Signal provides:

- Excellent protection against third party interception of communications (wiretapping).

- Limited protection against compromised (hacked) or lost devices

- No protection against certain common usage mistakes (accidentally including a reporter in your large group war planning chat).

On the upside, this is first-rate marketing for Signal.

BTW, if you’re not using Signal, the best time to have started would have been a few years ago. Second best is now: https://signal.org

Quite OK day in March when our house (at 61.5° northern) is pushing 14 kW of power towards the grid. 🌞

Trump closes down Radio Liberty which transmitted western news to dictatorships.

Putin wins again.

https://about.rferl.org/article/rfe-rl-president-defunding-would-be-massive-gift-to-americas-enemies/

@janl Yeah, but this is January as well. The dip from Dec '24 to Jan '25 was 40 %. Of course the sales are very seasonal, but that's still huge. As @asymco wrote, Chinese New Year might explain at least some of it. Still, the effect seems to have gotten way bigger over the last two years.

@asymco What's the deal with their seemingly yearly Jan-Feb dip in sales?

For real. For the first time in ages Sweden will send a song sung in Swedish to the Eurovision Song Contest, instead of an ultraproduced shiny song in English. And it took a Finnish parody group singing about sauna to break the barrier 😂.

https://eurovision.tv/story/kaj-win-melodifestivalen-sweden-basel

The death sentence for science in the US: killing running grants for political reasons.

"Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00703-1

If this stands, #science in the US is dead.

The EU goatsed us! https://chaos.social/@jonty/114115735724827105

These despicable assholes call themselves pro-“free speech” and then proceed to be the most censorship-happy administration possibly in US history
https://mastodon.social/@eff/114116700860734446

well he did his best

@matias Or https://www.savotta.fi/fi/products/kahakka-25l?variant=48394736664922

@matias https://www.savotta.fi/fi/products/medic-pack-18l

“[Calling something virtue signaling] is a way to get people to stop doing what's right by telling them it will actually make them look bad. And it worked with my friend.”
https://autistics.life/@joshsusser/114110949550136548

Nazis wearing Camp Auschwitz shirts, beating cops to death, & smearing feces on the halls of Congress = FREE SPEECH & FULL PARDON

Students peacefully protesting genocide of Palestinians funded by US tax dollars = ILLEGAL AGITATORS

Another example of white supremacy in 2025 USA

This by the president is pure fascism from a dictator type shit I used to read about when it was happening halfway around the world.

This a momentous and dangerous time for Europe.

And we are ready to step up.

Today, we announce the ReArm Europe Plan, a bold initiative to mobilise up to €800 billion for European security.

It will help EU countries quickly and significantly boost expenditures in defence capabilities.

We are in an era of rearmament. And Europe is ready to massively boost its defence spending.

Press release: https://europa.eu/!MFPVMC

Anyone seen the famous checks and balances?

Asking for a friend.

*Long, long sigh*

Trials for an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer have shown a 75% cure rate, when administered after diagnosis. Only 2 patients had their cancer return.

Life expectancy after diagnosis with PanCan, under conventional treatment, is less than a year.

My dad died from pancreatic cancer in 2018.

Im not going to do an explainer thread for why this is an incredibly big deal today. You can ask someone else, or read the study for yourself.

I miss my daddy.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08508-4

When parody and reality are indistinguishable.