Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

I think what I’m going to do for now is keep Telegram desktop available, since contact metadata is not available there. I’m going to also set Telegram back up on a burner Android device.

If contacts from personal numbers keep coming in, I’m going to possibly recreate my account.

Are there good instructions on what to look for/how to restrict or remove Telegram metadata from an account? It seems my number is still associated to the one I set up properly, though it's possible they scraped my device number or Google Voice number from metadata.

@zetasyanthis The artwork is offsite because they were in the process of renovating. The interior that was present on-site is gone, as is much of the wood roof, but the stone structure appears to have held.

This continues a running theme of corporate platforms stapling my accounts together through their ads and data collection integrations instead of account setup. Google+ did the same thing to me by advertising my personal profile as "people you might know" to my family.

It would be really cool if the invasive push to advertise everywhere didn't also out people's private lives to family that may take hostile action against us, thanks.

In the meantime, I've hit block on the one number that popped up as having just joined Telegram. At least the block tools are fairly robust.

I’ve been using a burner number with Telegram for awhile now _precisely_ to prevent family from finding my contact there. Please be wary if you use this setup.

Despite not giving it contacts access, Telegram has clearly found some way to interact with phone contacts from other services — presumably scraping metadata from iOS itself.

Because of this, Telegram is now uninstalled from my phone until I can figure out what they changed. Be wary that you may experience the same issue.

@zetasyanthis French officials reporting all artwork, relics, and the structure of the cathedral itself have been saved. So there’s that at least.

@qdot Niether, yet. But if I dig back in, I’ll be pursuing one or both instead of putting the official Twitter app back on my devices. 👍

Mostly, I'm looking back at the site to see if I can make it work for posting artwork again. Rant yesterday helped me realize I can probably make that work again, though the arrangement is going to be quite different than my 2015 and 2016 setup.

Giving artist Twitter a chance again today. I've apparently been off the site since last August, despite having a few folks' feeds up since then to keep up with the news.

Noticing that most of the toxicity that drove me off is now concentrated into an echo chamber of political accounts and their satellite networks of bots, and that it's spilling less into main feed than it was before. I might be able to work with this, though I still heavily distrust The Algorithm.

This is more or less the arrangement I used with reading Tumblr pre- and post- December 2018. I find a small contingent of artists I can follow, set that to be my main feed, then put harder topics in digests that I can read when I can handle them.

@Kyresti It would do at least two things that don’t happen right now:

1. Actually pay grad students
2. Reduce or eliminate the cottage industry for federal grant hoarding

Given the amount of research done by overworked grad students that is currently turned around and resold by their university or research org, that would make a huge difference.

@mawr Second prize: two Julian Assanges.

@Soreth @mawr Same

@thomasfuchs Until very recently, a furnace first installed in our home in the late 1960s, original hardware manifest and all.