RT @GirishNaught@twitter.com
In 2021, remember that @UmarKhalidJNU@twitter.com is in jail on fake charges, terr0rist sh00ters are officially joining BJP, and delhi police still can't locate Komal Sharma. Happy New Year.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GirishNaught/status/1344934002482810886
RT @soutikBBC@twitter.com
Tonight, 36 years ago.
Never forget.
#BhopalGasTragedy
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/soutikBBC/status/1334195204807528449
RT @IMVijayan1@twitter.com
RIP God of football 😢
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/IMVijayan1/status/1331646633096794112
Should Knowledge Be Free?
Consumerism has done this weird trick of pushing "convenience" as a kind of moral sentiment. It does not apply to "work" (or "labor" to those on the left) which is supposed to be non-fun but required.
The central idea seem to be that anything that is not one's "job" should involve as little effort as possible. Laziness is a virtue and anything that requires effort is dismissed as foolish, old-fashioned drudgery. But don't most rewarding things require effort?
If we want people to move away from corporate hegemony, we will also need to convince people that convenience is often not a virtue and that doing things the hard way can be fun, interesting and convivial (not to mention more sustainable, local and humane).
Weird #mastodon trick / useful bug
Everyone knows by now that you can fake a draft mode by composing a toot, setting its privacy to direct, not @-ing anyone, and clicking "toot!". Then delete+redraft later to edit it again and choose a more public privacy setting or @ someone.
Did you know that if you press reply while editing one of these and say "yes, discard", it will keep any images and image descriptions from the draft, and put them on the reply instead?
a story about a huge malicious tor exit operation:
Blog: "How Malicious Tor Relays are Exploiting Users in 2020 (Part I)
>23% of the Tor network’s exit capacity has been attacking Tor users"
https://medium.com/@nusenu/how-malicious-tor-relays-are-exploiting-users-in-2020-part-i-1097575c0cac
RT @Raksha_Kopparam
This is some serious neo-colonial bs. Who just goes into a poor community in a foreign country and cuts of their water ~for research~ ?!? @Claudia_Sahm said it best: economics is a disgrace. We can’t keep excusing racism and Western supremacy for the sake of research. https://twitter.com/joshbudlender/status/1292170843389386761
coldly human