Jeff Atwood

Good question! We, the people, make the world. But not passively.

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I want my... I want my... I want my Ennn Peeeee Rrrrrrrrr https://www.npr.org/donations/support

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"Two prominent American scholars on fascism & authoritarianism ... have recently moved from Yale to the University of Toronto" that's how you can tell the scholars from the activists, I suppose

Please read the first 20%, at least, of this essential book by Natalie Foster. It describes how we arrived at this place in the USA in a way that really opened my eyes. I will also gift you -- yes, you, anyone reading this, a copy of the in any (legal!) format or delivery method you want. Just ask. https://www.amazon.com/Guarantee-Inside-Fight-Americas-Economy/dp/1620978466

"Let's Encrypt is a golden example of how creating inalienable good is possible with the right approach and the right values. And while I'm excited about the work Let's Encrypt has done, I am eager to see their work continue to keep up with the growing Web; to sustain encryption for everybody at Internet scale. To do so is going to take more than me—it's going to take a community of people committed to this work. I am confident Let's Encrypt is a project that deserves all of our support, in ways both large and small." https://letsencrypt.org/2025/03/18/community-of-funders/

I love how ActBlue is like "oh, sure, flat 20 percent tip on all integer amounts entered, that makes sense".

Everyone is wasting all this money betting huge amounts on "AI" (aka large statistics models, really clever parrots) when they should be investing in the human communities around their product, which are the source of... everything. 🧠

a) We have the capacity to heal each other that is equal to our capacity to destroy.

b) Language does give us the power to change.

c) We can regulate our own physiology [without drugs] through breathing, moving, touching.

d) We can change social conditions to help people feel safe and be able to thrive.

If you think this is difficult try naming humans https://poets.org/poem/naming-cats

w/r/t https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/114005957931267181 I should explain the joke, because it is very complex. This is a CUSTOM donation receipt email designed to look like a GENERIC donation email receipt, and it WAS sent to me via email by the internet archive intentionally to make a joke to celebrate the donation, and it even has another hidden layer for @textfiles involving the notes on the wire transfer that the archive played on HIM without his knowledge. Then there's the meta on top of that which we are doing together right now.

TL;DR unbelievably awesome. A++++ would donate again

(that's another joke)