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Congratulations, Gabriel, and thank you for doing this important work!!

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Thanks a ton!

Still so much to do but the basic engine/process is functional!

I have high hopes for what can be done even with a few helpers!

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Great stuff Gabriel!

I look forward to talking about this later this week during our podcast talk.

Afterwards, I will share it with Jason Lavigne (see https://twitter.com/JasonLavigneMP) who is somewhat of a tech guy himself, and very much involved in the truth & freedom community in Canada. He has a lot of good contacts that could perhaps increase awareness of this project and help it grow.

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Thank you! I'm very excited for more episodes of your podcast and honored to be starting so soon! I'll take a look, thanks for the recommendation! I'm hoping the more technical eyes on it the easier it will be to explain for the non-technical people, which would be a game changer for reasons beyond this project.

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I am interested in helping

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Awesome! I will be following up with more details and explanations.

The best way to get ahead of that would be to do what you can to be familiar with git or a text/code editor like notepad++ (many others work fine)

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ok I will get that!

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Looks interesting. I'm interested. Check out my new word, coincidist, describing people who blame medical harm on coincidence. Coincidism is a filthy thing that goes right along with fascism and communism. We counter coincidism with creativity, humor and love.

https://open.substack.com/pub/coincidism/p/ive-created-a-concept-i-call-coincidism?

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I hear what you're saying, it is something I want to keep in mind, but I worry that particular ship has sailed a bit. I participate on the fediverse, which is a decentralized social media network where I try to find interesting people to bridge the gap. The problem is that if you're trying to navigate "no man's land" in that space you're effectively stuck between an absurd amount of provocative language or all-too-harsh blocks.

Why mention any of this? I'd argue the fediverse is currently the best place to learn bleeding-edge technological information if you're not otherwise "in the know". The political divides are real and they transcend any particular project or domain. In a sense, I'm basically trying to figure out how best to work within the "side" I am assigned. I am pessimistic about my ability to reach out which is where I want to help put together a resource that hopefully all can benefit from.

There's a reason I would rather by on the 'freedom' partisan side at the moment however, especially in Canada. I think a great many people are naive about the nature of many technological measures and that in no small part includes this side. As a Canadian I am very concerned that censorship, online identification, surveillance, and all kind of measures will be applauded by mainstream conservatives if there isn't more concerted effort to discredit those ideas.

It's a lot of work, which is specifically why I've hoped to build a platform that will allow many people to come together to improve it in a way that is very difficult to shut down. Which is the real goal of this project. If this particular project fails, but the "freedom" community learns how to use these tools better I'd still consider that a spectacular win.

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Thanks for the heads up!

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