Glad that red circle is there otherwise I would never have noticed that in this story about a book he was photographed holding a book.

I fully support the autonomous right of all people to make informed decisions about their own lives and on paper the idea is a no-brainer.

But unless the legislation surrounding it is very, very tight it could easily be misused or abused. We already live in societies where people with disabilities - particularly learning based disabilities - are seen as having less value. I have overheard conversations where people pass comment on people with disabilities such as “Can’t be much of a life”, “would’ve been better for them if they’d died at birth” etc etc.

Amongst the first group of people the Nazi’s targeted were people with disabilities that they referred to as ‘useless eaters’ and subhuman.

I’m not suggesting that laws allowing self-euthanasia are akin to fascism so don’t Godwin me. All I’m saying is that without very strong legislation and a lot of checks, laws like this can be used to justify a lot of things.

What I’d really like is LibreWolf level privacy protection whilst the browser is running but that allows me to retain cache, history etc but also encrypts everything locally when the browser is closed and is password protected and only decrypts everything when the password is entered.

Much like my fellow English folk in this thread, I wasn’t sure what they even were. The only times I’ve ever had them is on an egg mcmuffin at the local Mickey D’s.

This feels like a filler post. What can we usefully learn about a browser that’s over a year away from an alpha release?

We will get whatever companies and algorithms push at us, just like social media. The idea that media is tailored to us is a bit of a myth in my opinion when that tailoring can be overridden at the whim of an advertiser paying more than the competition.

I’m also not sure that tailoring things is really good for personal growth. Of course we all have tastes and prefer certain genres in terms of things like games, books, movies, music etc but having just tailored content seems like a bit of a dead end street where its more and more difficult to find experiences you’ve never even considered, let alone tried.

Freedom of speech but no freedom of thought.

a list of the people I subscribe to, to quickly view their content

One of the left side (on a desktop browser) menu headings is ‘Lists’. Click that, create a new one called whatever you like. You can then add people to that list.

Not quite the same thing but close - and more discerning maybe. There’s also a ‘following’ header which is literally exactly what you’re after.

Did you read the article? To hold an event, you need a place for the event to take place in. The venues were the ones who cancelled, not the campaigner.

The Normans were Vikings - the then Frankish King, Charles, gave them land in north France if they agreed to shut the fuck up and stop murdering everyone in sight. They become known as ‘Northmen’ which contracted to ‘Norsemen’ which contracted to ‘Norman’.

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Possibly too esoteric a reference but if you know, you know etc.

The people leaving Twitter right now want Twitter minus Elon. That’s Bluesky. They’ve heard a couple of their Twitter follows mention it and they’ve gone to their app store where they find an app called Bluesky, install it and easily join and start using it. Once they do they are finding it pretty straightforward to find people they used to follow on Twitter.

That’s all people want.

Yeah, we broke away from TST in around 2018. Too centralised, too controlling, with concerning owners. We also have a couple of US Orders these days (Steel City in Pittsburgh and House of Heretics in Seattle).

And it’ll stay that way until people use, and keep using, this space. So, to use an overused phrase, be the change you want to see :)

Hence why the Satanic org I’m part of are currently running our Satan Not Hatin’ campaign :)

How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch has the recipe for that.

(Seriously, it’s a great read - one of my favourite popular science reads since, well, since Sagan.)

Farewell to the flesh :(

They are not TST-affiliated, more like an old style LaVeyan group.

The Satanic org I’m a member of also have a Chilean Order and I know the two orgs have talked but their LaVeyan-ism (i.e. libertarian/Ayn Rand type of Objectivism) doesn’t really align with us.

Mainstream social media track and identify in non-obvious ways such as browser fingerprinting. If you’re on a federated open source social media site then there’s none of that. If you use a VPN (and if you can’t afford one, Proton offer a free tier) or Tor browser to mask your IP and you’re using a non personally identifiable email address that goes a long way towards protecting yourself.

Beyond that, never posting identifying info about yourself such as the place you live, including the State, will protect you even further.

But I do agree that using an E2EE service is the best way to communicate.

Well quite ;)