The answer is a big NO!

Sure, tech companies and data brokers have probably already collected a lot of info on you. But it's not too late! Not only are there data removal services...but those companies still need a constant flow of your data to keep their profiles updated. They WANT you to give up, but

Just a reminder: Flu season is a choice

There's a more secure alternative to texting via your phone's native messaging app. Signal is a free app that employs end-to-end encryption and we have a step-by-step guide to help you learn how to use it. ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-…

While Denmark moves to protect citizens’ biometric identity, Australia’s Anthony Albanese eSafety Commissioner Anika Wells MP push mandatory (biometric)ID/age checks for all internet users — framed as “kids’ safety,” but risking our privacy and handing power to Big Tech.

Well, at least they admit there is an Asshole class.

Weeks before Govt rolls out (biometric)ID/age checks for social media/internet—risking data misuse by tech giants—it warns Aussies to "enhance online security before Christmas... to protect personal info." The irony is suffocating. Hypocrisy. Anthony Albanese eSafety Commissioner Anika Wells MP

Watch out for this video showing British children being instructed to bow and say "Allahu Akbar." We found it was AI-generated: snopes.com/fact-check/vid…

Specialist doctors are clinicians who also run *complex* small businesses, not a welfare scheme. Medical schools produce more graduates than there are specialist training positions.

"The govt does have all the info about what individual specialists charge, but does not publish it". If you publish that info, you need to publish for *all professions* ATO has info on the cost of running Dr/specialist practices, so publish that.

Trump getting booed at the Commanders game

The crisis at the BBC shows how embattled and defensive serious news organisations have become - and how close they are to yielding, pre-emptively, and being overwhelmed, by authoritarian populists.

Wear a red poppy. Wear a white poppy. Don't wear a poppy. Their sacrifice means we can choose. Be grateful to them. 🙏 #NeverForget #NeverAgain #RemembranceDay

Too much focus on neo-Nazis being antisemitic — they’re also violently anti-LGBTQI, anti-immigration, anti-Islam, and misogynistic. Chris Minns Anthony Albanese : No need for new laws. Enforce the ones we already have. theguardian.com/australia-news…

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Wars are manufactured by elites who rarely send their own kids to fight. Ordinary families pay the price in blood while politicians and corporations profit. Our "leaders" should volunteer their families first, starting with Marles and Albanese.

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I’m much less exhausted by the flood of mis/disinformation than by what causes it, which isn’t mentioned. It’s the deliberate destruction of trust, in everything, and the resultant way every tiny facet of human life is now turned into an interminable debate. A fight for status.

"The government however will make it easier for you ... if you just sign up for Digital ID ... and that is the whole purpose of the legislation"

“Much like farm animals on growth hormones, humans can easily live the entirety of their existence sustained by the distractions of a technofeudalistic society, never for a minute raising their heads to notice that they, in fact, are inhabitants of an enclosure”