If recent events have you feeling down and defeated, @thetyee wants you to know that it’s still worth fighting back. Alvin Finkel, author of “Humans,” writes about “the persistent spark of resistance throughout recorded history, in service of visions of more humane, egalitarian societies.”

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Hold the phone — literally, in the case of @404mediaco’s @josephcox, who hasn’t had a cellphone since around 2017 due to concerns about information security. He wrote about a privacy-focused network, previously available just to members of the military, that piqued his interest. [This story may be paywalled]

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I Don't Own a Cellphone. Can This Privacy-Focused Network Change That?

A small tech company called Cape has been selling a privacy-focused cellphone service to the U.S. military. Now Cape will be offering its product to high-risk members of the public.

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

When will someone make a biopic about Maria Tallchief, America’s first prima ballerina? A member of the Osage nation, she was key to the success of the New York City Ballet, danced with Ballet Russe (which tried to make her change her last name to Tolchieva) and became the highest paid ballerina in the world. Tallchief once said a ballerina “takes steps given to her and makes them her own.” Learn more about her in this story from @TheConversationUS

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75 years ago, Maria Tallchief made the ballet world reimagine itself and find a place for a Native American prima ballerina

Despite assumptions to the contrary, Tallchief showed that Indigenous people could not just exceed the standards of Western arts but also set new ones, writes a scholar of Indigenous cultures.

^{The Conversation}