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Not from around here. Thinking about complex systems, being a more dangerous cro-magnon in the anthropocene, and freedom tech (general)

TQ check: how far away is your closest tourniquet?

anyone else having battery life issues on GrapheneOS?

There are libertarians who see the state as a threat, and then there are libertarians that see the state as competition.

The way they made use of drones against fixed points and armor, as well as light mobility (motorcycles and paramotors), will be a very informative case study.

https://github.com/kbre93/every-breath-you-take

Neat tool using a Polar H10 for heart rate variability biofeedback.

It sounds like you think what Mike wrote is disingenuous?

No matter how often I get out on the ocean, it's not enough

Deliberate killings of a bunch of civilians is dramatically escalatory. This also comes as part of a broader campaign by Iran to establish supremacy in the region.

Getting harder and harder to buy stuff that doesn't have that crap in it.

Feels like better network mgmt is going to be the next essential privacy/selfhost skill. Locking stuff down on VLANs, etc

Project Kuiper's first birds are up!

Stoke Space is rad as hell.

they don't know how bad it can get, how weird people are, or just how many of them are out there

something I'm playing with atm is emphasizing the scale of the internet (and modern connected systems in general).

Tim Ferriss, of all people, has an interesting article on the downsides of scale- once you have an audience of hundreds of thousands of people, you inevitably get psychopaths, murderers, stalkers, and crack addicts.

so when I talk about adopting privacy I talk less about fighting the government or whatever, and more about how far data spreads when it leaks- "sure, you don't have anything to hide from most people, but..."