War has been merged with PR for quite a long time, particularly in the empire. An omnipresent example is relabeling the war department and war itself as “defense”, or in this case “deterrence”, even though it is used exclusively for wars of aggression.
Also you should accept that every company with a union wants it gone and is trying to find ways to kill it. Hire more staff to non-union positions, shrink union positions, delay contract negotiations, close unionized shops preferentially, buy off union leadership with perks/collaborationism. Many a petite bourgeoisie has shuttered their union shop citing financial problems only to reopen a few months later, suddenly union-free. And of course, slowly whittling away union sentiment and pushing a decert.
It achieved false catharsis, the main scam product Democrats are always selling. Performative nonsense immediately contradicted by their actual (lack of) actions. Immediately afterwards they helped confirm a Trump judicial appointment with help from Booker. His long speech wasn’t even to delay any legislation. It has no so-called momentum, which you can note has no stated descriptors in the other comment. Momentum for what? Sitting on your hands and then voting for them again in 4 years? This is not a real political party, it is just the controlled opposition of the US political duopoly trying its usual parlor tricks to make its potential voters stop recognizing how they aren’t cleaning house or really doing anything at all.
Real parties do exist. It is a struggle due to the aforementioned duopoly and general level of political education in the USA, but it is a struggle worth joining because this is the only “opposition” you will ever see being forwarded by the Democratic Party by its own volition. Every bit of progress has been hard fought and its vanguard has always been left organizing outside of the major parties. Join that vsnguard!
Security and privacy benefits from building threat models. It is good to understand how trackable you are on the internet and walking around with your phone.
Do you need to think about how trackable your phone is if you are driving to and from the grocery store? At most you are providing information that the interested parties already have (where you live, where you shop, and when you shop). If you ran into some trouble it could be useful to have not had a tracking device in your pocket, but otherwise little to worry about.
On the other hand if you are taking part in a sensitive action, then yes you need to leave your phone at home or turned off and in a Faraday bag. If it is particularly sensitive then you need to make sure everyone involved does that. Having a tracking device that shows you were at the location at that time is very bad for you and your compatriots. If you need to communicate on-site, use walkie talkies and speak in code. And plan your action around not having comms. This will make your action better planned out in the first place, which is also important for security.
Qihoo is just a typical tech company with a “security” focus. It having a VPN is like Norton having a VPN - like Norton VPN.
Using a shell company is likely just a way to avoid sanctions.
A Chinese app talking to Chinese servers is no more alarming than a Swedish app talking to Swedish servers or an American app talking to American servers. Imagine writing a breathless “report” about how searching the App Store phones home to the United States. You know, to search for and download apps.
So basically the Tech Transparency Project is just doing some nationalist orientalism.
Their director: “Katie Paul, TTP’s Director, specializes in tracking criminal activity on online platforms such as Facebook. She also serves as co-director of the Antiquities Trafficking and Heritage Anthropology Research (ATHAR) Project and a founding member of the Alliance to Counter Crime Online (ACCO).”
They are somewhat opaque about their funding. They claim to not accept corporate funding but every funder they list is just a middleman NGO for corporate/billionaire funding.
So, a typical NGO run by a cop.
Tech companies are generally terrible and tied to financialized nonsense, but there is nothing out of the ordinary here. The outrage is premised entirely on xenophobia.
If you don’t count oip and spices, then any kind of dal. Dal, onion, ginger garlic paste, chili, tomato. Then add your spices, which can be as simple as garam masala, turneric, and red chili powder. Salt after it’s cooked. Aside from the onion everything can come from the pantry or freezer. Technically you could blend and freeze the onion to make life even easier.
I know I’m pushing it but this is basically the easiest meal ever and it’s just one pot. You only need to dirty a cutting board, knife, and spoon. It’s nearly a pantry meal and requires no thought or special technique aside from knowing when onions are caramelized but not burned. And it’s vegan, gluten free, and very inexpensive.
Am I missing something? This is a very short article that says very little. Where is the supposed blueprint? Where are even statements clearly defining the goal and how it will be practically achieved?
War has been merged with PR for quite a long time, particularly in the empire. An omnipresent example is relabeling the war department and war itself as “defense”, or in this case “deterrence”, even though it is used exclusively for wars of aggression.