I made these previews so you can get a glimpse, there's nothing special about them though, they're just buildings full of business, tourists, chefs and shopkeepers sharks inside! hehe 🏙️🦈
if the state wants to find you, they’ll find you. accept it, don’t accept it, whatever. it’s just a fact of life that the side with unlimited resources will prevail against the side without unlimited resources. you can delay discovery, but you can never stop it
If there is any lesson to be had from the Proton thing, it is this: if you are going to depend on any online service for anything that is in any way important to you, and you do not carefully read the privacy policy, terms of service, and make informed choices, you are a fool.
Proton still did *exactly* what the promotional material in the screenshots promised: the contents were protected; the turnover of payment information was in accord with Swiss privacy law.
The problem isn't Proton. The problem wasn't Proton's promotional material. The problem is people don't read.
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Looking forward to when a loaf of bread is $20 apiece, and NYT runs stories about poor Chet Heartland having to drive his F550 on $15/gal ethanol on a grocery run to the next town over so he can save a couple bucks on an $18 loaf
It's so funny how RE4 takes place in a day and Ashley gets kidnapped in the story three times *after* you first rescue her.
My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.
Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!
They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
It’s a bit of a nerdy obsession for me that while fashions change, the aesthetic fundamentals are hard wired into us, and nowhere is this more visible than the archaeological record.
Humans like patterns, repetition, scale relationships, symmetry, colour balance, handles and squiggly shapes.
I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic
one of the simple pleasures in life is saying 'wow it looks like silent hill out there' when it's really foggy
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Somewhere in Canada a personal injury lawyer just got real excited and doesn't know why
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me 🤝 Proton's comms person
explaining that you cannot simply decide a court order doesn't apply to you just because you don't like it
Until the baseline public response is "I am certain this initial thing you are telling me is false," the lying will continue
And we will never get to that baseline response because there are legions of people who masturbate to the thought of armed government thugs shooting people they don't like
Not to repeat myself but: DHS lies brazenly because lying brazenly works
It's what police depts around the country do on a regular basis when they have unfavorable facts. Honed to perfection, amplified by media stenographers.
Recall, this is how they initially described George Floyd's murder:
So much this.
I'm not law enforcement. I don't have warrant power.
If a client needs you found...you're getting found.
There's no email service charging twenty bucks thats gonna make that outcome different unless your opsec has been perfect.
Not good. Not great. Perfect.
a quick drawing and painting before lunch
My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed
And if you pay someone using a credit card, you are not anonymous. Actually, lets make it even simpler.
You are not anonymous.
The only question is how hard you've made it to find your identity. It's not impossible. You have made at least one mistake, and that's all it takes.
(We can fight about whether Moon is a Harsh Mistress is really cyberpunk later. But I'm always going to have a soft spot for Professor de la Paz and his brass cannon.)
Thing is, those refuges are genre tropes not because they're realistic concepts, but because they're tools that make stories work.
Martinez, 23, worked at an Amazon warehouse
The perfect picture of current America: work a draining job for robber baron billionaire and get killed by the police state.
He was 23.
His picture made me think he was 16.
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Driving has gotten *significantly* worse since covid began, and I think it’s a combination of factors.
1) people got out of the habit and a lot of us never went back to commuting
2) literal covid brain damage
3) people decided in those years we are no longer a society
They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.
They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.
I have told kids before “listen, pedestrians have the legal right of way, but cars have physics”
this driving law that you shouldn't slow down when approaching a cross street even if someone is barreling down it and trust them not to T-Bone you is batshit and idc what anyone says. why tf should I trust a stranger to value my life more than I do
Tiny red Japanese fire truck fitted with camping gear, New Orleans
Look at this truck. This is a fucking truck
there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).
the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.
Coffee, straight out of my nose.
"We never expected to worry that diseases we thought were gone might come roaring into their lives — yet here we are." Grandparents speak up - they know what the diseases are like and why vaccines are important.
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