Bonfire Social 1.0 is live! A federated, community‑first social network built on the modular Bonfire toolkit, and it’s only the beginning.

It's time to go beyond microblogging and build apps for community organising, open science, mutual aid, and collective decision‑making. Let's take back the internet with open protocols, consent‑based governance, and portability by design.

Back the “last migration” from closed platforms to open networks: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=FVxjqI1kLUOhHXxqyrS6-g

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This was inspired by a post that reached me as screenshot:

8. But it might not require Nazi terror for Europe to revert to default mode. We seem perfectly happy to vote or drift our way back to it. As the US might already have done. Once you vote for an autocrat, you might find it extremely hard to reverse the decision.

10. The freedoms we take for granted – political, economic, sexual, individual - were won through a combination of extraordinary struggle and extraordinary luck. There’s nothing “natural” or inevitable about them. They are in fact highly anomalous. And we won’t know what we’ve lost till it’s gone.

Good morning 💔
Today, while I was cooking over the fire, I realized how simple this is for some people… and how hard it is for us.
The heat was burning my face, the smoke getting into my eyes, and every time I tried to make the fire stronger, I could feel my hands burning.
There’s no gas, no kitchen… just two stones and a fire we try to use to make a meal to survive.

https://chuffed.org/project/maram

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #israel #genocide #famine #warCrimes #settlerColonialism #apartheid

Happy DyddDefaidodon to those celebrating!

We're crowdfunding the next phase, building community-governed social infrastructure beyond microblogging in cooperation with communities and teams:

- E2E Encryption with @swf
- Collective Moderation @iftas, @kissane
- Federated Groups & Events @kfitz, @klasse_methode
- Collective decision-making @s0hw
- Bluesky bridging @anewsocial
- Mutual Aid Networks @lynnfoster @bhaugen
- Cooperative Hosting @coopcloud @paulbutgold
- Native apps @pachli
- and more...

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=FVxjqI1kLUOhHXxqyrS6-g

Apple fined $261,000 for poisoning people.

(Apple made that money back in about 21.5 seconds.)

#BigTech #Apple #poisoning #fines #bullshit #regulation https://mastodon.social/@ashleygjovik/115505358966262169

Rampant violations against refugees, migrants in #Tunisia expose EU’s complicity risk #press

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/11/tunisia-rampant-violations-against-refugees-migrants-eu-risks-complicity/

📣 O projecto #STEXEU abriu um concurso para uma Bolsa de Investigação para Doutoramento!

Sob a supervisão de Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez, o/a bolseiro/a será responsável pelo caso italiano, centrando-se na crise da monarquia liberal e na ascensão e/ou consolidação do fascismo no período de 1900-1939.

📅 Prazo de candidatura: 28 de Novembro

👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/bid-stexeu-2025/

#Histodons #PoliticalHistory #Italy #PhDStudentship #PhDLife #Scholarship #BolsaDeDoutoramento #Italy #Itália #HistóriaPolítica

Oh good! Someone from the @racketlang community can weigh in on the benefits.

Oh wait…

Anyway, sooner or later the time for computable reals will come. I'm still HODLing stock in continued fractions (and teaching them every year to my first-year students).

Performing a test of #Mastodon v4.5.0 on #SmartOS...

#illumos

Cela touche aussi l’espace public :
Quand un seul cadre linguistique domine la production du savoir, ce sont aussi les récits, explications, références et analyses qui circulent dans le débat public qui s’en trouvent appauvris. (🧵 5/9)

Zeven jaar geleden toonde ik op basis van eigen onderzoek aan dat mannen aan Nederlandse universiteiten vaker cum laude promoveren (een subjectief oordeel) dan vrouwen.

Nu is er één universiteit gestopt met die onnodige praktijk: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/11/06/universiteit-twente-schrapt-mogelijkheid-tot-cum-laude-promoveren-vanwege-genderbias-a4912057

Now in detailed Black and White: The #Trump administration is blackmailing other countries to actively destroy the environment at the behest of the US oil industry. There is no sugarcoating it. Evil seems a fitting adjective. #MännerDieDieWeltVerbrennen