For real this time, I need to de-Spotify.
Not gonna paste the link, but they did the whole oligarch kiss-ass thing and then some.
Where should I go? (Also open to 
️/paying for music regularly, but it's been a long, long time since I last did that.)
@TheBreadmonkey You need to find the videos with the angriest people making roti to learn. The anger makes it work.
(or at least that's what I've been told.)
Sometimes I feel like a pretty rare AI detractor in my field.
Then you talk to people and you realize no one wants to post publicly about this where their future employer could see it.
It's @skinnylatte 's fav veg! Took a while to remember to buy one.
(Celtuce, for the uninitiated.)
The real work that I do is convincing people that they need to take a nap.
Safety reminders for these times:
- Direct messages on Fedi are not encrypted.
- If your instance is hosted in the US, the admin has to comply with US law.
- Discord text chat is not encrypted. Video is.
- Encrypted group chats are only as secure as the people with access and their security practices.
If you're interested in protecting the contents of your conversations or work, follow the #privacy tag. People posts some really interesting things on there.
Your privacy protects your friends too. Do it for all of us.
An excellent step-by-step executable guide to implementing better privacy. https://www.optoutproject.net/the-cyber-cleanse-take-back-your-digital-footprint/
Recommended privacy people:
- @Em0nM4stodon
- @techlore
- @privacyguides
- @thenewoil
More advice from smarter people:
- Passwords & General Privacy hygiene: https://infosec.exchange/@avoidthehack/113867140078775299
- VPNs: https://mas.to/@joeturner/113867181288155342
Recommended privacy communities:
- https://discuss.techlore.tech
- https://discuss.privacyguides.net
The rest of this thread describes options that I'm considering and my personal privacy journey.
(Thanks to @joeturner and everyone else in the community for your recommendations.)
@chris I think we need better messaging. Old people, non-technical friendly messaging.
@skinnylatte Such an unlucky number though.
@FediTips @JesseF8693 @AlsoPaisleyCat This list feels little it's missing a few publications on here. What's the best way to add to it as we come across them?
Sources:
- $200 from insolvency: https://london.ctvnews.ca/business/article/canadians-financial-stress-ramping-up-despite-interest-rate-cuts-mnp/
- Economy up 41%: https://www.thestar.com/business/say-what-you-want-about-justin-trudeau-theres-still-no-arguing-canadians-became-wealthier-while/article_bd6afbaa-cc3c-11ef-8a5a-b7468842b9a6.html
- 22.9% food insecurity: https://proof.utoronto.ca/2024/new-data-on-household-food-insecurity-in-2023/
- Foodbank usage up 90%: https://foodbankscanada.ca/HungerCount/
I don't understand this obsession with "growing the economy" in Canada when 50% of all Canadians are $200 away from insolvency. You know, we've been trying to grow the economy for ages, and we have!
The Canadian economy grew 41% under Trudeau. Look how much better off we all are. 
- 22.9% of Canadians experience food insecurity.
- Food bank usage up 90% since 2019.
- Rents have skyrocketed across the country.
- Our wages have barely kept up with inflation, let alone gone up with this economic growth.
So to the politicians promising economic growth, when will the people experience it?
@skinnylatte which is the good dark soy sauce?
I find it amusing how the clips to come out of the whole Red Note thing have the same vibes as Gorbachev going to a grocery store in the US.
@skinnylatte Curious, what do you think of when you think of the concept of say, your mom: Sounds? Smell? Words?
Manitoba announces that they're going to get rid of homeless encampments... by finding everyone in that encampment housing and helping them relocate. With a realistic plan.
What a kind, human approach to building a better society. Thanks, Wab Kinew.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/homelessness-plan-encampments-manitoba-1.7430630
@cwebber Here's what I'm hoping for:
- They raise money.
- Realize what they initially planned on doing is unfeasible / not good enough
- Spend a part of that money making it very public that Bluesky is not decentralized
- Spend the rest of that money building interoperability tools.
Alternatively,
- build out the second relay/appview,
- then (somehow, technomagically) drastically reduce the barrier to entry of setting up a 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc etc.
Found the answer. He has a book coming out. Doing media impressions for that.
@chris Preparing it for Supreme Emperor Trump's takeover.
@chris He's doing A LOT of media impressions for someone who's retiring.
