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Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think | KQED

kqed.org · Jan 22

How easy is it to find someone from a single video posted online? To find out, Morgan put her own privacy to the test. She asked TikTok creator JoseMonkey, who’s famous for geolocating people who send him videos asking to be found, to track her down. JoseMonkey started as a geolocation hobbyist...

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hypebot (@hypebot) · Jan 22

🔁 @evacide:

Trying to protect everything from everyone all the time will drive you crazy. Here is what you should do about your digital privacy and security instead. I talked to KQED's Close All Tabs about threat modeling: https://www.kqed.org/news/12070531/your-digital-footprint-reveals-more-than-you-think

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The Rupture

broligarchy.substack.com · Jan 21

Mark Carney nails it. We have to "stop pretending"

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ℵancym (@nm) · Jan 21

🔁 @janhoglund:

” Mark Carney nails it. We have to "stop pretending" … We can’t respond and act to this hugely consequential geopolitical moment if we are complicit in the denial of our leaders and media. This is a week in which the world we have known has swung on its axis. We cannot simply carry on as if it’s business and normal. …not speaking the truth, now, is deeply corrosive. That is the subtext of Carney’s speech.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-rupture
#markcarney #carney #worldeconomicforum #davos

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The powerful have their power. We have the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to act together | Mark Carney

theguardian.com · Jan 21

In a speech to Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney lays out the case for unity in the face of Donald Trump’s new world order

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TinJar (@TinJar) · Jan 21

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/mark-carney-davos-canadian-prime-minister-donald-trump-new-world-order

"We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture, we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just."

Dear Mark Carney - now accept the responsibility of causing #climatechange - invite 300M #climate #refugees and counter the #US bullying in the language that it will understand. You have the land and resources!

#Canada #oil #gas #migration #adaptation #justice #humanrights

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Email from Family in Minnesota

inessential.com · Jan 21

Our family in Minnesota knows that we all worry about them, and so yesterday they sent an email to everyone.

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Eclectic Lexicon (@EclecticLexicon) · Jan 22

🔁 @brentsimmons:

On my blog — email from family in Minnesota:

https://inessential.com/2026/01/21/email-from-minnesota-family.html

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1993: Web Browsers Add Multimedia and MTV.com Goes Online

cybercultural.com · Jan 21

Mosaic adds an image tag for HTML and becomes the first modern web browser in 1993. Soon after, MTV VJ Adam Curry builds one of the world's first commercial websites — not that his bosses care.

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Flippin' 'eck, Tucker! (@losttourist) · Jan 21

🔁 @ricmac:

In 1993, web design didn't really exist — you couldn't even change the background color of your web page from grey. But Mosaic launched the first era of visual web design with the IMG tag, and soon after an MTV VJ (@adam) improbably created one of the first commercial websites. https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-internet/ #WebDesignHistory

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‘She looks like a baby’: Why do kids as young as 5 or 6 still get arrested at schools? – Center for Public Integrity

publicintegrity.org · Jan 22

This story was produced as part of a collaboration with the Center for Public Integrity and USA TODAY. ORLANDO — The preschoolers filed offstage in royal blue caps and gowns, hugging their parents and ready for treats to celebrate their 2018 graduation from Trinity Learning Academy. All but one...

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Tricia Wood (@Pkbwood) · Jan 22

🔁 @mekkaokereke:

There's a photo going around of ICE arresting a 5-year-old boy, and shipping him to a facility in another state.

This is horrific! It's absolutely inexcusable to arrest a 5-year-old child!

🤔I just have a few questions... what if the child is Black though? Is it still cruel?

Is it also cruel to send Black kids as young as 7 to juvenile detention facilities in other states, so that their moms can't even visit?

https://publicintegrity.org/education/criminalizing-kids/young-kids-arrested-at-schools/#

Let this build empathy inside you.

Recognize that this situation is horrific when ICE does it to immigrant children, and when cops do it to Black children.

Recognize that ICE agents doing these acts to make MAGA happy is bad. Cops doing this to make Dem voters happy, is also bad.

When I say that we don't need School Resource Officers in elementary schools arresting 5-year-old Black boys, understand what that means in practice.

This isn't sadder when it happens to kids that aren't Black.

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Naked Power - Infrequently Noted

infrequently.org · Jan 20

Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

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David Bushell ☕ (@db) · Jan 21

must read: Naked Power
https://infrequently.org/2026/01/naked-power/

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‘The most dangerous man in America’: how Paul Robeson went from Hollywood to blacklist

theguardian.com · Jan 21

The groundbreaking singer, actor and athlete became a victim of McCarthyism and saw his shining career destroyed and his legacy tarnished

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Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲 (@cainmark) · Jan 22

🔁 @aj:

The Guardian has the heartbreaking story of the near-total erasure of Black singer, actor and athlete Paul Robeson.

Despite achieving greatness across multiple fields, Robeson was blacklisted for being politically incorrect during the McCarthy witch-hunts, by failing to denounce the USSR sufficiently.

Y'know, because American conservatives love free speech...

"His talent was prodigious. Robeson integrated Broadway in 1943, the first Black man to play Othello in the United States. Previous productions of Shakespeare’s jealous Moor casted white actors in blackface, and Robeson’s Othello run of 296 performances remains a Broadway record for a Shakespeare production. A two-time All-American at Rutgers, he was one of the greatest college football players in history. He graduated from Columbia Law, and, before becoming world renowned as a concert singer, stage and Hollywood actor, Robeson even played defensive end for two years in the National Football League. The Robeson legacy spawned a staggering list of Black stage performers, from Lena Horne to Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Andre Braugher, Keith David and Denzel Washington. At his peak, Paul Robeson was the most famous Black American in the world.

"And yet for his refusal to denounce the Soviet Union as cold war tensions increased, Robeson was isolated by both the white mainstream and by the respectable pillars of the Black establishment – the NAACP, the Urban League and many leading Black political and cultural voices who feared being branded communist by the rising conservative tide.
...
"This week marks 50 years since Robeson’s death and the silence remains. His erasure from the lineage over the decades shows that what Robeson’s political opponents did not take from him, the years have most certainly. Robeson’s decoupling from the story of African American culture has been so complete that in the half-century since his death, even generations of Black Americans have never heard of him."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/21/paul-robeson-hollywood-blacklist-mccarthyism

#Politics #uspol

Trending Bot (@trending) · Jan 22

🔁 @aj:

The Guardian has the heartbreaking story of the near-total erasure of Black singer, actor and athlete Paul Robeson.

Despite achieving greatness across multiple fields, Robeson was blacklisted for being politically incorrect during the McCarthy witch-hunts, by failing to denounce the USSR sufficiently.

Y'know, because American conservatives love free speech...

"His talent was prodigious. Robeson integrated Broadway in 1943, the first Black man to play Othello in the United States. Previous productions of Shakespeare’s jealous Moor casted white actors in blackface, and Robeson’s Othello run of 296 performances remains a Broadway record for a Shakespeare production. A two-time All-American at Rutgers, he was one of the greatest college football players in history. He graduated from Columbia Law, and, before becoming world renowned as a concert singer, stage and Hollywood actor, Robeson even played defensive end for two years in the National Football League. The Robeson legacy spawned a staggering list of Black stage performers, from Lena Horne to Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Andre Braugher, Keith David and Denzel Washington. At his peak, Paul Robeson was the most famous Black American in the world.

"And yet for his refusal to denounce the Soviet Union as cold war tensions increased, Robeson was isolated by both the white mainstream and by the respectable pillars of the Black establishment – the NAACP, the Urban League and many leading Black political and cultural voices who feared being branded communist by the rising conservative tide.
...
"This week marks 50 years since Robeson’s death and the silence remains. His erasure from the lineage over the decades shows that what Robeson’s political opponents did not take from him, the years have most certainly. Robeson’s decoupling from the story of African American culture has been so complete that in the half-century since his death, even generations of Black Americans have never heard of him."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/21/paul-robeson-hollywood-blacklist-mccarthyism

#Politics #uspol

Kevin Russell (@kevinrns) · Jan 22

🔁 @aj:

The Guardian has the heartbreaking story of the near-total erasure of Black singer, actor and athlete Paul Robeson.

Despite achieving greatness across multiple fields, Robeson was blacklisted for being politically incorrect during the McCarthy witch-hunts, by failing to denounce the USSR sufficiently.

Y'know, because American conservatives love free speech...

"His talent was prodigious. Robeson integrated Broadway in 1943, the first Black man to play Othello in the United States. Previous productions of Shakespeare’s jealous Moor casted white actors in blackface, and Robeson’s Othello run of 296 performances remains a Broadway record for a Shakespeare production. A two-time All-American at Rutgers, he was one of the greatest college football players in history. He graduated from Columbia Law, and, before becoming world renowned as a concert singer, stage and Hollywood actor, Robeson even played defensive end for two years in the National Football League. The Robeson legacy spawned a staggering list of Black stage performers, from Lena Horne to Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Andre Braugher, Keith David and Denzel Washington. At his peak, Paul Robeson was the most famous Black American in the world.

"And yet for his refusal to denounce the Soviet Union as cold war tensions increased, Robeson was isolated by both the white mainstream and by the respectable pillars of the Black establishment – the NAACP, the Urban League and many leading Black political and cultural voices who feared being branded communist by the rising conservative tide.
...
"This week marks 50 years since Robeson’s death and the silence remains. His erasure from the lineage over the decades shows that what Robeson’s political opponents did not take from him, the years have most certainly. Robeson’s decoupling from the story of African American culture has been so complete that in the half-century since his death, even generations of Black Americans have never heard of him."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/21/paul-robeson-hollywood-blacklist-mccarthyism

#Politics #uspol

AJ Sadauskas (@aj) · Jan 22

The Guardian has the heartbreaking story of the near-total erasure of Black singer, actor and athlete Paul Robeson.

Despite achieving greatness across multiple fields, Robeson was blacklisted for being politically incorrect during the McCarthy witch-hunts, by failing to denounce the USSR sufficiently.

Y'know, because American conservatives love free speech...

"His talent was prodigious. Robeson integrated Broadway in 1943, the first Black man to play Othello in the United States. Previous productions of Shakespeare’s jealous Moor casted white actors in blackface, and Robeson’s Othello run of 296 performances remains a Broadway record for a Shakespeare production. A two-time All-American at Rutgers, he was one of the greatest college football players in history. He graduated from Columbia Law, and, before becoming world renowned as a concert singer, stage and Hollywood actor, Robeson even played defensive end for two years in the National Football League. The Robeson legacy spawned a staggering list of Black stage performers, from Lena Horne to Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Andre Braugher, Keith David and Denzel Washington. At his peak, Paul Robeson was the most famous Black American in the world.

"And yet for his refusal to denounce the Soviet Union as cold war tensions increased, Robeson was isolated by both the white mainstream and by the respectable pillars of the Black establishment – the NAACP, the Urban League and many leading Black political and cultural voices who feared being branded communist by the rising conservative tide.
...
"This week marks 50 years since Robeson’s death and the silence remains. His erasure from the lineage over the decades shows that what Robeson’s political opponents did not take from him, the years have most certainly. Robeson’s decoupling from the story of African American culture has been so complete that in the half-century since his death, even generations of Black Americans have never heard of him."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/21/paul-robeson-hollywood-blacklist-mccarthyism

#Politics #uspol

Pauline von Hellermann (@pvonhellermannn) · Jan 22

🔁 @aj:

The Guardian has the heartbreaking story of the near-total erasure of Black singer, actor and athlete Paul Robeson.

Despite achieving greatness across multiple fields, Robeson was blacklisted for being politically incorrect during the McCarthy witch-hunts, by failing to denounce the USSR sufficiently.

Y'know, because American conservatives love free speech...

"His talent was prodigious. Robeson integrated Broadway in 1943, the first Black man to play Othello in the United States. Previous productions of Shakespeare’s jealous Moor casted white actors in blackface, and Robeson’s Othello run of 296 performances remains a Broadway record for a Shakespeare production. A two-time All-American at Rutgers, he was one of the greatest college football players in history. He graduated from Columbia Law, and, before becoming world renowned as a concert singer, stage and Hollywood actor, Robeson even played defensive end for two years in the National Football League. The Robeson legacy spawned a staggering list of Black stage performers, from Lena Horne to Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Andre Braugher, Keith David and Denzel Washington. At his peak, Paul Robeson was the most famous Black American in the world.

"And yet for his refusal to denounce the Soviet Union as cold war tensions increased, Robeson was isolated by both the white mainstream and by the respectable pillars of the Black establishment – the NAACP, the Urban League and many leading Black political and cultural voices who feared being branded communist by the rising conservative tide.
...
"This week marks 50 years since Robeson’s death and the silence remains. His erasure from the lineage over the decades shows that what Robeson’s political opponents did not take from him, the years have most certainly. Robeson’s decoupling from the story of African American culture has been so complete that in the half-century since his death, even generations of Black Americans have never heard of him."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/21/paul-robeson-hollywood-blacklist-mccarthyism

#Politics #uspol

Steve Bellovin (@SteveBellovin) · Jan 22

🔁 @aj:

The Guardian has the heartbreaking story of the near-total erasure of Black singer, actor and athlete Paul Robeson.

Despite achieving greatness across multiple fields, Robeson was blacklisted for being politically incorrect during the McCarthy witch-hunts, by failing to denounce the USSR sufficiently.

Y'know, because American conservatives love free speech...

"His talent was prodigious. Robeson integrated Broadway in 1943, the first Black man to play Othello in the United States. Previous productions of Shakespeare’s jealous Moor casted white actors in blackface, and Robeson’s Othello run of 296 performances remains a Broadway record for a Shakespeare production. A two-time All-American at Rutgers, he was one of the greatest college football players in history. He graduated from Columbia Law, and, before becoming world renowned as a concert singer, stage and Hollywood actor, Robeson even played defensive end for two years in the National Football League. The Robeson legacy spawned a staggering list of Black stage performers, from Lena Horne to Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Andre Braugher, Keith David and Denzel Washington. At his peak, Paul Robeson was the most famous Black American in the world.

"And yet for his refusal to denounce the Soviet Union as cold war tensions increased, Robeson was isolated by both the white mainstream and by the respectable pillars of the Black establishment – the NAACP, the Urban League and many leading Black political and cultural voices who feared being branded communist by the rising conservative tide.
...
"This week marks 50 years since Robeson’s death and the silence remains. His erasure from the lineage over the decades shows that what Robeson’s political opponents did not take from him, the years have most certainly. Robeson’s decoupling from the story of African American culture has been so complete that in the half-century since his death, even generations of Black Americans have never heard of him."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/21/paul-robeson-hollywood-blacklist-mccarthyism

#Politics #uspol

Roy #EatTheRich Pardee 🇺🇸 (@rpardee) · Jan 22

🔁 @aj:

The Guardian has the heartbreaking story of the near-total erasure of Black singer, actor and athlete Paul Robeson.

Despite achieving greatness across multiple fields, Robeson was blacklisted for being politically incorrect during the McCarthy witch-hunts, by failing to denounce the USSR sufficiently.

Y'know, because American conservatives love free speech...

"His talent was prodigious. Robeson integrated Broadway in 1943, the first Black man to play Othello in the United States. Previous productions of Shakespeare’s jealous Moor casted white actors in blackface, and Robeson’s Othello run of 296 performances remains a Broadway record for a Shakespeare production. A two-time All-American at Rutgers, he was one of the greatest college football players in history. He graduated from Columbia Law, and, before becoming world renowned as a concert singer, stage and Hollywood actor, Robeson even played defensive end for two years in the National Football League. The Robeson legacy spawned a staggering list of Black stage performers, from Lena Horne to Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Andre Braugher, Keith David and Denzel Washington. At his peak, Paul Robeson was the most famous Black American in the world.

"And yet for his refusal to denounce the Soviet Union as cold war tensions increased, Robeson was isolated by both the white mainstream and by the respectable pillars of the Black establishment – the NAACP, the Urban League and many leading Black political and cultural voices who feared being branded communist by the rising conservative tide.
...
"This week marks 50 years since Robeson’s death and the silence remains. His erasure from the lineage over the decades shows that what Robeson’s political opponents did not take from him, the years have most certainly. Robeson’s decoupling from the story of African American culture has been so complete that in the half-century since his death, even generations of Black Americans have never heard of him."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/21/paul-robeson-hollywood-blacklist-mccarthyism

#Politics #uspol

Karl Auerbach (@karlauerbach) · Jan 22

🔁 @aj:

The Guardian has the heartbreaking story of the near-total erasure of Black singer, actor and athlete Paul Robeson.

Despite achieving greatness across multiple fields, Robeson was blacklisted for being politically incorrect during the McCarthy witch-hunts, by failing to denounce the USSR sufficiently.

Y'know, because American conservatives love free speech...

"His talent was prodigious. Robeson integrated Broadway in 1943, the first Black man to play Othello in the United States. Previous productions of Shakespeare’s jealous Moor casted white actors in blackface, and Robeson’s Othello run of 296 performances remains a Broadway record for a Shakespeare production. A two-time All-American at Rutgers, he was one of the greatest college football players in history. He graduated from Columbia Law, and, before becoming world renowned as a concert singer, stage and Hollywood actor, Robeson even played defensive end for two years in the National Football League. The Robeson legacy spawned a staggering list of Black stage performers, from Lena Horne to Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Andre Braugher, Keith David and Denzel Washington. At his peak, Paul Robeson was the most famous Black American in the world.

"And yet for his refusal to denounce the Soviet Union as cold war tensions increased, Robeson was isolated by both the white mainstream and by the respectable pillars of the Black establishment – the NAACP, the Urban League and many leading Black political and cultural voices who feared being branded communist by the rising conservative tide.
...
"This week marks 50 years since Robeson’s death and the silence remains. His erasure from the lineage over the decades shows that what Robeson’s political opponents did not take from him, the years have most certainly. Robeson’s decoupling from the story of African American culture has been so complete that in the half-century since his death, even generations of Black Americans have never heard of him."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/21/paul-robeson-hollywood-blacklist-mccarthyism

#Politics #uspol

Miro Collas (@Miro_Collas) · Jan 22

🔁 @aj:

The Guardian has the heartbreaking story of the near-total erasure of Black singer, actor and athlete Paul Robeson.

Despite achieving greatness across multiple fields, Robeson was blacklisted for being politically incorrect during the McCarthy witch-hunts, by failing to denounce the USSR sufficiently.

Y'know, because American conservatives love free speech...

"His talent was prodigious. Robeson integrated Broadway in 1943, the first Black man to play Othello in the United States. Previous productions of Shakespeare’s jealous Moor casted white actors in blackface, and Robeson’s Othello run of 296 performances remains a Broadway record for a Shakespeare production. A two-time All-American at Rutgers, he was one of the greatest college football players in history. He graduated from Columbia Law, and, before becoming world renowned as a concert singer, stage and Hollywood actor, Robeson even played defensive end for two years in the National Football League. The Robeson legacy spawned a staggering list of Black stage performers, from Lena Horne to Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Andre Braugher, Keith David and Denzel Washington. At his peak, Paul Robeson was the most famous Black American in the world.

"And yet for his refusal to denounce the Soviet Union as cold war tensions increased, Robeson was isolated by both the white mainstream and by the respectable pillars of the Black establishment – the NAACP, the Urban League and many leading Black political and cultural voices who feared being branded communist by the rising conservative tide.
...
"This week marks 50 years since Robeson’s death and the silence remains. His erasure from the lineage over the decades shows that what Robeson’s political opponents did not take from him, the years have most certainly. Robeson’s decoupling from the story of African American culture has been so complete that in the half-century since his death, even generations of Black Americans have never heard of him."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/21/paul-robeson-hollywood-blacklist-mccarthyism

#Politics #uspol

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Generative AI is an expensive edging machine

garbageday.email · Jan 21

Read to the end for insider trading and money laundering

Shared by @josemurilo and 13 others.

G1N&T (@g1n) · Jan 21

"It’s hard, guys. All OpenAI wants is to make a single piece of software that can swallow the entire internet, and devour the daily machinations of lives, and make us pay to interface with our souls, and worm its way into the lives of everyone on Earth. "

Generative AI is an expensive edging machine
https://www.garbageday.email/p/generative-ai-is-an-expensive-edging-machine

#aibubble #ai #genai

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Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think | KQED

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The Rupture

broligarchy.substack.com · Jan 21

The powerful have their power. We have the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to act together | Mark Carney

theguardian.com · Jan 21

Email from Family in Minnesota

inessential.com · Jan 21

1993: Web Browsers Add Multimedia and MTV.com Goes Online

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‘She looks like a baby’: Why do kids as young as 5 or 6 still get arrested at schools? – Center for Public Integrity

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‘The most dangerous man in America’: how Paul Robeson went from Hollywood to blacklist

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Generative AI is an expensive edging machine

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