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4/7 Steinem used her visibility to share the stage with Flo Kennedy & Ms magazine founder Dorothy Pitman Hughes—Black feminists whose organizing shaped the movement, though neither became the household name Steinem did.

inthesetimes.com/article/when-

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3/7 “It might not come from pop culture, but from our culture.”

In 2012, Jude Ellison Sady Doyle reviewed how Steinem traced mass violence to hierarchies of race, gender and power, naming Columbine a “supremacy crime.”

inthesetimes.com/article/the-p

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Rather than empowering teens to create their own safe experiences, Meta's settlement largely turns that role over to their parents and ultimately to the states. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/meta

The Trump administration is arguing that imported brass instruments are a national security threat.

These claims may sound absurd, but they point to a serious problem: invoking ‘national security’ to advance policy goals while bypassing public scrutiny.

Watch our video to find out more.

In 1969, Chicago police raided Fred Hampton's apartment and killed him. Years later, a federal appeals court found it was part of a "conspiracy designed to subvert and eliminate the Black Panther Party." #ThrowbackThursday inthesetimes.com/article/how-t

"As MPs return to Westminster, the case for taking climate risk seriously is becoming harder to dismiss -- not because every extreme event is caused by climate change, but because the underlying pattern is shifting." - linkedin.com/posts/dr-stephen-

:TwinPines: "This article explores how union negotiations in worker-owned co-ops compare to more traditional labor negotiations. The theoretical analysis addresses possible synergies between practices traditionally considered as alternative, employee ownership and collective bargaining, and the development of collective bargaining in new business models."
#Unions #Coops #UnionCoops

geo.coop/articles/are-union-co

“Why office workers are turning against AI”

bloodinthemachine.com/p/why-of

> It’s also because bosses are much less accountable for their AI use. They may use it to write emails and company memos or to experiment with task automation, but they’re not going to be disciplined or fired if there are errors or inconsistencies in that stuff.

Released on September 2, 1980, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables was the Dead Kennedys' debut studio album, issued through Cherry Red Records in the UK and I.R.S. Records in the US. The RIAA finally certified the album gold 43 years later, in 2023.
Get 40% off all music titles (including this one) with code MUSIC thru 10/1 here: pmpress.org/index.php?l=produc

Sam Altman rape case update, very very grim 

The International Trade Union Confederation has placed the United States on its workers’ rights Watchlist, citing the loss of collective bargaining rights for more than 1 million federal workers, a disabled NLRB and the use of immigration enforcement to suppress speech and organizing.

The world is taking notice.

inthesetimes.com/article/worke

#AI opens exciting opportunities for those NOT offering it! 🤯

Imagine a travel agency that just offers a phone number that immediately gives you a real human on the line to help you enjoy your well-earned vacation. And that you no longer have some Booking.com #LLM hellhole to wade through.

Imagine real human connection at the customer service of an online webshop, when you want to return something or have questions on a product.

Imagine government agencies having emphatic people available who care about your problems, and help you get on your way.

Imagine developer tools that just do what is on the tin and nothing more. Like they used to do before becoming AI-first.

What a delight all that will be. And you know what is most delicious? It is ALL readily available to us! 🚀

Human to human services. They rock! We can bring them to a #fediverse near you..

Enter the #ProsocialWeb.

social.coop/@smallcircles/1172

✊🏽 Providing safe, secure and independent internet infrastructure is not a crime. EDRi stands in full solidarity with Autistici/Inventati after the US government designated the Italian non-profit organisation as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist."

This targeting of A/I is also an attack on fundamental rights, safe and secure communications, anti-authoritarian organising and the democratic integrity of the EU.

Our full statement ➡️ edri.org/our-work/edri-solidar

@jackeric @da_667 @cR0w It sucks a lot that my favorite OS is stuck in this doom loop that makes it difficult to get new users, or run on newer hardware, yet

Some random fascists dot-files instantly raises millions of dollars in funding

Earlier this week I unsubscribed from #1Password and moved to #Bitwarden... due to their donation of 300k to DHH's #Omarchy.

I made sure to let them know about the reason, so that hopefully the company would notice those kind of decisions have an impact.

Day one I got messages from their AI system.

But today I got a response by a real human at 1Password (or so it appears).

If you are curious about the company's official response to the backlash, check out the screenshot (and/or #AltText)

fellas, I'm gonna level with you. I'm starting to feel like computing in general is a series of trade-offs on how far you're willing to compromise on your morals.

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The "people believe LLMs (AI), because it sounds plausible" take makes me want to lump the LLM tools in with hucksters, charlatans, politicians, CEOs, used car salesmen, etc.

Software selection checklist:

- does it do the thing?
- is it secure?
- is it user friendly and accessible?
- is the project secretly hiring a violent serial abuser or openly employing a creep?
- do they have fascists on the payroll?
- do they funnel money to or from fascists?

seriously people, fill out that “about us” page and if your team is anonymous, abide by a contributor covenant/code of conduct and say so!

Announcing keepitfree.ai

Many things happened since August 26, 2026, when the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) at the US Department of the Treasury included us in their list of “Specially Designated Global Terrorists” (SDGT). This is just the beginning.

We have now created a dedicated space to document what has been unfolding since August 26, to empower our unpredictable, chaotic and magnificent solidarity network by keeping it up to date with the consequences of the US government designation and our responses.

Read the full announcement on keepitfree.ai/announcements/an

#KeepItFree #AutisticiInventati

"The community must be the author of its own world."

In the latest from our speculative essay series, Adio envisions a future in which a Zimbabwean community rejects an AI surveillance program and instead designs a cattle-tracking system, drawing upon the relational data governance it has practiced for generations.

dair-institute.org/blog/whose-

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