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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

I think I’m going to move to a small island and live in a cabin in the woods!

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James Macleod's avatar

If I had a dollar for every time I’ve said I think I’m going to move to a small island and live in a cabin in the woods, I’d have enough money to move to a small island and live in a cabin in the woods!

@Liz Loh-Taylor What did we say to each other yesterday! 😂

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Liz Loh-Taylor's avatar

Yeah I’m a little late on the piece but I think I’m ready!

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Intoobus's avatar

I'm seeing your post through my home page and wanted to give it some engagement. If you wouldn't mind doing it back to my newsletter post that would be amazing. New post is up!

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James Macleod's avatar

I’m out at the moment, but did I restack the right one? Just a heads up, I probably won’t see your reply until tomorrow.

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Intoobus's avatar

Yes, thank you and no worries take your time

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X K's avatar

All right, now you've done it, I was reading this close to lights out time (big mistake in retrospect), and now there's no point in turning them out, I'll be up for hours. The saving grace is that this is another time, but the one for which I'm most grateful, for being a techno-Luddite, never cared much for all the wizardry, never saw the appeal of Facebook back when it was called Facebook, and all the rest. How have I managed to survive, you ask? Dunno, maybe I come under some sort of Endangered Species Act protection.

I guess I can be somewhat consoled, my iPhone version is somewhere back in the single digits, serves my limited purposes (phone calls, text messages) fine. Then again, maybe someday soon, if not already, I'll be flagged as a suspect non-conforming entity, black sedans with darkened windows shadowing me around. The traditional way.

Okay, "The Godfather, Pt. II" is on t.v. now, maybe I'll be able to drift off to sleep...

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James Macleod's avatar

The frightening thing is how much I had to leave out. I’m actually gonna drop a second part to this over the weekend. Have a good kip, don’t let that 🐴 disturb you. Or was that the first film?

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X K's avatar

Yikes, there's more??!! Yes, I am paranoid, and they are out to get me...

The horse head scene was in the first film. Among other niceties, Pt. II had the scene where the suspected Cuban revolution sympathizer breaks away from the arresting police lineup, grabs the police captain, shoves him into the car, and explodes a grenade.

Something we might be seeing here in the US before too long...

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Patricia's avatar

Please go to @BettBeat Media , listen to the interview with @Lowkey who brings receipts on the cyber/tech oppression systems….you may think you know everything…after listening I was like: We know Nothing.

Please please listen to interview, and get your stationery and fave pen ready, oh and also, from other sources, runners. Bc the USPS has also just signed a deal. That’s right. The USPS.

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Patricia's avatar

Hmmm… hate to get all entrepreneur on ppls asses but… I wld be an excellent runner. I know every acre of the town I live in, I am not afraid of the dark, my thyroid issue keeps me bodily less detectable ( like a reptile, I am, super cool) and coyotes, bear, not a prob….k, martens are a problem bc…I wld have to reroute, but actually see night runner as a viable thing. Start Organizing Non Tech Communiques people.

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Truth Seeking Missile's avatar

Not one comment from Apple on all these accusations?

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James Macleod's avatar

I think the EFF have tried, I certainly haven’t seen anything outside of their stock PR claims.

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