Alexander Zimmerman

Are you hydrating? Checking in with your neighbors? Have you watched Children of Men lately?

If you ever needed a reason to stop using Instagram, forced “ad breaks” are it.

The hand-drawn cover of this guide, titled "How to Make Your Phone Permissions Spark Joy" and subtitled "or, How To Protect Your Phone From Invasive Default Permissions." A tall screen in the background shows slides.

The folks at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society brought pocket-sized zines with coaching about phone app permissions to #MozFest. Love this work. asml.cyber.harvard.edu/permissions-...

"Visibility without solidarity is just surveillance" 🔥

- Elijah MacKinnon at the "Unlearning Cisnormativity: Trans Justice is Tech Justice" emergent Mozilla Festival session

#mozfest #mozillafestival #trans #visibility #solidarity #surveillance

Surprise #MozFest panel -- we're having a session on the main stage called "Unlearning Cisnormativity: Trans Justice is Tech Justice" at 12:15 PM CET, right after @xychelsea.tv's talk.

Featuring Veronyka Gimenes, @schock.cc, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, and myself.

www.mozillafestival.org/en/

Imagination is resistance, @ruha9.bsky.social reminds us that, " we need to reject the gospel that says technology is inevitable, that the train has left the station... In an error of automated bullshit, it’s time to become bullshit detectors,"
#MozFest

Things #Mozfest does really well:
* inclusion (e.g. pronouns stickers)
* safety (e.g. lanyards to signal that you don’t want to be photographed)
* plenty of time and space to mingle and network
* easy discovery of the unexpected
* content mixed with art

Three Moves to Stop Broligarchy (Break, Build, Enforce) by
Cori Crider and Robin Berjon
mzf.st/15

hands down one of the most refreshing talks at MozFest

Mural with a white and blue background, there is large yellow text of the Catalan phrase: "El Barri És Casa"

An older street poster for a 15 October "Vaga General"

At night, the lit up welcoming doorway and windows of La Raposa. Bar vegà & Llibreria.

A sign at the entrance to La Raposa - Bar vegà & Llibreria. It reads: "Atenció. No entreu amb signes de Sionisme, racisme, capacitisme, especisme, lesbofobia, transfobia, plumofobia, gordofobia. Aquest Establiment Condemna el Genocidi a Gaza!

Around Barcelona - Part 3

#Barcelona #BCN #walking

Missed Alt Text on 4th image: street art of a large blue cat, mouth wide baring fangs, its mouth red

Street art on either side of an open, curtained door of a dark haired woman

Street art of an older, beret wearing white bearded, older man

Street art, a bit tattered, of blonde haired woman

Around Barcelona - Part 2

#Barcelona #BCN #walking #streetart #art

A surveillance camera with a sticker on it that reads: "Do you know what this is doing?"

At night, on a quiet street, atop a garbage bin, a bottle of scotch

An exercise bike, mounted to the cement of an open public area, for anyone to use.

A sign in a public area showing a football / soccer ball with a red line through it. The sign reads: "prohibit jugar a pilota"

Around Barcelona - Part 1

#Barcelona #BCN #walking

"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born." - Antonio Gramsci

What's a goon to a goblin? - Lil' Wayne

Gramsci mentioned, followed by Lil Wayne in opening from Nabiha Syed #MozFest

Got to hear the always inspiring @francescabria.bsky.social talk a bit on this at #DecidimFest this week.

We got our work cut out for us for sure!!

Photo of the panel on digital sovereignty with a slide behind them with info on the speakers: Pamela Krosta-Hartl (Zendis) - Zentrum Digitale Souveränität (could not attend) Alberto Gago Fernández (Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence) - Director of the Office Digital Spain 2030 and Internationalization Francesca Bria innovation economist and digital policy expert (UCL IIPP) - EuroStack Virgile Deville - co-founder and former CPO of Open Source Politics Moderated by: Renata Ávila (Open Knowledge Foundation) - Directora ejecutiva de Open Knowledge Foundation

Great panel on digital sovereignty at #decidimfest with @francescabria.bsky.social : "we cannot build apps empowering popular sovereignty on top of critical infrastructure that is weaponized against democracy"

"It’s a self-reinforcing loop:
Ideology fuels venture capital → capital captures the state → the state feeds the same private systems that built it. A new model of power — privatized sovereignty."

The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

"Unlike old authoritarianism built on fear and force, this new system rules through code, capital, and infrastructure — making resistance feel architecturally impossible."

www.authoritarian-stack.info

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as “a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,”

Migrating to Blacksky PDS: Complete Guide | Blacksky Documentation Complete guide to migrating your Bluesky account to Blacksky's infrastructure. Covers migration tools, step-by-step instructions, troubleshooting, and how to use Blacksky services without migrating.

And... I'm out of #Bluesky and into #Blacksky.
What you waiting for?
It's quick, easy, and good!

#communalinfrastructure #mutualaid

docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...

Calling all passionates about participatory democracy, technology & the commons!🍿

Come to the #DecidimFest25: Building Technology as a Public Good, held November 4–6, 2025, in Canòdrom, in collaboration w/ the BCN City Council & the Diputació de Barcelona

Tickets:
meta.decidim.org/conferences/...

Organizing a revolution: Tech for collective power Around the world, uprisings have erupted in which technology has played a crucial role, first by spreading outrage, and then by mobilizing a response in the streets. Some of these popular uprisings h…

And there’s more! The outputs from this session will be presented at #MozFest on Friday, 7 Nov, during a session dedicated to Activism & Tech, where experts & leading voices will reflect on how technology can enable grassroots participation and empower communities to self-organize.

🔗 mzf.st/YNG9V7

Hacking Participation: Bringing Decidim Closer to Social Movements - Metadecidim Decidim faces a new challenge: how can the platform also empower organisations and social movements driving change? In this hands-on session, we will explore in groups functionalities that must be add...

Ready to explore how #digital platforms can drive #socialchange?

Communities worldwide are leveraging online platforms to make collective decisions, & drive meaningful change. An example comes from #Nepal, where #GenZ used the #Discord platform to organize debates and decision-making processes.

You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.

NEW: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document 404 Media obtained. Photos taken by the app are stored for 15 years, including of U.S. citizens. We've published the full document here: www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

As a microcosmic illustration of how the carceral state and capitalism support each other, this is pretty hamfisted.

A scratchy black and white pen style digital illustration with a pastel pink, blue and purple fuzzy background. Centered is the drawings and words, encapsulated by black. At the top of the center graphic are two cats lying bottom to bottom, their tails curled upwards together to make a circle with an A in it. The cats are each reading a book. Atop each cat is a lounging rat, leaning on the cat tail Circle A. The left rat reads a zine, the right rat reads a book. Below these characters are words in the same scratchy black pen style, bold block but slightly wiggly letters: Boston Anarchist Book Fair 2025 November 1 & 2.

Save the dates!!! ❤️🖤
2025 Boston Anarchist Book Fair
November 1st & 2nd
Cambridge Community Center

Stay tuned for more info! 🏴
Artwork by our newest collective member Sam Pao 😸

Folks in the Portland area interested in these issues, see: @portcruisecontrol.bsky.social

"The cruise industry came in with promises of revitalization, but what it left was pollution, congestion, and a city that no longer felt like it belonged to the people who built it."

#Maine #TheWayLifeShouldBe

Mozilla Festival 2025 is Nov 7-9 in Barcelona w/ 500+ session hosts, 200+ experiences, talks, labs, forums, film screenings, & installations.

Keynotes @xychelsea.tv @audreyt.org @ruha9.bsky.social

If you haven't gotten your festival badge, use code MOZSEHER 🎟️ @mozilla.org www.mozillafestival.org

Starting in Milan, in 73, revolutionary groups would mass up, go into supermarkets and chase out the bosses/security, get on the loudspeaker and declare everything free. They would then make revolutionary speeches while shoppers gleefully enjoyed the discount. They called this "proletariat shopping"

Please support this great project from a fantastic writer @batallonbakunin.bsky.social