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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Migra! by Kelly Hernandez - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

If you want to learn about the viciously racist history of Border Patrol, I recommend Kelly Lytle Hernandez's "Migra!" It's really fascinating because Hernandez looks at the class and race implications of border patrol and who joined.
www.ucpress.edu/books/migra/...

time to re-up this again i guess

The hardest problem in Computer Science is doing your job while your neighbors are being abucted by masked thugs and executed in the street

A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

There are so many horrifying and touching photos, but this one (Stephen Maturen / Getty) feels like it tells an entire trilogy worth of stories. I hope this one and the lady with the broiler pan chest armor end up in museums.

Systerserver Town Systerserver.town is a feminist instance of the Mastodon network.

It exists: A feminist townsquare in the Fediverse. Learn more about it in the #cfc25 Workshop with Anne Roth, alienate and nora who run the mastodon instance systerserver.town and share their feminist perspective on the Fediverse.

A comparison table with two columns contrasting "Antisocial Tech" (left, in light blue) and "Prosocial Tech" (right, in light orange/yellow). The table has 5 rows comparing different aspects: Monetization: Antisocial tech operates as data brokers and advertising platforms, while prosocial tech operates as public services designed for the common good. Metrics: Antisocial tech uses indicators such as daily active users, clicks, and time on platform, while prosocial tech uses indicators such as user-reported satisfaction and intergroup communication. Data: Antisocial tech involves minimum privacy and maximizing data collection, while prosocial tech maximizes privacy, minimizes data collection, and employs Privacy by Design. Recommendation Systems: Antisocial tech amplifies highly emotional content, incentivizing outrage and divisive content, while prosocial tech amplifies trusted sources and incentivizes areas of agreement between groups. UX Design: Antisocial tech reduces human agency with manipulative design tricks to maximize user engagement and unintentionally undermines social cohesion, while prosocial tech maximizes human agency and control over user experience and is designed to enhance social cohesion.

What is “prosocial” tech besides the opposite of antisocial?

This blueprint lays it out pretty clearly: where antisocial tech often damages our social fabric and communities, prosocial tech aims to actively build up healthy digital ecosystems.

techandsocialcohesion.substack.com/p/from-harm-...

HAPPENING NOW: Rümeysa Öztürk appears remotely for her bail hearing in Vermont federal court! 🧵

BREAKING: jury awards massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group.

Precedent-setting win against notorious #Pegasus spyware maker.

Very consequential for victims to see this.

Congratulations to #WhatsApp on sticking this case through since 2019. Some thoughts 1/

Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts Department of Government Efficiency workers embedded in the Education Department have been processing sensitive agency data using artificial intelligence.

Representatives from Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service have fed sensitive data from across the Education Department into artificial intelligence software to probe the agency’s programs and spending, according to two people with knowledge of the DOGE team’s actions.

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

Most of the people reading this have a sense of how bad things are right now.

So for encouragement, here's a thread with examples of folks fighting back.

All applications for gender marker change are on hold while the State Department changes this policy.

Anyone who now submits an application for a change runs the risk of losing access to their passport and documents while their application is being processed.

1/ 🧵 I’ve been getting a lot of worried questions about the deluge of executive orders targeting trans people. I wanted to share my thoughts publicly, because I know this moment feels heavy. That's by design.

Embroidery helps, though

[tor-project] Tor Project + SEEKCommons Fellowship Opportunity Now Available for 2025! Hello, I'm writing to let you know that applications are now open for the second SEEKCommons Fellowship[1] cohort. The SEEKCommons Fellowship program is funded by NSF and run by partners at Universi...

Tor Project has a fellowship opportunity to research on FLOSS and environmental impact. The deadline is in Dec 15th. Please share it with your networks. forum.torproject.org/t/tor-projec...

🗓️ SAVE THE DATE: The next #Tor #relay operator meetup is this Saturday, December 7th at 19UTC! For the agenda and more info, check out the Tor Forum.
forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays...

Trans Activists Arrested For Occupying Bathroom Outside Mike Johnson's Office Teen Vogue was present as organizers were arrested from the women's bathroom across from Speaker Johnson's office.

Trans activists arrested for occupying bathroom outside Mike Johnson's office chanted: “Speaker Johnson, Nancy Mace: Our bodies are not a debate!”

Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/trans-...

A fun thing you can do is just tell your friends what music you’ve been listening to instead of doing free advertising for a surveillance capitalist artist exploitation machine

Tor y servicios onion Instala Tor y habilita onion services (servicios cebolla) para tus dominios en un click

🚀 The latest MaadiX update adds a surprise to all the tools you already have in your own cloud:

🧅 You can now install @torproject.org and enable onion services from your control panel.

Your anonymity and resistance to censorship is in your hands
maadix.net/es/tor-y-ser...

How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really? dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...

A technical deep-dive, since people have been asking me for my thoughts. I'll expand a bit on some of the key points here in a thread. 🧵

House GOP Moves to Ram Through Bill That Gives Trump Unilateral Power to Kill Nonprofits A bill to give Donald Trump power to kill nonprofits is still supported by dozens of Democrats — giving the GOP plenty of breathing room.

Time to go to bat again, folks. They're trying to ram the bill through that would allow the Dep't of Treasury to arbitrarily label a nonprofit a terrorist organization and strip it of its 501(c) status.

Can't emphasize enough that no evidence is required to do so.

theintercept.com/2024/11/15/n...

For every like I will post 1 UX fact

(I'm not doing a meme image for this, UX fact #0 is that content is more important than visuals)

A common thought by devs is "couldn't you make a social network using RSS" and we basically went... yeah let's try that premise with some tweaks

Shades of Helen Keller

Our friends at Tor Project need a hand this year. We supported them in the past, and we will do it again this year.

But if you care about privacy and value this project, you can help too by donating today: donate.torproject.org.

"Being back here makes me hot in the face
Hot blood in my pulsing veins
Heavy memories weighing on my brain
Hot and heavy in the basement of your parents' place
You used to be so sweet
Now you're a firecracker on a crowded street
Couldn't look away even if I wanted"

youtu.be/vGaVVOyiVag?...