Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Een politiestaat in drie eenvoudige stappen
https://www.doorbraak.eu/een-politiestaat-in-drie-eenvoudige-stappen/

"Als deze drie wetsvoorstellen worden aangenomen, betekent dat in feite dat het recht op privacy is opgeheven. Allerlei organisaties mogen dan in het geniep je persoonsgegevens verzamelen en delen."

#Criminalisering #Fascisme #Repressie

If you work with a database and are asked to alter the table structure to comply in advance for citizenship or gender categorizations it's really important to NOT do it.

"The governor is concerned about all this stuff they want us to update our record keeping so we store both gender AND biological sex."

"We need fields to store the country of origin of people's parents."

If you don't have the power to rebuff this yourself, ask for help. At minimum ask for help online anonymously.

It's kinda the wrong way around but:
Any group interested in organising a new hacker camp. I have a location, and infrastructure for anything between 10 and 500 people.
What i don't have are skills or people for organising, design and the other actually complicated things.

“Tech is more political than ever | Go Make Things”

https://gomakethings.com/tech-is-more-political-than-ever/

> Sorry in advance for my international readers, but the US being what it is, this probably affects you, too.

Yup. What happens in the US affects all of tech which affects all of us who work in it.

Facebook has removed the Stand Up to Racism page for being "against community standards".
A few points:
1) Now is absolutely the time to move your organising away from commercial social media platforms, we've been telling you for literally years. It's better late than never, just do it!
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thailand legalized same sex marriage

But many historic museums have a clutter room, or clutter wing, or clutter floor, and if you ever spot one you should definitely give it your time, because there you’ll find the odd little knickknacks, contraptions, whatsits & doohickeys that capture the creativity and materiality of past eras 10/?

It’s time for the RENAISSANCE SPORK!
And the fascinating problems museums face when dealing with objects no one expects. 1/?

Sharing for my countdown to the release “Inventing the Renaissance” coming Feb UK/Mar US https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS #HistoryPix

In light of US tech oligarchy setting its sights on Wikimedia Foundation, a historical detail I did not know before: #Wikipedia became the non-profit it is today partly as the result of a labour strike of Spanish Wikipedia editors who disagreed with the proposed inclusion of advertisements. Initially, it was not clear what revenue model Wikipedia would get, and Wales moved towards a for-profit model already a year after launch. However, rather than working for free, so Jimmy Wales could profit from their labour via advertising, Spanish contributors forked Spanish Wikipedia as the Encyclopedia Libre Universal. Under the threat of losing the editorial community of such a large language, Wales conceded and set up the non-profit.

That is to say, however imperfect they are, all the digital commons we have are the result of ongoing struggle and hard work to keep them as commons.

Via Las Redes Son Nuestras (https://www.consonni.org/es/publicaciones/las-redes-son-nuestras) by @teclista

Update with more info:
https://post.lurk.org/@rra/113873611500414068

hey. listen

go play that video game you excitedly got on steam sale with so much enthusiasm, but never played

go play that game from your childhood that made you happy, that let you escape from the awful around you

go play that game your friend made and tell them all the cool things about it

go play that game your friends are all into but youve been too socially anxious to join in on

go play anything. your mental health will thank you for the break and youll love yourself a bit more, which goes a long way when we're all stretched too thin to give everyone the love we all deserve

Periodic #infosec reminder: AirDrop is insecure. You should treat any device with it enabled like it's continually blasting your name, email address, and phone number to everyone and everything within Bluetooth range. It cannot be fixed without a complete protocol rewrite and break in compatibility. I have not yet seen a single "safely bringing your device(s) to a protest" article that even mentions this.