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@pluralistic
The charedi community also has a complicated relationship with computers, especially in their homes. This could be a good subplot, but I didn't feel that you acknowledged it.

I'd be happy to put you in touch with charedim or queer observant Jews if you would like to get a deeper perspective.
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@pluralistic
I really liked the first two Martin Hench books, but I'm having trouble getting through Picks and Shovels because of Rivka Goldman.

She's a charedi woman who doesn't seem to live in a Jewish community, particiates in interfaith prayers, eats at non-kosher restaurants and has no problem being alone in a room with a man.

All of these stand out as major red flags.

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Fascinating article about someone who independently infiltrated right-wing militias over the past few years.

https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole

The Militia and the Mole

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

ProPublica

@Tutanota Can you make your blog posts accessible to text-only readers?

I prefer to read articles via Emacs but it can't load your posts.

A seeing eye dog licked my leg while I was standing still. I thought they would be trained not to do that.

I don't like appliances that play musical notes as notifications. Our old dryer finished a cycle with the same three notes that start the chorus of The Divine Comedy's Tonight We Fly. Eventually I couldn't hear one without thinking of the other.

I just realized that the new dryer's notification matches Stan Roger's Music in Your Eyes.

a very, very good critique of Effective Altruism by #LeifWenar, perhaps the best of the genre. https://www.wired.com/story/deaths-of-effective-altruism/ ht @deanwampler

NEW: Facebook snooped on Snapchat users' encrypted network traffic to study how they behaved, unsealed court documents reveal.

This was part of a secret program called "Project Ghostbusters," and even inside the company, it was very controversial.

“I can’t think of a good argument for why this is okay. No security person is ever comfortable with this, no matter what consent we get from the general public. The general public just doesn’t know how this stuff works,” Pedro Canahuati, Facebook's then-head of security engineering, wrote in an email.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal | TechCrunch

A secret program called "Project Ghostbusters" saw Facebook devise a way to intercept and decrypt the encrypted network traffic of Snapchat users to study their behavior.

TechCrunch
Hey folks, it's less than a week to April 1. You can still stop whatever stupid unfunny thing your tech company has planned for the day.
Over 30 years old and things haven’t changed