Molly rightfully calls out the so-called anti-authoritarian crypto community for being silent on ICE:

For years, crypto executives have touted cryptocurrency’s supposed anti-authoritarian and humanitarian credentials — whether to fend off regulators or convince the public that crypto has viable use cases beyond speculation. The technology is necessary and good, they claim, because it could support dissidents living under authoritarian regimes, help persecuted groups escape their oppressors, shield people from surveillance, or somehow inherently protect citizens from government overreach. Many of them spent years posting piously about the importance of due process and protection from abuses of power, or shared quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass about freedom. …

And yet now these voices are silent on the authoritarianism unfolding before us. Where are their defenses of the Constitution when the president claims Pretti’s lawful gun ownership justified his killing,6 or when ICE leaders tell subordinates to enter homes without warrants?7 Where are their warnings about surveillance states now that ICE is photographing protesters for their “domestic terrorist” lists and Palantir is contracted by the government to build databases of people living in the US they can target for raids?8 In 2022, they were incensed when Canadian authorities froze bank accounts belonging to truckers protesting vaccine mandates (and delighted for the opportunity to promote crypto as an alternative funding mechanism) — but now, when ICE agents murder bystanders and invent pretexts that footage shows are false, where is the righteous outcry against state violence towards those exercising their right to protest?

The answer, of course, is that they never actually cared about these principles at all.

TIL about Wiarton Willie, the Canadian equivalent of Punxsutawney Phil, and the wiki is full of scandal and intrigue.

You need infoguards to protect your mind.

A Javascript-based app for formatting PDFs for bookbinding

When I think about the goals of writing and blogging, it’s to be free, it’s to explore without limits…Blogging to me is a specific kind of writing — a personal practice and discipline that makes what’s inward outward. Whatever it is that’s in you, blogs are what comes out.

Learn about face ICE paperwork that doesn’t allow entry into your home vs real judicial warrants that do.

Doc on the new MyTerms standard.

Not a bad idea to have some faraday bags to protect from haxx0rz and masks around to protect from the sun and cold.

I wouldn’t recommend anyone who values their sanity to pursue creating a WebDAV/CalDAV library.

That’s pretty much why Dealgorithmed exists: to prove that the human internet is not, in fact, dead. And that the web is also not filled with just bots posting AI slop. Don’t get me wrong, there’s P L E N T Y of that, but there’s also more than that.

Good reminder that our partners and children deserve most of our patience, yet we often use it all on other people instead. Reserve your patience for the people you owe it to most.

My parents live about 500 yards below the old North Ridge of Lake Erie and I wanted to know how long ago that was the shore. Answer: Roughly 10,000 years ago. This doc has a lot of interesting info on the ancient shores of Lake Erie.

I’ve often wondered what the empty lot on the Hastings waterfront is and why is hasn’t been developed or turned into a park. Old industrial site loaded with PCBs.