End-to-End Encryption is good but metadata protection counts as much. Names, group descriptions and memberships, avatars, who talks to whom ...
Both #deltachat and #signal go to great length to protect all the metadata that WhatsApp grants itself gratuitously. #Matrix stores similar scales of metadata on their servers, even if you can choose which server stores it.
Everything is better than #Telegram which additionally stores message contents in all group chats/channels and most 1:1 chats.
I really like these long reads on the history of just one word (technically three)
https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-evolution-of-bitch-says-about-gender-and-power
@splendorr it is a shame there is such a surfeit of HP, despite known terror from the author
Iād prefer the whole thing die, and have people explore new (and frankly better) fantasies
Edited to clarify: ābetterā books. Loved them as a child, but politically horrid on review
At first blush, āBugoniaā reads like a black-pilled, misanthropic downer - a darker cousin to āThe Happeningā. I kinda despise it
They made a whole movie on the promise of aliens and they ended it saying, āthey should just blow us up, huh?ā ā¦
Are the creators asking me to indulge in commiseration for collective annihilation?
Did the writers re-invent God to give voice their judgement to all humanity?
Did I see this correctly?
At risk of generalizing, I suspect that people who become entranced by chat bots have an under-developed inner monologue
Chat bots are mirrors and, with sanguine affect, reflect whatever you put into it
If youāre not used to talking to yourself, or using self-directed speech, the self-congratulatory mirror feels less like a reflection of yourself, and, instead, a distinct conscience
Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
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