Thomas Sankara, political leader of Burkina Faso in the 1980s, was born on December 21, 1949 in Yako, a northern town in the Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso) of French West Africa. He was the son of a Mossi mother and a Peul father, and personified the diversity of the Burkinabè people of the area. In his adolescence, Sankara witnessed the country’s independence from France in 1960 and the repressive and volatile nature of the regimes that ruled throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
From 1970 to 1973, Sankara attended the military academy of Antsirabe in Madagascar where he trained to be an army officer. In 1974, as a young lieutenant in the Upper Volta army, he fought in a border war with Mali and returned home a hero. Sankara then studied in France and later in Morocco, where he met Blaise Compaoré and other civilian students from Upper Volta who later organized leftist organizations in the country. While commanding the Commando Training Center in the city of Pô in 1976, Thomas Sankara grew in popularity by urging his soldiers to help civilians with their work tasks. He additionally played guitar at community gatherings with a local band, Pô Missiles.
Throughout the 1970s, Sankara increasingly adopted leftist politics. He organized the Communist Officers Group in the army and attended meetings of various leftist parties, unions, and student groups, usually in civilian clothes.
In 1981, Sankara briefly served as the Secretary of State for Information under the newly formed Military Committee for Reform and Military Progress (CMRPN). This was a group of officers who had recently seized power. In April 1982, he resigned his post and denounced the CMRPM. When another military coup placed the Council for the People’s Safety in power, Sankara was subsequently appointed prime minister in 1983 but was quickly dismissed and placed under house arrest, causing a popular uprising.
On August 4, 1983, Blaise Compaoré orchestrated the “August Revolution,” or a coup d’état against the Council for the People’s Safety. The new regime which called itself the National Council for the Revolution (CNR) made 34-year-old Thomas Sankara president. As president, Sankara sought to end corruption, promote reforestation, avert famine, support women’s rights, develop rural areas, and prioritize education and healthcare. He renamed the country ‘Burkina Faso,’ meaning, “the republic of honorable people.”
On October 15, 1987, Thomas Sankara was killed with twelve other officials in a coup d’état instigated by Blaise Compaoré, his former political ally. He was 37 at the time of his death.
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Algorithms fucking terrify me, Godamn. I just logged into Facebook the first time since 2019, and some how it suggested one of my tinder dates from the past year as people I might know.
Like, does this fact not unnerve anyone else. I mightve looked at her LinkedIn awhile back but seriously. Are all of these algorithms communicating with one another? Am I just paranoid? Incomprehensible stuff
Just assume your phone is always spying on you, unless you installed a costum OS
I run a custom OS and my phone is still definitely spying on me
It's definitely still possible even with a custom OS, just less likely. Also depends on what apps you have installed
It sounds like I must return to being shamed for having an android
If you can't be bothered with installing another OS, I'd stick with an iphone. Vanilla android spies way more aggressively than ios. It's also possible they found the connection through browser cookies rather than phone system level spying. Or it's possible there are data sharing agreements between facebook and tinder, in which case you can't really do anything on your end unless you create new emails and pseudonyms for every app.
Hell, credit agencies sell your high level financial data to advertisers and credit cards sell your transaction data (as anonymized as is legally required*) to advertisers. I'd actually be shocked if Tinder wasn't selling successful and failed match data to advertisers. They're probably working out some way to figure out how people react to different messaging types with sentiment analysis, since that wouod also be valuable.
* this one is actually generally fine, it seems to be pretty strict because the level of data they can sell is like "this person has shopped at a bookstore at least once" or "this person has shopped at a sport's equipment store at least once".
They are communicating with each other. Facebook and other websites use something called pixel trackers or pixel cookies or something. Firefox + ublock and shut down a lot of it.
graph.facebok.com stays permanently blocked on my DNS/pihole for this reason.
All the companies are connected on the back end one way or atnother. You could opt out and they might delete all your data. There will still be enough from everyone around you to perfectly map your life anyway