On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

EmptyWheel notices the time frame of Tucker Carlson's FOIA request re: the FBI:

https://twitter.com/DewlineO/status/1422983520566317057

Slashdot re: gadget ownership:

https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/07/10/0120236/by-2030-you-wont-own-any-gadgets

A WTH moment re: the Ontario government under Doug Ford:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-19-ontario-august-4-lecce-back-to-school-plan-1.6128910

Slashdot notices Putinist efforts to redefine "cybercrime" at the UN. Oh, and they want "backdoors" into all our computers every-damn-where:

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/08/04/1642259/russia-tells-un-it-wants-vast-expansion-of-cybercrime-offenses-plus-network-backdoors-online-censorship

Spark on Privacy:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/tech-titans-like-google-and-facebook-are-built-on-a-house-of-cards-says-oxford-philosopher-1.5893760

Something I'm listening to on the radio right now: Nora Young interviewing Jonathan Albright of Elon University.

Audio is available here:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/339-fake-news-synthetic-ears-and-more-1.3894283/how-fake-news-spreads-1.3895022