Notices by j@mastodon (jcast@mastodon.social)

Love this from @brookejarvis:
Our Very Strange Search for "Sea Level"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/26/our-very-strange-search-for-sea-level

IA link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240825190520/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/26/our-very-strange-search-for-sea-level

@Mitsu

Mind if I ask if it just went on it's own or did you try something?

@SarraceniaWilds

In theory I use lists for that. But I don't.
Maybe a matter of habit.

Have a list for frequent Tooters, muted in the main timeline, and a list for quiet special ones.

The list interface could be more inviting.

@CrimethInc

Yes now Trump will be on top of the dystopic surveillance apparatus already in place, where not even your OS is out of reach. But hey we have AI on our device now.

@CrimethInc

AHahahahahAHh

Get out of Twitter sure
Expect other major US based platforms *not* to provide intelligence to State Agencies lol

@lrvick

1. You're commenting a blog post. People can sit back and interpret it as a 2024 state of the art of the current cryptographic infrastructure, so to say, to find out what's incomplete and where we should put more effort, e.g., what's preventing @delta from switching to a more modern cryptographic standard.

2. Be mindful of the use cases for which you're putting minorities at risk. This blog post was written by a cryptography engineer who knows how bug-prone implementing OpenPGP is. IMHO, a group chat using 5 different OpenPGP implementations on Yahoo mail servers shouldn't be treated as zero-access. Delta Chat may be a good WhatsApp replacement for family groups but advocating for this kind of decentralization against State-level threat models is plainly dangerous.

Having a sociology graduate explain this to you means that at least one of these two posts is incredibly bad.

Someone who claims to be Jewish here on Mastodon just shared a quote.

"He, who comes upon you to kill you, you should kill him in advance."

I'm getting so much vitriol for suggesting there maybe Jews who based on their faith are disgusted with this killing in their name.

Apparently this post is considered antisemitic both for conflating Judaism with the Israeli state and for criticizing the government of Israel hence being an attack on Jews in general.

@zbcc

With regards to your accusation of antisemitism, accusing a government of atrocities does not constitute discrimination against its people.

For example one could condemn the Russian government but still not discriminate Russian citizens on the basis of Putin's actions.

@zbcc

First off I did not use the word genocide.
But at this point it's on you to prove it isn't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide

Thank you to everyone who participated in this thread.

https://rabbis4ceasefire.com/2024/09/24/elul-21/

@richard_merren @Nochem

At this point just lol

@richard_merren @Nochem

Respect, not necessarily agree.
I feel there is some truth in what you say, but also some assumptions that after you told me off I don't feel like engaging with.

Maybe some other time.

@richard_merren @Nochem

I don't assume any of that.
I don't judge Jews as a group and I challenge you to point out where I did.

@richard_merren

I don't expect anything from you at this point. Richard that is why I explicitly excluded you from the thread.

I'm just a guy on the internet you don't have to answer just because it mentions Jews.

Some applies to me, my affiliations and identities.

@Nochem

So yes if someone asked me the same question regarding my religious affiliation I would answer, and I have in the past.

You don't have if you don't feel like it.

@Nochem

The assumption being that there are Jews who do not see the Israeli state as their representative, or see no religious authority for their actions, even being a citizen of the country, the same as me with my own post-colonial state.

@Nochem

I know there are jewish people who feel strongly against what the Israeli government is doing.

My post is directed to those people.
And I had to give context to my request, so of course I had to mention the Israeli state. By doing that does am I implying that every Jew is responsible?

Just because someone is of Jewish origin why would they feel obliged to reply? That makes no sense to me.

I say this as a citizen of a former colonial power, I should feel personally guilty?

@richard_merren @Nochem

Got it Richard, thank for taking the time for spelling that out, I appreciate and respect that.

@richard_merren

Where did I ascribe collective guilt?

Why do you think I included #JewsAgainstGenocide ?

Whom should I ask about the Torah in this respect?