jrm4, most places. here for now, still...

People say Black men need to communicate and be vulnerable. But most of the time when we do this, the conversation becomes about how the other person feels we should have communicated our vulnerability.

What's your unpopular opinion about Lil Wayne? (Keep the comments respectful and on topic, please.)

Why shabang by drake got the same flow as hickory dickory dock

I think this area might be the most racist place in the world

The free phone software that wiped itself during a French police raid, got branded a drug-trafficking weapon by prosecutors, and was threatened with arrests and server seizures just landed a deal with a major phone manufacturer. GrapheneOS is the most hardened phone operating system in the world. Android with Google cut out of it by the root, built since 2014 by a nonprofit and a handful of contributors, funded by donations, given away for free. No Google account. No tracking services. A phone that slams itself back into a locked, encrypted state the moment it sits untouched. A duress PIN that burns the whole device the instant someone forces you to open it. In November, French police seized a suspect's Google Pixel and could not crack it. It wiped itself mid-search, exactly as built to, and the evidence died sealed. So the state did what the state always does when it loses. Prosecutors threatened the developers with prison and seized servers unless they cut a hole in it. The project refused to break the locks of millions and tore every server out of the country in a week, ran them to Canada and Germany, and kept shipping without missing a day. Then it gained ground. For its entire life GrapheneOS ran on Google's Pixels and nothing else, and the cartel's whole sneer rested on that, impressive but caged on a single phone, a toy for paranoids. This year Motorola killed the sneer, signing a long-term deal to build GrapheneOS protections into its own hardware and drag the phone out of the forums and onto the shelf. They never come for your privacy by admitting it guards you too well. They come for it wearing the face of the worst man they can find, because a public that will hand over a stranger's phone will hand over its own next. Every phone you have ever owned was sold to you twice. Once at the counter, for money. Then every day after, as a quiet feed of where you went, what you read, and who you spoke to. The second sale is why the supercomputer in your pocket costs less than a mattress. GrapheneOS kills the second sale cold. That is what France was really guarding in that courtroom. The second sale, on every phone, forever. The fence around what a man is allowed to keep private has always been guarded by men who wanted a copy of his key.