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The best VPNs for staying anonymous and secure on the web

Mashable Tech

Don't freak out, but your gut is right: Your internet service provider (ISP) is tracking your every click to compile anonymous browsing logs they can potentially sell to advertising companies , or even cough up to government agencies in the interest of censorship. What is a VPN? Hold up — are VPNs legal? Split tunneling.

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Guest Post by Heather McLeod Grant: Reflections on the Personal Democracy Forum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The audience was also more male than female (60%, according to one estimate), certainly more liberal than conservative (at one point someone asked how many Republicans were in the audience and only 10 people raised their hands, out of 1000+!), and disconcertingly white. Facebook now has 200M users, the majority of whom are outside of the US.

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How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years

The AI Alignment Forum

As U2 trains, it sculpts more challenging and realistic tasks from github repositories on the internet. Surely intelligence cant emerge from a pool of silicon and lightning, isolated from the physical world except through the exhaust of society spewed onto the internet. Previously, U3 was conservative. Your friend.

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Social networks solved their 2016 election problems, but their 2020 problems are bigger

The Verge

New York Times journalist Kevin Roose has documented that conservative outrage bait often dominates the top stories of the day in total number of interactions. Nothing that Russia or Iran or China could say is anywhere near as wild as what the president is saying,” Clint Watts, a former FBI agent who tracks foreign disinformation, told NBC.

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Why Trump’s Truth Social may not survive the hype

The Verge

Today, let’s talk about some of the less obvious ways that conservative social networks keep slipping up — and whether Truth Social, which has the backing of President Trump, can manage to avoid their fate. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. First, the news: Truth Social is live in the App Store, and hit No.

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