Violet Blue
Writer and Columnist at Engadget
@Engadget @PopSci @WithoutConsent, six @ippyawards. Legacy. https://t.co/VYrly0QZVu https://t.co/P4fvfXyXgO Shaped like the hole in your heart.
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1 month ago |
technewstube.com | Violet Blue
Tech News Tube is a real time news feed of the latest technology news headlines.Follow all of the top tech sites in one place, on the web or your mobile device.
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1 month ago |
wired.com | Violet Blue
Law enforcement requests for user data from Apple, Google, and Meta mean that these companies can decide whether government authorities have access to your personal information, including location data. This means the companies with the most insight into our lives, movements, and communications are frontline arbiters of our constitutional rights and the rights of non-US citizens—a fact some are likely feeling more acutely now than ever.
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2 months ago |
metafilter.com | Violet Blue
At a time of intensifying great power competition, the EU has to choose between becoming a vassal of the U.S. or breaking free to steer its own course — and it must decide quickly. Two keynotes at the influential Munich Security Conference made that clear: one illiberal by U.S. Vice President JD Vance, the other classically liberal by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Feb 1, 2025 |
metafilter.com | Violet Blue
In a move reminiscent of Musk's mass firings and forced resignations at Twitter, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent 2 million government employees a deadline-driven offer of “deferred resignation” over an eight-month payout if they resign before 06 February 2025. The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), which represents 150,000 employees in 37 federal agencies and departments, urged employees to stand their ground.
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Jan 26, 2025 |
metafilter.com | Violet Blue
In an article that deserves to go viral, the Guardian's former Johannesburg correspondent Chris McGreal traces how Musk and Thiel's South African and South West African boyhoods continue to influence Musk and Thiel's worldviews. As it turns out, Musk's Nazi salute is also the salute used by the AWB (Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging), a neo-Nazi party, founded in the early 1970s to oppose any relaxation of apartheid.
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