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This title was originally "Out of the ashes, a Pheonix."

It only took us days of protesting, eventually involving all 5o states and several other countries, but all four officers involved in the death of George Floyd have finally been charged.

There seems to be reason for hope, despite the added pain and in some cases loss of life that that caused.

If you see only one, see this one:

But you should see more than one if you can. I have curated a selection, not comprehensive by any means, here.

Because maybe we are getting somewhere after all.

May I proudly present, A Faustian Original.

Coronavirus USA, June 2020:
An adaptation of Nina Simone's 1964 civil rights song,
"Mississippi G*dd*mn."

lyrics by johanna Faust (@femalefaust)
music arranged and performed by Alex Jerousek (@schwa_iska)

BE SAFE.

And what are the advertisers paying for? Audiences.

And so it isn't so much that the Media are selling you a product -- their output --

They're also selling Advertisers a product -- YOU..

VIDEO: THE FIVE FILTERS OF THE MASS MEDIA MACHINE

did I mention it had a rockin' soundtrack? Somewhewre between prog and orchestral metal...

SOCIAL DISTANCING BINGO

I have almost half the board. h/t @entrxpv for the first quadrant.

stay well.

Be seeing you.

From Ready.gov -- a better one than they seem to have up right now:

Quarantine/Shelter-In-Place Checklist.

So I made a photo mosaic of faces of people on the Internet, the censored, the demonized, the curious: podcasters and YouTube niche celebs and profiles from everywhere, from Twitter and Instagram and Myspace and Reddit and Pinterest and Snapchat and Tumblr and LiveJournal and even Facebook; faces of activists from BDS and BLM and OWS; faces of journalists of all kinds, anonymous and pseudonymous and eponymous, citizens all; whistleblowers and more whistleblowers and more whistleblowers; magazine publishers and rock stars and politicians and webmasters and authors and artists and poets and revolutionaries.

All of you who think for ourselves. Thousands and thousands of faces.

I made a mosaic. You should see it. I made it for you.

It is seven and three quarter feet tall, but fully zoomable on your device’s screen. Check it out. I call it “We Are All Assange.”

It's a hoot.

Fulltext of PDF for download here.

As well as a graphic -- "Vision 2030?" -- inspired therefrom.

She tried to tell everyone about the rampant abuse of children at the hands of the Catholic Church... way back in 1992. She was booed, and poorly understood.

Now, I have an idea, and you can help.

Let's get Saturday Night Live to have her back on the show.

More information here.

...MAY HURT YOU.

Recently the Supreme Court ruled that to access to the vast amount of information, logged by your cellphone many times per minute on exactly where you have been and for how long, that the cellphone provider keeps for five years, a warrant is required. Fantastic. Obvious, right?

Well, no, and more importantly, as a privacy "win," understanding the new ruling is counter-intuitive. Reports on the ruling barely mention certain things as they rush to soothe an American public justifiably edgy after all the post Snowden lies. Such as:

it does NOT apply to real-time location data - so patterns can be reassembled after new tracking

it does NOT apply to data collected by the private sector - so data can be bought or traded

it does NOT apply to investigations related to national security - and remember, most invocations of the Patriot Act involved drugs, not terrorism

Private entities regularly share their data with the government, without a warrant, and even if they didn't, a trivial amount of real-time location tracking will reestablish the behavioral patterns of most individuals with alarming accuracy. Enough to discover most if not all of their important social affiliations. Include the call metadata, and you have nearly all of it; track their friends for a week, and, without a warrant, but with the info already available, I am sure the degree to which their privacy has been infringed upon exceeds that with which the Founding fathers felt comfortable.

For more detailed analysis, information, and links to sources, please visit No Warrant, No Problem: New SCOTUS Ruling Does Not Apply To Real Time Location Tracking.

I am publishing below an excerpt (called the 'main point') from my post with exhaustive links called YOUR PRIVATE LIFE JUST SUDDENLY EXPLODED. The rest of the post and a complete bibliography of links is at the source.

YOUR PRIVATE LIFE JUST SUDDENLY EXPLODED.

Evidence surfaced recently -- proof -- that each of us, that every one of us with a cellphone, might as well have a corresponding dot moving and blinking in real time, geolocated on a map somewhere. Did I say might as well? I mean does. (Yes that map is real.)

Find links below.

Let that sink in. THAT GIANT MAP IS REAL. It is a map of all connected devices. If you have a phone, or laptop, or tablet, or router for that matter, you are on it. I mean that absolutely literally.

If you own a cell phone, this means you.

[snip]

First we learned that our private location information may be, and is, easily retrieved, without a warrant, or our informed consent, and with little to no oversight, at the will, or even whim of almost any police officer in America...

Then, we learned that, until recently, your location information could be retrieved by absolutely anyone with your phone number.

I repeat, up until may 17th, 2018, it was trivially easy for absolutely anyone to locate absolutely anyone else's phone WITH ONLY THE NUMBER…

… and it very probably still isn't that hard.

The files to which the ads are linked are highly suspicious, so much so that I didn't run them even quarantined.

Screenshots of the ads are here, as well as links to the online tests. You can look at the embedded code yourself there, safely; it was labeled "suspicious," which seems to me to be very possibly an understatement.

Be safe, and

Be seeing you.

I DECIDED TO FORMALLY ADDRESS THOSE PLAYING NUCLEAR CHICKEN RECENTLY.

PLEASE SNAP A SELFIE, POST A LINK, I WILL ADD IT.

ANYONE WANT TO CREATE A FACEBOOK MIRROR PAGE, FEEL FREE.

MAYBE SOMEONE IS LISTENING. I KNOW HAVING SEEN SOME THINGS, I HAD TO SAY SOMETHING.

THANK YOU.

It has been found.

Go here
for the full text of my description, with images as closely resembling as I could find.

From the conclusion:

Notably, there were two types of nuclear scenarios with which The Powers That Be in my dreamworld had not seen fit to torture me, and with which I therefore had not had the misfortune to have had any familiarity. One of them is the aftereffects, environmental and political, of a modern-day First Strike by the United States....

Excerpts:

Dreamt, last night, that WW3 started.

And we may have started it.

To All America's Politically Correct,
Whiny, Entitled Snowflakes:

Stop destroying other citizen's property and do something relevant.

Can you handle it?

I pulled the quote from a most excellent video -- in which George Orwell travels through time to tell us a thing or two -- conjured for us by Juice Media...

And it is just perfect...

S-C-H-E-M-I-N-G.

Couldn't resist. Enjoy.

(the attached original graphic, a work of political satire, may also be viewed here).

because we all have something to hide: they want to make sure that with only six posts from the IP of the most honest of bloggers, they can therein find enough to have his domain shut down, his accounts frozen, his name on the no-fly list --- or his ass indefinitely detained in an undisclosed location.