So hey gang, this is just a helpful hint from MissConstrue. I've said it before, I'm sure I'll say it again, but NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL!!
You are not crazy. You are being subjected to constant, non-stop, intentionally inflicted trauma.
That feeling like your heart is racing for no reason? Trauma. The overwhelming weight of the world? Trauma. The feeling that you can't do anything to stop it? Trauma.
You are reacting like a normal person reacts to trauma.
Trauma takes a long time to process, once you're out of danger. But when the danger is increasing, there is no time to process, there is only fight or flight.
But, you're not alone, and that is where our power is...We're not alone. No matter how they try to separate us into groups, by race, by religion, by politics, we are all we have.
We, amazing chances of biology, each of us a miracle of coincidences, we have each other. We've been through worse, we've rebuilt from ruins before.
Now, who wants to review Robespierre?
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A lot of people will start learning very fast about privacy on Discord.
Or rather, that there is no privacy on Discord.
> Five hours after Charlie Kirk was shot this week, an Atlanta man got a phone call from an Illinois police officer asking about a photo he shared with a couple of close friends on a private Discord chat.
kenklippenstein.com/p/charlie-…
If you run any kind of project or community and use Discord, this would be a very good time to reconsider your choice of a platform.
Charlie Kirk Assassination Sparks Social Media Crackdown
How buying a T-shirt led to government monitoringKen Klippenstein
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The crackdown that JD Vance and Stephen Miller are planning is not the result of anything that radicals or leftists did. Protestations of innocence and statistics about who is more violent are beside the point. They have been planning a crackdown regardless. It's part of their playbook.
If the crackdown takes place, it will not happen because of what we did, but because of what we *did not do.* But there's still time to act.
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An experimental structure built in collaboration with Nate Jones
1 meter diameter when unfolded
Video plays in real time with no cuts or edits
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So, is this a real physical object with a motor actuator, then? Because that is a pretty cool unfurl!
I suppose this would be for things like solar arrays or sun shields?
@TerryHancock yes, this is a real object! This continues some previous work that's been published here: arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.J06… (free PDF on our lab website!)
Solar arrays and thermal shields are definitely potential applications.
JD Vance and Stephen Miller capitalizing on the shooting of Charlie Kirk to plan a crackdown on a wide range of their opponents is directly out of the textbook that Adolf Hitler used to consolidate power.
We must not simply identify this as fascism—we must act accordingly while there is still time.
One simple step is to make sure that every political faction that does not desire to live in an autocratic society understands that anything less than total resistance to the crackdown means complicity. Democratic politicians must not be permitted to sit on the fence. Their complicity must be clear to all.
crimethinc.com/saferinthefront
It's Safer in the Front
Faced with intensifying repression and state violence, there is an understandable inclination to seek safety by avoiding confrontation. But this is not always the most effective strategy.CrimethInc.
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@stux true
i skipped the first paragraph, then read george floyd, the returned to understand what happened xd
indyradio
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •I want you to know I appreciate this post and find it personally useful.
It is so good and useful, in fact, I have to break my own rules about people wrapped in flags.
I really do not like it, and here's why:
I am a pacifist and stand with Anarchists, Communists and in Ukraine who have been oppressed by Zelensky long before Russia could be blamed. The Orthodox Church is not happy either. I was raised Orthodox.
Things have changed.
This nonsense from Eric Trump makes me like those flags.
indyradio
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I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but I think X is ultimately worthless, because everything cancels out, like a sloppy wet turd.
You can pay them. What you get is of dubious value.
indyradio
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •I am lucky I do not have to maintain this instance: It is likely difficult because we speak out against injustice.
indyradio
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •It is not well know that nearby, Oak Park, on the way in to Chicago, has an NSA training center. Good luck finding it, but I met a former SIGINT operator who was trained there.
Of course they work with the feds.
The time has come where they will need to be clear about who pays for their time, and how that time should be spent.
I hope I have time to send a letter to Springfield.
M.A.V.S.
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Unknown parent • • •Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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Unknown parent • • •@queerplatonicsculder it's even worse with Telegram:
rys.io/en/179.html
If I were setting up a community thingy right now, I would probably go with Matrix. Definitely not a super-secure solution, but way better than Discord or Telegram.
Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot
Songs on the Security of Networks🐦🔥nemo™🐦⬛ 🇺🇦
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Unknown parent • • •@anthropy We know that the roommate cooperated immediately. I don't think that mattered. Private chats between the others, sure. But there will always be someone cooperating. Nepal did a successful revolution on Discord.
Signal does e2ee and it's much harder to access and do communities on it. Matrix regularly screws up e2ee in group chats. I'm not sure if that actually fits the threat model of a community chat that's essentially public.
Mudlark
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •unfortunately this is a problem that every messaging service except signal suffers from. If you’re upset with discord for presenting as a private option when it is not, I can’t understand why you’re recommending people switch to matrix - A platform that is also not fully secure (but presents itself as private and encrypted)
But I feel like there is an answer to ‘why don’t they implement some sort of e2ee?’ And the answer is just that discord as a company does not give a single shit. They have always been a VC funded initiative with the goal of creating a big, free social network and then flipping to a model of maximum profit extraction using the network effect (people won’t leave because their friends are all there) - or just selling themselves to a larger company
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Mudlark • • •@Mudlark
> I can’t understand why you’re recommending people switch to matrix - A platform that is also not fully secure
I am no fan of Matrix; in this very thread somewhere I linked to a blogpost about how Matrix is nowhere near as secure as Signal.
But this is not a binary. And nothing is perfect.
For communities currently on Discord, Matrix would already be a huge improvement, even if it is imperfect. There is *some* e2ee, and there is a way to self-host, and the software is FLOSS.
Hans-Christoph Steiner
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in reply to Hans-Christoph Steiner • • •Jasper Bienvenido
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Jasper Bienvenido • • •@jasperb
> The problem is, there is no open source alternative to discord, right?
And there never will be unless we decide enough is enough and instead of agreeing to use shitty, completely insecure and privacy-hostile tools, we make the (perhaps difficult) decision to use and support alternatives – even if sometimes they lack some features.
We can also push Discord and demand they implement e2ee.
There are ways. It's really up to us.
🐦🔥nemo™🐦⬛ 🇺🇦
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in reply to indyradio • • •Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Phil • • •> We know that the roommate cooperated immediately.
Yeah, but the article is not about the roommate.
> But there will always be someone cooperating.
No. If that were the case, LEA would not be pushing to weaken e2ee like crazy.
> Nepal did a successful revolution on Discord.
That takes me back to the Arab Spring when everyone was just as positive about the role of Facebook and Twitter in these movements. And then reality and enshittification hit.
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •@phil @anthropy
> Signal does e2ee and it's much harder to access and do communities on it.
That is definitely not my experience. Nor the experience of *thousands* of other people just in groups for communities I am a member of on Signal, it seems.
> Matrix regularly screws up e2ee in group chats.
Matrix is not great, but still an improvement over Discord. "Screws up sometimes" is better than "doesn't even try".
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •@phil @anthropy
> I'm not sure if that actually fits the threat model of a community chat that's essentially public.
I'm not sure that something called a "private community" or a "private server" can be described as a "community chat that's essentially public".
No, actually, I am pretty sure it cannot.
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Nafeon the Bear
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