanity. Australia is completely censoring nationwide the death of Iryna Zarutska.Rukshan Fernando (@therealrukshan):Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant has issued a 20-page removal notice to X on September 26, demanding the platform censor 23 specific posts featuring raw CCTV clips showing the last moments of Iryna Zarutska's life for Australian users.If X doesn't comply, it https://t.co/rR11LKyjZA ...

RT Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar)Got the exact same notification and 20 page letter for one of my posts about Iryna Zarutska’s murder. The Australian "eSafety commissioner" threatened to fine X $825,000 (AUD) for each day the post would remain up, so it’s now no longer visible in Australia.To summarize that for you: Australians are paying taxes so bureaucrats can censors posts from European activists talking about the murder of a Ukrainian woman in America. ...

RT Megatron (@Megatron_ron)BREAKING:🇺🇲🇮🇱 TIKTOK is now censoring posts that mention AIPAC influence in the U.S. - multiple users are reporting https://t.co/ELe0KGwvdg ...

All right, here at the Veland Book Club, we've covered a growing number of book bannings in America. Restrictions on book titles have become routine in schools and public libraries in some parts of the country. This week, Pen America, which really powers what we do here because they've got all the data on on book banning, released its banned in the USA list, which tracked more than 6,800 instances of books being temporarily or permanently pulled from library shelves during the 2024 2025 school year.For the ...

Joining me now is Jennifer Finny Boland. She's the Pen America Board of Trustees President. The Prof.. She's a professor. She's an advocate and the author of 19 books including Good Boy, My Life in Seven Dogs, which we featured as part of our band book club. Uh Jennifer, great to see you.Thank you for being with us. >> Hi Ally. It's great to be back.I'm I'm sorry that we have to talk again uh and that we have to talk about this, but uh your report, your important report found what what you call a disturbing ...