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I have read about some journalists having "dead man switch" articles or facts, that they used as a dissuasive strategy (talking about some very damaging piece of info being kept with a lawyer or notary with instructions to send it to X number of publications in case of death, accidental or not), what are your thoughts on this?

This book was a life saver for me when i was with an ex with bpd

I hear what you're saying, definitely not my intent to put everyone with BPD in the same bag.

I think there's a universe of difference between someone actively dealing with their BPD dx, and someone refusing to consult and consider any therapy. For the latter, life for their spouse can be a living hell. Abuse, gaslighting, self-destructive behaviour paired with emotional manipulation - I've lived it and I can say the book really helped me. I wasn't crazy, it was horrible, and I felt better equipped...

But hey, maybe another better book could have been just as helpful without the negative association created by this one. I just didn't get across it.

all the engineers at Facebook take privacy very seriously when building products.

I think the issue isn't with privacy breaches by accident or by piracy, but privacy breaches by design. And yes, get your point about aggregate or anonymized data, but when cross-referenced with additional data sets, a purchaser of data collected by big tech can pin point an individual and obtain a ton of specific, personal, name-level data on almost anyone.

That's creepy.

The idea of exquisitely optimized and timely offerings coming "organically" on my screen the moment I've mentioned something in a captured conversation with a friend, the subtle shifting of my video recommendations to make me more receptive to ads estimated to be more relevant to my current situation, etc - all of that seems the unavoidable (and mind bogglingly creepy) direction of big tech...

You might enjoy the book "blink", by Malcolm Gladwell - it's on intuition and gut feelings/decisions, and it's amazingly written.