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- China: Trump decision to end some Hong Kong trading privileges 'doomed to fail' https://thehill.com/policy/international/china/500370-china-trump-decision-to-end-some-hong-kong-trading-privileges 3 comments politics
- Trudeau says he failed to see the hurt of blackface due to the layers of privilege he has https://abcnews.go.com/international/video/trudeau-racism-layers-privilege-65727575 4 comments nottheonion
- US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#625617 - Java 7 fails to restrict access to privileged code http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/625617 10 comments java
- Are Progressives Depressed or Too Privileged to Produce Social Change? Or Are We Just Failing to Organize Effectively? Real change seems almost impossible. What are we doing wrong? http://www.alternet.org/story/144982/are_progressives_depressed_or_too_privileged_to_produce_social_change__or_are_we_just_failing_to_organize_effectively__ 5 comments politics
- Allies, Don’t Fail Us Again: Many white people have been moved by the current movement, but how will they respond when true equality threatens their privilege? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/opinion/white-privilege-civil-rights.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_200608&instance_id=19161&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id=68337520&segment_id=30332&user_id=b6e55f6f6979146395b2946f4fb0e01e 25 comments politics
- Trump’s Executive Privilege Claims Shot Down Faster Than You Can Say “Failed Coup” | Meanwhile, the January 6 committee has been issuing subpoenas for Trump information at breakneck speed. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/11/donald-trump-executive-privilege-subpoenas 96 comments politics
- Apple failed to patch Rootpipe Mac OS X Yosemite vulnerability but claimed they did. Didn't port patch to OS X 10.9 and below because it was too much work. Any code in any privilege level can gain root access. http://thehackernews.com/2015/04/rootpipe-mac-os-x-vulnerability.html 14 comments technology
- Ann Romney, You didn't build that, "the lives that were wrecked because Mitt ruthlessly failed to exercise that “privilege” of helping his wife boasted of. Her naked attempts to pander to women is offensive; her pretense at having walked a mile in our shoes is completely disingenuous." http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2012/08/ann-romney-you-really-didnt-build-that/ 167 comments politics
- These are the classic hallmarks of fascism. The strategy is to obstruct recovery, facilitate collapse, and then incite the faux-populism of public resentment to re-install a corporatist oligarchy which has failed, but which will not abide a reduction of its privileges or a diminution of its control. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/15 6 comments business