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A few weeks before xmas I unfollowed every news outlet online, hid all news and politics and set up just a few normal news alerts on my phone.
I work full time in the labor movement, so I get my political fill and do my part in fighting for something better, I needed to turn it off in my personal life and focus on the things that make me the most happy.
I have seriously noticed a difference in my mood already.
We're having another fundraiser, because Free Speech apparently means any ass on the internet gets to saddle you with crippling legal debt.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/11/26/what-about-an-online-winter-celebration/
Over a decade ago, we launched Panopticlick. Today, we're rereleasing it with big updates as "Cover Your Tracks." Learn more about browser fingerprinting and tracking, no matter your level of expertise, and see how well you are protected from it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/introducing-cover-your-tracks
My latest for the PM Press blog. We Defeated Trump, We Didn’t Defeat Trumpism.
We may have forced Trump out of office but his ideas have overtaken the Republican Party and it will take a lot more than an election to defeat them.
https://www.pmpress.org/blog/2020/11/11/we-defeat-trump-we-didnt-defeat-trumpism/
Me in @hackernoon: How @plausible is paving the way for ethical analytics.
https://hackernoon.com/plausible-is-paving-the-way-for-ethical-analytics-n0293z4l
I wrote on my PM Press blog about how we will never move Joe Biden to the left and how our efforts can be better spent in our communities building mass movements.
https://www.pmpress.org/blog/2020/11/06/were-not-going-to-move-joe-biden-to-the-left/
Obviously outside the US this is nothing new, and usually the US is at the wheel of disrupting those elections.
@pzmyers hey PZ, I sent in an application for FtB but realized I am not sure anyone checks that these days or how old that link is. So I thought I'd drop you a note here.
Last week, Google announced its own VPN service. Trusting Google's VPN would be like trusting a VPN from the NSA. Here's why giving Google direct access to all your online activity is a terrible idea: https://protonvpn.com/blog/google-vpn/
I use Arch, btw