@signalapp in light of the growing disruption to rule of law in the US, Europeans like me are deeply concerned. Please could you clarify if you can guarantee that server connections (e.g. lookups for user accounts, status messages) can be routed only via EU-based servers in the event of US government interference in traffic? Secondly, what would happen in the event of physical detainment of US-based staff? Is there a contingency plan #hardquestions #opensource #whatsapp #signal #messaging
If psychopathy is detectable in children as young as 3 (Viding et al., 2005), and we know it's highly resistant to treatment, at what point does intervention become necessary? The uncomfortable question: when do rights of potential victims outweigh rights of potential perpetrators? #HardQuestions

Is meatloaf the walkie-talkie of the culinary world? I was thinking maybe that or meat balls?

#hardquestions #whichisit #cantsleep

I just want to know what happened to the three dancers from Golden Earring's "Twilight Zone".

I kinda feel like they went on to be in Robert Palmer's dance troupe, but unsure.

#hardquestions 🤔

This might be done! I need some time to think about it. The question of when a painting is done may be the most interesting question of all. Why would it be done? What were you striving for anyhow?

#artist #painter #oiloncanvas #hardquestions

Please ask me #HardQuestions about stuff in general. Let's see how many times you can make me say "I don't know" and of those, how many I can answer by using Google.

And/or boost to help me find people to test the limits of my learning and research skills.

#ChallengeMatt #TestMyBrain #NotAPubQuiz

I want to see societies become co-intelligent enough to survive the challenges of the coming decades, and then flourish as co-intelligent cultures. I want to see co-intelligent organizations in co-intelligent relationship with each other, with communities and with nature.
What is the role of corporations in this vision? I say this not as a rhetorical question, but as an alive inquiry, one of the most important questions we face.
—Tom Atlee http://www.tomatleeblog.com/archives/175328532 #hardquestions
Collective intelligence is only one-sixth of co-intelligence – Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge

Do you boost, fav, or both? What are the semantics of boosting something you don't fav? #hardquestions

More thoughts on social media abuse and federation:

My mind keeps coming back to subscribable blocklists, but there are issues with them as well - and using them tends to just move the moderation questions from the service operator to the organization defining the lists.

If all the "good instances" end up subscribed to the same blocklists, you're now back to a concentration of control in one place.

#hardquestions