Notices by Violet Blue (violetblue@mastodon.social)

"When you can buy your way out of any mistake, when you can fire anyone who disagrees with you, when your social circle consists entirely of people who need something from you, the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/05/billionaire-consequence-free-reality/686588/?gift=fXb4ymsFcV2ntAzqIpmYvZ5SHmVudSgCCvY8EbJPC2Q

New newsletter, new format: Fauci aide arrested at gunpoint, great clinical trial news about azelastine (prevention) nasal spray, Whoopi Goldberg (4 infections) makes a strong case about Long Covid on The View, WHO finally removes its "airborne" tweet, C19 travel tips, and more:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-april-30-156948727

RE: https://mastodon.social/@violetblue/116246425320166519

Who profits from digital age check laws? Who gets the data?

ICYMI: Meta, Heritage Foundation, and NCOSE - formerly Morality in Media - have been traced in open records (including IRS) as the source of lobbying and funding behind age-check laws *globally*

DCA's leadership traces directly to NCOSE ⬇️

Wow, I was just notified that The Covid Safety Handbook got an incredible BookLife Prize 2025 review and is advancing to the next round (quarter-finals)! 10 out of 10 for prose!!!

Here's what they wrote:

https://booklife.com/project/the-covid-safety-handbook-staying-safe-in-an-unsafe-world-104902

There's actually some good news this week! First vaccine targeting SARS virus family enters human trials! Four EU orgs form international federation Long COVID Rise Up! Metformin helps prevent Long Covid! And check out that sweet neon green mask fit. Click, share!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-february-5-149973355

This is the way forward. https://www.wired.com/story/this-hacker-conference-installed-a-literal-anti-virus-monitoring-system/ #PublicHealth #Leadership #Cybersecurity

Bravo. "Violet Affleck, the daughter of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, delivered an impassioned speech in favor of clean air and masking to prevent the transmission of long COVID-19 in an address at the United Nations on Tuesday, Sept. 23." #LongCovid

https://people.com/violet-affleck-ben-affleck-and-jennifer-garners-daughter-speaks-about-the-impacts-of-covid-in-united-nations-address-our-present-is-being-stolen-11816006

New: Google pulling (or breaking) #Covid vaccine location data globally is a big deal, the first women + queer, trans-led makerspace in southern hemisphere after 40 years of men-only sheds, new grassroots anti-surveillance tech, Putin and Covid in the Boris Johnson files, more:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-9-138474865

FYI, per SCAN wastewater San Francisco is in a large and rising Covid surge (highest in California), and now LA County and Riverside are entering the chat. IMO it takes a lot to move the indicators like this for LA, so be *extra* careful now friends and fam.

Wellington Pride, one of the best #Pride celebrations on Earth, is being sued by a TERF hate group. Please show your support. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Link: https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/wellington-pride-festival-legal-givealittle

"More than 60 companies, including major tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple as well as health care giants like UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health, have agreed to share patient data in the system."

It will use AI and "monitor wellness": https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-rfk-jr-health-tech-fa73703bd1fd557c787ef0b590e151f1

New by me -- oh, wait. Sorry.

Ten years ago, by me:

https://www.engadget.com/2015-12-02-paypal-square-and-big-bankings-war-on-the-sex-industry.html

Digital Revolutionary #zine is now free for 24 hours only: https://www.patreon.com/posts/free-digital-24-131431284

7-page .pdf and .epub zine: Lock down your phone or find out how to prepare a burner, learn to move in crowds and what to do if things get violent, make DIY digital protest tools, understand how you'll be surveilled, and find resources for storing media and remotely locking and erasing your phone, if need be.

There's also a crossword puzzle and powerful laser Kiwis.

#NoKings #Cybersecurity #privacy

Freshly printed copies of the 'Digital Revolutionary zine are on the bar at DNA Lounge in San Francisco right now! It looks great! 🥳

Get a copy and printable files here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/free-digital-24-131431284

#NoKings #Cybersecurity

New: Digital Revolutionary Mini Zine Vol 1! Secure your phone (or lock it remotely), move in crowds, take pics under stress, and more.

Here now https://www.digitapub.com/collections/frontpage/products/how-to-be-a-digital-revolutionary-mini-zine-vol-1 and here https://www.patreon.com/violetblue/shop/how-to-be-digital-revolutionary-mini-vol-1794413

Free now for $3 patrons (and up); free for all for 24 hours at midnight PST for #NoKings

FWIW -- Dianna (Physics Girl) is getting on a plane for treatments and asked about #Covid safe travel tips.

I sent her our resource guide which has a travel section, plus resources for what to do if you test positive, mental wellness, #LongCovid support, and more:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/86871700

GREAT NEWS! The Covid Safety Handbook audiobook is now accessible online for public library patrons across North America!

Our book shows you how to stay safe while RFK Jr destroys US #Covid prevention

Library link: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/17724785

Find more versions here: https://linktr.ee/covidbook

New:
- US on track for worst whooping cough outbreak since 1948
- Conspiracy creep w/no medical license tapped as US Surgeon General
- HICPAC, NIOSH ended
- Cool Haunted Woods #LongCovid game
- #Covid surges land in AU, Thailand, Taiwan
- I got ranty

https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-may-8-2025-128426416 #PublicHealth

New: Anonymous Op DreadNought got Trump “deportation” flight info, scary video of a factory robot going ham, NIOSH (mask safety) gutted & work stopped, Tulsi Gabbard's Hare Krishna cult password and more. Subscribe to support my journalism. #Cybersecurity #Hacktivism

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-6-128251407

I interviewed the father of IBM PC; then I wrote about ICE, Microsoft, IBM, and people who do tech support for genocide. "When your hands are covered in blood, the time to stand around stuttering in disbelief hoping someone else will do something has long passed."

https://www.engadget.com/2018-06-22-microsofts-ice-involvement-tech-denial-problem.html?guccounter=1