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That parts of the internet are already busy being nasty about Dolly Parton of all people shows so starkly how much the snuffing out of any positive, kind, pro-social feeling has become a bedrock, load-bearing industry.
If they can’t totally monetize your heart, they’ll happily monetize rotting it.
As part of my visiting-professor deal, I’m going to be giving a few free public talks at LSE over the next few months.
We’re gonna call the first one “Against Fire and ICE: The Lifehouse as Community Defense,” precise venue and date TBD, and it will substantially retrace the arguments I’ve been making here and elsewhere about the dual and complementary uses to which an autonomous #mutualaid practice can be put. Stay tuned for details!
Here's another neat Bonfire feature: organisation profiles.
You can create a shared profile for your co-op, collective, project, or any other organisation or team, and invite trusted people to manage it with you.
Each team member signs in with their usual Bonfire account, with no insecure sharing of passwords, and together they can post as the organisation, access its feeds and private messages, manage its settings, and add or remove other members.
It’s similar to managing a Facebook Page, but built for the #fediverse: one shared public identity, securely managed by multiple people.
The US has declared Autistici/Inventati, an Italian anarchist hacker (in the classic sense of the term) collective, a terrorist organization. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616/
But what you really ought to read is this article about A/I's history, and what this means https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10083
I'm concerned that the US government is starting to identify decentralized media infrastructure as a threat to its survival. Repost information about this broadly, and if you have media contacts, inform them of counter-narratives; there could come a time where the fediverse, or any decentralized network infrastructure, is a target as well if we don't sound the alarms now.
@cwebber fun fact about noblogs.org is that (Wordpress) ActivityPub is one of the few pre-installed plugins.
So there are likely a good number of blogs already federating with this space
Analyse von Millionen Daten völlig Unbeteiligter: Wer alle Stellungnahmen zum Polizeiaufgabengesetz Thüringen #thurpag lesen möchte, hier entlang, sind unten verlinkt: https://www.ccc.de/updates/2026/polizeigesetzthueringen
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117168448817527128
BTW
you cannot give a newborn the #measles #vaccine. that’s why you need everybody caring for that newborn vaccinated.
And now I need to figure out how to move lecture videos off of the fucking terrible Zoom AI platform, write angry letters to admin people, write angry letters to the FCC, write angry letters to the FAA, catch up on a week of terrible emails that I only responded to the most urgent of.... and of course figure out how to get SpaceX to not destroy the atmosphere and Low Earth Orbit.
Gegenmacht: Universitäten gegen die Gefahr rechter Machtübernahme verteidigen
Sad that the successor project to Vim — a project which loudly encouraged its users to donate to a charity to help AIDS victims in Uganda — has become an advocate for white supremacy and ethnic cleansing. Just including the DHH endorsement could have been a mistake, but this seems quite explicit https://github.com/neovim/neovim.github.io/issues/501
A dashing Blue Dasher.
#photography #dragonflies #dragonfly #nature #insects #MacroPhotography #InsectPhotography
I'm Here
@rooster @mawhrin Both #eVi and #ClassicVim are being packaged.
A bunch of companies who stand to directly financially benefit from AI hype are hyping AI cyber attacks - which aren’t based on operational reality. Every organisation in this list is irresponsible, and clueless.
Panic Passes Trump Tariff Refunds Back to Playdate Customers https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/27/1641246/panic-passes-trump-tariff-refunds-back-to-playdate-customers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Interview: Over 160 million exploited workers are in the Belly of AI
"Artificial intelligence relies heavily on human labor — an army of data workers all over the world, primarily in the Global South."
"These workers are purposely hidden by the companies that produce AI because they are the secret ingredient of AI itself."
~Antonio Casilli
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/27/data_workers
#AI #dataCentres #USPol #EUPol #GlobalSouth #Racism #USImperialism #news .
I meowed at my cat. My windows were open and someone from the street heard and meowed back 😸
Secret Panel HERE 💦 https://tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/08/26/sweat-the-small-stuff
New by Sabot Media x We Will Free Us:
The U.S. government just put an antifascist communications collective on a terrorism blacklist.
For 25 years, Autistici/Inventati has built communications systems designed to survive censorship, surveillance, police raids and corporate interference. Now the state is attacking something harder to seize than a server: the financial and technological relationships that allow that infrastructure to exist.
Now that infrastructure itself is being treated as evidence of terrorism, and solidarity is turning into “material support.”
This isn't only an attack on A/I. It's a warning to anyone building servers, encrypted communications, independent publishing platforms and other infrastructure that makes organizing beyond state and corporate surveillance possible.
Please read and share. September 25th is approaching. Learn what is happening and don’t let the state write the only version of this story.
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