It's going to be good. Margaret Atwood joined the Velsheban book club to talk about her seminal dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale. She reminded us that she got all the ideas for the book set in a near-future autocratic theocracy from actual history, from real things that had happened in the world and could happen again.She actually kept the newspaper clippings that she used as research when she wrote this book in 1985. And this week, there's a story out of the state of Ohio that reads like a building blo ...

JPMorgan partnered with Palantir about 10 years ago to run an insider threat program.The system tracked employees' GPS locations, browser history, emails, and recorded call transcripts.They looked for signs of disgruntled employees and in some cases physically followed suspects after hours.The program was run by a former Secret Service officer.It fell apart in 2013 when JPMorgan executives found out they were being surveilled too, and the officer in charge was forced out.True story. ...

RT Jason Bassler (@JasonBassler1)Palantir CEO Alex Karp has bought a $46M "Billionaire Bunker" in Indian Creek, Miami which has it's own private police and guarded bridge. He's now neighbors with Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, & Jared Kushner.Total surveillance for you. Total security for them. https://t.co/H56fyFzC2N ...

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Even though the TV is off, it can still hear everything that's being said in the room and broadcast back to the CIA. >> I've heard you say that they can hack car systems. There was something in 2017 called the Vault 7 Revelations.A CIA software engineer who was disgruntled and instead of going to the Russians or the Chinese, he downloaded thousands, tens of thousands of pages of documents classified above top secret. They became what Wikileaks called the Vault 7 documents. They included things like the CIA, ...

RT China Now (@ChinaNow24)The Government of the United Kingdom is purchasing Israeli surveillance software tested on Palestinians.The contracts reportedly include technologies from Cellebrite, BriefCam, and Corsight for phone hacking, facial recognition, and mass surveillance.In the West, nothing seems to rival importing surveillance tools tested in conflict zones—under the banner of “defending human rights.” ...

FBI investigating hack on its wiretap and surveillance systems: report https://t.co/NJRAmoS2it ...

For two decades, the secretive Unit 8200 had tracked his every move. Then the go-ahead arrived. 🔗 https://t.co/9Wjc3auq42 https://t.co/KpdwlmkPQL ...

🚨JUST IN: VITALIK BUTERIN SAYS ETHEREUM HASN’T DONE ENOUGHVitalik Buterin (@VitalikButerin) says the world faces rising surveillance, wars, and collapsing social media trust.He admitted Ethereum $ETH has played only a limited role in advancing real-world freedom.He pointed to growing government and corporate oversight.He said privacy and digital security remain fragile.Ethereum, he argued, must go beyond finance.The network should help build resilient digital spaces. ...

Vitalik Buterin said the world is increasingly facing government and corporate surveillance, wars, and the deterioration of social media, while Ethereum has played only a limited role in improving real-world freedom, privacy, and digital security. He argued Ethereum should not be confined to finance but become part of a broader ecosystem of “sanctuary technologies,” using open-source tools to create resilient digital spaces where people can communicate, collaborate, manage risk and wealth, and organize comm ...