I think that good, unconditional friendships and stable communities teach and model self-compassion - seeing others look at us with "that's cool, I've made mistakes too" opens the way for us to say that about our own weaknesses.
What's concerning to me here is "Now the investigation is examining all his seized devices". It's possible, although perhaps slightly paranoid, that the message posting was intended to create pretext for seizure.
This may be a little far-fetched - there's likely easier ways to generate pretext - but it might be something for owners of Tor exit nodes to be aware of.
It's more likely that Russia just does not like Tor in general, so they find excuses to put users in jail and mess with their devices just to dissuade other people from using Tor.
From that perspective, your theory is not so far-fetched because it's not like the Russian government went through a lot of effort to frame this activist in particular. Any other Tor user would do.
Added to that, they need to show they are fighting terrorism online. Finding actual terrorists is hard and dangerous. Finding people reposting memes on Facebook or running Tor exit nodes and jailing them under terrorism and "extremism" laws is much more cost effective, and looks the same in the statistical reports. Since there is no independent courts in Russia and prosecutorial abuse is almost never punished (it's very hard to punish it even in the US, in Russia it's orders of magnitude harder), and acquittal in Russian court is vanishingly rare (only 0.4% criminal cases end in acquittal) - there's no risk involved except for maybe couple of articles in the press.
Or Google Slides - it has most of the benefits of PP or KN, but it's visible in realtime to anyone with a Google account (ok, everyone) while giving you notes and revision history.
This seems doable, though we might have to resort to LibreOffice instead. One of them is based in China so no Google products work without a VPN which isn't always very stable.
Exactly. I used phaxio with a group-ordering side project I built a while back, there really was no better option for getting/confirming orders to restaurants reliably. Love that Twilio is doing this (even though I'm out of the food-delivery business!).
We've been looking for a better way to give and get feedback on our teams (I've been yelled at once too often for giving a candid "I'm not sure that's a good idea" to a manager).
We built this so that teams can have real input and feel safe, while managers can get early warning on problems. What do you all think?
I'm a research analyst (some competitive/market intelligence background) with experience with stats and software. It's not quite reflected in my profile/resume, but I'm the guy my teams depend on to learn new stuff and actually make things work (technical or not).
