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Cake day: June 9th, 2024

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  • In the US at least, federal employees are non-political employees who have protections against getting randomly fired, so a new politician can’t replace the entire workforce with loyal idealogues. Federal employees earn less income than workers in the private sector, but do it for the sense of purpose and the stability.

    Insulting bureaucrats as “lazy” on the whole is the first step to removing those protections, and going back to the world of Andrew Jackson and the robber barons, before these rules existed. Where the regulators can be fired for any reason and replaced with staff that are friendly to business, or not replaced at all. This led to huge wealth disparities, deregulation, a global depression, and the wealthy mostly remained unarmed.

    So while calling government workers “lazy bureaucrats” seems harmless, in the USA at least it is part of an influence campaign to dismantle and despoil the government.
















  • Personally, I’m dealing with “the best privacy practice is one you’ll actually use” because I used to journal but I don’t have the energy any more.

    All my journals have been ephemeral so I haven’t felt the need for a backup.

    You could do the thing where you have an air gapped laptop with an encrypted drive that

    1. automatically wipes if you disconnect from power (just don’t use it during power outages?)
    2. has some sort of dead-man’s switch so that it deletes if you don’t prevent it every day: this is the failsafe for if someone knows about 1) and raids your house and you don’t unplug it in the moment, but it’s probably not good enough.

    IDK that’s a tough threat model.

    Maybe the best thing would be to delete your journal after you write it.