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Your Teenage Self is Not a Bug, It's a Feature
7 days ago
- Creativity often stems from compulsion, not ambition, serving as a form of resistance.
- A dog's reaction to Trump's voice symbolizes political distress detection.
- Living a desired life creates tension between gratitude and rebellion.
- The teenage internal voice pushes back against routine responsibilities and public discourse.
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The Increasing State of Surveillance Simultaneously Around the World
21 days ago
- Global surveillance is increasing through multiple independent proposals that collectively create a comprehensive system, despite lacking a central plan.
- Governments are establishing identity layers via SIM card KYC, app store age verification, OS-level age attestation, developer verification, and foreign service KYC to make devices identifiable extensions of individuals.
- Governments are pushing for communications layer surveillance through client-side scanning of encrypted messages, CA mandates, TLS interception, network-level filtering, and VPN restrictions, though some efforts have been resisted.
- Device layer surveillance is advancing via OS-level content scanning mandates, mandatory preinstalled software, and potential locked bootloader requirements, enabling control within the cryptographic boundary.
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Vaclav Havel, the Power of the Powerless (1978)
a month ago
- Ideology in totalitarian systems becomes detached from reality, serving as a ritual that creates a world of appearances to legitimize power.
- Living within the truth poses a fundamental threat to the system, as it exposes lies and can lead to unpredictable political changes from within society.
- Independent initiatives, such as parallel structures like samizdat or second culture, emerge from living in truth, fostering human dignity and resistance without seeking direct power.
- The legal code in post-totalitarian systems functions as a facade to maintain appearances, but appealing to it can undermine the system by highlighting its mendacity.
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resistance

Your Teenage Self is Not a Bug, It's a Feature

The Increasing State of Surveillance Simultaneously Around the World

Vaclav Havel, the Power of the Powerless (1978)