Ohhh so that’s what you get when Wu-Tang raised you

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The billionaires have bravely volunteered to regulate everyone else.

Humanity is saved.

Also #neverforget how Larry Ellison exploited the 9/11 tragedies to try and sell us a national ID. Bush said no, but it looks like they found a loophole anyway: Login[.]gov.

Login[.]gov added 80 million accounts in 8 months without adding a single annual sign-in. Then I found code that can verify people who aren’t there, mark them as suspected fraud, and remember their browsers for 20 years. Funny enough, Larry Ellison tried to build this exact national database just one week after the 9/11 attacks. The premiere starts in 10 minutes. You need to see what they’re building. [youtube.com/watch?v=c7yn0U2U…]

My research associate and me after three weeks inside the Login[.]gov labyrinth, only to discover there’s a hell of a lot of login’ and not nearly enough govin’. Stay tuned for the identity-verification industrial complex. It’s a doozy.

Imagine voting for “no more wars,” watching them spend your money on wars, and then accepting a $5,000 rebate as compensation for the wars they’ll continue spending your money on. That would be crazy, right? We’re not going to let a $5,000 check distract us from the apartheid/wars, right?? We can all agree our vote is worth more than a 2009 Nissan Altima with the check-engine light on, RIGHT?

I’m starting to think he might have a point about terrorists. It was never the act. It’s about whose side it lands on.

I gotta say, I’m not a huge fan of Trump meeting Xi face-to-face again less than five months later… especially while China is tightening exit controls at home and rapidly expanding funeral and cremation infrastructure. The relationship is clearly much more active at the top than the public anti-China rhetoric makes it sound. Xi is due in Washington on September 24.

To everyone who has spent the last nine months suggesting (with steadily increasing hostility) that I get a mic stand, I just want you to know that today your dreams have finally come true. Congratulations. I’m not usually someone who gives in to being bullied by the comment section, but every once in a while, I like to remind you all that persistence has consequences. Let it be known that holding the mic was a choice that reaches beyond aesthetics; it gave my otherwise extremely expressive hands something to do. So the next time you’re about to comment that my hands are flying around like an Italian mom who just watched someone break pasta in half, please remember that I tried to prevent this. You asked for the hands to be free, and now we all have to deal with the consequences. Anyway, login[.]gov video coming your way soon.

“Our site is not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under age 13.” — @WhiteHouse website privacy policy Then why the hell did you build a government arcade packed with games like “Fill Your Kids’ Trump Accounts”? Since you brought up children under 13 in your own privacy policy, let’s review the COPPA requirements your new arcade appears to blow straight past: 1. Operator disclosure: The site must identify every operator collecting personal information under 16 CFR § 312.4(b). New Relic, OneSignal, and Parse[.]ly appear nowhere in your privacy policy. 2. Direct parental notice: Required under § 312.4(c). The site provides no mechanism for it. 3. Verifiable parental consent: Required before collection under § 312.5. The site provides no mechanism for that, either. 4. Limits on data collection: Under § 312.7, a child’s participation cannot be conditioned on collecting more information than reasonably necessary. Yet your trackers fire THE MOMENT THE PAGE LOADS, before the game even begins. 5. Age screening before collection: If an operator relies on age screening, it must happen before data is collected under § 312.2. Arcade[.]gov has no age screen at all. 6. Persistent identifiers count. Under the FTC's 2013 COPPA Rule amendments, cookies, device IDs, and other persistent identifiers used to recognize a user over time and across sites are "personal information" under 16 CFR § 312.2. Every one of the trackers above sets one. Nothing says “not intendeded for children" quite like building a taxpayer-funded propaganda arcade for them. Hot tip: The third party trackers should not beat the kids to the Play button.

Oh you have got to be kidding me—update on passports[dot]gov coming soon.

“Military and civilian data are basically the same thing anyway.”

I am really frustrated that nobody is willing to lose these copyright cases. Artists, tech companies, publishers, all of them are willing to settle, ending with a check instead of a verdict. But think about every time that we've actually gotten new law out of a new machine; it's because somebody lost first. They lost all the way, in a way no check could undo. Composers lost to the player piano in 1908 and Congress wrote them a new right within a year. Losing forces an answer, and the tech giants know that. If we can't settle who owns an idea after it hits the paper, how are we going to settle who owns one before it leaves your head? At least a book has a price because somebody chose to sell it. Your thoughts may have never been for sale, but soon they may not have to be. You would think us fools for confusing access with ownership. But we're setting the precedent right now with the easiest version of this problem we will ever get: extract first, settle later. More on this topic tonight at 7pm C only on DD LIVE! [youtube.com/live/mEjyuEtXN6E…]

The prosecution rests.