This interview with @mer__edith was 18 kinds of wonderful: Both an engaging tour of her POV and as a distillation of key ideas which animate her work. Can’t think of anything I’ve read recently which articulates the stakes of this moment in time as well as this conversation did…
For the 10th birthday of Signal, I did a Big Interview with its president @mer__edith.
We ended up talking about how her focus for Signal goes beyond encryption or privacy, to creating an alternative to surveillance capitalism—or even capitalism, period.
https://t.co/kAj3uEL9sX
#Juneteenth celebrates the day Black slaves in Texas were finally informed of their freedom. While the emancipation proclamation technically freed them, knowledge of their rights materially liberated them. Today, the far-right wants to rob us of our history, our truth, our power.
Think there’s a more interesting conversation about “Roadrunner” to be had — which @mariabustillos really gets at in this @Eater piece:
https://t.co/OtMsHnqnRD
(And if you’ve seen the doc, her Blade Runner reference will make you LOL… )