Nathaniel Harari @natharari@qoto.org

ContraPoints has her first new video out in ten months, and I couldn't be happier. It's about "The Witch Trials" which covers the J.K. Rowling story which was done recently in podcast form. Natalie was featured in the podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmT0i0xG6zg

#trans #rights #contrapoints

Tim Miller from @bulwarkonline (The Bulwark) has a fantastic interview with Tennessee House Rep. Gloria Johnson about what happened there in the last few weeks. Also, she's been there for a while. It's not just what's happened in the last few weeks, but what has been happening for a long while.

I remember in the 90s, a lot of movies and shows were showing us "The New South". The non-racist South. The South that had "changed". All of that "nastiness" and "unpleasantness" was in the past, as they would have had us believe. It was "forgotten history" - pay it no heed.

Well, as it turns out, not so much. Not by a long shot.

https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/the-next-level/id1647085571?i=1000609201591

You can get "The Next Level" (part of The Bulwark podcasts) free on Apple or your other favourite podcast services.

@LouisIngenthron I've actually been against those as well since years and years. I have many posts online in different venues about it. In fact, I haven't posted on Facebook for a very, very, long time because of it. Same goes for Twitter and other places.

I just think that TikTok is a blatant security threat not just to the USA but to any democracy.

A lot of people don't appear to mind that TikTok is subject to Chinese Communist Party laws concerning the retaining of all of that juicy data they collect on everyone around the world.

Yet another story to remind us about just whom we are talking about:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/17/politics/fbi-chinese-agents/index.html

Do you /really/ want to give your data to them? Seriously?

#tiktok #china

@ZachWeinersmith 🤡

@xenodium Heh yeah, I figured. For me as well. 👍

@davep @xenodium Yeah after every update, I have to make an alias and drop it into the Applications folder as well as drop it into the Alfred preferences so I can launch it with Alfred. It only takes about a minute to do though. Not exactly a deal breaker. 😀

@xenodium I have to ask: Do you use the nyan-cat sound file in nyan-mode for scrolling or not? I haven't installed it yet. I would imagine it gets annoying after a while? 🏳️‍🌈🐱

@davep @xenodium Thanks. Sounds interesting. I have to manually link railwaycat with every update though for some reason so that sounds about the same. (Not sure why you don't but I have to). Also, railwaycat seems to update very slowly. Maybe twice a year or something.

@davep @xenodium Seems like I'm late with viewing my timeline. Sorry about that. Looks great but how does it differ significantly from railwaycat so far? Anything new and fun or exciting? Or is it mostly the same?

@xenodium @davep Okay I might give it a try (missed this reponse before, sorry). Dave, please let me know if you do it soon as I'll be curious about the results. 😀

@xenodium Yes but what does Emacs Plus offer that Railwaycat doesn't? That's what I'm curious about.

@davep @xenodium Ah! Sorry, misunderstood. Yeah. Well, if you install it and play with it before he answers, let me know. 😀

@davep @xenodium I've been using it for a few years now. I think since 2019 or something. It's very good. It is compiled with features for the mac environment such as trackpad gestures etc... I'd tell you to check it out, but I just asked about Emacs Plus so maybe I should take the time to check that out as well at some point. 😀

@xenodium I love your setup. I'm using Railwaycat on the Mac. I'm wondering if you've tried it? Are there any advantages of using Emacs Plus over it? Just curious.

Again: Great post and thanks for all of your other posts too. 👍