JD Vance cut his Vermont vacation short, perhaps because of the cold or because he felt unwelcome. Protesters lined his route all the way back to the airport in Burlington (about a 50-minute drive). Reports are that he didn’t even say thank you. https://www.reddit.com/r/vermont/comments/1j1tjkm/vance_is_leaving_early/

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YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. DO YOU HAVE SOMEONE YOU CAN TALK TO?

You know, the thing is, if Trump isn't in fact a bought-and-paid-for Russian asset, then he's doing his bullshit for free, and that's actually even worse

The G in GIF is pronounced just like the G in gigolo.

From Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, a list of instructions on “how to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta”. https://johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com/

Apple TV+ is streaming an 8-hour remix of the Severance theme song that is perfect music for your innie to refine macrodata to. Legit adding this to the work music rotation. https://kottke.org/25/02/severance-music-to-refine-to

Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood

Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

Everyone may be entitled to their own opinion, but nobody is entitled to force theirs on you. While it is honorable to have an open mind, do not hesitate to close it in the face of hatred, of bigotry, of dishonor.

Do not allow words directed against you to become your burden. You have enough weight on your shoulders already -- don't let those who wish you ill encumber you with more.

Kahless tells us to give it all to keep from giving in or giving up. Stand tall, and let cynicism and despair crumble in the face of a true warrior's resolve.

@isilzha314 @evacide @danjones000 @eff @CNN That's not the point that Dan is making. Dan is saying that Signal's present infrastructure and architecture provide significant opportunities for a sufficiently funded and motivated adversary -- i.e., the NSA, or some other branch of the US government -- to monitor metadata about who is talking to whom. Signal may not explicitly collect that data and store it in a discoverable database, but that won't stop an adversary from gathering the metadata anyway. And the phone number requirement --which Signal *does* store and which *is* available to discovery-- is itself a very risky gambit when that adversary decides that anyone using Signal is a fair target.

And since [we kill people based on metadata](https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/05/ex-nsa-chief-we-kill-people-based-on-metadata) and a fascist coup is currently in progress in the United States, Signal's users (as well as the Signal Foundation itself) should be laser focused on eliminating those opportunities. Unfortunately, Signal has

* Recently indicated that it does not consider network-layer anonymity as within its scope: https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1201c1e8cdef6117
* Has shown no interest in working with others (including myself) in the Free Software ecosystem to integrate such anonymity technology into its stack and make it a default for its users: https://community.signalusers.org/t/use-an-anonymizing-overlay-network/62670
* Has remained mum on the fediverse when the organization and its current president have been invited to previous conversations on this matter: https://tenforward.social/@aspensmonster/113946901827746517

Signal has an ethical responsibility to bring anonymity into scope.

#Signal #SignalMessenger @signalapp @Mer__edith

Now THIS is a #SuperbowlSundae !

(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)

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I had a superb owl for tonight, courtesy of the British Trust for Ornithology but they're a bit shy...
#SuperbOwlSunday

A Great Horned owl takes flight in Florida, 7 February, 2025. Photo by Ali Xaidi.
#OwlsOfMastodon
#SuperbOwlSunday

Allow yourself to celebrate even the smallest of victories in the face of adversity. Don't snuff out a light because it is not bright enough. Nurture it, and fight to make it grow until the shadows retreat. Even the greatest beacons may be lit with the smallest spark.