I’m between 3b and 3c and nonbinary. Usually I keep the sides and back clipped/faded either to a curly mullet or just curls on top. I haven’t done fades as much since I’ve been out, but I used to always wear what I’d call futbol haircuts. I grow my hair out longer now which gives me more options for femme and andro presentation. I’ll post some of my inspiration pictures somewhere to share later.

delta.chat has some concept of e2ee mailing lists, but i’m not positive on the details. technically PGP based (though rewritten in rust), but the app doesn’t expose many of the crypto details to the end user. sadly that does mean it inherits some of the weaknesses of PGP like a lack of forward secrecy. OMEMO, Signal, and Matrix all use some variant of a double-ratchet algo. I’d like to see something like this make its way into async/store-and-forward messaging, but idk if there’s some reason why it hasn’t.

the delta chat app is currently pretty chat-centric, but its based on email so it could be modified to fit better with long form discussions.

As long as there are white people, we have to keep having this talk. At some point they’ll realize that white is a caste and hopefully give it up.

I don’t think capital can sustain projects of this magnitude. Space is too harsh of an environment for delulu. We can hardly grapple with the idea that our actions on earth have consequences because of our condition. I like space stuff and I even like to create designs of starships, but I don’t think we’re in a position to reach for the stars just yet. Even if I’m wrong, we can’t allow space fascism get started either. There is probably life out there and if space capitalism finds them, they’ll try to pull another indigenous genocide and invent new forms of xenophobia to justify it.

None of our problems are technological. We have massive people problems. Building a new billions of dollar machine or trillions of dollar space station isn’t going to disrupt the imperial core. The Gray Techno Fash won’t suddenly become humanists because space.

Space life can be fun to think about, but techno futurism is a liberal fetish and tends to result in liberal fantasies if you don’t decolonize your mind.

https://readsettlers.org tbh

as a teen I would tell my dad that I was morally obligated to break the law if the law was wrong, but I did get in trouble whenever we got DMCA notices so I had to get smart about it or risk getting grounded.

if i had to guess, i would say they needed to find a new arms dealer.

the branded controller was cool tho

Thanks the gods that literacy isn’t a prerequisite to defeating fascism.

WISPs use a lot of infra mesh tech and they’re also really great for low-cost network deployments in rural areas too since you don’t need to dig long trenches. Just point a couple of high-gain yagis at each other every 30km or so and you’re good.

The main problem with MANets is 1. TCP is incompatible with variably high latency and partial connectivity and 2. there’s no IP routing algorithm that handles variable topologies well. so you end up burning the majority of the already limited wireless bandwidth on tracking routing tree changes and not on data transmission. Density is only really an issue because of problem 1. ICNs handle the latency issue more gracefully, but without a solid solution for 2 it doesn’t matter lol.

That and nobody actually knows how to make mobile adhoc mesh networks beyond toy demos. I think NDN is probably the furthest along based on my reading between the lines of some routing algo papers coming from UCLA (read: .mil applications). I’m personally trying to make micro clouds (or mist computing if I’m being cheeky) a little easier and continuing research into MANets because I think its a really interesting problem that there’s very little incentive to solve since the profit potential is tiny. I think a lot of this is applicable for making websites that can’t be deleted, but like you say, the social organization comes first. Without the will to maintain the systems, no amount of tools will make a difference.

The infra meshes in berlin and elsewhere are basically volunteer-based wireless ISPs and can’t be run without people willing to put in the work. They also aren’t that much more resilient to disruption than a typical corporate WISP like starry or whatever, its just theoretically possible to have a community owned/operated setup because the infra is relatively cheap. No Se Vende Mesh is a project that was already happening in LA when I got here and I’m trying to be supportive. Some of the volunteers are struggling with motivation though because, well, its LA and organizing is hard.

we need significantly more resilient communications infrastructure. though this applies equally to disaster prep since the internet is extremely fragile. i see this as a problem with a bunch of parts, but some of the main pieces look like this to me:

1. organizing computers (spare phones, spare laptops, actual server hardware) into cloud-like infrastructure components
2. writing software that actually works well running on trash (fediverse nodes really hate it when hostnames change, so hexbear itself may not adapt well if the domain gets seized. they aren’t a good match for disaster services either since you can’t guarantee that global DNS will work)
3. building overlay networks to connect nodes over the internet (yggdrasil+i2p looks like a winner in the short term)
4. building a physical mesh network to link nearby computers together over fast links (BATMAN for no se vende mesh here in LA)
5. developing a mobile adhoc mesh routing protocol that can setup a usable internet using only smartphones that interoperates with the fixed mesh noted in 4 (this will likely replace BATMAN, but is also a research problem and would represent a novel capability)

there are a bunch of shitty mesh apps and hardware components out there that may also be applicable, but its hard to get anything useful out of them without more planning and coordination. (meshtastic, briar, secure scuttlebutt, simplex, et al. come to mind)

i’ve been working on minibase for the micro-cloud component in an experimental capacity for years using alpine linux (just cuz i like it), but I’ve recently started working on a production version based on nix.

They can’t even be assed to make the masses gawk at their fortune. They lock it in an overpriced vault and wear all grey every day.

Obviously both and/or either

I’m trans with far fewer resources and I’m planning on duking it out here. I spent my meager savings and a good chunk of my mental health to move from a deep red state to California. I have practically nothing left and I’m out a support system since I had to leave most of my friends behind to get out. I feel kinda naked being unable to legitimately arm myself, but the only people I actually feel in danger from are police so its an improvement overall.

I’ve looked into moving abroad, but western influence is massive and they’ve been demonizing us for generations. There are trans people everywhere, but you’ll have to get a lot more comfortable with risk. Personally, I can’t really justify it. The most I could do is move to my mom’s home country to try to make a stand with my family there, but my ties and responsibilities are in the Americas either way.

I am afraid, but I’ve run as far as I can. What’s left is putting down roots and finding community. I can only afford to resist.

rapidly losing access to the biome that supports the enormous increase in humans that gave us the brain power to innovate our way out of the last dark age.

the last dark age only happened in europe. most of the world was actually thriving at this time. sad it didn’t last a little longer actually. would have been really interesting to see a globalized world where europe is left out until late in the game. i would suggest that western culture causes dark ages, that’s what we’ve been living for the last 500 years or so. almost everything has been erased. for a lot of us, the collapse of empire is a light at the end of the tunnel. it’ll be horrible, for certain, and was completely avoidable, but you know white people. crawl out to the fallout baby, when they drop that bomb

I’m not about to train myself to feel good about other people suffering, even evil people. I’d rather figure out how to make them irrelevant and dismantle the systems that produce them. We live in a world molded by trauma, inflicting trauma on abusers doesn’t change them, its just more of the same old thing.

I don’t feel bad, I just don’t see the point in celebrating misfortune.

idk how productive I’m going to be atm, but I’d be down

I don’t feel great about laughing at the misfortune of others, but its pretty ironic that this family preferred to throw their own children into the literal gutter rather than surrender their property and privilege to the people.

that’s what we call “t h e F e d i v e r s e” though it could be cool to build something more specific

calling the police

never in my life.