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“If people can’t trust that the data they are giving the government will be protected, (and believe) that it will be used for things other than what they gave it for, it will lead to a crisis of trust,” EFF’s Mario Trujillo told @newyorktimes https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

🔔 Join us for a conversation about the Trump administration's attacks on broadcast licensees and nonprofits, featuring FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, Elias Law Group political law Chair Ezra Reese, and FPF's Caitlin Vogus.

🗓️ June 9, 2 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. PDT

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Privacy is Calling You, Will You Answer?—Looking for a smartphone and service that puts you in control of your data, privacy, and security?

Try the Librem 5 paired with Librem AweSIM, powered by PureOS—a fully open-source OS.

Buy here: https://puri.sm/products/librem-awesim/

I haven't customized the shop yet, but two of these are already up on Threadless for those interested. https://mcfadden.threadless.com/

Some ideas for an updated Massachusetts flag. https://www.patreon.com/c/BrianMcFadden

Born in 1814, Mikhail Bakunin was a Russian revolutionary and key anarchist thinker. Trained as a soldier, he turned to radical politics and spent his life opposing the state, organized religion, and authoritarian socialism. Exiled and imprisoned across Europe, he fought for workers’ liberation and collective freedom.

The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader is long out-of-print, but you can still order a signed, sketched copy directly from me.

https://tomdbug.wpcomstaging.com/tom-the-dancing-bug-store/#signed-books

Lawmakers don't need to risk criminalizing journalism to outlaw stalking and harassment.

Good for the New England First Amendment Coalition and the Rhode Island Press Association for speaking up about the problems with this legislation.

https://www.nefac.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/h5655_nefac_ripa.pdf

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:

Dropping federal oversight programs into police reform means journalists are left to the policies and reform measures — if any — at the state and local level.

This and more updates in our Tracker newsletter from managing editor Kirstin McCudden:

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/protecting-journalism-without-federal-police-reforms/

Chaos on German autobahns as Google Maps wrongly says they are closed - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/30/chaos-on-german-autobahns-as-google-maps-wrongly-says-they-are-closed "Drivers using the navigation app confronted with mass of red dots indicating stop signs" there's a moral here... #germany #google

Your guide to Cryptogate, Trump’s $4 billion corruption scandal that’s 10 times bigger than Watergate | Will Bunch
https://share.inquirer.com/BdAFY7

"That shift explains why Massachusetts remains a global center of education today. Even as late as World War II, the phenomenon was still regional, anchored on the East Coast, but its logic was already spreading. After the war, the credential became national. You could swing a hammer without a degree. But if you were expected to think, Harvard, or someplace like it, had to give you permission first."

This ☝️ is the worst thing about working manual labor jobs, imho.

Hi again folks 👋

As some of you may have noticed, we're experiencing another spam wave. Although a content reporting feature was merged into Forgejo very recently (https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/6977 🎉 ), they didn't make it to Codeberg like some other improvements.

Here's how you can help for now: Just tag @moderation in a reply (or e-mail moderation@codeberg.org), and we will get around to removing all of an account's issues.

Bullshit and fraud are the Trump regime's touchstones, so it's not even a tiny surprise to learn that RFKjr's "Make America Healthy Again” report cites bogus "studies" and lies about real ones.

Fine reporting from Notus, a news site you probably hadn't heard about.

https://www.notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report-citation-errors

Ok #Fediverse: if I was keen to set up an Aotearoa-based tech services #cooperative, what coop models would people suggest I look at - looking for good descriptions of how they'd be set up, especially to recognise the contributions of those involved. All insights appreciated!

The difficult truth is that since the Microsoft takeover, GitHub has evolved into a near-totally automated vast human labour exploitation apparatus, that holds coders to ransom through their legacies and professional dependence upon it. They built up coder morale and buy-in on the back of a rhetoric and culture of openness and collaboration (and great tooling) only to quietly work to implement the very machinery that ultimately threatens that same culture, its openness and warmth.

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“The idea that the police are actively tracking the location of women they believe have had self administered abortions under the guise of ‘safety’ does not make me feel any better about this kind of surveillance,” EFF’s @evacide told @404mediaco. https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/

“I may be free from Angola, but Angola will never be free of me.”
Happy early birthday to Robert King of the Angola Three. King spent 31 years in prison—29 in solitary—for a crime he didn’t commit. Since his release in 2001, he’s been a powerful voice against the prison industrial complex and for the freedom of all political prisoners. Check out King’s autobiography, From the Bottom of the Heap, here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=506

Five years ago today, after Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd, demonstrators forced them to abandon the Third Precinct and set it on fire—a profound act of solidarity and faith in the possibility of social change.

This account describes how they did it:

https://crimethinc.com/thirdprecinct

Not long after, a Newsweek poll found that fully 54% of those questioned believed the burning of the Minneapolis Police Precinct was justified after George Floyd’s killing.

At that time, Joe Biden was polling around 46% and Donald Trump at 38%.

Never let them tell you resistance can't be popular.

What connects a Mohawk kid diving into the river at Kanehsatake with Palestinian boys leaping into the Mediterranean in Acre?

Joy.
Freedom.
Resistance.

This short scene from our upcoming film A Red Road to the West Bank draws a line between two colonized lands, two childhoods, and one shared spirit: claiming moments of life, even when the world tries to take them away.

📽️ Watch the clip.
https://kolektiva.media/w/fFqz2GJRATXsfb4KTJqXBK

🛠️ Help us finish the film: https://amplifierfilms.ca/redroad

#ARedRoadToTheWestBank #Palestine #Kanehsatake #MohawkTerritory #Acre #AntiColonial #AmplifierFilms #Resistance #ChildhoodUnderOccupation #IndigenousSolidarity