I’d love to see Lambert or someone more computer literate than me comment on the Signal piece regarding its CIA origins: https://yasha.substack.com/p/signal-is-a-government-op-85e The argument “it’s open source, so the end to end encryption is pure” seems to be the argument thrown back against the piece, but I don’t think you can trust anything on the internet anymore. It’s all monitored, it’s all collected. As long as Lambert knows what day it is, just kidding. Yesterday Signal seemed to go down and I’m wondering why.
The article on microbiomes and Covid makes sense to me. I found that I was getting far less sick and less often when I started keeping chickens and coming into contact with them every day. It also helped with generalized anxiety that I’ve struggled with my whole life, that and cutting out simple carbohydrates. I’m convinced that healthy microbiomes are a huge key to how a body functions and that we’re only just discovering how they work.