Yeah, but ... there's you, and lots of other amazing and lovable humans, past, present ... and future. Don't let the ugly minority obscure your view of those aspiring.

How Much Does Our Language Shape Our Thinking? English continues to expand into diverse regions around the world. The question is whether humanity will be homogenized as a result.

This morsel is offered — how our worlds and our power to express are shaped by language. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I think they're all learning how to lie and slander just like him out of personal greed (for power, money, and gossamer-like enormous inflations of ego).

YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor Vladimir Solovyov says Russia won't agree to a ceasefire

On Kremlin TV, Putin intimate Solov'yov says Russia so encouraged by Trump taking their side no longer see need for ceasefire.

"No, there won’t be any ceasefire. Our idea of peace is everything happening as we see fit”

Then plays a clip of Vance slamming Ukraine.

Vance is "our man" he says.

I'm with Danya outlining why she moved to Ghost, and I launched my newsletter Meditationsinanemergency.com with Ghost, because I knew Substack had a lot of ethical issues--bullshit rhetoric to justify platforming hate speech & racism plus the backing of some of the worst people in Silicon Valley.

So insane.

Zombie Apocalypse

The Wired article is paywalled...

Speechless. The whole administration reeks of a kind of frantic viciousness that cannot abide any kind of tenderness or helpfulness towards others, that has to compulsively attack it.

So, You’ve Been Invaded: A French Resistance Survival Guide for the U.S. How the French Resisted Occupation—And What We Can Learn If Democracy Falls Into the Wrong Hands

Think I'll just put this right here. ladylibertie.substack.com/p/so-youve-b...

The current regime in the US admires Viktor Orban, dictator of Hungary, who has undermined and destroyed all independent news outlets in his country, so that all its people have in their own country are propaganda channels.

To this non-expert, it appears ExpressVPN is a good foreign-based option (Czechoslovakia), and NordVPN is a famous (but now very expensive) offshore provider. US-based ones are subject to seizure / filtering should the US Internet be subverted.

I know that many PRC users (China) evade the firewall their dictator has imposed on their Internet space using VPNs. Such services also help you evade any Internet blockades on "forbidden" sites such as factual / balanced foreign news outlets if you fall under totalitarian rule, should it develop.

This is not to imply you need a VPN to browse foreign sites; read on. I do not know if unenslaved domestic channels such as BlueSky allow foreign connections from VPN'd users, but I suspect they do.

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Here is a review of VPN services you can connect to to have your computer appear as if it is not coming from your geographic location. Once connected, you can freely browse and use foreign search engines and foreign Web sites -- carefully, please! www.pcmag.com/categories/vpn