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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 18h

"Surveillance is not safety," EFF's Rindala Alajaji said, via @nbcbayarea.com. "That’s why EFF and the ACLU of Northern California are suing the city of San Jose on behalf of SIREN and CAIR - because in a single year, San Jose PD ran over 250,000 warrantless searches on this location data."

nbcbayarea.com

'Surveillance is not safety': Protesters push San Jose to shut down Flock camera network

Protesters issued a renewed call for San Jose to shut down its network of roughly 500 automated license plate reading cameras.

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

40 years later there is CD and Bluetooth on the Bumpboxx BB-777 boosting 270W! An two microphone inputs. But it cost me almost a rent so any ideas how to make money with it are welcome! :D

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yet another reason to leave the EU and give power back to the people.

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just the headline, "speedball capitalism", isn't that a sign it will now break, the USA economy and with it the world's? If I had any money I'd be too scared to invest it in anything!

economist.com

The era of speedball capitalism has dawned

A financial revolution is taking place in America

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The rich pay too little, the ones who could have had a chance to become rich pay too much. A common problem in the world, isn't it?

economist.com

Britain overtaxes well-paid workers

To the benefit of average earners and the super-rich

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An argument for decision making as close to the people as possible. I'd like to expand it to include smaller countries and never to give away powers (like EU, USA). But more importantly this shows that people are good. Bad decisions are made far from the people.

economist.com

Authoritarians have a secret Achilles heel: City Hall

Mayors have become democracy’s most reliable defenders. American voters should take note, writes Alexander Heffner

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 30/09/2026

Nepal contributes less than 0.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions. And yet, they’re facing the brunt of the climate crisis that rich polluter countries and corporations have caused. The question remains: Who should pay for climate damages?

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The world is a big place but this little peek into Morocco is interesting. With a liberal just winning the elections and a sickly king, his revengeful ex-wife and son to take the throne, one could hope another royal regime collapses.

economist.com

In Morocco, scandal is weakening the king’s shaky rule

Forthcoming elections will do little to shore it up

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Surgery is often a terrible waste of money and health. "[T]wo-thirds of the improvement patients felt after surgery was due, on average, either to the body healing on its own or else to the placebo effects of feeling cared for and prepped for surgery." Better take good care of your body to avoid it!

economist.com

Many surgical interventions are little better than placebo

A succession of clinical trials is upending the field

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"It is by character and not by intellect the world is won." — Evelyn Beatrice Hall, who was born on September 28th 1868

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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life" - Pablo Neruda Lorraine Christie artwork

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I believe in small countries, with higher levels of caring and democracy. Not because I want Russia and China to take us over but because we are stronger, smaller and united they have no chance. More voices, that's what democracy is all about! And liberal capitalism. Options. Opinions. Alternatives.

youtu.be

The Kremlin’s UK Agenda: Why They Want Scotland And Northern Ireland To Leave #shorts

YouTube video by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm an engineer. I study science to understand how things work but my main aim is to make things work. Regardless of how much science has proven to this date. And don't be so literal! "A cure for cancer" means tricks to make you healthier and better your chances of avoiding cancer. Relax...

youtube.com

Biomedical Scientist Fact Checks Pseudoscience Slop

YouTube video by WIRED

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A great look at the evil stupidity of Musk, not unlike the great work of Karl Marx 150 years ago. But however great the reporting is, the solution is fucked up. "Creating a new system" is basically revolution, destroying what we have. Which is exactly what Putin and China wants. Fuck 'em!

youtube.com

How Many Kids Did DOGE Kill?

YouTube video by Adam Conover

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Teq @teq2.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

How can we change the system? Even if it is one small step at a time? (Comment on a video about why rich countries stopped having children, but that's incidental to the comment which is about how lonely is normalised by the system today)

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not to defend Putin in any way but Netanyahu is bad. "Contributing factors include direct military strikes, destruction of 97% of schools and 94% of hospitals, and starvation due to blockade and siege, which the UN Commission linked to increased miscarriages, birth defects, and preventable deaths.

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 26/09/2026

For years, Mike Smith has been locked in a legal battle against six of New Zealand’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters in the agriculture and energy sectors. The government introduced an emergency law to retroactively wipe out Mike's lawsuit and ban the public from ever suing big emitters.

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Main take from the always well informed Bill Browder is about 9 minutes in, about the Russian billionaires Fridman and Usmanov and how they got off the sanctions list. By basically let a government kidnap a Westerner and exchange him. Since it works it will happen again... And again.

youtu.be

The one thing that will instantly stop Putin's war machine | Bill Browder

YouTube video by The Sun

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🇹🇭 Thailand is advertising recruitment for men aged 20 to 58 for a year-long contract service in Russia, which is positioned as work to protect strategic facilities behind the front lines, - Militarnyi The organizers promise to pay for the flight to Russia, accommodation, food and insurance.

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European Democrats @europeandemocrats.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026

🇪🇺 Yesterday, the Commission opened infringement procedures against 18 Member States over delays in applying Europe’s right-to-repair rules. For the European Democratic Party and Sandro Gozi, this has been a clear priority: give power back to consumers.

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European Democrats @europeandemocrats.wsocial.eu · 24/09/2026

In #Russia, even a small space for freedom can carry enormous meaning. #Yabloko, the country’s only registered party openly campaigning against the war, was kept off the federal party-list ballot and excluded from most regional races.

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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 24/09/2026

The EU has sanctioned former RT France chief Xenia Fedorova over her role in Russian influence operations. After RT was suspended in the EU, Fedorova found new platforms in France for familiar Kremlin narratives. No place for Kremlin influence operations in Europe — whatever platform they use.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.

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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What started as one teenager’s idea is now pulling millions of kilograms of plastic out of the world’s oceans. I've been donating to this amazing org. since it's inception. Hope you will too. theoceancleanup.com/donate/ #Innovation #PlasticPlanet #OceanCleanUp #EnvironmentalSolutions

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"This is a spy patent!" Google came up with making money on your data, an idea soon stolen by Facebook but now the original bad, Microsoft, wants to level it up with total surveillance. They want to see all on your screen, hear what you say and play in order to control when to drown you with ads.

youtu.be

Microsoft’s Terrifying New Patent | LG-Style ACR for Games & Software

YouTube video by Gamers Nexus

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Well done Britain! Remember this in the future and don't ever enter the EU again, please.

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

När Folkpartiet slutade vara liberaler bytte de istället namn till Liberalerna och gick med i en regering stödd av nynazister. Nu är de så känsliga att ett bu-rop får dem att avbryta dialogen med Naturskyddsföreningen. Att människor engagerar sig tycker de "skapar spänningar"! En blir som en umgås.

sverigesnatur.org

Liberalerna: Dags att dumpa Naturskyddsföreningen

Ordföranden svarar: Haft dialog med politiker i mer än hundra år.

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Indeed, step by step the world is getting better.

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We mustn't forget to differentiate between the people of a country and the regime of a country. Most in the USA are not idiots even though the regime is full of them. Russians are not evil even if Putin is. There are Israelis seeing the genocide. Chinese seeing the dictatorship. Etc. ❤️

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

With idiots destroying the world it's easy to forget that most people are good people.

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The power of the people knows no limits.

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This makes me think of Karl Marx. He was a good man, intelligent too. He wanted to make the world a better place and his reports of the state of the working man were outstanding. He was also brainwashed by Hegel and got lost, never finding a solution. Meanwhile piecemeal social engineering improved

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Reminder that Palestine the victim of GENOCIDE is banned from the UN Conference. While Netanyahu the perpetrator of GENOCIDE will get to give a speech at the UN Conference.

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How cool is this! Imagine how much we still do not know...

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Stop wasting money! "France, where government revenue exceeds 50% of GDP, already has little room to manoeuvre." "The longer governments put off the reckoning, the nastier it will become." The same goes for everyone who do not pay off their debts (if they have any).

economist.com

Soaring bond yields, gaping deficits and towering debts: what could go wrong?

The rich world is flirting with fiscal disaster

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I need to contemplate this, stuck as I am in a pattern of doing nothing and dreaming about a rosy future...

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When male bosses get a daughter they get more equal. A strong argument for all activities where the sexes meet. And maybe against gender division in sports?

economist.com

What having a daughter does to a boss

Male managers hire more women after becoming a “girl dad”

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Air pollution costs us 6% of GDP globally. My solution is to forbid all street parking and set the maximum speed in cities to 30 km/h.

youtube.com

Dirty air is killing Europeans and costing trillions. These cities prove change is possible

YouTube video by euronews

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's amazing what money can buy. No matter how you managed to gain it! This dude looks like a dork but make no mistakes, he's one of the world's most wanted men.

economist.com

He was one of the world’s most wanted men. So he bought a west African country

How Jos Leijdekkers turned Sierra Leone into a drug-dealer’s paradise

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Markus the Swiss Finn @swissfinn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The main take of this clip is the authoritarian attacks on democracy, how bots and grayzone operations have the aim of winning by the old divide & conquer tactic. So before you air any opinion, have a good thought about it first! Who does this benefit?

youtu.be

EX CIA: Brutal reality of Russian intelligence tactics explained including assassinations & sabotage

YouTube video by The Sun

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