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Great new feature in the latest Signal app. If you enable disappearing messages the meta data of calls and missed calls gets deleted as well.
I know this was a long standing goal for them, but the engineering behind it took time.
#Privacy @signalapp
@flexghost I'm not sure this works, but Robert Smith is so impressive he can overcome just about anything. I like Olivia Rodrigo in general, although her music isn't really my thing. And she does seem to have deep respect in the music world.
(drinking Mug Root Beer Floats Vanilla Howler)
Olivia Rodrigo, Robert Smith – Friday I'm in Love [Live]
Agree that Robert Smith carries the duo
"Political self-consciousness, or certainly anything we’d now call visionary politics, would have been impossible."
#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything
(2/2)
I'm now onto chapter 4 of The Dawn of Everything. I really like that Graeber and Wengrow cover some of the archeological evidence explored in a somewhat sensationalist way people like Graham Hancock. Places like Göbekli Tepi and Poverty Point. These sites so pose interesting questions, and its good to be exposed to more scholarly but still radical ways of thinking about what they might tell us.
Kind wild how the whole tech industry is just people who did and didn’t get The Lord of The Rings
@danirabbit Remember, they’re the same guys who argue we don’t need English/literature/communication classes because STEM subjects are more important.
Good things are possible in times of great upheaval.
Meanwhile though, the grief. The immense unfathomable grief.
@violetmadder yes. Thanks for being here, Violet
This matters a lot because people are constantly asking me if they should set up a duress passcode in order to fool law enforcement.
The “gift article” link, that goes to a paywalled site where the gift has already expired.
Because the site in question is a gatekeeping site for a journal that’s long been at the heart of capitalism, a system that steals gifts from the past to steal from the present and the future
“You’re not fun anymore”
This was one of the last things a friend said to me before ghosting me over my disabilities & covid caution.
My wearing a mask? Not fun
My being bedbound? Not fun
My inability to travel? Not fun
She then said “I don’t know how you can live this way”
Almost everyone with chronic illness experiences this at some point.
Many ableds want us to hide our disabilities.
They want us to be the same as we were before because it makes things more comfortable for them.
If we show them the depths of our suffering?
They can’t cope.
They see us as better off dead.
Let me be perfectly clear… we live this way because we have no choice.
No one taps you on the shoulder and asks if you’re ok with becoming disabled.
No one gets your consent before stripping you of your health and leaving you bed bound.
It just happens. It can occur in the blink of an eye, and there’s not a damn thing we can do about it.
We can’t just go to the doctor and demand to be “fixed”.
We have to adapt. We have to grieve. We have to learn to accept our new life and find ways to cope.
Is it fun? Of course not.
Is it necessary? Yes.
Does it mean we aren’t fun anymore? No.
We’re still the same people we were before we became ill, our bodies just don’t function the way they used to.
We still experience joy and sadness. We still crave human connection.
People who decide we aren’t “fun anymore” are missing out on all the joy and friendship we have to offer.
They’re also denying the reality of the human condition:
Disability happens to almost everyone eventually.
It’s a minority group you can join at any time.
Chronic illness isn’t “fun”. I’m not going to lie and say otherwise.
It’s a difficult life filled with pain, sadness and a lot of disappointment.
But there can also be so much joy, and my former friend’s inability to see that is a poor reflection on her, not me.
We must stop treating people like commodities.
We must stop acting like their value is tied up in what they can produce or their physical ability.
We all have value.
We all have worth.
We all have things that light us up.
I was angry at this person for a long time.
I did so much for them over the years and then got tossed aside like garbage when I was no longer useful.
I’m trying to let the anger go.
I’m trying to remind myself that anyone who can’t love me as I am isn’t worth my time.
It’s not easy.
The pain we experience when people abandon us is real and adds insult to very real injury.
But I promise you there are better days ahead.
There are people who will stick by you no matter what.
People who won’t make you hide your pain and suffering.
There are people who will show up for you and accept you as you are.
Who will wear a mask, hold your hand in the hospital or visit you when you’re laying in bed.
Cherish those people. Nurture those relationships. Make sure they know how much it means to you.
If you’ve read this far and have a disabled person in your life, please reach out to them.
Say hi. Ask how they are. Offer to visit or provide some help. Show up for them.
Never underestimate the power of a small act of kindness, and refuse to leave people behind.
#disability #ableism #chronicillness #eugenics #inclusion #COVIDisAirborne
Timeline serendipity
@themann00 Never been. But I hear it's epic. Like Wawa on steroids.
MAKE THE SWITCH TO PRIVACY
Gmail → Tuta Mail
Google Docs → CryptPad (PS: Get 25% off CryptPad! 🥳 Use this code, PRIVACY25 when signing up for a paid CryptPad account)
WhatsApp → Signal
Chrome → Tor Browser
Instagram → Monnett Social
Drop your suggestions - because together we can spread #privacy! ♥️
@Tutanota signal is not European Standard, Threema is.
My contribution to the threat actor naming discourse
@mttaggart And while we’re doing attribution, can we stop being coy? If it’s Russia, and you have a code word for Russia, just call it Russia.
RFK Jr.'s hand-picked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses
There's no human safety or efficacy data, but that no longer seems to matter.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/07/rfk-jr-s-hand-picked-committee-approves-manufacture-of-peptides-he-uses/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica is the left side of his face melting now?
Lovely profile of a Chinese migrant community in Ooty, Tamil Nadu, India (there are significant Chinese Indian populations in Kolkata, Bengaluru and Mumbai as well)
No, no it wasn't "The Whiplash Effect" darn it I forget what it was called...
@cy
> when bullies are challenged, and when they are losing that's when they double down and bully harder and harder
I suspect that's what we've been living through our entire lives. A few piece of Graeber's writing, including the flying cars essay I often link;
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit
... suggest that it goes back to the insurrections of 1968, and the corporatist counterreaction documented by @thelever in The Master Plan (s02 out now);
incredible news: the bananas growing in front of my house are edible. tasty, even!
@lake So tiny!
…Who here has not experienced at least one of Pete’s litany of “The psychic toll of AI”?
A phrase that recalls for me @Remittancegirl’s use of “psychic death” some months ago.
We’re in a time of reckoning. A time of burning. There’s a lot that needs to burn down. And tragically, a huge amount that is good but is burning anyway. Let’s try to build something better from the ashes
Good things are possible in times of great upheaval.
Meanwhile though, the grief. The immense unfathomable grief.
> Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. We have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. We have never seen a totally sane human being.
~Robert Anton Wilson
The nice lady on Fillmore selling me pants today asked where I lived, and when I told her, she made a concerned face and asked "Is it safe there?" so I replied "I'm the most dangerous thing there," and this is the only answer I will be using from now on.
@evacide
The cashier at the convenience store I went to late one night told me as I was leaving, "Be safe. Or be dangerous."
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