such are the ideologues bringing ‘order’ to his next term of office and ruin to our Republic

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/08/project-2025-kevin-roberts-book-burning-fbi-new-york-times

Can you spot the celebrity 'deepfakes' in a new ad warning against election disinfo?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/can-spot-celebrity-deepfakes-new-ad-warning-election-disinfo-rcna175647?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into 2024 presidential election misinformation @2024-presidential-election-misinformation-NewsLitProject

When I took my kid to New Zealand with me on a book-tour, I was delighted to learn that grocery stores had special aisles where all the kids'-eye-level candy had been removed, to minimize nagging. What a great idea!

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/25/accountability-sinks/#work-harder-not-smarter

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This is a really good and important look at Lockdown Mode by @lhn. "Surprisingly usable" — yes! The tiny bit of friction that users experience with Lockdown Mode (such as having to copy and paste links manually from Messages to Safari) quickly becomes second nature.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-lockdown-mode-hands-on/

According to the latest CDC COVID-19 wastewater data, we are currently in the second-biggest surge of the pandemic.

It will peak in the next week, with ~2 million infections per day. During this surge, ~100 million people total (~1 in 3 people in the US) will likely get COVID.

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-nationaltrend.html

Hey Ottawa weather, don't send November snow to do January snow's job.

#ottWeather

The main power plant supplying electricity to #Gaza has run out of fuel, leaving millions there without service.

That includes journalists who are on the ground providing live reports on the bombardment and subsequent humanitarian crisis there.

It is possible live camera feeds from Gaza will go down over the next few days, and reports out of Gaza could be extremely scarce — an effective media blackout.

Here's a comparison I haven't seen elsewhere. Maybe it'll be helpful for people in other countries, illustrating the challenges of distance in Canada's far north.

Evacuees from #Yellowknife need to drive 14.5 hrs to get to Edmonton. This is like evacuees leaving Manhattan, at the Lincoln Tunnel and driving to an #evacuation reception centre in Jacksonville, Florida.

And the route in Canada's north is flat-out highway driving – not urban streets and stop lights.
#wildfires

He's going to get people killed with this.

You know what Nazis used to do in my Twitter replies before I started mass blocking?

They'd give my home address out to OTHER Nazis in my replies who had expressed an interest in murdering my family and me.