Preaching to the choir is mainly about validation/likes and not changing the world.

Love the new #bitchat where I am not just bitch@‘ing at myself …

Brb.. Gonna fix a typo and become the next Knots “ConTrIBut0r ! For real!!!!

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead would have said about #bitchat

Besides Venmo, another good way to talk to people about financial privacy and censorship is via its motherdeath ship PayPal. It’s an easy one to bring up in a lot of circumstances. For example: Was on a work mtg yesterday and was talking about common payment integration options on calendar services—-casually mentioned I won’t use PayPal. Why not, someone asked.

Can Jesse Welles Revive the Protest Song?

Jesse Welles Writes Simple Protest Songs But He's Complex

Jesse Welles has become a hero of some on the left for his viral songs about ICE raids and healthcare, but the TikTok songwriter is more complex.

via @RollingStone

Really not a fan of the proclamation “Few” If few understand and you think it’s important, why are you not doing more to make it more than few.. More than a few who do that instead …

Free speech, but the unexamined, unresearched speech —might not be worth saying …

X has become Bitcoin fairy tale land for people who like to make monsters out of and cry wolf at hard-working devs …

Starling instead of Starlink transport:

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Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s

Who needs Starlink when you

Make good trouble every day …

I just read this in a book (similar to the same for coding) ‘AI won’t take your pathologist job but pathologists using AI will take your job’

Inflation (PPI) came big for the veggies, and the veggie-haters said nothing. "Wholesale vegetable prices rose nearly 40% from June to July"

Newser

Inflation Is Coming for Your Vegetables

Wholesale vegetable prices rose nearly 40% from June to July

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People often seem surprised that large corporations act like psychopaths. There was actually a 2003 documentary where they diagnosed corporations per the DSM - as just that.

The Corporation (2003 film) - Wikipedia

For quite some time, my love language has been to find a creative way, every day, to talk to regular people about digital privacy, security, and surveillance in general …and why they should care … 1 out of 3 people today GAF The other 2 thought I was paranoid.. and I DGAF This is pretty much the normal ratio. But I know we are changing it.

Don’t be the E in GooglE

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…the wisdom to know the difference

For years, my elderly pet sitter begged me to use Venmo. Last year I finally relented (to the PayPal mafia, for this one case). Both to help her out and to give a privacy lesson. Showed her all the transactions I can see from everyone related to her and everyone related to them and … ….specifically those for pet sitting clients paying up front as they headed out of town with a memo “give my Boo lots of head pats and kisses” Showed her how to make them private and tell her friends and clients how to make them private. This is how people learn and care about financial privacy. Go and do likewise :)