Suzie Dawson

A year ago today I was violently arrested dragged down stone steps painfully handcuffed roughly handled by a gang of thuggish police who managed knock my glasses to the pavement, expose the top half of my body, all of my bra and not one of them, man or woman did the decent thing to save me being exposed. I’m 75 now. I didn’t shout, struggle or give any sort of abuse or even disrespect the police. I was peacefully holding a piece of paper with words on- nothing more. I was held in a cell until 11.30 and effectively held under house arrest for weeks. I’m charged under the terrorism act. The court dates keep getting changed and we are a real problem. I feel a connection with the thousands of us who have done this - Im proud that we are fighting for our freedom of speech, our right to protest and against genocide. It’s not much but it’s the least we can do.

Palantir sells governments a war room that costs millions a year. So, a guy named Elie just rebuilt it, put it on GitHub, and gave it away. It's called World Monitor. Open it and you get a live 3D globe with 500+ news feeds pouring in across 15 categories, all summarized by AI as they land. > Military movements. > Economic shocks. > Natural disasters. > Cyber incidents. > Flight paths. > Shipping lanes. + 56 different map layers you can stack on top of each other. It scores 31 countries on a stress index and updates the number as things happen. It watches 29 stock exchanges, commodities, and crypto in one panel. It runs local AI through Ollama, so you can use the whole thing without a single API key. Native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. 25 languages. Works out of the box after one clone.

Twitter is literally spyware. Understand what it is doing to you. Here is the evidence:

Twitter is literally spyware. Understand what it is doing to you. Here is the evidence:

This is what I mean when I tell you that companies don't take your privacy seriously. Alaska Air already has my government ID. They know my legal name, my birthdate, my face. I cannot board their plane without handing that over. But that's not enough. Just to view their website they require me to DEGRADE my privacy AND security so they can collect even more data about me. They won't let me even look at their website unless they collect my IP, geolocation, finger print my browser, and collect any information they can use to identify me even more. The data they want is precise enough that it makes me trackable across the whole internet long after I use their site. This is not for my privacy or security. When companies say they value your privacy, what they really mean is your privacy is valuable to them, like an inventory item. They harvest privacy, not protect it. AlaskaAir you need to do way better than this.