Added to the zines page:
Assume I Know Nothing, a little roundup of essential classic hardcore records from different contributors. I assume this is an intervention in the current spotification of Hardcore and new kids not knowing the classics...
https://the-counterforce.org/zines/other/
Don't like the recommendations in this zine? Make your own and send us the printable PDF and we'll put that up too! Or any other suitable zines you make or are involved with and you want to be printed and spread far and wide.
As Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall makes clear, the Roberts Court's tariff ruling may be the right one, but it doesn't even begin to remove the court's stink of corruption.
When your password leaks:
→ Change your password
→ Problem solved
When your biometric data leaks:
→ You can't change your face
→ You can't change your fingerprints
→ The compromise is permanent
→ Your biometric data is in breach databases forever
This is why facial recognition for age verification is dangerous.
""If a woman is not married by her thirties, she's got something on her mind. Single women are a danger to society," she told me."
— Baqytgul Sarmekova, Mirgul Kali: To Hell with Poets, p. 39
BREAKING: Judge who allowed FBI to search Washington Post reporter’s home rips into Justice Department for not informing him of the law that explicitly bars raids of reporters
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/politics/judge-rips-washington-post-fbi-reporter-warrant
Did you know that leakers helped exonerate Rümeysa Öztürk?
Watch FPF's Trevor Timm to find out about that story and more in this week’s Press Freedom in 90 Seconds, and subscribe: https://freedom.press/newsletters/
🏙️ We are supporting the creation of the Democratic Tech Fund! 🪙
Yesterday, we gathered at the @internetarchiveeurope to shape a new consortium made to distribute funding for value-aligned projects 🌱
The next key moment will be a general assembly at #DWebCamp!
Is free software only available for rich countries? #Techrights
https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/20/GNU_Linux_Adoption_is_Higher_in_Richer_Countries.shtml
Very tongue-in-cheek question, but it shows a gap that needs addressed. Are projects like One Laptop Per Child locking people into non-free solutions? (Not saying intentionally)
The Windows monopoly trapped a lot of people ignorant of alternatives in all countries.
What to do when a Li-ion #battery smells of fruit?
Run away. Throw it away. Duck and cover.
Lithium fire is no fun!
Single-use vapes should be banned, but while they aren't, I'll clean them up and put them to use.
Just the smells make it really confusing :S
The battery doesn't look bloated. Regardless, it is quarantined outside, in a concrete tiles area.
Reform have suspended Adam Mitula, who was working as Matt Goodwin's campaign manager in the Gorton by-election.
This comes two days after Mitula was revealed to have posted anti-black racism, claims that most trans people are paedophiles, Holocaust revision, and comments about how he "would never touch a Jewish woman".
Goodwin meanwhile has been called out by racist commentator Connor Tomlinson, over trying to distance himself in public but support white nationalists like him in private.
I find the text-only experience of the gemini web refreshing and nostalgic (using internet since the 80s). Here's a getting started guide. https://techrights.org/o/2021/04/28/joining-gemini-space/
"I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure. Here's the stack I landed on, what was harder than expected, and what you still can't avoid."
https://www.coinerella.com/made-in-eu-it-was-harder-than-i-thought/
We need more stories like this being shared in the open. You can criticise some parts of the decisions here, but that's not the point. Someone tried and shared. That's the point.
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa