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@njc.bsky.social

archivist, armchair pataphysicist, de-enshittifier extremely offline

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Incredibly proud of this collaboration to better protect us & our histories!

It’s a dream come true to put nearly a decade’s worth of community co-research into action & share our harm reduction tools with the world!

I live for de-enshittifying our little corner of the web.

#MoveSlowAndFixThings

15.10.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Vampires! A Primer Podcast Episode Β· WHAT WENT WRONG Β· Ep155 Bonus Β· 19m

Good, but missing

Ariane Louis-Seize’s ⚰️Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

Jarmusch’s πŸ§›β€β™€οΈOnly Lovers Left Alive

Ana Lily Amirpour’sπŸ¦‡A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

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watercolored drawing of a young Jane Goodall holding a young chimp

watercolored drawing of a young Jane Goodall holding a young chimp

04.10.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2361    πŸ” 463    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 3
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β€œBlue Bonds are the good version of Trump's beloved shitcoins…Blue Bonds are a source of public prosperity, backed by a present or future Fed under democratic control, accountable to the people.”
- @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
Cory Doctorow

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04.10.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."

– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

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The Real Reason the Economy Might Collapse | Robert Reich
Robert Reich The Real Reason the Economy Might Collapse | Robert Reich

The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend.

This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending.

Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared

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Nixon's resignation letter.

Nixon's resignation letter.

Fifty-one years ago today.

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Lea, who holds a Ph.D. in cryptography and serves on the USENIX board, will discuss designing systems that make doing the right thing easy. See more about the session here: www.usenix.org/conference/u...

10.08.2025 03:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

From ransomware to state-sponsored actors, security is deeply entangled with people, systems, and incentives. The key lesson is that security isn't just about fixing bugs, but about understanding motivations and building alliances. 2/3

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"The share feature creates a predictably formatted link which allowed people to search Google for the indexed material."

I'm old enough to remember when people got criminally prosecuted as hackers under the CFAA for this exact behavior.

06.08.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
DuckDuckGo AI Chat at DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

Big fan of duckduckgo.com?q=DuckDuckGo...

07.08.2025 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are concerts and plays happening. Pride parties. People who live in DTLA (80k+) and people out at bars and restaurants in Downtown L.A.

09.06.2025 05:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1218    πŸ” 360    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 8

ICE activity is happening across the country, and will likely draw protests in many places. Trump is authorizing military deployment nationwide, regardless of whether protests involve violence *or are even happening yet.* 14/19

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The Posse Comitatus Act Explained The law generally prevents the president from using the military as a domestic police force.

Moreover, the line between military and civilian government is one of the most critical protections for democracy. An army turned inward can quickly become an instrument of tyranny. That’s why domestic deployment should be an absolute last resort. 11/19 www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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Civil unrest should be handled by civilian law enforcement except in the most extreme situations. Soldiers are trained to fight and destroy an enemy; they aren’t trained to safely handle and deescalate civil unrest situations. 10/19 www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

08.06.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 557    πŸ” 111    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 5

The memorandum says that the Guard will be protecting ICE personnel and federal property. As a practical matter, this will almost certainly involve serving basic police functions, such as physical crowd control, that the military normally isn’t allowed to perform. 9/19

08.06.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 493    πŸ” 85    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

But it would be a mistake to focus too much on which statutory power is being used here. What matters it that Trump is federalizing the Guard for the purpose of policing Americans’ protest activity. That’s dangerous for both public safety and democracy. 8/19

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Trump is instead relying on a statute, 10 USC 12406, that allows the president to federalize the Guard when there is a rebellion against the authority of the U.S. government or when β€œthe President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.” 6/19

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The Insurrection Act Explained The law, which lets the president deploy the military domestically and use it for civilian law enforcement, is dangerously vague and in urgent need of reform.

Ordinarily using federal troops (including federalized National Guard forces) to suppress civil unrest would be illegal under the Posse Comitatus Act. But Congress can legislate exceptions. The relevant exception here is the Insurrection Act. 4/19 www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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That’s alarming enough. But Trump has also authorized deployment of troops anywhere in the country where protests against ICE are occurring or are likely to occur, even if they are entirely peaceful. That is unprecedented and a clear abuse of the law. 2/19

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If you are planning to peacefully protest, take heed…a thread.

08.06.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œIf we allow our tech competitors all over the world to reverse engineer/erode the high monopoly rents extracted by these American tech firms, we do something very effective in this trade war because the only thing keeping the SMP500 afloat are these tech monopolists." @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy

02.03.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We’re looking for a Senior Campaign Director! Know someone who’s a good fit or could spread word? Tag them in the comments! πŸ‘‡

26.02.2025 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Two of the most impactful and powerful resources you have available to you are your attention and endurance. Allocate them wisely.

Understand there are immediate, mid, and long-term goals. Do not conflate every action into one, and also remain focused on the bigger picture.

25.02.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 339    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3
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Human Rights Can Be the Spark of AI Innovationβ€”Not Stifle It | TechPolicy.Press For too long, β€œinnovation” has been used as an excuse to sideline trust, safety, and user rights, writes shirin anlen.

The notion that a human rights-centered approach hinders progress is a dangerous fallacy. For too long, β€œinnovation” has been used as an excuse to sideline trust, safety, and user rights, writes shirin anlen.

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A Signal Update Fends Off a Phishing Technique Used in Russian Espionage Google warns that hackers tied to Russia are tricking Ukrainian soldiers with fake QR codes for Signal group invites that let spies steal their messages. Signal has pushed out new safeguards.

www.wired.com/story/russia...

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#OtD 19 Feb 1896, AndrΓ© Breton, anarchist, antifascist and founder of surrealism, was born. More information and sources: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9082/birth-of-andre-breton

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Nostr vs. Fediverse vs. Bluesky: A Comparison of Decentralized Social Protocols | Soapbox While all three protocols aim to decentralize social media, they differ in their approach to decentralization, user identity control, and censorship resistance.

Comparison at a very high level between Bluesky, ActivityPub (fediverse), and Nostr

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Cloudflare Issue Can Leak Chat App Users' Broad Location A security researcher made a tool that let them quickly check which of Cloudflare's data centers had cached an image, which allowed them to figure out what city a Discord, Signal, or Twitter/X user mi...

A bug in Cloudflare (and just the nature of how CDNs work) let an attacker learn the broad location of Discord, Signal, Twitter users by just sending them an image, according to a security researcher. It works because check which data center cached the image www.404media.co/cloudflare-i...

21.01.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2421    πŸ” 653    πŸ’¬ 98    πŸ“Œ 37
Bay Area Punk Rock The ultimate Bay Area punk rock resource. Past show database, message boards, articles, etc.

schlong

Also, this site pulls from Koepke’s Lists - you can see show by year/venue/band.

bayareapunk.com

Meh ux but most comprehensive bay punk archive I’ve seen. Rad to go back and see all the shows I went to (and missed).

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