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On 1/22/2018, we lost Ursula K. Le Guin. She was more than a storyteller—she was a radical thinker who used her craft to critique capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism, imagining alternative futures grounded in community, equality, and ecological harmony.

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Got laid off today. If you're looking for someone who knows imaging, static analysis, and compiler design in depth and a wide variety of other things HMU. Resume is here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HgW40cu1UhIVYI6o2KjfrwnNrnGlbGXhmQDR5kLW4qU/edit?usp=drivesdk

You're watching activists from a Mexican sex workers union storming the judicial building in Mexico City this week, following the attempted murder of a trans woman. Cops just let the alleged perp go. This is how we defend our comrades. No justice. No peace.

A quote from Daniel K Gillmor that didn't make the final draft:

“The act of switching to an encrypted messenger is a social act, it is a community-oriented act, and it is a beneficial act.”

Build community, one encrypted message at a time.

Deleting #Facebook is intentionally difficult; those wanting to delete will find that they are led through a maze of menu options. This webpage has a link that will take you directly to the deletion page if you are logged into your Facebook book account on a PC. Perhaps the best thing you can do is post this link to your Facebook account a week before deleting it to help others learn about this fast and easy shortcut.

https://deletefacebook.com/

It's 2026 and you wonder what your friends are up to. You tell the app on your phone to go and get everyone's most recent news. Jim's phone takes a sec to load because his wifi is crap in the garden, and Alex's phone takes a sec to load because their wifi is crap in the workshop, but nobody times out.

You don't worry when your friends time out. You're not one of those Worrying People who panic when they open the app and their friend's phone fails to respond to the ping, you figure they're just, y'know, in the garden or going through a tunnel or something.

Jim is of course posting hole. You comment "Nice hole Jim," and that comment goes straight from your phone to Jim's. Your phone saves a copy as well because it deliberately doesn't know the difference between a four-paragraph furnace repair guide and "Nice hole Jim" and it makes a local backup of anything you type, in case Jim drops his phone down the hole and doesn't notice until he's planted a tree on top of it. Everyone still teases him about that, and he jokes along with them because it was pretty funny. The tree has its own account now.

You scroll through today's posts, mostly goodmornings and fantastical lies about all the stuff your friends are gonna get done today. All these posts were downloaded from people's phones when you opened the app a minute ago. You reach the end of today's posts (the first one of course was Jenna and her early-bird nonsense) and that's it, nothing more to see, you're up to date on what your friends are up to. You're not ready to go back to Actually Doing Something With Your Life so you move your thumb over the Yesterday button, but before you can tap, a mitherbox pops up to tell you that Alex is posting shaft.

Your thumbs do a happy dance and "Nice shaft Alex" is sent directly from your phone to theirs, without needing the permission of any weird billionaires sitting in between, a connection as direct as a phone call, not that you're thinking about that, you're thinking about Alex's shaft. Apparently they've been polishing their shaft all morning and they're almost ready to give it some lube and stick it in. That car's gonna be Gorgeous when they finally finish it.

Anyway that's it now, you're all caught up. You didn't see any ads (why would you? All this is stored on your friends' phones' SD cards and sent over their wifi, they're the ones paying the 0.0001p to respond to your phone's "What's new" request) and everything was shown in chronological order (there are alternative apps that mess with your timeline ordering but nobody uses those because they're shit) and you've read the whole day and you're done. You put your phone away and start getting dressed.

As your coffee brews you check your friends app again and Jen the birdwatcher wants to show everyone her tits

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:

Freelance photojournalist Matthew Kaplan was arrested Saturday while covering a protest against mass deportations in Gary, Indiana.

He was charged with criminal trespass, disorderly conduct and resisting law enforcement.

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/freelance-photojournalist-arrested-at-anti-deportation-protest-in-indiana/

#Instagram hides search results for 'Democrats' - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g32yxpdz0o totally normal, nothing to see here... #zuckerberg #trump

Fishing boats spotted competing with #whales in Antarctica for #krill - https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/01/fishing-boats-spotted-competing-with-whales-in-antarctica-for-krill/ "two Norwegian ships and one Chinese vessel krill fishing in the region; the Chinese ship was near feeding humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)." sickening human greed... #norway #china

What's this now? 🤔

https://ictnews.org/news/make-indian-country-great-again

New comics at In These Times on Luigi Mangione, failing Democrats, and AI healthcare.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/comics-luigi-healthcare-right-left-democrats-election

51 years after Roe v. Wade affirmed abortion rights, the fight rages on. We demand free, safe, and accessible abortion for all. Check out related titles at pmpress.org.

Current state of the 🌎 shows how important it is that the 📱 in our pockets can stay free of surveilance and be used as their users intend to, not any corporation.

This is even more motivation to hack on #phosh and #LinuxMobile

✨ #opensource is amazing, episode 67,265:

2 months ago (precisely) I was complaining about #codeberg displaying irrelevant issue previews on social media.

I opened an issue, then @mfenniak opened a fantastic PR about it as his first contribution to #forgejo , and after a respectful review, it was merged for v10.0 which was released some days ago, and deployed to Codeberg.

And you can see the result right here: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/6043

Please #donate to #FLOSS contributors and maintainers!

Another month, another conference.

#libobscura will be a topic at #FOSDEM !

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6184-libobscura-cameras-are-still-difficult/

I'll dive a bit deeper into the mobile side of the camera problem compared to my #ccc38 talk. If I have time left, there will be a quick demo of #Prolog-driven capability querying :D

#fosdem2025

Many people in our community's Facebook group are extremely disenchanted with Zuckerberg's decision to remove all constraints on misinformation mongers.

I'd like to see WordPress.org -- or someone who wants to make some money -- create a plugin that replicated the functionality of a private Facebook group.

Include the FB UX as one option, but make it more flexible if desired.

Welcome home Leonard Peltier and it’s still fuck Joe Biden.

I wonder if an Online Safety Act Small Sites Hackathon would be worthwhile.

A group of interested people collaborating on toolkits and tooling to help small sites comply with Parts 3 and 5.

Risk assessment tools.

FOSS age assurance tools (if possible).

That kind of thing.

Some of us are doing stuff, but it feels siloed.

#OnlineSafetyAct

With #mangoMussolini taking the helm of #usPol today I've opted not to rant into the void but to raise the voices of others. To that end I chose today to start or renew memberships of organisations that do that well:

USA:
* @pmpress
* AK Press https://akpress.org

Australia:
* @3CRMelbourne ("Yeah, Nah, Pasaran!")
* 3ZZZ (#esperanto language radio)
* Jura Books
* New International Bookshop (NIBS)

It's not much but it helps. More suggestions welcome.

#ausPol #mutualAid #anarchism

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#anarchy #anarchist #anarchism #chumbawumba #nobonzo #nothingeverburnsdownbyitself #givetheanarchistacigarette #anarchistart #art