“First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me” -Martin Niemöller

from a neighbor social:
Greg Pak @gregpak.bsky.social‬
November 7, 2024

A thing you can do if you have D local officials: call them up and ask what their plan is for preventing the deportation of your immigrant neighbors.

A reminder: The Paradox of Tolerance is a Social, not Moral, Contract:

I am grateful to J for keeping us all safe here in our online home.

Something I can do is to make a donation to his costs of running this place. I know not everyone can. If you can lets show J our appreciation for letting us be honest and safe here.

Thanks for listening to my Ted talk :)

This image says it all.

Thank goodness we have COSO and J running this ship. I can't imagine being anywhere else on a day like today.

On November 17 we will celebrate COSO's 7th birthday.

Those of us who can, help @th3j35t3r with the expenses to keep COSO afloat. Now more than ever, it seems important to do so. Several times in the past we have funded it 100% in this month. Can we do that again?

Please consider the ways to help fund COSO and especially November at 100%.

Here's how:
https://counter.social/supportcoso.html

#DIDYOUKNOW

COSO holds nor asks for any personal information about you aside from an email address.

All at-rest data is held on encrypted volumes (AES-GCM or AES-Serpent). Our infrastructure provider does NOT have the keys.

All data-transit is encrypted (AES).

Deleted posts and/or accounts are instantly removed from prod servers & fall off our (encrypted) rolling backups within 48hrs.

We have a @WarrantCanary

All our servers/services run a 'dead mans switch' every day.

cc: @th3j35t3r

Musk & Trump are now one & the same. Your Twitter data is Trumps now.

Here's how to mitigate:

1) Create a new Twitter account no identifying names etc.

2) Got to the account you're trying to obscure & change ur @/handle to make it available.

3). QUICKLY Go to the new account and change it's @handle to ur original @/handle

4). Deactivate your original account.

Eventually your original data will cycle out of their backups & nobody can take your handle.

It is done >

https://x.com/th3j35t3r

ANNOUNCE: There WILL be a COSO BYOB Election night LIVE WATCH PARTY tomorrow night - starting 7PM Eastern. Coverage will continue throughout the night
🍺 🍸

I'll post the COSOCall link in the hour before we kickoff tomorrow evening. All welcome. 👍

You know something Coso has that is messed up on FB and X? Posts in actual chronological order instead of a weird mixed date mess.