EDIT: resource found! Thank you all for your help! I have a few places that seem decent for repair if anyone needs the info.

URGENT!
#FediHelp does anyone know of a #PDX (Portland, OR) area business that repairs electric scooter/wheelchairs? I dont know the brand but friend's battery broke and the company she's used forever no longer works on electric scooters.
Any recs and boosts (!) greatly appreciated!
#ScooterRepair
#mobilitybelow

A lot of people talking about dumping Proton right now are misunderstanding what actually happened.

Feds were able to coerce the Swiss government to coerce Proton to hand over whatever data they had on an anonymous Stop Cop City email address, that was being investigated for terrorism.

That metadata included credit card details information for the account, which is very difficult to anonymize.

Proton offers cash payments to work around this obvious security flaw.

If you must pay for a Proton account for a radical project, pay with cash (you can mail it) or washed crypto (Monero -> Bitcoin).

All credit card payments are traceable, even to a privacy-focused company.

Your security model should not rely on a business to fight the state on your behalf.

Your email or VPN provider is not going to risk prison time for your $5/mo. It's just not going to happen, at least for anything commercial. Tuta and every other email privacy-focused email company will comply with court orders.

Trying to find the perfect email provider is a fool's errand. It doesn't exist.

You can however anonymize your useage of privacy friendly services like Proton, Tuta, or Mailbox by not entering your credit card number, phone number, name, personal email, or IP to that account.

"A racist murder in Portland in the 1980s planted seeds of hate, but also a resistance movement"

gift link = https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2026/02/a-racist-murder-in-portland-in-the-1980s-planted-seeds-of-hate-but-also-a-resistance-movement.html?gift=833cc807-67e9-41b7-b9d9-ae62e70cd898

"A new documentary from Oregon Public Broadcasting explores the story of the murder of Mulugeta Seraw, the regional and national forces that led to his death, and how Portland and the country changed in its wake."

Airs Monday, March 30, on OPB.

#Oregon #Portland #PDX #History #Racism #Documentary #OPB #GiftLink

Chaco Canyon should be called Choco Canyon, because researchers have found traces of *chocolate* in cups found at this site dating back to 1000 - 1125 AD.

This is amazing: Chaco Canyon is in a dry part of New Mexico, 1900 kilometers north of where cacao grows. But the cups look like those that Mayans used for chocolate-drinking rituals! And archeologists have also found remains of parrots and macaws in Chaco Canyon. This suggests enormous trading routes.

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Me, walking around in the morning singing Leonard Cohen: I remember you well from the Chelsea Motel, your famous your heart was a legend.

Wife, singing back: You were at a different motel, and I was at the Chelsea *Hotel*. So I never saw you.