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Also come to the Discord for a seminar on information security for activists, today!

Rusty Foster
May 27, 2022
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It’s been a hell of a week. Here’s a video of a moose cliff diving in Nippers Harbour, Newfoundland:

Please enjoy both the majestic moose bellyflopping into the North Atlantic, and the majestic Newfoundland accents of our narrators. I was curious, so I looked up where Nippers Harbour is.

Screenshot from Google Maps showing New England in the lower left, with Quebec above it, where Quebec tends to be, and in the upper right is Newfoundland, with a red pin showing the location of Nippers Harbour on Newfoundland’s northeastern coast.

The zoomed-in overhead view of Nippers Harbour is also quite something:

Satellite or aerial photo from Google maps showing Nippers Harbour, a roughly hoof-shaped area around a very narrow, protected harbour. The whole lower right half of the image is the ocean outside the harbour, speckled liberally with icebergs.

I’m not going anywhere in particular with this, I just like to look at places on Google maps. There are so many places, and every one really exists.

Today in Confabs

Abortion rights, womens’ rights, trans rights, gun control, the ongoing rise of fascism in America and worldwide—there are a lot of things you might feel motivated to go out and try to change right now. So the unstoppable Tabs Discord has spontaneously self-organized a:

Seminar on Digital Security for Activists

Today, Friday May 27th, at 3PM US Eastern time, Discord member Here Max will facilitate a live session on Setting an Information Security Foundation for Yourself, including (but not limited to):

  • Basic security steps for all humans who touch technology.

  • What the heck is a 'threat model'? Or more generally: what does a 'safe foundation' look like?

  • What's your personal threat model? What'll make you feel safe enough to go out and drive change?

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