karenm @karenm@librem.one

SPECIAL 4️⃣2️⃣ DATE

Today is day 30 of month 12

As all humans know, 30 + 12 = 42

The current year is 2022

And 20 + 22 = 42

The last time this occurred was 30 December 1923 – long before #DouglasAdams was born

The next time it'll happen will be 30 December 2121 – so this is a momentous, one-off day in our lives

Perhaps today someone on this planet of ours will FINALLY understand life, the universe and everything..! 😎🌍

#FortyTwo #TheAnswer
#Life #Universe #Everything #HitchhikersGuide #SciFi

A Reporters Without Borders report says the last two decades have been 'especially deadly' for journalists.
Nearly 1,700 journalists killed over past 20 years: RSF

They really go out of their way to avoid giving homeless people housing.

RT @GeordieTallBear@twitter.com

I don't have words.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GeordieTallBear/status/1606054020103262222

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin speaks in various recordings in this video over ambient peaceful percussion and string instruments.

If you're going to beat back racism, the feds are not going to help you do it. And the civil rights laws in this country are not functional. They are not functional. And they are not meant to be functional. They've been functional in terms of creating a Black middle class in this country. But they are not functional when it comes to beating back white supremacy, violent white racism. They are not functional for that. That requires a mass movement.

The climate is beset. With the economic inequality. The increase of that. With the building of prisons. With the limitless acts of police terrorism. All of these things are being allowed to happen by those in authority. It's really important to understand that. That's why we can't get fooled by this thing about the good cops. The good cops. Well, the good cops are the ones letting the so-called bad cops do the dirt.

The conditions for this kind of terrorism and this racism is not an accident. It's not a result of someones bad thinking. Or some ideas some white folks had. it's not a question of that. This government is the criminal that allows this to go on. We are not getting reforms. We are not going to get the kind of reforms that is going to deal with racism in this system. This government needs to be toppled, dismantled and destroyed.

If you look at this just in terms of the color of somebody's skin alone. And not attach an understanding to that about the nature of the state and of capital. And how they use race as a divider and class as a divider and rule over all of us with an iron fist. Unless you do this you will turn and attack the wrong folks. You will think the state is on your side or the state is impartial. The government isn't impartial.

And my understanding of government and state has nothing to do with protecting a so-called lifestyle. I'm not trying to protect my lifestyle. I'm trying to protect my damn life. And that's a big difference because the state is the biggest killer, biggest oppressor, of all.

I mean throughout history, with wars and pogroms and mass murders of one sort or another. You can just point to it, at any point in history and you can see where these killers have perpetrated their acts of violence.

When you've got that many people that are in prison. The state has declared war on the youth. You have to understand that. The state has declared war on the youth, and especially, the Black youth.

And to them it's a national security matter. Because they know that the youth can rise up. And if they were politically motivated, overthrow this system. they know this because they had the experience of the Black Panther Party of The 1960's.

And regardless of whatever errors the Black Panther Party made, it proved decisively that the most despised sector, the working class, and specifically the Black working class, they have figured out that the most despised sector is capable of revolution. Of becoming a motive force for revolution.

Malcom X said if you want action, you gotta wake the people up. And I would say you not only need to wake the people up. You gotta get over there and help them mobilize and build autonomous formations in their communities.

#LorenzoKomBoaErvin #Anarchism #BlackRevolution #BlackRevolutionary #BlackAnarchists #BlackAnarchism #BlackAutonomyFederation #WarOnYouth #ClassWar #YouthLiberation #BlackPower #BlackLivesMatter #Anarchy #Anarchist #Abolition #Abolitionist #Abolish #SmashTheState

I wrote a zine that fuses pop culture with OpSec and uses the series #Andor to discuss security culture. Obviously it's full of spoilers, so you'll have to just read it yourself and maybe learn you some practical skills

https://opsec.riotmedicine.net/downloads/

How does "average user" hostility manifest itself in an app?

Let's look at why I decided to delete my Facebook account.

I woke up one morning. Checked my Facebook feed. What did I see?

A live broadcast of Muslims getting murdered over in New Zealand.

I did not consent to see this.

Yet, Facebook decided it was relevant to me, and that it should auto-play.

From that moment, I decided that I would never use a Meta product ever again.

this is my favorite type of stuff to find

a) Kropotkin didn't want his portrait in a publication, he wanted an oil sketch of his cat instead, per his last letter give him back the sketch of his cat

and

b)he rode a penny farthing bike, was an accomplished shot, and taught kids how to build barricades

My analysis of LastPass (correct me if I'm wrong): if your master LastPass password is unique to that site, you are likely safe, but if it's one that you've reused on other sites (check http://haveibeenpwned.com), then you should be very worried.

Wwwwhhhhhhaaaatttt? It's #FTPFriday! #FTP #ACAB

Actually cannot believe this. After 13 years, Sony/BMG have decided to take down Rick Astley's "Never gunna give you up" due to a dispute with Youtube over ad royalties.

It's completely blocked globally. Actual end of an era.

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Kurdish Protesters Clash with Police after Paris Shooting

#France #Kurdistan #PKK

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2022/12/23/kurdish-protesters-clash-with-police-after-paris-shooting/

Gotta love tech journalists who describe Mastodon as "that impossible-to-use website." First of all, it's an app. C'mon. Second of all, aren't these the same people who write breathless explainers about the wonder of cryptocurrencies, which are not only impossible to understand but literally built from bullshit?

The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.

The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.

People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.

If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/

RT @RightWingWatch@twitter.com

When Nick Fuentes claimed to be an "incel" last winter it was a head-scratching moment. But a some digging shows why: Fuentes is recruiting incels and misogynists to his America First movement.
RWW's @k2doe@twitter.com reports for @MotherJones@twitter.com https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/12/hate-leader-nick-fuentes-is-recruiting-incels/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1605949273589309441

RT @AKPressDistro@twitter.com

On this day in 1919, 249 "undesirables" were deported on the USS Buford cargo ship. Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman were among them, rounded up in the nation's first "Red Scare." Then, as today, the lesson was: abolish borders and the states that make them!

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AKPressDistro/status/1605650977654247435

You know you can probably just buy an electronic road sign trailer and park it anywhere and just have it flash "spank me" to traffic I mean there's no way there's a law against that right

The reviews of #Twitter on Glassdoor are tough to read. It absolutely sucks to watch something you built and loved get systematically destroyed like this.

As promised, some Fediverse app hotness.

My team is building #GreatApe, a social audio & video that federates through #ActivityPub (not production ready).

Here's a test that @reiver did.

How do you like our unique comic book theme?

And what do you think we're planning to do with this?

February 13th 1921 Fanya Baron stepped out of a Bolshevik prison dirty, unkempt, starved, and beaten.

She along with her husband Aron and five other anarchists moved to their mournful task of carrying Pyotr Kropotkin’s casket to its final resting place in Novodevichy Cemetery.

Five days earlier Kropotkin had died. Returning to his home country as a result of the February Revolution after a long exile , he arrived only to see the dreams of revolution crushed by the brutality of the Bolsheviks.

His funeral would be the last “legal” anarchist event in Russian for sixty seven years. In Moscow at the news of his death anarchists set immediately to organize his funeral procession.

The movement in Russia had been experiencing intense repression from the Bolsheviks for a number of years and one of their immediate demands was the release of their comrades in the Moscow gulags to attend the procession. Their initial appeals were met with refusal, so they escalated.

Two days before the funeral a black banner reading “Freedom to imprisoned anarchists who fight for the ideas of Kropotkin-Anarchy” was placed at the Moscow Hall of Commons. The Cheka demanded it be removed, which it was, for a short time. Then right back up it went now accompanied by guards with Zora Gandlevskaya holding one of the poles. Chekists began bad faith negotiations and demanded anarchists give themselves as hostages if the paroles were to flee.
Universities began to compile names of anarchists students willing to take their place, to which Chekists then claimed they couldn’t find a single anarchist to release as their gulags only held “bandits.”

The ever trickling and mounting anarchist presence in Moscow was beginning to shift Cheka perception on how much they would be able to avoid mass revolt and riot if they continued to deny the request for parole.

When Alexandra Kropotkin announced she supported the anarchist organized Funeral Commissions’ threat to demonstratively remove the wreaths and flags of Russian Communist Party from the procession, they relented and released seven to attend.

Aron and Fanya Baron, Aleksandr Guevsky, David Kogan, Mark Mrachny, Aleksey Olonetsky, and Olga Taratuta would leave prison and be taken to the House of Unions where Kropotkin’s casket lay, met by cheers from the immense crowd of over 50,000 people.

The procession left, carrying the man to his final resting place. Black flags and banners trailed them emblazoned with white words. “There is no power more villainous than power over people!” “Where there is power there is violence!” The last of the funeral speeches came from Aron Baron who cried out defiant till the last against the Red Terror who trampled revolution under their boots and worked as butchers in their cellars and dungeons.

The next day a little after noon they returned to their prisons.

RT @oneunderscore__@twitter.com

Texts from an unknown sender, from discovery in the Elon Musk/Twitter suit months ago.

Pretty remarkable to read after these suspensions of journalists tonight.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1603555294592008192