Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://reclaimthenet.org/australias-intelligence-agencies-misinformation Why on earth should spooks be involved in matters of speech?

Utah.

Reading a piece on someone surviving conversation therapy makes me feel very uncomfortable.

Even worse for someone to be subjected to it.

Apparently, the guy who came up with the phrase "nothing hide nothing to fear" was a source of inspiration for the Nazis.

https://openprivacy.ca/discreet-log/40_july-2023/ They also appear to be here on the fediverse. See @cwtch

https://cwtch.im If you didn't know, this idea of encrypted apps is the very same idea which the Canadian non-profit, Open Privacy, had with Cwtch (although, so far that is... mostly... just a chat app).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/02/encryption-dead-cow-cult-apps-def-con/ A new competitor to Tapir has appeared (fairly similar ideal).

I don't really get cannabis prohibitions.

People support alcohol, and I suppose that someone should be responsible about their alcohol use, however, we don't see anyone racing to go back to Prohibition (which was a disaster).

It also has it's own positive attributes.

Thinking of this case makes me so angry.

https://www.tpr.org/criminal-justice/2023-07-20/texas-charges-prisoners-50-more-for-water-for-as-heat-wave-continues Inhumane conditions in Texan prisons.

He probably would have won too, because it was that one judge with a conflict of interest who was the problem.

https://reclaimthenet.org/putins-latest-law-criminalizes-online-anonymity Thought you'd seen the last of him? Think again.

He wants to eviscerate his people's rights in even more draconian ways.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/02/jim-larkin-backpage-exec-dies-by-suicide-a-week-before-his-trial/ Jim Larkin died to protect your #1A rights.

@gnitro I saw the first season but never the second. The cute power (lol) in it is so strong though that I have to watch it sometime.

Federation of posts can be kind of spotty and inconsistent at times.

That said, it shouldn't come to this either, people should be treating others with respect, not behaving in a disgustingly bigoted fashion. People should respect others on a platform.

I hear that #misskey has a racist trolls problem and is filtering new Western users out to attempt to mitigate that (after several awkward attempts at intervening).

That's probably one of the appeals of the fediverse. Someone can hunker down and new users can just route somewhere else.