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Anarcho, GQ, Disabled, Parent... Living on occupied Patwin/Miwok/Nisenan land. Unreliably blogging at https://dakotaraine.xyz/

The tech collective behind NoBlogs.org and a host of other free online initiatives has announced that they are shutting down as a consequence of the US State Department designating them a "global terrorist." This represents a significant blow to online freedom. keepitfree.ai/announcement...

The day we discovered we had been designated a global terrorist organization, we promised that we would try to resist as long as this was possible, that we would not back down as long as we could see options to stand our ground. For years, we have proudly maintained and defended a free, privacy-friendly, autonomous and politically committed infrastructure. 

โ€œStay humanโ€ is not an empty phrase to us.

It means, above all, that we have a responsibility to protect our users, those who build the human networks we rely, and for the communities who flooded us with messages of support and solidarity.Now turn off your PCs, get out of your homes, struggle, hug each other and keep on smiling. We are stopping, but the Resistance and ideas do not stop. Stay human.

We will soon send instructions on how to back up the content of your blogs, mailboxes and websites, along with more technical recommendations. But keep in mind that, just as the autistici.org domain was made unreachable without previous notice, in the next few days we might suffer similar issues that we may not be able to predict.
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective@crimethinc.com ยท last wk.

US Government Designates Host of NoBlogs.org a โ€œGlobal Terroristโ€ crimethinc.com/noblogs Building on years of social media bans, the terrorist designation of Autistici/Inventati is another step towards state repression on the basis of ideology alone. This will not stop with anarchist projects.

US Government Designates Host of NoBlogs.org a โ€œGlobal Terroristโ€

Let's not forget that every single time a Hollywood movie uses the US military or their equipment the Military gets final say to make sure it is always in a positive light. And yeah aside from the usual glut of FPS/Milsim etc the US Army released an actual video game: America'sArmy

I promise you, if these features were as great and in demand as they are trying to say they are, THEY WOULD BE CHARGING US FOR IT. (And donโ€™t worry, when theyโ€™ve bullied everyone into using it, they will. The current price is just your information.)

I think the most frustrating part of the pro-AI argument is the sentiment of โ€œwell itโ€™s here to stay, so you have to learn it or get left behindโ€. Outside of video players which were determined by porn, most prevailing tech wins out by the consumer demand. AI is trying to work the other way around.

Sacramento man says attackers shouted anti-LGBTQ, racist slurs before beating him in Lavender Heights This is what happens when you let the Klan find safe ground in Sacramento! Chuds & neo-Nazi's will continue to escalate attacks against what they perceive as their Queer enemies. Queers bash back!

Sacramento man says attackers shouted anti-LGBTQ, racist slurs before beating him in Lavender Heights
This is what happens when you let the Klan find safe ground in Sacramento!
Chuds & neo-Nazi's will continue to escalate attacks against what they perceive as their Queer enemies.
Queers bash back!
Community Self-defense!
@eric.guerra

After witnessing the online fallout of episode 3 of #Lanterns ("OutKast"), this GIF is a great analogy for how I've seen white folks handle conversations about racism in America... Bailing the second they're required to be there, if not actively injecting their opinions when needing to listen. ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

hal ditches john

Alt: Hal Jordan says "I'll meet you there" to John Stewart (who's sitting in the passenger seat) before jumping out of a moving car, which then careens off of a cliff.

static.klipy.com

these kinds of things are only mind-blowing if you possess a nearly blind interpretation of the white supremacist & racial politics of US policy and the media landscape in the last 200 years. the US has and always will be a white supremacist, settler colonial nation. all of it has to go.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social ยท last wk.

Itโ€™s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

NEW: Police arrested video journalist and Unicorn Riot contributor River Akemann while he was documenting Enbridge Line 5 construction on August 24. He was monitoring fish in a creek where Enbridge lacks necessary authorization to install its pipeline. Full story at our website.

๐ŸšจHave you felt sick after handling Starbucksโ€™ silica-based blending powder? If you're a barista, reach out to us. If you're a Starbucks customer, we urge you to STOP BUYING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes union contracts with the protections and improvements we need.

In America you can spend decades give vocal and material support for gay, trans, Black, immigrant, and working class communities in the face of government indifference and malice towards them, but if you don't go on TV and say who you're voting for you get called neutral.

CNN@cnn.com ยท 2w ago

"At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the countryโ€™s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind," writes Zachary B. Wolf. | Analysis