RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’
“It used to be, when I were a kid, that everybody got measles. And the measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” he said, then taking a swipe at the vaccine. “The vaccine doesn’t do that. The vaccine is effective for some people for life, but for many people it wanes.” 🤦♂️
Can we please NOT give nazis megaphones? I mean, ~probably~ most of your followers know those are lies, but rather than quoting him directly in a way that might get amplified to people who don't know better, even just sticking in someone's head subconsciously, report on what they lied about:
"RFK called for everyone to get measles, citing a lie that getting it provides lifetime immunity and that the vaccine does not. In reality, getting measles destroy's the immune system's memory of past infections, rendering one susceptible to other deadly diseases."
Ooooooh! Cory Doctorow is planning a trip to NZ, with a Wellington event on May 3 or 4! I really enjoy all of his writing, so it will be great to hear him again!
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The act of encrypting things *always* makes them (seem) more interesting.
You can use encryption to keep secrets, but, in using encryption, may let others know that you even have a secret at all.
So, the very best kind of encryption is both un-openable without a very large securely transported key AND not obviously (or even unobviously) encrypted at all.
Sounds like steganography fits the bills. If I had anything I wanted to keep unobviously secret, it would be fun to have it encoded in a folder full of mundane-looking JPEGs.
one of the beautiful results from cryptography is that securely encrypted data is indistinguishable from random noise to anyone without the key. So anywhere there's naturally randomness, you can swap it out with encrypted data and nobody will be any the wiser.
Plus as others have mentioned, if everyone encrypts everything, the fact that there is encryption going on is a lot less interesting. Seeing encrypted web traffic used to mean you were visiting a bank or something, now it just means you're using the web in 2025.
I long ago decided that the rampant spam on the unmoderated cyberpunks mailing list was really just cover noise protecting steganographically hidden messages
Part of the solution is just to encrypt by default. Almost every web page access uses https now, disks on computers and phones are encrypted. There are still plenty of gaps but if encryption is the default it isn't suspicious.
@sophieschmieg I don't agree with always encrypting things. A case in point is that in the UK, if you fail to hand over your encryption keys, you can be jailed for each such refusal (yeah, no such thing as double jeopardy there). And if that file was just random data you saved for testing/shits and giggles? You can never prove that it isn't an encrypted file....
If you do feel that everything should be encrypted, at least use a deniable encryption scheme.
I sometimes wonder if it'd be at all productive or helpful to create networks shaped like the kind of networks that attract the wrong kind of attention from the worst kind of people but that contain nothing. Just having encrypted traffic wouldn't be enough. There would need to be more signs that something was "going on."
@gregeganSF I made this exact argument when the Patriot Act went through and tried, extremely unsuccessfully, to convince friends and family to start using PGP for even routine communications
"Prominent Nuclear power supporters Mark Lynas and George Monbiot have said that the Hinkley C nuclear plant under construction in Britain should be scrapped so we have Andy Dawson from England to speak with us about it.
Andy Dawson is a retired nuclear engineer. He worked in the design and built of the Heysham 2 and the Torness Nuclear Power Stations, with excursions into Fast Reactors and the Sizewell PWR. He has also worked in Management Consultancy on energy."
Prominent Nuclear power supporters Mark Lynas and George Monbeit have said that the Hinkley C nuclear plant under construction in Britain should be scrapped ...
Trying to escape winter hibernation mode, getting a welcome attitude adjustment, and hitting the trail again. Come along for another hiking photo journal!
in late 2001 I traded a dude my turbo-grafx 16 for his dreamcast. I still have (and love) the dreamcast, but the tg16 port of splatterhouse was the absolute best and I miss it (also fantasyzone)
I haven't done a deep dive into the tech stack but the tg16 just Felt Different than the other sixteen-bit consoles at the time. I really liked it! The game catalog isn't wide but it's got a disproportionate amount of Cool Shit in it.
Each package includes the tax information, the return, related schedules such as schedule 1, provincial and territorial information and related forms.2024 income tax package,
Okay, I completed and mailed my taxes today, perhaps just in time for another Canada Post strike.
I included a note for the feds about how I’m doing it on paper this year because way too many “approved” services store Canadians’ personal tax info in the US. (I also circled in red ink the bad translation job on their envelope.)
I had to mail two separate larger-than-normal envelopes, so I slapped two “permanent” stamps on each one and am hoping that works out to $1.94 or whatever the current in-store postage amount is.
Will both packages arrive? Maybe. Are my numbers correct? Maybe. Are my principles and supporting documents correct? I’m confident in my case.
businessinsider.com/asked-reti… I empathize with this neighbor aversion. The place where I lived as a child had an unwritten rule. You keep your head down and mouth shut. We moved when I was a teen. For a while, we had some nice neighbors. Some questionable business practices caused the apartment complex to go downhill. Police became a common sight. We moved again in my college years. A few neighbors became more than sharing pleasantries. Sadly, they left. A few retired, one passed, and one left because of severe racism. They were a great family. It hurt to lose them, but we wish them the best. I'm still afraid to get to know my neighbors, but I try to be kind.
The amount of AI-generated robo-voiced ads now on Serius XM is a bit nauseating, just wow. You can even tell, most of them don't take a breath and say the numbers repeatedly the same way. True, true. It could be edited, but I'm also hearing the same voices across multiple ads, like that one female lady who sort of sounds like Ivona Sally. I bet a lot of ad agencies have jumped on the AI train. WI've even heard ads on there referencing the new tarifs, so just the update interval for ads is also much higher now as a result, an ad can change from one day to the next. Interesting side effect.
The security officer refused to compromise with the crew on carrying smgs and revolvers. It was only when the submarine was on the bottom of the ocean with mudraptors bashing the doors open open did security realize the error of their ways #barotrauma
Seeing a bunch of devs on bsky saying not to go or that they've canceled their plans to go to GDC
Given how many people are being detained for weeks/months for stretched interpretations of "they're working illegally" and how basically everyone goes to GDC for work I can't say I disagree
Wonder what this kind of thing will do to the US economy over the long term
@deshipu Yup, I was about to say (and still am going to, sorry), we will be in a recession long before the effects of this particular thing are felt. Hell, we might be in a depression by then.
Long term, I think this is very destructive to the US economy.
I forget where I saw it first, but others have mentioned that some of the big attractions for capital are the rule of law, a decent regulatory environment, a free market, a sense of fair play, and a history of honoring their commitments.
That's all out the window now.
I think there's no good reason why any company would choose to do business here rather than somewhere like Canada, Mexico, the UK, France or Germany. Even if they have an inside connection with the political power currently in office, it's a fragile and subject to the whims of the despot.
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Oohh nice, I just enabled the sidebar and I already really like how pinned tabs are displayed. It still feels weird after havig tabs at the top forever, but I think I give it at least a few days.
Hi Veronica. You can choose not to have the horizontal tabs disappear in fullscreen by disabling the browser.fullscreen.autohide parameter in about:config .
Elon Musk and President Trump’s push to lay off federal workers may jeopardize the Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit against Amazon. pcmag.com/news/ftc-asks-judge-…
The FTC accuses Amazon of duping people into signing up for Prime. But it's hard to prepare for a trial when Elon Musk fires your attorneys and support staff.
It's irresponsible on a deadly level to give even 50% of an article's real estate to the absolute horse shit that RFJ Jr says about Measles, MMR, and vaccination. Briefly report his bullshit and then tell the truth about Measles, MMR, and vaccination.
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Hm. If you draw a line on a map from the place you found this, back toward Manhattan and aligned diagonally with the Manhattan street grid. Does the line intersect any of those parks with public chess boards. If so, maybe you can extrapolate where it was going
Manga Musai no Reijou Jobu [Maou] de Juurin Suru (The Talentless Noble Lady Tramples On Everyone After Being Granted The [Demon King] Job) dalam Bahasa Indonesia
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Manga Musai no Reijou Jobu [Maou] de Juurin Suru (The Talentless Noble Lady Tramples On Everyone After Being Granted The [Demon King] Job) dalam Bahasa Indonesia
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Manga Musai no Reijou Jobu [Maou] de Juurin Suru (The Talentless Noble Lady Tramples On Everyone After Being Granted The [Demon King] Job) dalam Bahasa Indonesia
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Manga Musai no Reijou Jobu [Maou] de Juurin Suru (The Talentless Noble Lady Tramples On Everyone After Being Granted The [Demon King] Job) dalam Bahasa Indonesia
“Congress would later find that though bureau officials undertook COINTELPRO in the name of national security, its purpose was “preventing or disrupting the exercise of First Amendment rights.” The program took tactics developed for use against foreign adversaries during war and applied them to citizens: leaking phony allegations, sending anonymous poison-pen letters, interfering with jobs, having people arrested on drug charges, distributing misinformation, and encouraging violence. “In essence, the Bureau took the law into its own hands, conducting a sophisticated vigilante operation against domestic enemies,” the committee said. “Many of the techniques used would be intolerable in a democratic society even if all of the targets had been involved in violent activity, but COINTELPRO went far beyond that. The unexpressed major premise of the programs was a law enforcement agency has the duty to do whatever is necessary to combat perceived threats to the existing social and political order.”
― Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FB
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“Congress would later find that though bureau officials undertook COINTELPRO in the name of national security, its purpose was “preventing or disrupting the exercise of First Amendment rights.” The program took tactics developed for use against foreign adversaries during war and applied them to citizens: leaking phony allegations, sending anonymous poison-pen letters, interfering with jobs, having people arrested on drug charges, distributing misinformation, and encouraging violence. “In essence, the Bureau took the law into its own hands, conducting a sophisticated vigilante operation against domestic enemies,” the committee said. “Many of the techniques used would be intolerable in a democratic society even if all of the targets had been involved in violent activity, but COINTELPRO went far beyond that. The unexpressed major premise of the programs was a law enforcement agency has the duty to do whatever is necessary to combat perceived threats to the existing social and political order.”
― Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
The surface shown in my last few posts can be described as a diagonal on the hypersphere. In this 🧵 I'll expand a bit on what I mean by that.
On a sphere we can trace 'loxodrome' curves of constant bearing, diagonal to the longitude/latitude directions, spiralling from one pole of the sphere to the antipodal one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhumb_li…
Stereographically projecting from the top pole onto a horizontal plane gives logarithmic spirals, where one of the poles projects to the point at infinity. However, if instead we turn the sphere on its side before projecting we get a family of beautiful double spiral curves which reveal the true symmetrical nature of the 2 poles.
What is the equivalent of these curves in one dimension up?
Instead of the familiar sphere in 3d space a.k.a. the 2-sphere (which can be parameterised with 2 coordinates, longitude and latitude) we now have the 3-sphere or hypersphere in 4d space.
Stereographic projection which maps the 2-sphere to the flat plane can also be generalised to higher dimensions, and it conformally maps the 3-sphere to our familiar Euclidean 3d space.
This projects Hopf coordinates to a triply orthogonal system composed of spheres, planes and nested tori. At one extreme the torus becomes a horizontal circle and at the other a vertical line (or circle through infinity) through its centre (see toroidal coordinates here mathcurve.com/surfaces.gb/trip…).
So, I figured out that I’m trans about five years ago. At first, dysphoria was terrible, but over time, things got better, the euphoria suppressed the dysphoria, even though I wasn’t on HRT until last month. I was questioning why feeling dysphoria became less common and not as strong either, and why I was doing well without HRT (though I’m super happy that I started). Well, I guess I just don’t care that much about 'passing' as a woman. I’m just happy being Amy. I like my name, I like portraying myself in a feminine form, and I like she/her pronouns, but I don’t mind they/them either. Like, I don’t even care that much about being misgendered. I don’t like it, it makes me sad sometimes, but I feel like I care way less than most.
At first, I felt bad about being kinda masculine or liking things that are usually associated with men, but over time, I learned to accept that part of myself too. Like, masculine women exist, right? Having a non-binary headmate fronting for me recently made me question why I’m okay with things that most trans girls aren’t. Dunno where I’m going with this, just thinking, I guess.
passing is something that isn't really important to us either, partially because we've kinda internalized that because of our height and proportions, we'll never pass, so there's not really any use in stressing over it. And in terms of gender, I believe that gender is unique to every individual in how they feel and express themselves. I grew up forced to conform to one gender, and the idea of transitioning just to conform to another feels restraining. Like, I'm waaaayyy more like a girl than anything else, but I'm not going to do or not do anything just because "girls do that/girls don't do that". I am myself, that's my gender, and I'm going to express it however I see fit, and not worry about passing or fitting in.
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in reply to Denis - The COVID info guy - • • •Can we please NOT give nazis megaphones? I mean, ~probably~ most of your followers know those are lies, but rather than quoting him directly in a way that might get amplified to people who don't know better, even just sticking in someone's head subconsciously, report on what they lied about:
"RFK called for everyone to get measles, citing a lie that getting it provides lifetime immunity and that the vaccine does not. In reality, getting measles destroy's the immune system's memory of past infections, rendering one susceptible to other deadly diseases."