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π Planning for an Uncertain Future
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π Thank You Destiny for Exposing MAGA
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π Save American Democracy
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π Journal Update 27: New Onions!
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π No Kurzgesagt, Feeling Free Isn't Good Enough
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π Why I Timestamped My Journal
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π Journal Update 26: Taking a Step Back
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π Re: The Religion of Peace
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π Re: On Transgender Athletes
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π An Objection to My Metaethics
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π Re: Atomic Habits
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ autism
π The Fair-Weather Friend
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π Re: You're Not Autistic! 65 Reasons You Can't Be Autistic
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π Re: Why I Don't Trust Police and Neither Should You
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π Join Extinction Rebellion Now
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π Journal Update 25
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ autism
π Autism From The Inside
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π Don't Say PC When You Mean Windows
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π Should Autistic People be Held Accountable for Their Actions?
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π Re: They Told Their Therapists Everything. Hackers Leaked It All
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π Don't Use Ancestry Services
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π Re: Cloudflare Considered Harmful
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π Re: I've stopped using mobile phones in my life.
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π Will You Support My Work?
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π Dr Phil Is a Bully
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π Individual vs Collective Advice
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π Re: Dr. Pordan Jeterson: Answering the Toughest Question of All
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π Gaining Clarity After Walking Off a Job on Orientation Day
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π Failing Forward
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Journal Update 024
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π The Electronic Frontier Foundation Defends Your Digital Rights
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π Never Meet Your Heroes
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π Re: Why even let users set their own passwords?
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π Re: Against risk-based authentication (or, why I wouldn't trust Google Cloud)
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π Re: Phone numbers must die
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π Re: The Right to be Publicly Naked: A Defense of Nudism
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π Copyright Versus Freedom of Speech
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π Tone Deaf Marketing
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π Started From the Bottom, Stayed at the Bottom
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π Explore Neocities!
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π Stupid Laws Regarding Teen Sexting and Child Pornography
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π The Problem With GrapheneOS
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π Re: bullshit.js
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π Fuck Advertising
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π Re: Don't Look Up
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π Re: Pascal's Mugging
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ autism
π Is Autism a Disability or Neurodivergence?
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π New Waking Up Course Torrent
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π Nobody Knows How Many Bullshit Jobs Exist
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ autism
π What is Sensory Overload Like? (Attempt #2)
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ autism
π Police Mistake Autism for Suspicious Behavior
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π Re: [Video] Don't Talk to the Police
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π Experiences With Teachers Bullying Students
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ autism
π Autism Is Not Relatable
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π Predicting The Near-Term Consequences of AI
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π Robert Miles Makes Accessible AI Safety Videos
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π On Nick Bostrom
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π Stop Using Toilet Paper
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π My First Psychedelic Mushroom Trip in San JosΓ© Del PacΓfico
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π AI Poses a Threat to Privacy
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π Companies Are Being Reckless With AI
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π Intuition for Metaethics
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π Why Disappearing Messages Are Important For Private Messaging
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π Re: DKIM: Show Your Privates
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ autism
π The Importance of Early Autism Diagnosis
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π Journal Update 023
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π Making Sense of Metaethics
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ autism
π I Got Diagnosed
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π I2P and Tor Need Your Support
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π [Article] The Internet Is Broken
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ autism
π The Play That Never Ends
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π How to Help an Autistic Person
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ autism
π On the Term "Low Functioning Autism"
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π On the Term "High-Functioning Autism"
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ autism
π I'm Different, but Not in a Cool Way
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π Go Vegan
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π Learning I'm Autistic Was a Relief
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π Natalist Culture is Insane
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ autism
π Shit Neurotypicals Say to Autistics
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π I Am Autistic, Not Retarded
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π How I Came to Atheism
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π The Most Overused Programming Language
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π [Playlist] The Alt-Right Playbook
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π [Video] Breaking Bad | How the War on Drugs Traumatizes Everybody
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π [Book] Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention - And How to Think Deeply Again
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π Understanding Precludes Hate
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Journal Update 022
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π Domain Change Announcement
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π Obligatory Consumption Must End
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π Bullshit Jobs Really Are Bullshit
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Please Don't Use Google as a Verb
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π [Website] ToS;DR
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π [Website] GetHuman
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π Knowing Who You Really Are
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ autism
π Challenges Driving With Autism
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π [Video] Advertising
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π Overpopulation, Overconsumption, and Technology
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π Give Up Hope. Take Action.
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π [Website] Use Plaintext Email
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π The Perils of Social Media
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π [Article] Please Don't Pay to Use a Pay Toilet
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Journal Update 021
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Read Receipts Are an Antifeature
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π ICANNot Be Trusted
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π Automation and the Meaning of Work
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π [Website] Assange Defense
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π Merchants Should Stop Accepting Cryptocurrency
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Comparing Multi-Factor Authentication Methods
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π [Website] Chat Control
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ autism
π Autism and Memory
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π The Dream of Life
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π [Website] Wait Until 8th
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π Why Biden Should Expand The Supreme Court
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ autism
π Identifying And Processing Emotions With Alexithymia
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π Lock Him Up
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π How to Proselytize Free Software
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π The Power of Convenience
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π Extreme Capitalism Ruins Everything
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π [Video] Jordan Klepper Debunks The "Good Guy with a Gun" Argument
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π Why Autistic People Are Targets of Manipulation and How to Avoid Becoming a Victim
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ autism
π What is Sensory Overload Like?
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π Don't Fly The Thin Blue Line Flag
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π The Best Way to Proselytize Mindfulness
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π Anybody Can Solve a Rubik's Cube Blindfolded
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π On Cultural Appropriation
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Don't Rely Exclusively on a VPN For Online Privacy and Security
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ autism
π Coming Out as Autistic
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π [Video] The Current Plot to Rig U.S. Elections
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π Why You Cannot Get Rid of Your Ego
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π Thoughts on Spirituality
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Journal Update 020
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π Get an Eco-Friendly Burial
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π Consider Death
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Gemini Appreciation Entry
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Implications of Synthetic Media
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Businesses Should be Required to Accept Cash
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π Free International Texting Without a Phone Number
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π How Extreme Wealth Inequality Harms The Wealthy
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π Is Beastiality Immoral?
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π It's Not Necessarily Irrational to Believe Things You Can't Justify to Others
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π GPL vs Permissive Licenses
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π On The Intellectual Dark Web
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Taking Back The Web With Haketilo
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π [Organization] Let Grow
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π Don't Call People Homophobic, Transphobic, or Islamophobic
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π On Transgender Athletes
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π Language Shouldn't Be Exclusive
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π Fighting The War On Drugs With Jury Nullification
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Encryption is a Timer, Not a Lock
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π [Documentary] Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs
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π PSA: You Can Remove Your Property From Street View Services
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π Come Watch Me Present at LibrePlanet 2022!
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Journal Update 019
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π [Website] Visualizing Wealth Inequality And Mass Incarceration
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π Journal Update 018
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π Why I Don't Use a Pseudonym
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π Psychedelics Are a Rite of Passage
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Git Is Not Github. Git Is Not Github. Git Is Not Github.
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π How to Transfer Large Files From One Computer to Another
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π Paying Close Attention to Experience
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π Start Fresh In Every Moment
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π Automation, Bullshit Jobs, And Work
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π On Drug Checking Tools
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π Always Use Tor
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π You Don't Need An Antivirus
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π Use a Password Manager
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π Toll Roads Should Be Illegal
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Goodbye PGP
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π Statement of GPG Key Transition
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π Why I Don't Have a Smartphone
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π There Is Nothing Wrong With Incest
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Warning to Monero Users
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Debugging Neomutt
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π The Narrative Self
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Journal Update 017
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π I Wish I Could Endorse the Waking Up App
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π Breaking My Promise
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π "If You Don't Like It Then Just Leave"
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π Turn Off Surveillance Devices
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π A Nation of Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires
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π Future-Proof Digital Timestamping
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π The Privacy Implications of Weak AI
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π On Data Leaks
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π On Compassion
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π Why I Don't Trust Police and Neither Should You
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Journal Update 016
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Don't Let Cannabis Dispensaries Scan Your ID
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π Struggle to Graduate Without Nonfree Software
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π Oxen Security Fail
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π Shouting Into the Void
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Journal Update 015
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π Antinatalism
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π Site Update 014
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π Dealing With Close-Minded People
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Manufacturing Agreement
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π Disgustingly Rich
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π Flygskam
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π Avoid Using Cryptocurrency
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Site Update 013
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π Integrated Activism
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π Get the Vaccine
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π My Career Path
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Site Update 012
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Don't Use Github
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π Banning Facial Recognition Isn't Enough
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π The Cult of Productivity
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Private Online Shopping
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Mourning the Loss of Privacy
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Site Update 011
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π [Video] Car Surveillance: an Unregulated Privacy Disaster
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π [Book] The Selfish Gene
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Site Update 010
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Cover Your Cameras
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Don't Record Others Without Permission
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π [Video] Monero: More Anonymous Than Cash
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π On Malware
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π [Video] Is Your Keyboard Spying on You?
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π The Meaning of Life
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π [Video] Don't Talk to the Police
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Site Update 009
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π [Video] You Should Delete Your Whatsapp ASAP
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π The Addiction to Thinking
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π [Documentary] The Norden: Prison
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Site Update 008
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π [Book] Waking Up
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Dead Man's Switch
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π [Article] You Should Be Using an Old Computer
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π [Documentary] Sicko
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π Consumer Data Protection is a Distraction
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π On Spirituality
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π [Video] Atheist Debates - Supernatural Causation
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π [Video] Atheist Debates - Pascal's Wager
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π [Video] Atheist Debates - Argument From Design, Part 2: What Are the Odds?
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π [Video] Atheist Debates - Argument From Design, Part 1: Order and Purpose
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π [Video] Fixing Social Media for Good
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π [Video] TikTok - a Trojan Horse into China's Dystopia
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Site Update 007
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π [Fable] The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant
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π [Podcast] Why Trump is Unfit For Office
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π [Podcast] The Key to Trump's Appeal
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π On Blockchain
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π [Essay] The Simulation Argument
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π [Book] Lying
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π [Video] Vengeance
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π The Privacy Paradox
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Site Update 006
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π IPv6 Adoption
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Site Update 005
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Social Media Alternatives
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Atom and RSS
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Avoiding Automobile Surveillance
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Site Update 004
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π The Nonlinearity of Intelligence
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Site Update 003
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π The Pledge of Allegiance
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π Shining Light on the Dark Side of Law Enforcement
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π Bringing Civility to Public Discourse With the Steel Man Technique
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π Newcomb's Paradox Resolved
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π Why Superman Isn't Brave
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π Thoughts on Logic
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Get an Anonymous Phone Number with DTMF.io
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Stop Amazon's Police State
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Remote Fair Coin Flipping with Friends
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Avoiding Consumer Surveillance
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Raising the Bar on Privacy
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Site Update 002
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π Legalize All Drugs
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π The Eternal Here and Now
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ journal updates
π Site Update 001
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Using Email
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Use Free Software
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π Metaethics
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Thoughts on Blogging
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing, siue
π SIUe Unauthenticated SMTP Server
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing, siue
π Networked EV Charging Stations
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π Free Will is Incoherent - Part 2
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π Ego Traps
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing, siue
π Why I Left ITS
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π Free Will is Incoherent - Part 1
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π Doublethink
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing, siue
π SIUe e-ID Creation and Maintenance Problems
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing, siue
π SIUe Cyberstalking Feature
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing
π Exposing Zoom
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π The Self
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing, siue
π Rejecting Visual Studio
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π The Victim Mentality Versus Individual Responsibility
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing, siue
π The Tipping Point - Rejecting Windows, Zoom, Lockdown Browser, and the Lockdown Monitor
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing, siue
π Rejecting Discord and Google Colab
π | β±οΈ | π·οΈ computing, siue
π Inception - Rejecting Discord, Draw.io, and Visual Studio