The information provided in the public hearings.

I want to add:

Most books have never been digitized. Most information that you would learn in college is still in books and not on the Internet. You can’t replace access to information (and reading that information) in college with lack of access to information (and thus not reading that information) online.

In addition, the Internet doesn’t give you access to passionate subject-matter experts who are necessary guides to help us travel down the path of acquiring the knowledge that they have. Sure, there’s recordings of MOOC lectures, but they become outdated and you can’t ask them questions or have them help you by giving useful assignments and answer your questions and give you constructive criticism.

If higher education is going to work we would do better to pay those experts (the poor teachers) a fair living wage so that they can focus on the quality of their teaching and not be desperately trying to survive and navigate departmental politics while hoping that bureaucratic administrators don’t cut the library budget (again) while dumping money into a new football field (why is sports part of college anyway? Why can’t there be a separate and unrelated sports-academy system for the sports people so that it’s impossible to misappropriate from academic budgets in favor of sports?).

The article doesn’t give answers, because it’s a book review. So, it’s giving you a synopsis of the book’s arguments and evidence, then a critique of it. The article isn’t trying to give answers but is a genre of writing intended to review a book and not more than that.

Out of fear of losing access to my accounts I’ve been moving them out of Gmail as the central point of control. I suggest other people do this too.

+1 for Onionshare.

If you’re just giving it to just one person, send it this way. If you wanted to be extra safe (after stripping metadata), you could even encrypt it using their public key first so that it’s unclear what the data is before you give it to them.

I agree with you. Email is flawed and not appropriate for modern communication.

If you want the messages to be written in letter-like format, then you can write them that way. No need to make it chatty if you don’t want to communicate that way.

Email shares far too much metadata and should be used just for account-updates, account-control (password reset, MFA, and so on), etc.

Otherwise I just push everyone to Signal, since it’s normie-friendly and already using quantum-safe encryption.

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To the OP’s question: yes, I trust Proton. They can’t access my data if they wanted to. They’re a lot better than competing companies.

Check out some of the steps they’ve been taking to improve OpenPGP and go down to “Upcoming improvements” to see their future plans: https://proton.me/blog/openpgp-crypto-refresh

And, remember, they are more than just an email company: https://proton.me/blog

Oh yeah if you read the scifi written during that time it’s just a big male fantasy of easy access to loose women.

Just do a bit at a time. I even installed a desktop email manager to help me with it, since it’s easier to switch between the two accounts in a single application versus having the two webpages up.

Also, if you use a password manager you’ll be able to filter your database by email since email address = account login credential in most cases.

Yeah basically if you want free stuff, then you’re incentivized to leave good reviews so that they are more likely to send you free stuff. Plus, there’s a cognitive bias where you didn’t pay for it so even if you would have been critical you’re more likely to say something positive.

Is there a way to pipe the download directly to a video player so it’s more like a stream so that the data is just cached and deleted afterwards?