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indubitablyodin

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INFJ-t |🌹|Rev. | BFA/MFA| Writer/filmmaker/futurist/mythologist!
| http://RoundTableWriters.org Founder | http://OdinHalvorson.com & http://Unenlightenedgeneralists.com

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hfentonmudd, to novid

Have you heard of the “‘Covid Collaborative”? No?

What do they want?

They want the pandemic to end by having people “make the courageous decision” to expose themselves to the Covid virus

They’re a big group of committed vocal minimizers like Gounder & Ghandi and 2nd generation minimizers like Slavitt and Frieden

Plus many many Democrat and Republican former governors, chiefs of staff, congressmen, White House staff, NSC-types

Plus hedge fund and investment types

You get the idea—people with access, $$$

An interesting member is their VP for Science & Strategy, Steven Phillips MD, MPH

He used to be the Medical Director for Global Projects at EXXON

He’s spoken repeatedly about the need to have courage and expose yourself, thereby ending the “Covid divide” (see photo below, from August)

How can so many people have signed on to this, and be willing to promote a basically eugenicist approach to this #pandemic?

Their ideas have flooded the world—scientists and doctors at some of the world’s leading universities are preaching against masks, in favor of “hybrid immunity,” even against vaccines

Signs on public transit say, “forget the mask” 😬

The president himself says I’m taking off my mask🦧

#whatishappening #COVID_19 #SARSCoV2
@novid

indubitablyodin,
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@hfentonmudd @novid

Wtf

idoubtit, to privacy
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    indubitablyodin,
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    @idoubtit Data sharing takes place at the meta level for these apps, so, while it's possible to disentangle them, it's also not easy. A linked credit card or phone number can give so much data away, for instance.

    I'm sure others will have more helpful suggestions. I know Firefox has a container feature that can help. Turning on strict levels of fingerprint blocking can help as well, though it will break functionality of certain sites.

    Even just making sure you've gone into the settings of each app and turned on any limited native protections might help a teensy bit.

    indubitablyodin, to Unions
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    Seems like the studios/AMPTP really are just waiting until October in the hope of breaking, or at least severely damaging, the strike. There has got to be a way to support the strikers better. This, incidentally, is exactly what UBI could do.

    indubitablyodin,
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    @LouisIngenthron

    Definitely. I straight up canceled my subscriptions a while ago. Still got one local video store, dammit. 😅

    But, what I really want is a fund that can drop 2k into the pocket of every suddenly unhoused or lower income industry worker.

    CollaboraOffice, to random
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    Microsoft Office has led the office productivity market for many years, but is now no longer the only option for your online document editing. Collabora Online is perfect for businesses who are looking for a modern and secure workspace.

    Here are 3 reasons why is the best MS Office alternative.

    Need more reasons? 🔎

    📄 Come and Check Out the Full Article https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-online/six-reasons-why-collabora-online-is-the-best-microsoft-office-alternative/

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    indubitablyodin,
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    @CollaboraOffice I'm not wrong about this being totally free for personal use, am I?? Because then it could actually replace my Microsoft Student AND my Google Docs. 😍

    indubitablyodin, to food
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    Do you love Ramen? I LOVE ramen. And making ramen at home is both fun and easy!

    https://youtu.be/NWVWuvn-PnQ?si=UmKkZOLXu0ypDR7-

    indubitablyodin,
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    @nuncio

    Lololol

    Gift of a girl being dragged around a Merry go round, caption reads;“Status”

    WPalant, to chrome

    We are currently witnessing the fallout from monopolization in the browser space. Back in 2007, Internet Explorer received much criticism for its phishing protection mechanism which transmitted all visited websites to Microsoft servers. Mozilla paired up with Google and designed a different system which performed most checks locally and preserved users’ privacy. That’s what healthy competition looks like.

    Fast forward to 2023. Almost all web browsers in use are either Chrome or based on the Chromium browser engine. With the competition pretty much eliminated, Google is now pushing its “Enhanced Safe Browsing” down everyone’s throats – which is a nice sounding name for “every website you visit is sent to our servers.” The Internet Explorer approach from 2007 all over again, only that now it’s Google getting all this data. And they certainly won’t do anything evil with it. Yeah, sure.

    Reminder: Firefox and Safari are the only remaining browsers worth noting which are not using Google’s browser engine.

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-is-enabling-chrome-real-time-phishing-protection-for-everyone/

    indubitablyodin,
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    @WPalant @gaspart Well shit. I've been using Brave for ages because its privacy features are so simple and it has Cast functionality.

    indubitablyodin, to Life
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    Sometimes, I look around at everything that's going horribly in the world, and I just get frustrated and, or, depressed. But I'e been working hard, lately, to remember to return to my breath. I can do more good in the world if I am steady, if I am capable of holding the path and not giving in to sorrow, anger, or despair.

    Creation--the act of creativity--seems to me the best path forward. To forge a better world, we are required to become our better selves - which is not to say our "improved" selves - but, rather, our most holistic self.

    Some days are going to be overwhelming.

    And these systems around us won't vanish without a fight.

    But maybe I can learn to be at peace in the middle of that fight.

    indubitablyodin, to tech
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    Ugh, @protonmail is missing some serious quality of life features, such as the ability to add emails directly to a sieve filter (you can only select "Always move sender's emails" which just creates a whole NEW filter. That might not be a massive deal except that Proton only allows for 100 active filters at the paid level.

    Not feeling especially inspired by this service after two months of use, to be honest. It's a pretty expensive option for a large drop in use experience over mainstream programs.

    indubitablyodin,
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    @mrcompletely

    Glad to help!
    It's been a wild ride trying to find a reasonable alternative to mainstream options. Heck, for a couple of years I just used Zoho because at least they had a semblance of a privacy policy in place.

    Might look at Mailfence or Runbox at some point in the future. The ultimate problem being: migrating is a real pain to keep doing over and over.

    indubitablyodin,
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    @mrcompletely Have you explored Skiff much? I tried them earlier in the year, and again just today, and I'm impressed with how much their service has improved.

    indubitablyodin,
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    @protonmail Thanks! I know that sieve filters can be used for this purpose - I indeed do use them for this purpose.

    However, my problem is that I cannot one-click add emails TO a sieve that I have created DIRECTLY from my email inbox.

    There's an option to "Always send emails to this location" but when I do that it just creates a whole new filter! And that's really annoying, because there is no easy way to work with multiple filters. It takes a lot of copy/pasting.

    If Proton can make it easy to add emails to EXISTING sieve filters, that would be a real boon.

    indubitablyodin,
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    @protonmail Glad to hear it, that's greatly appreciated!

    indubitablyodin, to Help
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    I've been thinking of switching from Sync to pCloud - mainly to consolidate my family's separate cloud storage and to serve as a good home for video materials for projects.

    The 10TB Family plan is a steep up-front, but seems worthwhile.

    Anyone have issues with it? Anyone love it? Thoughts?

    indubitablyodin,
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    @islamicaudiobooks @filen @Internxt Thanks for the tip! I'd encountered Internxt before during their early beta, and wasn't impressed, but Filen looks pretty great!

    skyekilaen, to sciencefiction

    Anybody have recs for single-author science fiction and/or fantasy/paranormal short story collections? I'm especially interested in marginalized authors.

    My faves so far:

    • 'Nathan Burgoine's Of Echoes Born (paranormal)
    • Zen Cho's Spirits Abroad (fantasy/paranormal)
    • Iona Datt Sharma's Not For Use In Navigation (mix of science fiction and fantasy)

    Self-recs are cool, too!

    @bookstodon @lgbtqbookstodon

    indubitablyodin,
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    @skyekilaen @bookstodon @lgbtqbookstodon

    Tobias Buckell's collection of short stories is great and fits all your requests!
    https://bookshop.org/p/books/zen-and-the-art-of-starship-maintenance-and-other-stories-tobias-s-buckell/19759008?ean=9781955765091

    GossiTheDog, to Starfield
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    indubitablyodin,
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    @GossiTheDog

    I have got to find a way to set aside time to play this when it arrives, omg.

    FayeRapoportDesPres, to random
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    Hey, , I have a grammar question that research hasn't answered. Would you say, "each step takes him further away from the house" or "each step takes him farther away from the house"?

    indubitablyodin,
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    @FayeRapoportDesPres That's a fun one! This is the best explanation I ever found:

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-it-further-or-farther-usage-how-to-use

    indubitablyodin, to weightroom
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    Back into my exercise routine after being laid low for months due to chronic back pain. Slow but sure.

    indubitablyodin, to random
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    I make so many Heinlein fanboys mad with my pro-Veerhoven Starship Troopers article. It's hilarious. The more they interact with my article, the more I get paid.

    indubitablyodin,
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    @mrcompletely

    Yep, that's pretty much my take as well.😂 The funniest thing though is that I'm not even that harsh on it in this article, since it's just one segment in a much larger collection of 90s scifi films.

    https://indubitablyodin.medium.com/the-most-underrated-science-fiction-films-of-the-1990s-db27d35ce5f8?sk=0017f40b1fc693ceadde9606f59b9a74

    But the number of comments I've gotten about that one film is way disproportionate.

    indubitablyodin,
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    @mrcompletely 😂

    It might be something I'd have more patience with if the majority of the people posting weren't so darned reactive. I might be okay with someone saying "Hey, that book actually is important to me (though gods, why would anyone say this is beyond me) let me tell you about why."

    But what I get is:

    "**** YOU and **** YOUR ARTICLE and **** all these LIBERALS with their WOKENESS who just don't UNDERSTAND the BEAUTY of HEINLEIN."

    As a writer, I think it's important to be aware of the major turning points in conversations about the craft. Heinlein had a big impact, not always for the better. His work also inspired other writers to tackle the same ideas from vastly different positions (and frequently, more coherent and sane ones). But the idolatry without reflection is worrying.

    royal, to bookstodon
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    Okay, @bookstodon ...
    Where to start with Terry Pratchett? I think I've never read him but keep seeing him recommended. Or can you recommend someone else?

    For context, I just finished Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernor, bedtime reading with my rising 6th grader. We've recently read Vernor's Minor Mage and A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking (as T Kingfisher). Very funny basically kid friendly fantasy.

    We also recently finished The Lord of the Rings. The whole thing.

    What should be next?

    indubitablyodin,
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    @mrcompletely @royal @bookstodon

    I second all of those - Gene Wolfe's writing is one of the things that set me down the path of creating fiction. And Princess Bride! I only read that for the first time a few years ago, but it instantly became one of my favorites.

    indubitablyodin,
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    @mrcompletely @royal @bookstodon Lol, my dad gave me Long Sun when I was fourteen. Perfect time.

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