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lunarul@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation35·1 month agoI opted against taking a burner phone—a move that some legal experts had advised, in the press—believing it would provoke suspicion, and simply decided to give my phone and social media a superficial clean.
But C.B.P. had prepared for me well before my arrival. They did not need to identify me at LAX as someone worthy of investigation: they had evidently decided that weeks before. […] In either case, a U.S. government officer must have read my work and decided that I was not fit to enter the country. Because Officer Martinez had apparently read all of my material so long ago, he didn’t even know that I had taken all this material down. What this means is that, by the time a foreigner cleans his social media in preparation for a trip to the U.S., as much of our news media has been urging us to do, it may already be too late.
This had nothing to do with recovering any data from the phone. The information was already known to them.
lunarul@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What communities or instances do you have blocked to make your Lemmy experience more enjoyable?3·2 months agoJust checked and it’s a whole bunch of nsfw ones (I don’t block all nsfw, but there are a lot of weird communities in that category that I don’t need to see), a bunch of German ones because they were taking over the feed at one point, and theonion (which I don’t really find funny anymore)
lunarul@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks.English5·2 months agoThey were behind white genocide in South Africa
lunarul@lemmy.worldto Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Czech climber Adam Ondra climbing El Capitán in Yosemite National Park3·3 months agoMore pixels:
Rope and anchor much easier to see here.
Over 10,000km. This is home, it’s where my kids were born and are growing up. But there’s also “back home”, where I spent more than half of my life, where I met my wife, and where both our families are other than the two of us and our children.