The Daily Shaarli

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July 14, 2021

Step by step encryption with the updated Email Self-Defense guide

we should have the inalienable right to know exactly what data from us, or from our loved ones, is being exposed when using software. We should have the right to view whatever data software is collecting from us, so we can make an informed decision whether or not we want to allow a program into our lives.

England’s Footballers Are Changing the Conversation. It’s Time the Left Caught Up | Novara Media
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The left can't let its anxieties about nationalism stop it from joining, and shaping, the conversation around football, writes Chardine Taylor-Stone.

This entire country is haunted - Macleans.ca

"But the reality is this entire country is haunted by the violence enacted to create what we now call “Canada.” These acts were done on behalf of every non-Indigenous family who proudly calls themselves Canadians, because this is what its leaders deemed necessary to carve out this colonial, capitalist nation from the already occupied land it once was."

Read Cornel West’s scathing resignation letter to Harvard Divinity School. ‹ Literary Hub
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"In the letter, West details his comparatively low salary; Harvard’s decision not to offer him tenure, which he suggests is due to his vocal support for Palestine; racism “expressed in the language of superficial diversity”; and his colleagues’ silence when West’s mother died. To West, these actions constitute “an intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy of deep depths.” "

“We Just Want the Basics”: Rare Protests in Cuba Amid Deep Economic Crisis, Ongoing U.S. Blockade
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Cuban journalist Daniel Montero, a journalist with the independent news organization Belly of the Beast, says many people were demanding an end to communism on the island, but the protests were not entirely driven by ideology. “We just want more food. We just want medicine. We just want the basics,” he says many protesters told him in interviews.

'Burn It All Down' Is a Call for Decolonization, Not Arson | The Tyee
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A suggestion. Condemn oppression rather than projecting outrage at outraged First Nations.