When John Snobelen, the Minister of Education during the Mike Harris years, was caught on tape saying he wanted to create a crisis in education to then break it, it cost the #Conservatives the government.
Years later, rather than create stability, the lesson the Doug Ford government has learned is - do not say your plans out loud.
Conservatives know that if voters actually knew their plan, they would never be elected.
Using things like Vivaldi's tracker blocker will make it harder to for those with ill intentions to recognise you and build up a profile of your activities.
I live my life this way, nobody tracks me, as I always blend right in! 🤔
SimpleX Chat – #private and #secure#opensource messenger without user IDs of any kind (not even random numbers) – v5.2 with message delivery receipts and more stable message delivery is now released to App Store and Play Store!
Biden Ordered the DOJ to Stop Using #Private#Prisons. Thousands Are Still Being Held Inside.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others are looking into the discrepancy further.
The order restored an #Obama era policy first announced in 2016—and later suspended by #Trump administration—after a damning federal report found that private federal prisons were less safe and less secure than their publicly run counterparts. No longer would the Bureau of Prisons sign deals...
Sometimes I'm busy and can't read at that moment, so I save the article/news as plain text in a PDF file to read it later. It works most of the time, but it's not perfect.
You'll need: torsocks (optional), lynx and LibreOffice installed.
Save it as a #bash file like "pdf.sh", make it executable with "chmod +x pdf.sh" and then use it like this:
Tip of the day: set your #browser to open links #incognito by default. I have friends sending #facebook#instagram#youtube links to share funny stuff they find online. I typically used #duckduckgobrowser as my default on my phone. However, #firefox displays stuff much better, particularly sites like #lemmy . So I set my firefox settings to open #private by default.
An informative conversation of @aral with an inspired @dsearls about the idea of #smallweb :
"what if each one of us had our own place, our own address, a small place on the web, and we could be publishing whatever we want, and people would be able to follow you.. but you could also be private, and i mean.. really #private not Facebook-private, but #endtoend encrypted. The small web is in fact a #P2Pweb." https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/753
You can say the #First#Amendment only applies to the #government, not #private entities—which is undeniably true—and therefore #social#media sites have no obligation to provide a platform for speech the owners of the site don’t like. This is a reasonable and defensible position.
Or you can say social media sites are the new #town#squares, and therefore the owners have a moral if not legal obligation to allow anyone to say practically anything using their platforms. You can even point out that the government charters corporations, and is responsible for a lot of #telecom#infrastructure, so by allowing censorship in that particular environment, the government is at least complicit in interfering with free speech rights. This is also a reasonable and defensible position.
Maybe you can even try to find some kind of well-articulated middle ground between these positions, although I have to say I don’t remember ever seeing anyone do so. I think most people do hold opinions somewhere between the two, but they don’t tend to spell it out.
What they do instead is argue either side as it’s convenient, which is irritating as hell. And yes, this is a rare bit of “both sides” on my part. I see a whole lot of leftish folks, who are generally not big fans of corporate power, deploying the first position against right-wing types—while complaining about the arbitrary and often clearly biased way #Facebook et al. censor left-wing statements.
The complaints are justified. Hypocrisy is not.
Just pick a position, be honest with yourself about what that position is, and stick to it. No matter where you fall on this spectrum, you have to be aware that the mechanisms of speech, and by extension the press, have changed dramatically over the last thirty years and will continue to do so. Knowing where you stand is important.
I had been meaning to look at using #Ollama for local #AI & today I caught this excellent video how-to. Still not sold on the current hype of AI but it would be foolish to overlook its place in our future.
Honestly, this little project was the most fun I’ve had in a while: installing/using different AI models, using AI in the #terminal, then in a #browser, even creating a persona for the prompts. And it’s all running locally (no internet needed!), so it’s #private. 🤓
It may not seem like it at first, but this tragic story of travelling abroad for #medical treatment is all about the shadow of the #NHScrisis; both the rationing of treatment(s) and the costs of #private#healthcare for those who are desperate for treatment.
the shadow of the crisis is wrecking people's lives, while the #tories continue their programme of wrecking as long as they can