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Michael H. Jenkins

@ MHSJenkins @infosec.pub

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Reader, writer, erstwhile IT guy, gardeners and firearms enthusiast. Acquiring and sharing the information and skills we need to navigate these trying times.

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  • Has Facebook Stopped Trying?

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  • Visions of a Post-Apocalyptic Internet: The Future of Democratized Information

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  • Oh wow, thank you for bringing this to my attention. I'm really glad to know folks are working in this direction!

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  • I'd love to tell you that it was an attempt at visual irony, but the reality is I originally posted this in another corner of the Fediverse and was too lazy to remove the #hashtags. The good/bad news is that I have nothing to sell you.

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  • That one's gonna haunt us for a very long time, even though it really just made official what had been happening routinely.

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  • I honestly think that's what we can do: start to build free, parallel structures and attract folks to join us. We can't outspend Google but we can opt out of their ecosystem to some degree or another both collectively and individually.

  • Overturning Roe Didn’t Just Cut Off Access. It Sabotaged Science, Too.

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  • "Imaginary numbers"? Sounds like that DC fuzzy math . . .

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  • And thank you for bringing that up as it helps me illustrate my central point: the importance of a free internet isn't online life in and of itself, but rather what the open flow of information and communication enable us to do in order to make the world a better place. Thanks for allowing me to clarify.

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  • It's a real challenge in large portions of the world. So many national governments are perfectly happy with a corporatized, compartmentalized internet--and willing to pass legislation to keep it that way.

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  • I absolutely agree, but I don't think it's too much to say that digital freedom and more important access to the internet and the various tools it offers played a starring roll in the Arab Spring.

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  • Thank you for that insightful response. I appreciate you taking the time.

  • Overturning Roe Didn’t Just Cut Off Access. It Sabotaged Science, Too.

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  • The motives and politics are absolutely petty. The results are an ongoing nightmare.

  • Visions of a Post-Apocalyptic Internet: The Future of Democratized Information

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  • How would you suggest using the internet without search engines, and can that be accomplished in a way that is accessible to the average person?

  • Overturning Roe Didn’t Just Cut Off Access. It Sabotaged Science, Too.

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  • Everything is going according to plan.

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  • Stay tuned, as I have thoughts and ideas on that in an upcoming article.

    (Make sure to like and subscribe, as the YouTubers say ;) )

  • Majority of Hispanics Support Mass Deportations

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  • It's not a recent thing but there was a pretty serious resurgence of it around waitforit the turn of the millennia back in 1999/2000, with a followup in 2012 when we all thought the Mayan calendar was going to run out for some reason. My observation is that these events had a deeper impact on world thinking than I realized at the time.

  • The Delusion of Advanced Plastics Recycling

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  • As someone who's been recycling since the early 1980s, the whole thing is heartbreaking.

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  • I have long held a theory that so much of the superficial orthopraxy demanded by various activist movements is intentional and designed to disrupt or retard actual action.

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  • With over a century of vocabulary and terminology around these kind of social issues, it does get confusing in a hurry. That's why I try to stick to plain language and popular terms whenever possible.

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