While I don't use disposable emails I've been converting all my accounts to unique emails with either Firefox Relay[0] or using my personal website[1]. Bitwarden has made this easy as they let you import your Relay's API key and so every new site gets unique usernames and passwords[2]. It certainly is making it easier to block spam, and you get to know who is leaking your emails[3], and I've burned emails because of it. Frankly at this point the biggest problem is having a 20 year old gmail account. But the plus side of this type of system is that you can move your endpoint, so where Relay/CF directs the emails too, making you less reliant on your email provider[4].

There's pros and cons. On the plus side, unique identities for every site and by getting a catchall domain you can even generate valid addresses via pen and paper. Probably the biggest benefit is just searching emails. On the cons, document sharing can be a bigger pain than it already is (how is this still a pain all these years later?). Also, people get very confused when you tell them your email address is TheirCompanyName@godelski.mozmail.com (I don't actually have that domain, don't send emails there).

It's helpful but I think represents a fundamental flaw in our ecosystem.

  > And we're still stuck bashing PGP

[0] https://relay.firefox.com/

[1] Cloudflare will do email forwarding for you as will plenty of others: https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/email...

[2] What doesn't help is how prolific OAUTH is becoming.

[3] Sorry, adding +something on your gmail won't work these days.

[4] I'm actually looking. People say TutaMail but sorry, I need something I can use with either Thunderbird or NeoMutt... This is non-negotiable. Everyone has multiple email addresses these days and I'm not checking 30 different sites. The problem is already one of poor organization.

Right, because governments don't have other ways of forcing companies to do what they want anyway.

Looks over at Anthropic

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Your examples are tips of icebergs that indicate much more problematic opinions. I’m not shocked you received pushback.

Just noting that I appreciate all the examples given here and by others, many of which made me feel a bit stupid and amnesic for asking my original question. I guess I have been over-focused on AI...

> That’s setting aside that on HN you’d get shadowbanned for even posting the clip of BLM leaders describing themselves as “trained Marxists” and BLM itself as Marxist in ideology. Apparently, no matter how politely you state facts, if HN froths irrationally in response it is an “inherent flamewar”.

Funny how you mention this like you expect everyone to take for granted that Marxist=bad and worth "hiding" etc... whereas negative reactions are likely due more towards that internal judgement discrediting yourself, vs trying to "hide the Marxism."

You think you can discredit people by saying "they're Marxists!" and yet you think people today are uniquely bad snowflakes about views they don't like. You're proposing that people are more likely to cry thoughtcrime now than in the past, by inadvertently exposing how you've bought into this idea of how just invoking the name of some old philosopher is worth demonization and has been for DECADES in many western countries...

Specs and logs, motes and beams.

Which specific points from which specific Marx texts piss you off so much?

(It's also funny that you didn't actually link to any of the things you stated. I don't care about the things you brought up enough to go hunting for them myself to try do prove or disprove you, but... do you really think saying "I can't cite these simple facts without getting in trouble" *without even citing them, just asking us to believe you that they're easily cite-able, is gonna go over so convincingly?)

this is a statement you can't possibly be sure of and the fact you're making it shows a lack of reflection.

It's absolutely a continuum, which implies to me there will be people with your experience. Of course, you may not have encountered a scenario where your principles were on the line!

But then, I'd also agree there would be loads of cases where it is a mask being lifted, but isn't that the point? Is there a meaningful difference between "revealing one's true self" and "being robbed of an essential part of humanity" when the outcome results in the same antisocial behavior?

> like no shit people are going to be ...

Yep. I still need to say it. I still need this audience, at least time tiny fraction, to hear it. This "community" specifically is so high on it's own supply that these things should be shouted from the rooftops:

- You're a fallible human and your ideas aren't always good - Disruption isn't always good - Moving fast and breaking things is a great way to leave a path of destruction in your wake and piss off everyone around you, and isn't always good - Change for the sake of change isn't always good

Let's boil that down to: the shit you come up with isn't always good. Or to put it another way, rarely does it seem "should we?" is ever considered alongside "could we?".

Finally, as if it weren't obvious: I am not here for fake internet points.

You’re not being criminally charged and convicted of a thought crime in this situation. You’re just not welcome to join the party. Big difference. Foreigners have no right to enter the USA other than by what the law permits.

Now, I don’t necessarily agree that we should be denying visas to people based on reasonable disagreements with US policy—after all, existing citizens are entitled to share those same opinions! But “crime” means something, and that’s not what this is.

> The same physical action can lead to vastly different outcomes.

Well, yeah, that’s kind of obvious once you realize that tools can be used for multiple purposes. A hammer can be used to pound both nails (legal) and smash a person’s head in (not).

But the notion that “thought crimes” where people are being punished merely for their feelings and where no act in furtherance of the outcome has taken place is just baloney. At least in the West.