My only weakness was not being cynical enough.

[-] MediaSensationalism@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The other 39% view it unfavorably but don't have the spine to speak out against their own party when they know the poll results will be publicized.

[-] MediaSensationalism@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Instead of posting a screenshot and a link, they posted a broken Instagram embed instead. Come on.

[-] MediaSensationalism@lemmy.world 40 points 4 weeks ago

I'm sat down with a republican family member and she curses the television every time Trump starts one of his ridiculous rants instead of answering a question. It's like watching a sports fan lament their favorite team losing.

[-] MediaSensationalism@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I did a quick dig because I wanted to see if the rise in police homicide would trend with population growth and violent crime rates. It did not.

Violent crime has been pretty stable for the past decade. Growth in police homicide exceeded the population growth rate by about 7%, if I did my math right.

I'd like to investigate more when I have the time.

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Do you feel that the 4th amendment should protect them? Or perhaps a new amendment should be written to protect them and abolish power of subpoena?

I'm slightly biased as I ask this. I feel that the mind is "sacred" in a sense, that it should be considered a fundamental human right for an individual to be able to preserve privacy over their internally held thoughts and memories, and that the ability of the court to force an individual to speak or disclose part of their mind is a wild overreach of power and an affront to the personal liberty of the innocent.

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The van was listed for sale on GovDeals. I thought the hard hat on the dash was a nice touch.

[-] MediaSensationalism@lemmy.world 124 points 1 month ago

The government doesn't need a warrant to browse data that it's already in possession of. Food for thought.

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Try the interactive demo.

[-] MediaSensationalism@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I passed on a lot of the fancier apartment buildings for requiring an app and a cell phone to gain access to your own home. I shouldn't have to agree to an arbitration/class action waiver to use my own front door, I don't feel comfortable with management getting a notification on their phone every time I come or go, I don't like the fact that 20+ listed partner companies have access to sensitive personal data, and I shouldn't have to wait for maintenance to show up in the middle of the night because I couldn't make it back home before my personal tracking device died on me.

The sad thing is that most of these locking units cost these apartments hundreds of dollars each on top of a monthly subscription.

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has finally published the world’s first three official post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, tools designed to protect key systems against future quantum computers powerful enough to crack any code generated by a modern computer.

[-] MediaSensationalism@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm most interested in their video that covers the use of social media to advance policy.

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[-] MediaSensationalism@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What about them?

Google already got fined $170M for COPPA violations in 2019. Twitter was fined $150M in 2022 for disregard of privacy laws. Meta settled for $1.4B in a privacy suit just last week. TikTok isn't being singled out here.

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I decided to find and share an article that included perspectives from Navajo Nation after finding one (Police1) that curiously exempted their reasoning while presenting PR and excuses from the mining company.

[-] MediaSensationalism@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

If I have to buy a "new" car someday, I'm cutting off every antenna I see.

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[-] MediaSensationalism@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

That's the first thing I was going to mention. I just closed the page without reading the article.

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[-] MediaSensationalism@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago

They tried to search my laptop when they went through my car at the border, and were greeted with an encrypted boot screen. They tried to interrogate me twice. Glad to know nobody else will have to deal with that now.

"So, you're a tech guy, huh? I bet you're smart." 😐 ...

"Are you into politics? Who'd you vote for?" 🫤 ...

"I'm just trying to have a friendly conversation with you." 🤐 ...

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