Whoa whoa, let's not pigeonhole Madel. He protects people from sexual harassment and insider trading charges, too. His moral and ethical bankruptcy is well diversified!

People ask me for advice, and I do what I can, but a lot of it's simply not an option for most people because the rigor demands too much expertise and pre-knowledge. And it's hard to even reason about what the threat is; in a normal world blanket warrants would never be issued. In this one?

It's hard to give anyone advice because the deck is stacked against people trying to protect their privacy. Every single device is built to leak your identity through sideband channels. e.g: Using a VPN is useful, but undercut if your operating system keeps phoning back to apple saying "here i am"

I am sort of a security expert, but I don't specialize in mobile. That zine has good info. The one thing I'd add is that if you can reboot your phone before it's taken, do it. Phones are easier to crack if they're taken in the "After First Unlock" state, where your keys are still in memory.

Oh I didn't realize you were also maybe from here. I just saw your post in my feed and thought you were from DC. Hang in there, neighbor.

I live in Minneapolis. Frankly, I cannot think of a better solution than a whistle. They're cheap, small, reliable, require no skill or training, and the sound is immediately recognizable. If we still exist in the future, I never want to hear another whistle, but for now they're an amazing tool.

It'd be nice if congress would start asking "who is writing these" because there's no way trump stayed awake for that entire thing.

Granted this was compared to people with deep, deep regional accents that even I had to "wait what?" at, but I'll still take it.

People point mine out whenever I travel. Sometimes I'll think "I don't have an accent" and then I hear myself saying "oh ya know." On the upside, when I was last in France the folks I was hanging out with were excited to speak with me because "you speak so clearly," so we've got that going for us.

ICE has said that neither passports nor REAL IDs are sufficient proof of citizenship. Which is consistent with the fact that none of this is about immigration.

Good to call out on coats; I revised density down. I wish you could draw a density gradient. From memory on the ground, 10th street was packed. Whatever the number, it's more than 5k (mpd said 10s of thousands). It's only interesting because the media tends to intentionally under-report.

I'm being a little sloppy here because I have to run, but based on crowd photos like these, I came up with this convex hull. The crowd borders weren't static, but I think these are fairly representative. I don't know what time the outflow started, but I think these are from the near the beginning

The protest was rooted in the north-east corner of the park; the fact that it's winter and there's no contrast doesn't make it really easy to see the topology, so it can be a little confusing. I"ll re-generate my noodles so people can check my math.

thirded. Out of curiosity I looked at the drone footage that got posted along with the WCCO footage, then did some "i don't have a GIS degree" estimates with the crowd size estimator tool. I got numbers between 40-65k. I don't think it was at the high end of that, but it was way, way more than 5k.

And I'm not a bot. I saw your "well actually it's really important that we keep giving law enforcement tons of money" video linked elsewhere, and literally created an account just to tell you that I'll be donating to anyone who primaries you, if we get to do elections again.

Are you, quite literally, insane? The time for ineffectual status-quo milquetoast patronizing democrats was put to end, rather bluntly, on January 7. Democrats have two options: either address the fact that ICE has been turned into a paramilitary organization by a fascist regime or resign.