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Cake day: June 24th, 2025

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  • Signal does everything Whatsapp does and it aligns with my personal values:

    1. I can support a healthy, competitive market by keeping alternatives alive - lack of competition is the death of innovation. Entshittification is only possible because there isn’t enough competition.

    2. I help shield people who really need privacy (like journalists and whistle-blowers) by adding to the crowd for them to disappear in. I think of it a little as getting vaccinated - the chances are extremely low that I’ll ever really need privacy protection but I do it anyway, to protect the “at-risk” population, and to keep options alive in case my situation ever changes.

    3. Privacy is not about having something to hide but about the right to consent. I don’t need anonymity, I have nothing to hide. However there are still some things that I don’t want some random Meta employee to know about me, or photos that are for my husband only. Signal allows me to choose what I share and with whom.

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  • Interesting, I found today’s easier than usual.

    spoiler

    I wonder whether today’s is more British leaning than usual? I tend to struggle with the overtly American puzzles.

    Inspector Morse, for example, is a classic British TV show that is still sometimes shown in re-runs.

    Hypnotic wouldn’t have been the word I used to describe yellow but haze clearly fits with dream, trance, and spell as a being in a “fuzzy” mental state e.g. alcohol haze, drug trance, under a spell, dream state.

    Also, I’m fairly sure I learned nanny at school.