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TeleMessage’s server – hosted on the public AWS cloud, run by an Israeli company that’s led by a former IDF spook – has plaintext access to the Signal chat logs they’re archiving.
The modified Signal app is almost entirely identical to the authentic version of Signal, except it also archives copies of every message.
The communication between the TM SGNL app and the final archive destination is not end-to-end encrypted.
The more we share, the more we have.
Through workshops, locals have learned the basics of power tools, electrical work, plumbing, machine sewing, hand sewing, wood working, little free library building, sign making and more. With these new skills, people are better equipped to repair their belongings when they break, saving them money and keeping things out of landfills.
You don’t have to be a consumer. You can be a repairer.
authoritarian followers share three tendencies:
they obey authority figures from their in-group (called authoritarian submission); they punish rule breakers (authoritarian aggression); and they rigidly endorse long-held traditions (conventionalism).
When we think that the world is unstable and unsafe, we search for ways to regain control. Unfortunately for our democratic institutions, placing trust in a dictator and becoming an authoritarian follower is one way to reestablish a sense of control.
Multicultural neighborhoods likely provide people with the chance to form close friendships with others from diverse backgrounds. In turn these experiences dispel worries that immigrants threaten deeply held cultural values or will take their jobs.
Democracy rarely falls at the hands of a single individual. Rather it dies through the complacency and obedience of otherwise well-intentioned authoritarian followers.
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