Zero trust. Assume everything is compromised and mitigate the risk from each thing that is compromised.

ISP spying on you? VPN, encryption, spoof a metadata trail to throw off any potential correlation attacks.

Compromised modem? Air gap stuff, use wired LAN, some other stuff idk.

And so on. Just keep in mind that sometimes, your data just isn’t that valuable, and plan accordingly

Mutual aid is not giving random internet assholes money because they begged for it. I’m not saying they should be banned from doing so, but calling it mutual aid is 100% a scam. Mutual aid is given freely, within a pre-established network.

Hosting a friend on your couch for a week cause they’re in between apartments is mutual aid. Feeding your friends without expecting anything in return is mutual aid. Enabling e-begging is not mutual aid.