I was looking forward to a genuine practical how-to, but this isn't really it; while I can't argue with the value of "stick to your principles even in the face of authoritarianism" and "people who think they'll be targeted by authoritarians need to be especially mindful of communications & payments privacy" I think this author is envisioning scenarios worse than I think are likely.
https://nadia.xyz/jhanas unusually straightforward explanation of one person's experience learning the jhanas
ok, you blame Big Tech, and you see "Dark Forest" discourse as insufficiently hard on Big Tech.
you also think that retreat to "private" nooks is not adequate (I agree) and that different cultures around the world should get to choose their own forms of online networking instead of being lumped into a US-centric paradigm (sure) and that we need ways to connect around the world (yes)...but what do you propose and who will pay for it etc are the questions coming to my mind
a particular kind of cis women who feel entitled to be extremely rude and intrusive because they assume "women = inherently benign".
Seems to me that some women believe that when they do something, it is fundamentally different from when a man does exactly the same thing. (Something like the fundamental attribution error, or xkcd#385 but with reversed genders.) For example, if the woman gets angry and yells at someone, it is because that person was really annoying, or she was tired, etc. Simply, she acted that way because of external reasons. But if she see... (read more)