There's a kind of derangement that happens when people speak in public too much. Too much talking, not enough reflection. So many podcasts suffer from this.
I haven't looked into Bitcoiners' reactions to Trump's crypto scheme. Seems like it should be obvious, but there are a lot of stans.
Heard Bill Joel's "We Didn’t Start the Fire" today. So much time has passed and everything feels the same. Was there ever a time people weren't freaking out?
Has there ever been a time in history when people didn't feel the end was near?
Sometimes you have to seek opportunities outside the school. I find the community is full of people who want to work with a mentor kids. The school walls are arbitrary.
Quaker decision-making is slow but powerful. It offers space for unexpected conclusions.
When our daughter was born, someone gave us a drink coaster with the quote, “Babies are such a nice way to start people.”
It's so true.
Congratulations!
No one should have to worry about warrantless police drones spying on their backyard sunbathing.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/backyard-privacy-age-drones
#drones #privacy
EFF also has this great tool to find surveillance used in your area:
Instead of a handful of platforms trying to control your life online, people are reclaiming control by building more open and empowering approaches to social media. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/whats-difference-between-mastodon-bluesky-and-threads
Can you see this comment coming from nostr?
New op-ed from Public Knowledge in MIT Technology Review:
"This decision harms libraries. It locks them into an e-book ecosystem designed to extract as much money as possible while harvesting (and reselling) reader data en masse."
Why a ruling against the Internet Archive threatens the future of America’s libraries: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/11/1103838/why-a-ruling-against-the-internet-archive-threatens-the-future-of-americas-libraries/
Just curious, do you see this comment coming from nostr?
nostr:npub1umd6j4jrnjqdvn9kqttvsgxwzw38s92zn2lsuq0d73neh7mjxa3sa8wfr7 is doing incredible work to ensure access to knowledge and combat censorship and surveillance. If you want to learn how and show your support, check the link below: http://battleforlibraries.com/
It's interesting how digitization makes things easier to control. Cash is disappearing while the prospect for CBDCs grows. More and more reading is done digitally. I wonder if we get to a point where the physical comes back into favor as a more resilient option.
For less than a dollar a year, we can provide free and secure internet access via VPN to someone living under digital oppression.
Last week, the U.S. National Security Council and the State Department convened a meeting with civil society and representatives from tech giants like Amazon, Cloudflare, Google, and Microsoft to build momentum for greater coordination and investment in countering internet censorship and fragmentation globally.
Laura Cunningham, President of the Open Technology Fund, shared the cost estimate at the gathering. It's approx. 7 cents per user per month. Through OTF, the U.S. currently supports more than 45 million monthly users in Iran, China, Russia, Myanmar and elsewhere, enabling their access to the open internet.
VPNs allow people to communicate securely, inform and express themselves freely, and contribute to global progress.
At the meeting, I shared how VPNs are an essential tool for journalists, both for reporting and for distribution and my worries about about a possible full blocking of YouTube in Russia: https://www.pboehler.net/vpn-russia-white-house/
Funding is just the beginning. There needs to be training people to use VPNs effectively, helping them identify trustworthy services, and building momentum to share and distribute access.
A Reuters report on the initiative and the surge in usage of publicly-funded VPNs: https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-calls-big-tech-help-evade-online-censors-russia-iran-2024-09-05/
The thing is VPNs can be another vector for surveillance. How is the trust factor with VPN providers handled?
You've probably heard the news by now about Internet Archive.
It takes a lot to stand up to greedy corporations who don't care about humanity at all and it's an honor to support their mission. Please share some love to them as they reckon with this ruling: https://video.nostr.build/40f05092214ca58755d97f733179bc09858417959cefed35d07373338a830b1e.mp4
Ugh. Hoopla and Libby as honeypots. That's a vector I hadn't thought about.😤
Your work is truly inspiring. I've enjoyed your interviews and value having you here on nostr. Winning people over, for me, is often a long-term process, not a single conversation. Sometimes it takes planting a thousand seeds before one takes root in a person. Wishing you the best!
The Quaker chatbot is discussed in this episode of the Western Friend Podcast with Brylie Oxley.
An AI chatbot to primed to discuss Quakerism.
Mutual tolerance is the price of liberty.
Quakers don't have a creed. We believe the Spirit is dynamic and our understanding can change over time.
Nationalism overrides morality and becomes a religion stronger than any church.