You don't hear so much about it but this #monkeypox is really getting around, with nearly 80k #cases #worldwide https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/biden-.. People involved in #lgbt groups have been most #concerned about #monkeypox because it overwhelmingly affects their #communities , despite the #media and #governments claiming otherwise. It's been almost exclusively those involved with #gay #sex who are getting and sharing it...
Seems like a bunch of #governments will be handing out #payments to #offset against #energy #costs https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/german-.. Surely it would make sense just to temporarily #reduce #tax ? Anyway, I assume #companies will do all they can to #absorb these #additional #taxpayer #funds ...
#apple finally backing down on #csam #scanning on #devices that would most definitely end up being #abused by #state #actors and #governments in general to #hunt for people: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/15/app.. Looking at the #website #comments , it looks like there is some #blame of #hongkong #protestors too...
Some weird shit going down in #china - people are going for long periods without #electricity https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/millio.. It's even having an effect on #foreign #manufacturing - supposedly one of the massive attractive to #china ! https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/top-ap.. Huh, turns out #unstable #governments are not #reliable ! Weird!
And so the *massive* push for #environment #climatechange begins: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environ.. The #un 's #ipcc report is now going to be used to enforce massive changes to everybody's lives, despite the data being clear since the year 2000 - *now* is the time for this apparently. This is the ' #builbackbetter ' #agenda and #governments look to capitalise on a #decimated #economy and way of life.
Reading an article by #aardvark again this morning: https://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2021/0802.s.. He appears to believe that #gst is partially to blame for the lowering of #livingstandards in #nz - I would also suggest that #governments are by design are not incentivized to solve problems outside of their limited #term in office. This is exactly why the #uk has a #houseoflords - which consists of older people who attempt to plan outside of their lifetimes.
Ouch, seems quite 'easy' for a #hacker to gain access to a company #network if they are so inclined with the use of a #stolen #laptop https://dolosgroup.io/blog/2021/7/9/from.. Apparently the most effective defence against this is an #encrypted #drive ... More needs to be done in general to defend against such attacks, but #governments seem to be entirely against #encryption for exactly the reason that it makes these devices harder to #hack !
I'm not even surprised, it is well known that #governments around the world #spy on #journalists https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j.. This is exactly the shit that #snowden , #manning and #assange were warning people about. And of course the #democrats are in on this in the #us - they used exactly this to spy on #trump and continue to try to get #snowden currently in the #uk - arrested for no reason.