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Stephen Rintoul

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Formerly @stephenrintoul on Twitter. Nerd, father, engineer. Passionate about democracy, justice, and foods containing cheese.


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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🏳️‍🌈's avatar 🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social
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We can still do it. The Soviet Union was going to last forever until it didn’t. We built them. We can take them apart.

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I have so little regard for companies that obviously have the infrastructure to respect my privacy wishes because of their legal obligations in other jurisdictions, but choose not to extend those rights to all of their users. It's galling that the business side of the AP doesn't do better.

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ShotSpotter is the Theranos of digital policing--the technology sounds plausible but just absolutely does not work and never will.

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Great reporting! At least some of these documents are available through the NY Courts website in slightly different forms (different redactions, etc). See e.g. People's exhibits 368, 376, 378. I wonder if that's why the FBI just released them to you. pdfs.nycourts.gov/PeopleVs.DTr...

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It seems as though the Air Force would have an interest in holding the police accountable here; I'm sure they don't love losing their airmen to random acts of state violence.

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World Central Kitchen has shared the identities of the seven aid workers killed by Israeli forces.

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