Nicholas Merrill
@nickcalyx
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Founder: @phreeli & @CalyxInstitute & @CalyxOS - @[email protected] - personal account, speaking as an individual
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Joined July 2010
Fred Korematsu is my hero. He was willing to fight for people he didn't know. I've just donated in his memory to the Korematsu Institute. Their important work advances racial equity, social justice and human rights for all. Please consider supporting them with a small donation?
Today is #GivingTuesdayNow, a global day of generosity & unity in response to COVID-19. As we work to provide students the digital learning tools they need, we'd be so grateful if you joined our #GiveinMay campaign. Any gift would make a big difference! https://t.co/PcgixWj6BT
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Now, Merrill has launched a phone company: Phreeli (as in “speak freely”) aims to give its users the closest thing possible to anonymity, a goal it achieves by collecting almost no identifiable information about them. 🔗 https://t.co/lmnrtzhI5e
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A new anonymous phone carrier startup called Phreeli, launching today, will let you sign up for cell service with almost no identifiable information—not even your name. All it collects is a ZIP code, the minimum info legally required for tax purposes.
wired.com
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.
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Please check out our white paper about Phreeli's "Double Blind Armadillo", a new system architecture and cryptographic protocol that integrates unlinkability, blind relay, and blind tokens to enhance user #privacy. https://t.co/XYCs426Uzi
phreeli.com
Double-Blind Armadillo is a new privacy-focused system architecture and cryptographic protocol designed around the principle that no single party should be able to connect an individual’s real...
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I remember how much Muslims were lectured about the importance of a right to offend being part of a right to free speech. We were told that we must accept offensive and racist remarks about our faith, our Prophet, etc, in the name of free speech and integrating into 'Western
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As an Italian, as a European, I remind my German friends: you produced Nazism, as we Italians and Spaniards produced fascism. It already brought Europe to ruins once. You are responsible for what happens in your country. CHECK YOUR POLICE. Things are spiraling out of control.
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Now that Andrew Cuomo is deigning to talk to voters, New Yorkers can actually tell him how we *really* feel. Here's our guide on how to approach Cuomo and create a memorable experience that will make him regret running in the general election.
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This is a big deal. The former Attorney General of Israel, Michael Benyair is now calling Israel's actions in Gaza genocide. "To eternal shame. Jews, who suffered a genocide 80 years ago, are committing genocide in Gaza. Shame, rage, and sorrow." 👇
לדראון עולם. יהודים, שעברו רצח עם לפני 80 שנה, עושים רצח עם בעזה. בושה, זעם ויגון:
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The Trump administration has instituted an "ideological deportation policy," targeting people for expulsion from the country purely based on their political views, says @JameelJaffer.
democracynow.org
The first trial in a case challenging the Trump administration’s policy of detaining and deporting international students and professors who participate in pro-Palestinian activism is underway in...
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If our elected leaders are so proud to “stand with Israel”, they should have to campaign alongside video footage of Israel’s endless mass murder spree and explain why they believe their constituents have to continue funding it:
This video is further evidence of the massacre Israel carried out this afternoon in the Shati Camp. Earlier, I wrote about the strike targeting a spot where people charged their phones, but the video I shared at the time didn’t show that clearly. Now, a new video—posted two hours
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The US-brokered "peace deal" between the DRC and Rwanda is actually wild. The US is getting access to $2 trillion worth of DRC minerals in exchange for forcing the withdrawal of Rwandan-backed M23 militias. That's one-tenth of the DRC's total mineral wealth, more than any
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Anybody who grew up or lives in New York can identify the New York in Zohran. His campaign was powered by a profound authenticity, an irrepressible love and respect for the city. He also carries with him a set of political, cosmopolitan values that connects three continents. In
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SUCKER PUNCH‼️ Most Western politicians are either bought or blackmailed. Tucker Carlson has been a better journalist in this one interview than most of the media in decades.
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I lived and traveled in Iran for months. In Tehran I lived with the family of a retired bank worker who saw me looking for housing. I roomed with his son for months, ate all my meals with them, and they never accepted any money. Once I was sick and throwing up and they all came
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One of the most frequently misrepresented federal statutes—often falsely used to justify unconstitutional presidential war powers—is the War Powers Resolution (or Act) (50 U.S.C. §§ 1541-1550). If only more people would read it. Contrary to what you may have heard about the War
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Dick Cheney didn’t care what US intelligence said about Iraq WMDs either, so he had it fabricated to go to war. Trump is too lazy to bother to fabricate:
CNN: You’ve always said you don’t believe Iran should have a nuke. Tulsi Gabbard testified in March that Iran wasn’t building a nuclear weapon. Trump: I don’t care what she said. They were very close to getting a nuke.
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The great thing about American politicians is that they're cheap so you buy them in bulk
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This video on Israel’s nuclear threat to the Middle East should be mandatory viewing for every single member of Congress.
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