When a fossil fuel company says they're going to melt glaciers, believe them.

When a fossil fuel company says they're going to use direct air capture (DAC) as a social license to operate and to use the CO₂ for enhanced oil recovery, believe them.

“So how long am I going to do this? Until indoor air is safe for all, until vaccines prevent transmission, until there’s a cure for long covid. Until I’m not risking my family’s future on a grocery run. The truth is that however immortal we feel, we are all just one infection away from a new life.”

Please read this key piece by Madeline Miller. The pandemic isn’t over until we can prevent Long COVID. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/09/madeline-miller-long-covid-post-pandemic/

This is the real, human cost of mass surveillance of everyone's private digital communications.

If we actually care about keeping people safe, we need more end-to-end encryption not less.

The failure of the Internet to deliver its promise is particularly noticeable when you hunt for repair manuals for a product from the 90s. Used to be, the information would either be there or not there, finable or unfindable.

Now, there are hundreds of algorithmically generated sites claiming to have it just because it appeared in their search logs, generating potemkin village content traps with endless paging, broken-thumbnail named-like-the-file-you-want but actually-just-ebay-photos bullshit