Notices by Eva (evacide@mastodon.lol)

If you are discussing your abortion and you live in a place where abortion is now essentially illegal, please remember to speak only to people you trust and remember to use end-to-end encrypted comms with disappearing messages turned on.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/10/texas-abortion-lawsuit/

You don't even have to make abortion illegal in a state to take away abortion access. This is a point that abortion rights advocates have been making for decades. It does not matter if abortion is still legal in your state if you are hundreds of miles away from a place that will fill your prescription for pills.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/02/walgreens-abortion-pills-00085325

Oh look. It's another one of those things that Team You're Overreacting swore to me was totally not going to happen after Dobbs:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/texas-republican-wants-isps-to-block-a-wide-range-of-abortion-websites/

There is a CIA booth at SXSW, just in case you're wondering how that event is now.

7 abortion providers are ready to switch to misoprostol-only medication abortions if a judge bans the main abortion pill, mifepristone, nationwide. That ruling could happen as soon as this Friday.

Pretty much everything that Team "you're overreacting" insisted would never happen after Dobbs is, in fact, happening. It's almost as if they were not arguing in good faith this whole time.

https://jezebel.com/mifepristone-ban-misoprostol-only-abortions-in-the-us-1850083070

The city of Vallejo was about to be forced to disclose evidence of its many police shootings, so they just went ahead and destroyed it:

https://openvallejo.org/2023/02/05/vallejo-destroyed-evidence-of-police-killings/

Netflix's ideas about what constitutes a family are similar to Google and Facebook's ideas about what constitutes a "real name" and it's about to turn into exactly the same kind of shitshow.

Meta has reinstated Trump on all of its platforms without consulting with its Oversight Board. So that's fun.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/25/trump-facebook-reinstated-meta/

My timeline is full of toots about how people misquote MLK, he was widely hated when he was alive, and how the fight for civil rights isn't over. So far, it contains zero quotes from the "I have a dream" speech.

Good.

@alex_02 @alaric I don't think I have the energy to engage with this at length, but this is a very bad take. Hitler, Stalin, and MLK also all breathed oxygen. Leadership is important to movements and what you with that leadership matters.

@alex_02 @alaric Counterpoint: the version of MLK that is taught to children in history classes is of a saint whose said we shouldn't worry about skin color and is used to argue that racism is over. The real MLK was a complicated, unpopular guy who was loudly critical of American society and capitalism and was so scary to the US govt that the FBI tried to blackmail him into suicide.

Did Twitter Blue fix the verification problem? Haha. No. WaPo Geoffrey Fowler impersonates Sen. Ed Markey with ease.

Stayed tuned for later this week, when I expect Elon will respond to this by suspending a bunch of WaPo accounts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/05/twitter-blue-verification/

@wbm312 Funny story: that guy that got thrown out of Tor used to work for Kink.com. He used to offer folks free accounts there, but rather than giving them full access, he told people he needed to know which specific channels they were interested in so he could grant access individually. This was 100% meant to be future blackmail material.

@wbm312 Jake.

These cameras don't exist and they did not belong to a Chinese emperor who became fascinated with photography, but if someone were to make these I would buy them in a heartbeat.

https://petapixel.com/2022/12/15/photographer-fools-the-internet-with-ai-generated-cameras-that-dont-exist/

Twitter introduces its new icon/badges and of course they cannot be distinguished from one another by color blind people because Twitter laid off everyone who thinks about accessibility in design.

https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1604955466727047168

I sure do love it when a stalkerware product is suddenly no longer available.

https://spytrac.com/blocked.html

If I used a home automation system with an always-on microphone, which I do not, I would set up a function that waits for me to say "I hate everything!" and replies with "Have you eaten today?"

Apple has finally killed its ill-conceived plan to scan photos for CSAM. This is a direct result of work by experts and activists. Speaking up is important and sometimes we win.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-photo-scanning-csam-communication-safety-messages/

I have spent a lot of time explaining to Russians and Ukrainians that Telegram is not a safe communications channel (I even wrote a Telegram Harm Reduction Guide) but people still use Telegram and they still tell me they do so because it's "safe" and "secure."

I hope that at the very least Telegram users in eastern Ukraine will stop.

https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/russia-is-spying-on-telegram-chats