Sci-fi is is commentary on real world events. It’s only escapism to people who already have checked out anyway.
Huwaida’s a political prisoner. Abducted by Israel’s occupation forces from international waters for nonviolent direct action against a genocide. #FreeHuwaida
“Uncritical adoption of AI, will inevitably create people without critical thinking, and this may be a feature - not a bug, as it represents an attack on human agency itself.” — Angelos Arnis, in The infrastructure of meaninglessness
A guide for the America you got, not the one you want
If you’re in the U.S., potentially an activist on issues the regime is tetchy about, or just someone it thinks might be, a new resource by Activist Checklist called “Police at the Door” may prove to be one of the more important downloads you get today. Want a blog about it? Here’s a blog about it.
“This is going to be a big thing for the people in this room, because it’s the enemy from within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control.”
The White House has, in no uncertain terms, declared war on civilians inside the U.S. when the president addressed the nearly 800 military leaders in Pete’s Department of War and Discount Goods.
That’s where we are.
NPR, still existing for the time being, reports
The Taliban has virtually cut off everyone in the country from both the internet and mobile networks in the last couple of days. These moves generally come before something a regime desperately doesn’t want the world to see.
This is amazing, considering from where the Gaza flotilla project originally began in 2010: A group of activists with a simple idea, very complex in execution, to just keep sending boats to Gaza, which never should have been blocked to begin with. It was ignored, criticized, and even assaulted many times over the years. This is perseverance.
“Tip for Civil Society: Never Negotiate. Always make them do the bad thing. Don’t help them do it, but make their choice either: do something really bad, or nothing at all” —Alec Muffett
There’s no middle ground in privacy preserving software development, this is a good short post by Alec on that point.
Playing with micro.blog to see how it pings across the different federated platforms. This is a test. There may be more.