The author omitted the complete statement from Reddit:

Hi everyone,

No, Proton did not knowingly block journalists’ email accounts. Our support for journalists and those working in the public interest has been demonstrated time and again through actions, not just words.

In this case, we were alerted by a CERT that certain accounts were being misused by hackers in violation of Proton’s Terms of Service. This led to a cluster of accounts being disabled.

Because of our zero-access architecture, we cannot see the content of accounts and therefore cannot always know when anti-abuse measures may inadvertently affect legitimate activism.

Our team has reviewed these cases individually to determine if any can be restored. We have now reinstated 2 accounts, but there are other accounts we cannot reinstate due to clear ToS violations.

Regarding Phrack’s claim on contacting our legal team 8 times: this is not true. We have only received two emails to our legal team inbox, last one on Sep 6 with a 48-hour deadline. This is unrealistic for a company the size of Proton, especially since the message was sent to our legal team inbox on a Saturday, rather than through the proper customer support channels.

The situation has unfortunately been blown out of proportion without giving us a fair chance to respond to the initial outreach.

Here’s the trailer for it: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/31311101

It does look like a legit tear-jerker.

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Finally, some good news.

I sat in on a seminar by Advocates for Transgender Equality who explained a lot of key details of receiving transgender medical care.

Their primary message was “you’ll almost certainly get denied initially, and then have your appeal denied as well. That’s when you appeal again, to a third-party oversight board, and that’s where you will almost certainly win.”

The process is arduous and designed to frustrate you to the point of giving up. Don’t give up.

Quite a few resources can be found at https://transhealthproject.org/ including a template for appealing adverse decisions regarding gender confirmation surgery.

To clarify, you’re referring to this portion of the article:

Newsom then appeared on the Shawn Ryan Show, another far-right podcast, where he expanded his rhetoric. He downplayed transgender people’s pronouns, saying, “I’m trying to understand as much as anyone else the whole ‘pronoun’ thing.”

Digging into the detail link gives a smidge more context on the quote, but not much…

Naturally, Ryan’s line of questioning didn’t stop with sports, either. He suddenly turned to the idea of trans kids in general. “Is eight years old too young?”

“The trans issue for me is so novel,” Newsom said. “I’m trying to understand as much as anyone else the whole ‘pronoun’ thing.”

I don’t interpret that as genuine confusion over trans identities and pronoun use. That’s straight-up pandering; doing a pantomime of having a boggled mind to endear himself to the host and his audience.

It’s a transparent falsehood; disingenuous, cheap and ridiculous. These are not qualities befitting of someone seeking the highest office, let alone at a time when the nation teeters on the brink of fascism.

You’d be shocked, but it does happen sometimes (nurses, through force of habit).

I don’t pass so “never lol” usually works for me.

The speech aspect of this is really interesting.

My first instinct would be “don’t make this about me.” Think about what you would say about him, how you met, adventures and escapades you’ve gotten into and out of, and how you’ve grown from who you were when you met into the unique and interesting people you are now.

I think that’s a sly way to talk about it without making the whole speech about it.

Imagining that it was perfectly rational to keep a complete set of women’s clothes in the house just in case you end up having someone over who has somewhere important to be the next day and no clean clothes to wear.

This is very valuable context.

For citations, the only references I see to “pronouns” in their github project is in a section called “Human language policy” in CONTRIBUTING.md (link). Here’s the relevant part:

In Ladybird, we treat human language as seriously as we do programming language. The following applies to all user-facing strings, code, comments, and commit messages: … Use gender-neutral pronouns, except when referring to a specific person.

That sounds pretty cash-money to me.

There’s one additional reference in a pull request discussing whether or not to use “we” when referring to recommendations of the engineering team (as in “we recommend” vs “it is recommended”). Minutia.

I’m not as interested in litigating this matter than I am in putting it to bed (along with any and all definitive citations and evidence such that I can refer back to this comment thread in the future when the question inevitably comes up again.)

I think this may be the issue to which you are referring:

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/

While this is troubling to read about, this narrative’s lack of evidence or references keep me from accepting it at face value. Old mastodon chatter (and perhaps deleted posts or scuttled instances) may be difficult to retrieve, but GitHub discussions shouldn’t be hard to find.

So I’m withholding judgement for the moment.

UPDATE: Commenter [email protected] wrote this terrific comment that provides confirmation of the above narrative, corrective action that the LadyBird engineering team has taken taken, plus some vitally important context of the entire kerfuffle. A+ work.

The best horror movies of 2025 (so far)

The Shrouds was a genuine disappointment; vaguely spooky trappings and an eye-catching pedigree churning out a dull mystery about the expansion challenges of a budding multinational corporation.

I don’t know what people were seeing in Companion, either. I just didn’t see the magic in it that everyone else did.

It’s nice to see Dead Mail and Best Wishes to All make the list, though. They deserve the attention.

For those holding out for a hero: https://ladybird.org/

Ladybird is a brand-new browser & web engine. Driven by a web standards first approach, Ladybird aims to render the modern web with good performance, stability and security.

This is what quitting Facebook on moral grounds is like when everyone you know has the moral fortitude of wet newspaper.

Look at that happy lady! 💕

There’s a GitHub project for that: https://gist.github.com/joostrijneveld/59ab61faa21910c8434c

Rushkoff wrote a book about consulting for these billionaire peppers.

https://rushkoff.com/books/survival-of-the-richest-escape-fantasies-of-the-tech-billionaires/

That last line tho…

Ed was also facing serious controversy in recent years – at the time of his death, he was still under investigation for allegedly trying to solicit sex from multiple minors.

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Sumarizing recommendations from others, and adding a few deeper cuts…

• Hilda (start here)
• Amphibia
• Steven Universe
• Gravity Falls
• Infinity Train
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
• Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts
• Craig of the Creek
• Centaurworld
• Over the Garden Wall
• Home Movies