bi, fly, and ready to cry

alsoooo a big, big, big digital security lesson that you absolutely have to understand while making recommendations is that if your protocol is too complicated or inaccessible, even if it's somehow perfectly invulnerable, then people will start taking shortcuts that are way fucking worse.

and this is kind of a tangent but. you especially need to be prioritizing a risk mitigation approach because flock & ring cameras exist lmao. regardless of whether you use any consumer technologies at all, if you live in the US, these things are tagging your license plate & other visual attributes of your car. using facial recognition on drivers & passengers & pedestrians. aggregating all that data to track your movement like on a map. what are you going to do? not live in a city? not drive a car? not leave your house?

I would like to inform you as a previous railcar repairman, we also love the graffiti on the train cars! At least on my yard, when we had work orders to re-paint stencils, we made every effort to preserve as much of the graffiti as we could while keeping the important stenciled information legible. Seeing the carmen community online I believe this is widespread amongst most railroaders. There were even artists who we would excitedly inform each other whenever we found a new work they made on a car so everyone could come check it out (Mr. Sex Appeal, looking at you with those gorgeous chalk elvis portraits)

I have heard of black people warning their kids that the race of a police officer is cop and you should not expect solidarity from them. The same applies to other types of minorities.

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

So many political posts I hate boil down to "I don't want to organize and work with people I hate and fight for small, incremental victories, I just want to start a revolution where everyone magically becomes an automaton who acts exactly the way I think they should act"

thought about that quote "homosexuality exists in 1000+ species, homophobia only exists in one" but how awkward would it be if we discovered another species that was homophobic

Tis true! Caenorhabditis elegans gets stressed and may die if it accidentally engages in gay sex ✨ (Gems and Riddle, 2000)

Oh so... They're not bigoted. They're properly fuckin scared of gay sex.