Ambrose Andrews @znalo@librem.one

✊ More than an assessment, it is an invitation to collective action and radical imagination. How can we create technologies that are truly committed to protecting life?

📖 We invite you to review the report Actions for Environmental Justice through Autonomous and Community Technological Infrastructures: https://mayfirst.coop/en/post/2025/justicia-ambiental-infra/ A collaboration between @sursiendo and May First Movement Technology

#EnvironmentalJustice #AutonomousTechnologies #CommunityInfrastructure #DigitalSustainability

Palantir CEO sees the US boat strikes in the Caribbean, which are war crimes, as a moneymaking opportunity for his company.

https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-making-war-crimes-constitutional-would-be-good-for-business-2000695162

#usa #capitalism

Analysis: In pardoning a narco trafficker, Trump destroys his own case.

Since September, Trump has killed 80+ suspected drug smugglers by blowing up their boats.

But now he's "decided to pardon one of the biggest cocaine traffickers of them all".

Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced to 45 years for conspiring to import 500,000 kilos of cocaine into the US.

Trump wants Hernández's party to win the Honduran election.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-pardon-drug-trafficker/

#USPol #Europol #Honduras .

Report: "UK government lawyers use secret evidence to justify ban on Palestine Action"

Judges heard the secret evidence after lawyers & public for Palestine-Action co-founder, Huda Ammori, were told to leave court.

If "Ammori loses her case based on the secret evidence, neither she nor her team will know what the government argued against her or Palestine Action."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-government-lawyers-use-secret-evidence-justify-ban-palestine-action

#HudaAmmori #Palestine #PalestineAction #USPol #Europol #UKPol #Censorship #Autocracy @palestine .

Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur, is now facing direct consequences for choosing to stand up for humanity and defend human rights after being sanctioned by the United States.

Her private medical insurance refused to reimburse her solely because she is under US sanctions. Even official engagements have been obstructed: the European Union Parliament invited her for a talk, booked a room for her, and then cancelled it simply because the reservation carried her name.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

I'm preparing a briefing on #SeaLevelRise and my hunt for an image led me to the wikipedia page and holy moly it's good...

If you want to learn about many different aspects, I'd definitely start there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise

in the past week, 2 public figures behind the teen social media ban have pre-emptively accused tech platforms of sabotaging the ban.

it's somewhat at odds with the government's own research and esafety's regulatory guidance which both say age check tech has flaws.

to put a fine point on it:

"a lot of people casually use chatbots" is a pretty uncontroversial claim. there's plenty of data to support that right now, as well as plenty of shared cultural experiences around it.

"LLMs are a net benefit in a lot of problem domains" is an *extraordinary claim* that there is, as far as I can tell, *zero evidence for*. If you want to make this argument to me you will have to bring a lot of *precise evidence*.

Malicious Zionist hasbara has been exposed again. https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/sydney-uni-protesters-vindicated-as-no-evidence-of-antisemitic-incidents-on-campus-exists/ #auspol #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy #StopIsrael

If you’re dealing with Long Covid - there’s a chance you’re also dealing with MCAS and/or POTS/Dysautonomia.

They’re common comorbids and can have a devastating impact on quality of life.

New allergies? Alcohol intolerance? Dizziness? Fatigue? Fainting? Hives? Neuropathy? GI issues? Unexplained tachycardia or blood pressure swings?

These can all be caused by POTS, MCAS or a combination of both.

Mega thread of resources and guides below:

I was dealing with both of these conditions before the pandemic - and when the first Long Covid cases started popping up I remember thinking “I need to make sure I avoid Covid - it’s already causing POTS and MCAS so it might make mine worse”

I shielded as soon as I was able (and haven’t been unable to stop).

I had hope that given the sheer size of the problem - we would see accelerated research and have better treatments and/or a cure.

Instead we’ve seen an increase in dismissal and psychologizing - with many people reporting it’s HARDER to get a diagnosis now than before the pandemic.

We don’t have anything new to offer patients despite the huge increase in people with these conditions - and the few doctors willing to treat us have wait lists which have tripled in size.

Patients have to wait longer to see a doctor - and get shockingly little time with them.

Basically - we are truly on our own.

As a result patient support groups and message boards are increasingly becoming a lifeline for those newly diagnosed.

I remember how scared and lost I was at the beginning of my chronic illness journey - so I’ve spent the last few months writing guides to help patients dealing with MCAS & POTS.

My hope is they will serve as a resource for the newly diagnosed as well as for people who suspect they may be dealing with these conditions.

You will find explanations of how they impact the body, tips for obtaining diagnosis, treatment options, lifestyle adjustments and more.

I hate having to go searching for something when I’m feeling really sick - so I thought it might be helpful to include everything I’ve written in one mega thread people could bookmark or save.

With that - the guides! (One per post below)

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#longcovid #pots #mcas #dysautonomia #covidisairborne # covidisnotover #sarscov2 #wearamask #MECFS #chronicillness #spoonie #pandemic

I know it will take time, but the Fediverse developers should strongly consider making the following opinionated technical decisions:

Use RFC 9421 instead of the earlier HTTP Signature spec.
Make Ed25519 the default algorithm, not 2048-bit RSA.

Ed25519 has a lot of advantages over RSA and ECDSA.

Over 2048-bit RSA:

Shorter signatures
Shorter keys (both secret and public), less storage/bandwidth overhead
More security (112-bit vs 126-bit)

Over ECDSA:

It's much faster than ECDSA
You don't have to worry about biased nonces leaking your secret key through lattice reduction
Tuned for security (no weird parameters)

Over both RSA and ECDSA:

EdDSA is constructed to provide Exclusive Ownership, which is a stronger notion of security
Easier to implement in constant-time

Bonus:

Ed25519 is approved for use in FedRAMP systems (FIPS 186-5), which Common Criteria sometimes cares about.

See more here: https://ianix.com/pub/ed25519-deployment.html and https://www.keylength.com/en/4/

The PSF applied for a $1.5M grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to make innovative improvements to packaging security—and we were recommended for funding! But as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so.

NEW | Over 300 Writers and Public Figures Boycott New York Times Opinion Section

More than 300 writers, scholars, and public figures, including nearly 150 past New York Times contributors, have pledged to boycott the newspaper’s Opinion section until three key demands are met.

The group says the Times is using “guest essayists” to repair its damaged credibility and to tokenize diverse voices while maintaining a conservative editorial stance. They argue that without freelance contributors and subject-matter experts, the paper’s opinion pages “would be utterly worthless.”

Among the signatories are Rima Hassan, Chelsea Manning, Rashida Tlaib, Gabor Maté, Sally Rooney, Rupi Kaur, Elia Suleiman, Mariam Barghouti, Greta Thunberg, Mohammed El-Kurd, Susan Abulhawa, Noura Erakat, and Omar El Akkad.

Organizers describe the initiative as an act of solidarity and conscience, urging other writers who have contributed to, been invited by, or covered in the New York Times to join the boycott.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

in my post-academic era i have become extremely scathing of the way academia considers papers to the primary outcome of intellectual work, and refuses to give credit to academics who write software or build other tooling. in industry we only occasionally read your papers; but we always use your software

Fiona the Precariously Employed Bettong has an important message for Australia https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/oct/27/welfare-in-australia-is-a-cruel-shambles-how-about-we-actually-try-to-help-people-not-squish-them

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as the internet, is in fact, us-east-1/the internet, or as I've recently taken to calling it, us-east-1 plus the internet