Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

Whenever I post digital security or privacy advice, there is always one reply boasting that they assume everything is being watched at all times and nothing is secure. Cool. Good for you. Do you want a fucking medal? Because in the meantime, I'm trying to give actionable advice to people in vulnerable situations trying to live their lives.

the great thing about the fediverse is instead of being stuck with someone else’s petard you can hoist your own

If we do this right, our grandchildren will think that “having an oligopoly” is on a par with being diagnosed with a case of the vapors by somebody in a bird costume who writes you a prescription for leeches.

"People used to _do_ that!?"

So. Much. FacePalm. Conspiracy theories and insects collide: "a cabal of shadowy elites are trying to force the population to eat insects as part of a sinister totalitarian plot" 🤦‍♀️ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-ontario-cricket-factory-1.6562083

Plenty of people have mental disorders and don’t praise Hitler or spread hate.

Subjective impression: seems like big BirdSite accounts are not as happy with a perceived lower level of engagement here, while smaller ones find a lot more engagement.

I bring this up, as I feel like I'm in a bit of a sweet spot (30K twitter followers, 2K here) where the engagement is more or less equivalent. It seems like the same community in a slightly different-shaped bowl.

Book Review: An Unflinching Critique of the Eugenics Movement. In “Control,” geneticist Adam Rutherford grapples with the millennia-long history of engineered attempts to perfect humanity — and how that checkered past ought to shape current science. “Eugenics is a busted flush, a pseudoscience that cannot deliver on its promise,” https://undark.org/2022/12/02/book-review-an-unflinching-critique-of-the-eugenics-movement/

Trans rights, women’s rights, human rights: beyond the vitriol

How did the small and vulnerable transgender community become so vilified in the UK?

Via @YorkshireBylines

#Bylines
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/trans-rights-womens-rights-human-rights-beyond-the-vitriol/

A 1937 poster demonizing jaywalking. In the early 20th century, it became clear that the proliferation of cars was dangerous for pedestrians. In order to make city streets easier for drivers to navigate, auto companies invented the crime of "jaywalking" ("jay was slang for "fool") in order to get pedestrians out of the streets. It was successful. Soon, after streets went from being places of commerce and communication to the domain of automobiles.

#history #histodon #histodons @histodons

💡 Idea: we need a privilege similar to attorney-client privilege, but between techies and people they support.

Journalists, refugees, people at-risk and from marginalized groups, and we all, really, need to *know* that tech people supporting them cannot be legally forced to disclose the (often very personal or sensitive) data they gain access to while providing tech support.

Data that is shared with them in confidence, and which is often necessary to render tech help at all.

#InfoSec #Legal

The trouble with allowing Sunak to bring the term ‘illegal protests’ into the jargon without challenge is that it will lead to a mindset where all protests are seen as illegal. A bit like ‘illegal immigrants’. Journalists have a duty not to let this happen.

have a fabulous Friday its been a frosty one here

@jrosen707
I had this beautiful Eyed Hawkmoth visit earlier this year.