Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/
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Going to bed as soon as I read 17 more things that will infuriate me
NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts
https://futurism.com/nasa-deletes-comic-women-astronauts
Futurism · NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts
End-to-end encryption is secure because it protects the contents of your communications in transit between the endpoints. If you make one of those endpoints an editor at The Atlantic, no amount of encryption is going to save you from your own stupidity.
Hey everyone. If you're looking for a reliably good, local cause to support with your time or donations consider your local food bank. Reuters reports that many food banks across the country are already strained by rising demand and will have less food to distribute because of least $1 billion in federal funding cuts and pauses by the POTUS.
"Hunger in the U.S. has ticked up in recent years with rising inflation and the end of pandemic-era programs that expanded food aid. President Donald Trump's administration has vowed to lower inflation by cutting back on government spending, including two U.S. Department of Agriculture programs that helped schools and food banks buy food from local farms."
"Reuters spoke with food banks in seven states who said cancellation and pauses of the programs meant they expected to offer less produce, meat and other staples in the coming weeks and months, leaving scarcer food for those reliant on free supplies that helped stave off hunger."
"One reason is fewer expected shipments from USDA's The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), one of the agency's core nutrition programs that buys food from farmers and sends it to food pantries, some of the organizations said."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-cuts-hit-struggling-food-101121569.html
Yahoo News · Trump cuts hit struggling food banks, risking hunger for low-income Americans
Trump “is following a playbook from other countries whose leaders have sought to undermine democratic systems and the rule of law, including Russia, Turkey and Hungary. Leaders in those countries have similarly attacked lawyers with the effect of hollowing out a pillar of justice systems to expand their power without violating existing laws. They have … used the strategy to blast away their political opposition and any effort to counter their actions through courts.” https://archive.ph/2025.03.25-222511/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/25/trump-law-firms/ 1/
"I've seen smarter cabinets at Ikea." - quote of the day
people say “you can’t tax the rich, they’ll just leave” like that’s not the best possible outcome
In my fantasy world, Jeffrey Goldberg publishes the story as, "Two years ago, six members of the Biden administration included me in a Signal conversation about an imminent attack. I've sat on this story until now because..."
...and then let Republicans respond for 24 hours calling for everyone to be court-martialed, etc. before correcting the story to present day
[And yes, I've thought through the problems that would create for his credibility. But it's my fantasy world, my rules]
Gonna start writing Fediverse Chick and Jon Mastodon romance novels.
"The Instance between them. "
Alt Text: ‘The people who hid Anne Frank were breaking the law.
The people who killed her were following it.’
And remember Anne Frank wasn’t living in Nazi Germany or Hitler’s homeland of Austria. She was living in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Fascism not only turns law and order on its head…it spreads beyond borders.
As the day ends, the Trump gang is not backing off an inch from its use of Signal, in blatant violation of the Federal Records Act. Democrats haven't yet focused on it; nor has most of the press.
But Josh Marshall gets it: "These are disappearing communications. They won’t be in the National Archives. Future administrations won’t know what happened. There also won’t be any records to determine whether crimes were committed."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signalgate-is-bad-but-opsec-isnt-even-the-worst-part-of-it
TPM - Talking Points Memo · SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part Of It
Today -- March 25 -- is equal pay day. It is the day which marks how far into the new year that the average full-time woman has to keep working to earn the same amount that her male counterparts made in the previous year. 84 extra days.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/25/equal-pay-day-highlights-stalled-progress-on-closing-gender-pay-gap.html
CNBC · Equal Pay Day highlights stalled pay gap progress: 'Women are never, ever going to catch up,' researcher says
The government is taking dramatic steps in response to Teslas catching on fire and what's weird about this is they only care when there are *not* people in the car. If a Tesla catches on fire while it is empty that is a big deal to the government and they investigate it as terrorism and hate crimes. But if a Tesla catches on fire while people are driving it that is normal and the government sees nothing there to investigate
A website guiding users to disable their adblocker is no different than a phishing email asking users to disable their security software.
Both intend to do you harm.
Toronto Star: Ottawa freezes Tesla’s $43-million rebate payments, bars it from future rebates because of tariffs
Some customers, some jobs, you just don't ask.
