wait I posted a long-form article via nostrmo but it hasn't appeared on my profile viewed through primal. I think I still don't understand nostr well enough
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Yo hi! I usually post things about linguistics, science, biology, environmental science, health, and recently, some stuff on numbers. I'm an advocate for freedom of communication
I'm a bunch of things but I mainly focus on environmental science, training people into becoming scientists, and an array of aspects about communication. A strong future for humanity and life depends on good community and good communication. I accidentally became a linguist, and I've made a few alphabets, my latest one is called NewEng and it does a good job of encapsulating both English pronunciation & its accents, and English etymology.
The fastest way to learn a skill that you want to be stable and want to keep, is the slowest way.
Artists!:
I want to draw freehand, maps, diagrams, doodles, illustrations.
I want to draw in vector primarily, and raster as an option (not required)
I want a freehand pen tool, and I don't enjoy Inkscape's pens.
What can I use?
Legal fight between UK govt and Apple about encryption backdoor must be made public
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🚨 #BREAKING: Legal fight between UK vs Apple about #encryption #backdoor must be made public.
We at Tuta would never build ...
"it's a psyop"
"Ugh don't be such a conspiracy theorist"
Uh
EVERYTHING is a psyop
Do you not understand yet that EVERYTHING that's happening is as a result of human beliefs
Literally
Everything
(Except for the full-natty weather events, and asteroids, and space weather)
A country is a psychological operation.
Never forget that.
Didn't think this needed to be said but, if you're riding a motorbike bike and approaching a pedestrian, aim behind them, obviously
Take note that online safety according to governments is not the same as online safety for disruptors and activists
Hot thought
(Cos I literally just had it now)
What if the reason that social media always becomes an absolute bane
Is
Because
Our feeds of posts are
1D
?
It becomes an endless tirade of scrolling through a list of items that no longer pique our interest as once before
Perhaps this is because it's nothing like real life.
A 2D pane of items would make a big difference to our interactions.
Firstly, we can see spatially instead of.. listically.
Secondly, UI can be designed completely differently. People panes with faces and micro profiles floating around, grouped by recent post topic, by profile tags, by region. Online panes. Post panes, posts in bubbles floating around, linked by topics.
A 2.5D interface would make it even more interactive, without becoming like virtual reality. I don't think anyone really wants actual full immersion virtual reality. A 2.5D UI could allow basic avatar navigation. I'm really only thinking as much as a simple Pokémon style exploration, nothing exciting or graphically intensive, just enough to have some contextual navigation.
The problems that keep arising on platforms like these (standard, 1D feeds) is that the VAST majority of us never get many followers, so we don't get much reach, we don't get to interact with many other people.
If we all just follow anyone and everyone, the feed turns into unusable digital noise.
But if our INTERFACE were arranged differently, perhaps it would be better… We could discover each other spatially, in that, spaces allow more dimensions, and dimensions are the axes to contain variation. Thus, following and finding people to have these conversations with would be much simpler and more organic.
There must be a reason that our world evolved in 3 spatial dimensions! One and two just weren't enough :)
I need to get my sats set up. But I'm tired just thinking about it
Are you using any of these platforms? Have you heard of OpenVibe? It's a wonderful app that aggregates four open-web social networks, 3 of which are unrelated to Big Tech, and one of those is fundamentally uncensorable! OpenVibe makes it easy to crosspost and to view all your feeds 💜 
What if I just become a gamer livestreamer just like right now. Is that still a thing? Can I stream myself being an absolute n00b and talk about random/political shit at the same time? Is there a market for this
Is your computer sometimes laggy, especially during things like video calling? Check out my article on my tech site that guides you in restricting the offending process to only use a few CPU cores
Set Processor Affinity | FarrAndDroid Tech Support
The latest Windows 11 update has broken the energy saver button in the quick access panel.
If your laptop is set to automatically switch to energy saver, then after it does so, you have to open the power settings, disable and re-enable energy saver. Then the quick access toggle will work again. 
Is it possible to modernize X.org?
Something has always felt a bit off about Wayland.
I can't express what I mean but maybe someone else can
A five day work week is time theft.
There are more things to do in this life than work.
Leisure time?
Sure.
Is two days enough time for resting and then doing something for leisure?
That's debatable.
But,
There are more things to do in this life than work and play.
Organise.
Uprise.
Protect, heal, grow.
Build.
With the five day work week, we have time to do none of these things — unless they are profitable.
We have been shoehorned into slaving away for the company, the corporation, the governments, the military.
And people will call you lazy if you don't work 5 or even 6 days.
People will laugh at you for wanting extra time for your own life.
Companies will refuse your requests for an extra day off — "obviously!!", you laugh — and if you take the day regardless, you'll be fired, and nobody would be surprised.
Who's taking care of the health of the community?
Who's keeping the governments and corporations in check?
Who's looking after any of the things that don't make money?
NGOs maybe, non-profits maybe. But they need funding, they need support, they need a structure and a system to keep them afloat through difficult times. So they become inherently beholden to their financers. And they will fail if the economic and/or political climate is unfavourable.
Five days is theft of freedom.
Not simply personal freedom, but freedom of self governance, of community, of community health.
They are keeping Us busy & exhausted on purpose.