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26 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
1/ I am thankful for our present peace, such as it is, despite the hyperventilating, hysterical attitude toward the election frankly on both sides (admit it).
2/ Ours is a remarkable time: one side is deeply suspicious of the other, the leaders of which they believe to be thoroughly corrupt and criminal; while the other side utterly loathes and despises their opponents’ rank and file as well as the leadership...
3/ ...so much so that one suspects a common attitude at some level: “we’d *better* be cheating and we’d better win, or it will be the most horrible disaster ever!”

We have peace because each side hopes it will prevail.

I’m still grateful for that peace.
4/ What if Trump wins enough and the right cases for SCOTUS to hand him the victory? What if various election officials are carted off to jail?

The media won’t accept it even if it’s legal.

Will there be war?

How can we avoid it?

So I’m grateful for the present peace anyway.

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26 Nov
While we may and should be grateful for what we have, still—is life on earth, as the Preacher of Ecclesiastes says, “vanity” (an inconsequential vapor)?
Ecclesiastes 1:2 KJV
“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.”

He meant it, too.
Such a completely anti-21st century sentiment. We are such boasters, narcissists, working on our “personal brands,” compromising our principles for things that ultimately matter little, genuinely impressed by mere show.

Not all of us of course.
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25 Nov
Digital hygiene

It's a thing
Just staying off TikTok and FB and IG...also good digital hygiene.
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24 Nov
...but it's because of a virus that poses an unprecedented level of danger, because of easy travel...and health bureaucrats say so. That's why travel is restricted and the health bureaucrats (and the governors etc. who employ them) now function as dictators.

Strictly temporary.
We're just slowing the spread. That's why we wear masks and follow curfews. It won't stop it, but yes, it will slow the spread.

And sure, it can be expected to blow up into a dark winter which will cause mass extended lockdowns everywhere, but that will be reasonable too.
Everything will go back to normal after the vaccine is here. Well, you'll need regular vaccines, because this virus doesn't respond the way vaccines normally do. We've known that since we didn't have a vaccine. Come on, keep up.

But actually...
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24 Nov
The long-awaited—and let’s face it, really late—Librem 5 Linux smartphone was shipping as of five days ago. This is the so-called Evergreen batch, meaning the biggest bugs are supposed to be gone and the thing is now in mass production. $799.

Press release

Hint to journos: this is big news. It’s shocking that nobody covered the story. It’s a true privacy-respecting alternative to Android and Apple!

puri.sm/posts/librem-5…
What is this wizardry?

No, not magic. Just what happens when your phone runs a real computer operating system instead of a walled garden that deliberately makes communication with your work machine hard.

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22 Nov
Gmail and other big email services spy on you; is email censorship next?

Don't let them. Host your own email. My PERMANENT address is larry @ sanger.io. Cool, no?

How? Don't worry. It's not that hard! You can do this too. See below.

larrysanger.org/2020/11/how-to…
I can't prove that any significant amount of email censorship is happening today, by the way. I doubt there is much, at least not in the U.S. But is there a desire for it? Is it on the horizon? You bet.

There are worries out there. For example:
survivalistboards.com/threads/email-…
MailChimp is not above censoring what emails can be sent.

spectator.org/mailchimp-cens…
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20 Nov
Ugh. The Ohio House voted 58-30 to limit DeWine's authority to impose a new lockdown. This is bad news because it's just short of what was needed to override DeWine's inevitable veto.

This means that we might well have another lockdown.

beaconjournal.com/story/news/pol…
So, Gov. @MikeDeWine, are you really going to shut down (and inevitably kill many) state businesses over the will of an overwhelming majority of the people and their reps?

Doesn't that constitute tyranny, especially when you aren't even negotiating with legislators?

Bully.
Someone kindly pointed out to me my mistake. I thought 98 votes were accounted for. No. 88 votes were accounted for, meaning 11 people didn't vote. D'oh!

58/88 = 65.9%

That's well over the 3/5 majority needed to be veto-proof. Looks like we win after all!
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