Privacy isn’t dead. In fact, it’s growing!

In our latest video we explore common arguments against protecting your privacy, and why they're not only wrong, but dangerous.

https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/04/17/is-privacy-dead/

#Privacy #Video #PrivacyGuides #NothingToHide

I'm really proud of 16-year-old me for making these songs - especially this one. I even created the "waves" using a noise-like, synthetic sound instead of relying on samples.
https://www.soundcloud.com/rolle-6/the-silence-of-the-ocean

#Music #ElectronicMusic

So much of the destruction in the USA is away from the spotlight at grass roots level. But the foundations of a modern society are being smashed. The National Science Foundation has just stopped awarding new grants and funding existing ones. That effectively means that work on all existing NSF grants has to stop immediately. Universities are telling researchers to stop spending on those grants right away. That's jobs and progress and opportunity just being eradicated.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2

The Oregon State University's Open Source Lab needs your help 🤝 !

We at #Inkscape rely on them for hosting our website 🌐 , mailing lists 📨 , mail servers 📮 and DNS ℹ️ .

They are also a host for many other open source projects - e.g. #Drupal, #Gentoo Linux, #Debian, #Fedora, #phpBB, #OpenID, #Buildroot/#Busybox, #Cinc, …

Please consider donating 💌 to them so they can keep their services running for all of us!

https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

#osuosl @osuosl

New from 404 Media: researchers secretly ran massive, unauthorized AI-powered persuasion experiment on Reddit users. Researchers planted bots posing as a sexual assault survivor, a Black man, etc into a popular debate subreddit. We spoke to the mods, said unethical

https://www.404media.co/researchers-secretly-ran-a-massive-unauthorized-ai-persuasion-experiment-on-reddit-users/

To all the Elections Canada folks out there

— most of whom won’t see this because they already have their heads down making this vote happen —

THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK TO ENABLE OUR DEMOCRACY.

Go Vote Canada! And please be patient and kind to your friendly neighbourhood poll workers.

#elxn45 #canpoli #cdnpoli #kindness