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California Announces New Online Portal to Report Misconduct by Federal Agents https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/california-announces-new-online-portal-report-misconduct-federal-agents

It is an extremely important to time to support independent journalism. You may notice that I repost Techdirt's content all the damn time. That's because Mike Masnick is usually right and I think you should know about it.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/03/support-techdirts-uncompromising-coverage-get-our-first-commemorative-coin/

Wondering why Trump is murdering alleged (no proof) drug traffickers on the open seas while pardoning a mega-crook head of state who was helping to smuggle tons of drugs into the US?

Krugman has a compelling theory. It involves the slimy crypto crowd.

https://www.nationalmemo.com/donald-trump-crimes

You might think it's not a priority with all the doom happening around.

But the erosion of privacy rights is directly linked to the erosion of human rights, and the loss of democracy.

Privacy makes it safe for you to discuss, to organize, to resist, and to be your true self. This is exactly why fascists and authoritarians are attacking it.

If we lose privacy, we lose everything else. We have to defend it with all we've got.

Privacy rights are a priority.

#Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy

In Cover-Up, Laura Poitras investigates Seymour Hersh: The filmmaker and FPF’s founding board member spoke with CJR about her twenty-year project, the “crisis” in investigative journalism, and how truth-telling can still change the world.

https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/cover-up-laura-poitras-investigates-seymour-hersh.php

Top 5 reasons GNOME is awesome:

1. Distraction-free: we respect you and include personal digital wellbeing features

2. Accessibility: we work to make computing accessible to all

3. Design: we make a cohesive, modern experience that looks great

4. Free and Open Source: we preserve your freedoms

5. Privacy: your data is yours, and we respect that

If these resonate with you, consider supporting us today! We're aiming for 1,500 #FriendsOfGNOME by the end of the year.

https://donate.gnome.org

Hate-read this and gimme some clicks. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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The Republican Circus:
Did I Speak Out? Not Me.
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https://boingboing.net/2025/12/03/tom-the-dancing-bug-did-i-speak-out-not-me.html

Great to be part of social.coop! Here's an #introduction: The People's Tech is aimed towards becoming a co-op based in England with a small team of Small Tech workers promoting technology at the intersection of privacy, security, sustainability, *and* inclusivity, Covid-safer and non-hierarchical, slowly rolling out public workshops discussing alternatives to Big Tech, plus private consultation for co-ops, non-profits, and campaign groups on how to make better choices (which has already begun!)

We wrote for Jacobin about our recent panel with three U.S. journalists who were aboard the Gaza aid flotillas.

They described facing assaults and threats from Israeli soldiers — and said the U.S. government did little to help.

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/gaza-journalists-flotilla-israeli-abuse

We gotta have a better word for "black ice." Out loud, that last syllable sounds like "guys." Invisible Ice, the Sneaky Slippys, Jack Frost's Snot, Gnomes on their Zambonis, the Devil's Gone Curling, etc.

Amazon might not notice that you stopped shopping with them* but if you take that same modest bit of disposable income and spend it on art bought directly from artists, the small electronics projects of your friends, helping people in dire financial situations and the the local theater all of those people WILL notice. It will have a massive impact.

*But, also Amazon does notice. Especially as more and more people do this.

I am quite sure that if you haven’t donated to @bonfire ‘s campaign yet it’s just because you did not know about it yet, so here is a link: https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community 🙂

In case you are not convinced yet, here’s a slide for you about (and against!) #Enshittification 💩

In this moment, I think every project that fights enshittification should deserve attention and support. I myself contributed, and got me an awesome print (limited edition number 19, which as y’all know is binary for 🤟😜)

This is potentially one of the best projects for community information to emerge in years. (Glad it'll be a web app.) Several questions:

Is it open source? If not, why not?

Will this tech be centralized? If so, why?

Why is it using the odious Substack for the main blog?

https://mastodon.social/@wearenew_public/115645098610507399

And, people are saying, about 1oz of gold.

"just ignore them" no, I expect people to be kind and ignoring this type of rude behavior isn't solving a damn problem.

A $164,000 bill for public records is a good indicator that the government is hiding something.

These tactics don't silence reporters, they tell them to keep digging.

https://freedom.press/issues/censorship-by-invoice-public-records-cost-164000-in-michigan-township/

We are currently fighting against a DDoS attack against our service and our status page. We are analyzing network traffic with the help of our ISP at the moment and let you know once we have updates to share.

Running my own full-service, multi-tenanted & multi-domain email service gives me a remarkable feeling of power. It's is seriously cool (been running 4 of them for a bunch of years). In other news, Mailcow is superb - . https://mailcow.email/ (I run their Dockerized install)

Can't help but wonder why democratic governments, worldwide, are doing whatever US BigTech tells them to do with regard to 'AI' policy & adoption. How do these governments not realise that BigTech is inherently authoritarian, psychotic, & working against democracy? They are antithetical to our societal values & yet they're welcomed with open arms? Do our governments secretly realise that they're 100% dependent on these corporations & are therefore vassals, not sovereign? Or is it corruption?