De|Center

Secure Tech Cannot Be a Luxury Item Millions in crisis rely on ubiquitous tools that betray them: from social media to Starlink. The deeper shock comes when secure tools also exclude them through everyday hurdles like phone verification...

Millions in crisis rely on ubiquitous tools that betray them: from social media to Starlink. The deeper shock is when secure tools also exclude them through everyday hurdles like phone verification. In order to have real alternatives, we must reclaim hyper-accessibility. 🔐

For example, the reliance on phone numbers for verification/registration is a harmful relic that is still an industry standard that shuts many people out from the start. We spoke to people from Sudan, Gaza, and Iran who all echo the same frustration. 🔐#designfromthemargins #decenter

Secure Tech Cannot Be a Luxury Item Millions in crisis rely on ubiquitous tools that betray them: from social media to Starlink. The deeper shock comes when secure tools also exclude them through everyday hurdles like phone verification...

People in crisis (war, conflict, repression) are often forced to use the same tools that exploit them, which creates structural dependence by design. Afsaneh Rigot argues that we need to reclaim hyper-accessibility for the public good. 🔐 #dfm #decenter

Secure Tech Cannot Be a Luxury Item Millions in crisis rely on ubiquitous tools that betray them: from social media to Starlink. The deeper shock comes when secure tools also exclude them through everyday hurdles like phone verification...

Millions in crisis rely on ubiquitous tools that betray them: from social media to Starlink. The deeper shock is when secure tools also exclude them through everyday hurdles like phone verification. In order to have real alternatives, we must reclaim hyper-accessibility. 🔐

Alt text: A screenshot of an article excerpt reporting on Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s Evin prison, which killed 79 people and destroyed parts of the facility. The text states that about 100 transgender inmates are missing and presumed dead after their section of the prison was flattened. Reza Shafakhah, a human rights lawyer, says the Iranian government often treats being transgender as a crime. It also mentions the death of the prison’s chief prosecutor, Ali Ghanaatkar, and one of his deputies.

Israel bombed an Evin, an Iranian prison that housed dissidents and political prisoners. They ended up destroying the trans wing and murdering over 100 trans people incarcerated there, many for simply being queer in Iran.

This is unspeakable evil.

archive.ph/PA2n5

'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...

NEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.

Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:

Congress Gives ICE More Money Than It Could Have Ever Imagined It’s impossible to overstate how much power ICE just got from Trump’s budget.

Republicans just took away your healthcare so they can fund their secret police: newrepublic.com/post/197612/...

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

Report it now on 7or -The Palestinian Observatory of Digital Rights Violations
🔗 7or.7amleh.org

bsky.app/profile/thed...

bsky.app/profile/thed...

Israel’s genocide in Gaza. War in Lebanon. Now Iran — as the US circles in.
AI weapons fuel this — tested on Gazans, expanded to Iran, used by ICE. Powered by companies like Palantir & OpenAI.

It’s a war on us all!

#STOPTHEWAR
#NoTechForApartheid #NoTechForICE
Photo @alexshams.bsky.social

Parnia Abbasi (2002-2025) Translated by Ghazal MosadeqA poem by a young Iranian poet Parnia Abbasi who, along with her family, all civilians, was killed today in a brutal and unlawful Israeli attack in the Sattarkhan neighbour...

“A poem by a young Iranian poet Parnia Abbasi who, along with her family, all civilians, was killed today in a brutal and unlawful Israeli attack in the Sattarkhan neighbourhood of Tehran.”

www.pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-...

“the world needs more courage, not less. It needs people who choose justice over convenience.
[…]

Loving you is not separate from the struggle for liberation. It is liberation itself. I fight for you, and for every Palestinian child whose life deserves safety, tenderness and freedom.”

3 Things to Know About Prison Violence Against Transgender People Key takeaways from our story about one trans woman’s legal battle for accountability.

About 2,000 transgender people are incarcerated in federal prisons, according to the Bureau of Prisons — a tiny fraction of the federal prison population. But they are disproportionately targeted for abuse and assault.

🧵 Amnesty International’s analysis of satellite imagery and verification of video footage reveals how Israeli forces completely razed what remained of the town of Khuza’a in the southern occupied Gaza Strip over the course of two weeks in May 2025.

Parnia Abbasi (2002-2025) Translated by Ghazal MosadeqA poem by a young Iranian poet Parnia Abbasi who, along with her family, all civilians, was killed today in a brutal and unlawful Israeli attack in the Sattarkhan neighbour...

“A poem by a young Iranian poet Parnia Abbasi who, along with her family, all civilians, was killed today in a brutal and unlawful Israeli attack in the Sattarkhan neighbourhood of Tehran.”

www.pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-...

The De|Center The De|Center is the home of the Design from the Margins methodology. Our occasional newsletter, hosted on Ghost, provides analysis, snippets of our research, and updates on our work and that of other...

You can sign up to our newsletter here and support our work. the-decenter.ghost.io
#AbolishICE #FreePalestine #IranUnderAttack #FreeSudan #Queerliberation 🔏 3/3

How to Ensure Tech Does Not Reproduce Our Worst Selves: Meet the Decentered Identifying decentered communities is not a niche concern, but a method for uncovering how systemic violence operates.

Whether it’s military invasions or oppression on the streets, control expands under the guise of “national security” or policies of “risk”, first tested on the margins. Connect the dots and stop it where it starts. 🔏 Our latest: 2/3

Our struggles are connected: Palestinians, migrants in LA, families in Tehran, queer folks in Cairo, or Sudanese refugees. The decentered are policed, surveilled, criminalized. Same tools. Same logic. Different uniforms. Identify the decentered, expose the system, break its power. 🔏 1/3

How to Ensure Tech Does Not Reproduce Our Worst Selves: Meet the Decentered Identifying decentered communities is not a niche concern, but a method for uncovering how systemic violence operates.

From a queer person in Cairo to a Latino man in LA, the decentered are groups that are marginalized — and then also criminalized — for their mere existence. In our upcoming report, we speak to the decentered from all over the world, and the language of experimentation colors what many of them say. 🔐

$45 billion for adult and family detention. That would be enough to detain 100,000 people at a time, perhaps more. The New York Times reported in early April that ICE had already requested proposals from contractors who run detention facilities. Add another $3 billion for the Office of Refugee Resettlement to hold migrant children who arrive unaccompanied. How much is that combined $48 billion? Adjusted for inflation, it would be: Enough to cancel the debt of 1,240,814 student loan holders ( averaging $38,375 each). A generous estimate of what it would cost to end U.S. homelessness for 19 months ($30 billion per year). 1.6 times the global revenue of the entire music industry in 2024 ($29.6 billion in 2024 dollars). More than enough to build a new stadium for all 30 Major League Baseball teams (the Oakland As’ new stadium in Las Vegas is expected to cost $1.5 billion). More than Netflix’s forecast worldwide revenue from its 300 million-plus subscribers in 2025 ($43.5 to $44.5 billion). ICE’s detention budget in 2024 totaled $3.43 billion to hold 41,500 people at a time. This bill would quadruple that capacity,

Second, the Bill sets the stage for massive privatized, for-profit concentration camps. It will quadruple the capacity of ICE to detain people--giving it capacity to detain, in for-profit arrangements where corporations make money per person per day, at least 100,000 more people.

Too often, communities impacted by AI are left out of conversations that shape its design and deployment. Tomorrow, May 20, join us for a webinar on how participatory practices can change that + how PAI’s Guidance for Inclusive AI can help.

Register: partnershiponai-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📣The full agenda for the Palestine Digital Activism Forum 2025!
Register now for online attendance: events.ringcentral.com/events/pdaf-...
#PDAF #PDAF2025

بمناسبة اليوم العالمي لمناهضة رهاب المثلية الجنسية، ازدواجية الميل الجنسي، والعبور الجنسي أو الجندري، "ايداهوبت"، يسرّنا أن نُقدّم لكم دليل لووم سوانا الجديد والفعّال لمجتمعات الميم عين.
اقرأ/ي وحمل/ي الكتيب من هنا: loomswana.org/ar/safetygui...