"Being able to say, 'wherever you get your podcasts' is a radical statement. Because what it represents is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company, and that allows people to have ownership over their work and their relationship with their audience." - @anildash

Powerful to think of this in the context of messaging too.

https://www.anildash.com//2024/02/06/wherever-you-get-podcasts/

Interview with WHO's #COVID19 lead:

"The virus is rampant. We’re still in a pandemic. There’s a lot of complacency at the individual level."

"Using masks for respiratory pathogens that transmit through the air is a no-brainer—plus vaccination, plus distancing, plus improving ventilation."

"We don’t know everything about this virus. Even in year five."

"What I tell my own family, what I say publicly, is 'Take measures every day as a precaution.'”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-covid-poses-new-challenges-in-the-fifth-year-of-the-pandemic/

H/T @Dianora

The idea of dominating nature has a history that is almost as old as that of hierarchy itself.
-- Murray Bookchin

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@pluralistic

Good talk about the implications of the Swiss Cheese model of security.
The model's attributable to James Reason who also did foundational work categorizing human error. The really central part of his Slips, Trips, and Lapses is that *everyone* has bad days and different parts of your system fail you; it's very rarely carelessness. Error's scale and traceability vary, too.
If what we depend on is someone never making a mistake, I have bad news for you 😬.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/#swiss-cheese-security

"Next time someone tells you that America isn’t a racist country, just remind them that this nation is willing to accept treason from a white president but not healthcare from a black one." --Adam Parkhomenko

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