I am entirely unable to disentangle Joyce Carol Oates' books from Margaret Atwood's and I mix them up constantly.

Man, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social does not miss.

BRB. Ruining more things.

There are people at Malwarebytes who pay a lot of attention to this issue.

Because iOS stalkerware tends to work by requiring the target's AppleID and covertly making backups, which means that the stalkerware does not live on the phone.

Someone please make a version of this t-shirt using an image of Judith Butler. We are going to destroy thinking machines and also gender.

Three is two more Butlerian jihad t-shirts that I expected to exist.

Are you saying there are multiple Butlerian jihad t-shirts? This is highly relevant to my interests.

As always, more research is needed.

I am disagreeing about public perception, but this is largely because I spend a lot of time trying to frame this discussion in a particular way and I would like to believe I am effective.

I disagree. When I talk about these incidents, one of the things I stress is that because targeting is so easy, even minor political opponents are targeted with invasive spyware. If anything, that makes it worse.

Alas. I have learned that if I take it seriously right away, I can get back to training after a few days, but if I try to stoically shrug it off, I am in for months of pain.

Just to "yes and" your point, as a person who worked my first tech job in my teens, I can tell you that my biggest disadvantage was that I had no idea of what was normal, so I was ill-equipped to push back against all kinds of bad behavior.

I took a handstands class once a week half a dozen years ago and I made zero progress because I just didn't understand proper technique.