Before you know it Langdon himself is subject to arrest or worse by the Czech secret police for the somewhat bathetic crime of setting off a hotel fire alarm and then jumping, some will think foolishly, into a freezing river. Meanwhile there’s someone who thinks they are an actual golem – complete with clumpy boots, dramatic black cloak and clay-covered noggin – wandering around the place bumping people off. There’s even a well-appointed secret underground laboratory with an honest-to-goodness monorail.
The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown review – weapons-grade nonsense from beginning to end
At The Guardian Alex Clark has ‘Literature can be a form of resistance’: Lea Ypi talks to Elif Shafak about writing in the age of demagogues, as they: 'discuss the rise of populism, censorship -- and how today’s conflicts all come from the unresolved trauma of the past'.
Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras
- 404 Media currently has 10 articles on Flock.
- Flock Safety and Flock Nova: Search Once. See Everything. The Public Safety Data Platform that transforms scattered data into fast answers.
- 404 Media currently has 10 articles on Flock.
- Flock Safety and Flock Nova: Search Once. See Everything. The Public Safety Data Platform that transforms scattered data into fast answers.
“We [Don’t] Care About Your Privacy”
Privacy Guides: “They all claim “Your privacy is important to us.” How can we know if that’s true? With privacy washing being normalized by big tech and startups alike, it becomes increasingly difficult to evaluate who we can trust with our personal data.
Fortunately, there are red (and green) flags we can look for to help us. If you haven’t heard this term before, privacy washing is the practice of misleadingly, or fraudulently, presenting a product, service, or organization as being trustworthy for data privacy, when in fact it isn’t.
Privacy washing isn’t a new trend, but it has become more prominent in recent years, as a strategy to gain trust from progressively more suspicious prospect customers.
Unless politicians and regulators start getting much more serious and severe about protecting our privacy rights, this trend is likely to only get worse.
In this article, we will examine common indicators of privacy washing, and the “red” and “green” flags we should look for to make better-informed decisions and avoid deception…”
Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds WSJ. Seems like this would be news if it was 30 years ago
Czechs Plan $14 Billion Deficit With Bigger Spending on Defense Bloomberg
Poland plans record defense spending of 4.8 percent of GDP Militaar Artuell
Told to Leave, No Place to Go Working Class Storytelling
Presidential politics can be stranger than fiction September 4, 2025
Wendy Crew of Lane Cove North was browsing a box of free books, when one stood out: The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump. “Space on our bookshelves is scarce so I passed. But now I’m curious. Has anyone had the intestinal fortitude to read this, and what’s the verdict? If you’d like to read it, it’s on Amazon for $34.08. And while in the mood, you may enjoy reading Vladimir Putin: Life Coach, $27.99.”
