Ambrose Andrews @znalo@librem.one

I'm fielding thoughts of despair more and more frequently (not so unusual i'm willing to bet) but stories like this bring them front of mind and yet it's stories like this that i need most of all right now. i wish i had more of an understanding of that dynamic

'Wedged between photographs of our family in Cape Town and the artwork my son Biko brings home from first grade, the document is unremarkable. Just a list of names. Phone numbers. A sequence of people to call if I am taken: my criminal defense lawyer, my immigration attorney, my civil rights counsel, my wife, a trusted neighbor. But the first instruction sits apart from the rest, heavier than the others: Ensure Biko’s safety above all else'

#ice #usPol #fascism #whatGoodDespair #iAmSoSorry

https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/the-arrest-protocol-on-my-fridge

The difficult truth

Writing exclusively for Crikey, Grace Tame reflects on the prime minister calling her ‘difficult’, the media storm following her pro-Palestine chant, and which social causes do and don’t ignite public support.

13 March 2026

https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/grace-tame-difficult-anthony-albanese-globalise-the-intifada-palestine/

I do not support violence. I do not condone antisemitism, Islamophobia or hatred of any kind. I am a human rights activist who advocates for the safety of all children, no matter their background.

I shouldn’t have to say this, but I’m currently up against a well-oiled, well-funded political propaganda machine whose aim is to frighten everyone into complicity by maligning its critics. We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare. The same powerful democracies that are bombing and starving children to death throughout the Global South are portraying anti-war protestors as a threat to social cohesion.

Let’s be real, there’s only one reason that the prime minister thinks I’m “difficult”. It’s not because I’m a woman or a child sexual abuse survivor. It’s because I have been outspoken about Australia’s toxic alliance with the US and Israel, and whether you agree with my methods or not, they have cut through.

For the past month, our conservative politicians and media have been running a concerted smear campaign against me because I led chants of “globalise the intifada” outside Sydney’s Town Hall on Monday, February 9, at a peaceful rally protesting Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s state visit. It didn’t matter that the core message of my speech that day was one of hope; that seconds before I spoke the contentious phrase, I said, “You can buy bombs and you can buy politicians, but you cannot buy the truth; you cannot buy our compassion and you cannot buy our love — these are our weapons and we will keep on fighting with them until the very end”.

It also didn’t matter that Isaac Herzog stands accused of inciting genocide, nor that he represents a rogue apartheid regime found to be committing genocide in the Gaza Strip by the UN. It didn’t matter that he signed his name on an artillery shell later deployed by the IDF. All that mattered was that I crossed one of many grey lines manufactured to obstruct dissent.

Language means different things to different people. The Arabic word “intifada” literally translates to “shaking off” or “uprising” and is often used in reference to two periods of Palestinian resistance that began with labour strikes, boycotts and peaceful protests against Israel’s violence.

“Globalise the intifada” is a call for widespread nonviolent resistance to Israel’s ongoing oppression of the Palestinian people, but along with other pro-Palestine catch cries like “from the river to the sea”, it has been coopted, decontextualised and disingenuously redefined as hate speech by pro-Israel lobbyists, who equate it to threatening collective violence against Jewish people. This is not my interpretation.

#AusPol 1/n

The discarded remains of what could have been a scientific publication, if I'd had funding... found during a digital cleanup.

In-field sea ice thickness measurements across three expeditions to the east Antarctic pack ice zone in late winter, 8 years apart (2004-2012) - two of which I'm responsible for most of the observations on.

It was a nice plot and a good story. There's still a good story. Just no money or support to get money.

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hi #AU / #Aus (especially #CBR / #NSW ) #FediFriends 👋

is anyone running a #meshtastic / #LoRa / #LoRaWAN node? I’m keen to hear what hardware you’re using & any #recs / tips / traps… 🙏 (I’m aware of frequency requirements for AU)

pls #boost4reach 💕

Tehran tonight. Reportedly 35 airstrikes counted in 30 minutes.

Greens senator David Shoebridge condemns #Albolini & Co. Pty. Ltd. for 'rushing' to back what he describes as 'illegal' military attacks on #Iran by the US and #Israel. 'Labor and the Coalition and One Nation are now the three war parties in this parliament.'

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2026/mar/02/greens-senator-criticises-albanese-government-for-rushing-to-back-strikes-on-iran-video #auspol #EpicFool #RoaringLiar

BREAKING: The US Officials realize they're dumb as fuck.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-officials-skeptical-regime-change-tehran-after-khamenei-killing-say-sources-2026-03-02

#usa #iran #news

Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning.

https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/

@evacide

"""
Persona’s exposed code compares your selfie to watchlist photos using facial recognition, screens you against 14 categories of adverse media from mentions of terrorism to espionage, and tags reports with codenames from active intelligence programs consisting of public-private partnerships to combat online child exploitative material, cannabis trafficking, fentanyl trafficking, romance fraud, money laundering, and illegal wildlife trade.

Once a user verifies their identity with Persona, the software performs 269 distinct verification checks and scours the internet and government sources for potential matches...
"""

So to keep kids safe from online predators, we're willing to *horribly* invade their privacy and sell all their data to predators? I see the system is working as intended 😮‍💨

The director of The Voice of Hind Rajab refuses to accept Berlin film award

Kaouther Ben Hania slammed those who helped "create a system that made the killing of Rajab possible."

“What happened to Hind is not an exception. It’s a part of a genocide."

"In Berlin, there are people who gave political cover to that genocide by reframing the mass civilian killing as self-defense.. complex circumstances.. & denigrating those who protest."

https://variety.com/2026/film/global/voice-of-hind-rajab-cinema-for-peace-gala-1236665261/

#USPol #EUPol #palestine #news .

Palantir Technologies is suing Republik Magazine over an investigation into Palantir’s activities in Switzerland, published in December 2025. The lawsuit demands a counterstatement and is currently being heard by the Zurich Commercial Court.
Read the story that made Palantir sue us — now available in English. #palantir #freemedia

https://www.republik.ch/2026/02/18/how-tenaciously-palantir-courted-switzerland?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=cm&utm_content=palantir-en

We published this yesterday on FOSS Force, in case you missed it: We Look at Debian 13.3 ‘Trixie,’ the Latest From the Crown Jewel of Linux Distros - FOSS Force https://fossforce.com/2026/02/we-look-at-debian-13-3-trixie-the-latest-from-the-crown-jewel-of-linux-distros/

Moments ago, Israeli airstrikes hit four buildings in the Bekaa Valley, eastern Lebanon, leaving several killed and injured, according to Lebanese sources

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Lebanon

@libewa @rysiek Prior to React, even stuff like Facebook followed the document model, where the document is semantic and the AJAX stuff just updates the semantic document.

React is what ruined the web with the despicable ideological position that the primacy of the document model is a bad thing and that you're supposed to write everything as an "application" that "renders" to the DOM.