Hey folks, unless you’re using an end-to-end encrypted messaging system, your DMs are readable (given sufficient incentive).

Please read up on whether your messaging system is *end-to-end* encrypted, not just “encrypted”, and think about whether you trust the developers to write good code and not lie to you about how things work.

Mastodon DMs are *not* end-to-end encrypted! You should not write anything on Mastodon that you don’t want published in the open (given sufficient incentive).

Some systems *can* be end-to-end encrypted but are not by default. RCS, FB Messenger, and Instagram DMs fall into this category AFAICT. Some systems don’t even offer it, like Discord.

Please consider moving your private messages to a system that is private by design! I’m partial to Signal, but feel free to choose your own.

#privacy #encryption

Instead of the Fenian raids it will be the Magaian raids eh?

#History #Canada

Faschismus ist Back

The U.S. Constitution Delivers a 404 Now. "Democracy not found." https://gizmodo.com/the-u-s-constitution-delivers-a-404-now-2000552847

Tonight was FGNO*, and I live-coded. Fun, really fun, but also kinda stressful for the coder. = "Friday Geek's Night Out", our small private virtual meetup of old programmers, which we have done every Tuesday night for about five years.

There have been times when I didn't want to know a business's politics, but now I need to. National, local, I need to know who I'm giving my money to.

And as much as I can I won't be contributing to this economy, going to try to do more local, should start using cash a lot more.

“In 150 characters or less” by Nikita Gill

Trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees, say U.S official, advocate
Jonathan Landay

Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S.,
-- including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel,
are having their #flights #canceled under Donald Trump's order
💥suspending U.S. refugee programs,
a U.S. official and a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday.

The group includes ⭐️unaccompanied minors awaiting reunification with their families in the U.S.

as well as
⭐️Afghans at risk of Taliban retribution because they fought for the former U.S.-backed Afghan government,

said Shawn VanDiver, head of the #AfghanEvac coalition of U.S. veterans and advocacy groups and the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The U.S. decision also leaves in limbo thousands of other Afghans who have been approved for resettlement as refugees in the U.S. but have not yet been assigned flights from Afghanistan or from neighboring Pakistan, they said.

"Afghans and advocates are panicking," said VanDiver.
"I've had to recharge my phone four times already today because so many are calling me.

"We warned them that this was going to happen, but they did it anyway.
We hope they will reconsider," he said of contacts with Trump's transition team

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-canceling-flights-nearly-1660-afghan-refugees-say-us-2025-01-20/

Smallpox once killed over 500 million people.

Thanks to efforts by the WHO that was strongly backed by the US, smallpox was eradicated by 1980.

The US recoups their investment every 26 days in money not spent on administering further vaccinations and treating new cases.

Withdrawing from the WHO will cost the US dearly in terms of money and lives.

The best way to make America healthy is by working together with the world on our shared goal of eliminating diseases that affect us all.

Your friends are right
when they tell you
that laws
and institutions
and politicians
and media outlets
are not going to save us,
but your friends are wrong
when they tell you
that nobody
is going to save us,
for each of us is somebody
and so it falls to us
to save each other.

🇺🇸US: "17 states around the U.S. reported "very high" wastewater levels of SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—during the week between January 5 and January 11."

"This is a drop from the week before, where 20 U.S. states had very high levels."

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/covid-19-wastewater-map-united-states-very-high-levels-2018270

@auscovid19

Let's take a look at Nancy Pelosi's $VST option buys.

She disclosed her buy in a $500,000-$1,000,000 range.

But using Unusual Whales, we can get her exact price paid and how much.

She bought at 3:39PM EST, and paid $608,964 total.

She was the entire volume of the day.

No… https://t.co/M6YtjHgMMd

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options