For my friends in Afghanistan, please download these apps to improve your digital security and reduce the ability of the Taliban to track you.

Secure Messaging and Email:

I recommend:

Signal

https://signal.org/en/

Protonmail

https://protonmail.com/

For Web Browsing:

TOR

https://www.torproject.org/

Brave:

https://brave.com/

For VPNs:

https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/choosing-vpn-thats-right-you

Happy Independence Day America! Don't Let The Haters Win!

One f the realities of being an American is that you can both love this country and at the same time acknowledge its imperfect past. One of the other realities is that this imperfect past is not in a shape or form uniquely American.

Slavery and genocide are not an American invention, anybody who understands a bit of world history or lived anywhere else knows this. Mauretania which is an Arab country outlawed Slavery in 1981, 120 years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States and if you step outside your bubble for a bit, this country is a pretty good place to live by comparison to MOST countries on this planet. Especially for a country with a population of more than 300 million people who are not in a shape or form homogeneous. Should have America outlawed slavery earlier? Of course. But that doesn't change the fact that this country has made amazing progress on these fronts and there is still work to be done and it has the foundation to make it happen. Also, we can't judge things by the morality of today. Most of the clothes we wear TODAY are made by slave labor in China and other places. I am pretty sure the generations after us will find what we are doing CURRENTLY is amazingly morally abhorrent buy that doesn't mean everything we do is. There is a version of moral idealism today that is pretty much not that different from cynicism and is borderline idiotic. And it does nothing productive other than a bunch of hashtags and claims of moral superiority. Screw these people and enjoy your God/nature-given rights (whatever you happen to believe in because this is a free country) and celebrate the country that produced 3 of the most effective vaccines to combat covid and it continues to be a shining light to countries and people around the world.

#happy4thofjuly to all my fellow Americans and enjoy it to the Max. Don't let the haters win.