And now I think about that every year when other white people ask why we’re celebrating this. And it’s because from 1865-1965, when the Voting Rights Act passed, this was still the reality for Black Texans
A few years ago, when the push to make Juneteenth a federal holiday had really started to hit the news, I asked my dad what he knew about the holiday, as a white Texan man born in 1942. He said he was aware of it as “the one day a year Black people were allowed in all the parks”
Russia hits Ukrainian cultural sites, Ukraine hits legitimate military targets harder (Russia has a few of these)
Since 2020, Microsoft now has to burn 60% more energy to make the same amount of revenue.
That is a company that is becoming SIGNIFICANTLY LESS efficient - this is the actual story of digital bloat happening in big tech right now
there are lots of good reasons to protect people with physical or mental differences but one of them is the same reason you have to protect due process: once anyone no longer has due process rights, no one does, because they can just define you as a member of the class without
There is complete industry consensus on this. Every reputable cryptographer on the planet agrees: Signal’s cryptographic protocols are the most secure in class. Period.
Just because your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate told you otherwise doesn’t make it true
If somebody’s trying to tell you some other app is a more secure alternative to Signal, they are ignorant, malicious, or trying to sell you something and you should not take them seriously. Every other app is going to have the same human problems and worse security. Ask every reputable cryptographer
The most secure cryptographic protocol in the world will not stop the fed in your group chat from being a fed, or some guy from not putting a passcode on his phone and leaving it at the bar. This is not Signal’s fault and in fact has nothing to do with Signal at all