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cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/921cf431-c350-4162-be12-a13379654222.png

1950s

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oops you beat me to it, though i put it in the 50s (it started in 42 but i think its iconic phase was more in the 50s)

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i thought this might fit but the first episode was 1969 so it doesn’t really

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just fyi, this isn’t about an NFT but rather about an original, physical, drawing from 1993!

and, believe it or not, this image wasn’t even drawn using a computer… the creator (called a cartoonist in those days) literally physically drew it by hand using ink on paper (which was the style at the time)

shake my sydney morning herald.

cc @murmelade

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i wasn't sure if you were joking about mistaking it for an NFT or really did, but i thought my response was funny either waypicture of Lt. Commander Data doing standup comedy

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I had to accept the risk and continue to get here.

no risk, no reward

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Commander, these cubes are improperly balanced.

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shake my smh

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J.G. Hertzler and Vaughn Armstrong have entered the chat

Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding (kitklarenberg.substack.com)

On November 16th, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, published a detailed breakdown of the popular encrypted messaging app’s running costs for the very first time. The unprecedented disclosure’s motivation was simple - the platform is rapidly running out of money, and in dire need of donations to stay afloat....

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I have mixed feelings about this article. It gets some stuff right, but also some stuff wrong and it misses some important details.

  • I don’t think Signal has actually received money from OTF (Radio Free Asia) since 2015 or so; if it needed any today it would likely get it from one of the less transparent US government internet freedom funding vehicles. There is no indication they are “facing collapse” beyond a blog post talking about their expenses and soliciting donations.
  • This article mentions “over a billion” people repeatedly, but doesn’t explain that number is actually referring to WhatsApp (which uses the encryption protocol developed by Signal). Signal says they have 40 million active users.
  • It doesn’t mention that Brian Acton (billionaire WhatsApp founder) gave them a $50M interest-free loan when he co-founded the Signal Foundation with Moxie in 2018, and became its “executive chairman” or whatever. That “loan” had increased to over $100M by the end of 2018, and is presumably much larger today.
  • It doesn’t mention that Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker worked at Google for over a decade, and co-founded a department there that worked alongside OTF on various internet freedom projects (and was later on the OTF advisory board herself)
  • it doesn’t mention the salient properties of Signal which actually make it particularly beneficial to US interests (keeping the communications of privacy-desiring people associated with their phone numbers while concentrating their metadata on Amazon servers)
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It doesn’t seem like the Signal Foundation received US government funding

The article doesn’t say that Signal Foundation did, it says Signal did… which is well-documented in OTF’s annual reports among other places.

I agree that this article has lots of other problems, though; I describe more in my comment about it in another thread.

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which indirectly benefits US foreign policy

See the last part of my response to this article for one of the other ways it benefits the US.

This may seem kind of stupid but I am kind of stupid, is there a list somewhere of phrases that are stupid or insensitive racially or gender biased?

I just got up from conversation with a couple of older black men, that I said “well I got to go back to work and start cracking the whip.” And it occurred to me then that it was probably a really insensitive stupid thing to say....

cypherpunks,
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so why should Native Americans be called “Indians”

Because that is what they were primarily called for hundreds of years, and what many still prefer to be called today.

Note that the American Indian Movement, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian reservations, etc all still use the term.

See also en.wikipedia.org/…/Native_American_name_controver…

Ever heard of […] Canadian Wet’suwet’en or other people being called “Indians”?

It’s been changing there much quicker than in the US, but, yes. And Canada’s Indian Act is still in force (and still called that) today.

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