Good. I once had a professor who would demand I come teach her class even though I was funded through a research assistantship and hated interacting with stude

Good. I once had a professor who would demand I come teach her class even though I was funded through a research assistantship and hated interacting with students unless they advanced my agenda, so I eventually quit my PhD. She'd just call up my personal phone, say she had to leave town, and then would tell me to do her work, because she was advising me at the time. I'd get annoyed she was just... flying off on short notice and demanding I teach her class uncompensated, so I'd just show up, explain the assigned reading quickly, ask if folks had questions, then move on to asking them if they know what crypto-anarchy is, pulling up a copy of Jim Bell's "assassination politics", and having a chat about where the best spots to get spicy food in town were. Later when I was reading up on the Daisey's Destruction case I had a bit of an aha moment... oh wait... this person doesn't work for the FBI, CIA... or the DEA... they constantly are talking about the Grateful Dead and how they used to do (and I quote) "an aircraft carrier's worth of drugs" on the weekends back in North Carolina. And then I'd go back to trying to do all my classwork, some of their work, and scrounge around town for a decent weed connection because alaprazolam was not helping me -- though I got the sense the prescribing physician respected the long string of antidepressants I tried prior to that After that there was a liminal period where I worked for an NGO, hoping to finish and then work as a staffer, but I also left my NGO for similar reasons -- I was on a W3C privacy group and one of my coworkers would come up and block my exit (physically stand in the door) and mansplain that "fingerprinting isn't tracking" or other... it was a tone of voice kind of like he was trying to do mind control or something? I don't want to give my exact age, but I'm from a generation of phone phreaks born at the fall of the USSR who notice that if we use a novel argument like pointing out that up until 1863, America had unbreakable encryption via the Vigenère cipher[0] folks screw up their faces and get mad they can't trade the same bullet points back and forth they've been trading since the 90s and might have to have a substantive discussion that would realign the power order or whatever. Anyways, Signal made the right call. India has a lot of issues -- I don't see the whole Kashmir situation ever discussed with the same level of attention to detail I've seen writings on the genocide in Xinjiang or the aggressions in the South China sea. (Bullshit little fake islands and the like.) And then of course there's that whole... Ukraine thing... but I guess that doesn't impact India? Anyways, sorry to ramble, I'm taking a day to focus on self care -- this was a good call. - Greg [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigen%C3%A8re_cipher#Cryptanalysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigen%C3%A8re_cipher#Cryptanal...