Ambrose Andrews @znalo@librem.one

Australian Federal Police are using encrypted messaging app Signal (which has auto-delete message capabilities) work purposes, at the same time as it criticises social media companies for embracing the technology.

An AFP spokesperson says it complies with all record-keeping requirements

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/26/australian-police-encrypted-message-app-signal-afp/

theory: 'Deep work' is just what we called normal cognitive function before we broke our brains with notification systems designed by teams of PhDs whose literal job is to make the casino irresistible

The Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity anual edition was devoted this year to Self Sustaining Financing solutions for community connectivity. A growing path towards promoting partnerships for finding and developing innovative solutions for community-centred connectivity financing.

Find the edition here https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/self-sustaining-financing-solutions-community-connectivity-official-outcome-un-igf-dynamic

#SustainableConnectivity
#InnovativeFinancing
#CommunityNetworks

Software got obsessed with Csikszentmihalyi for some reason ("flow state") and I sometimes imagine an alternate history where tech got obsessed with Sternberg ("practical intelligence"/creativity) and what would've happened to the implicit models of developer problem-solving in that universe

I mean I don't like the Great Man Said a Thing thing we have going on in software but it's fun to imagine

Having a parasocial relationship with Taylor Swift means you can stream her songs on Spotify if you don’t want to buy the album, but you don’t get to demand that she put time into making more music. People who like her music seem to understand this, and are more than happy to buy merch or vinyl or concert tickets and make her a billionaire.

How does this apply to FOSS? Go read this by @daedalus

https://pivotnine.com/blog/open-source-has-too-many-parasocial-relationships/

It's seven years since I wrote 'Me and Monotropism' for The Psychologist, The British Psychological Society's magazine. Back then, the theory was still relatively little known, despite a quarter of a century of development and application; its authors were all Autistic, and none of them really played the game of academia.

A lot has happened in the seven years since, and the magazine's editor asked if I could pen an update for them. That is now published here, underneath the original article. Enjoy!
#monotropism #autism #ActuallyAutistic
https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/me-and-monotropism-unified-theory-autism

Discovering You're Autistic is about the experience of realising you're autistic, and the things we've found most valuable for anyone starting out on that journay.

Realising that there are many other people out there with similar experiences is so powerful.
#ActuallyAutistic #community
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDv2omDMko

computers were a mistake [remembers that I met my husband online] all computers not directly serving the purpose of socially interconnecting the world's weirdest 1% of people were a mistake

#Israel killed 31 #journalists & media workers in airstrikes on a newspaper complex in #Yemen last week, according to a report released Friday by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

The attack was the deadliest against journalists since the Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines 16 years ago & the second-deadliest the New York-based press freedom group has ever recorded.

#WarCrimes #law #InternationalLaw
https://cpj.org/2025/09/israels-killing-of-31-yemeni-journalists-marks-deadliest-global-attack-in-16-years/

“Essentially, #Salesforce (a $230 billion company) is strong-arming a small nonprofit for teens, by providing less than a week to pony up a pretty massive sum of money, or risk cutting off all our communications. That’s absurd.”

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/slack_nonprofit_license_hike_threat/

“This experience has taught us that owning your data is incredibly important, and if you’re a small business especially, then I’d advise you move away too”

#hackclub #mattermost #slack #enshittification

Today in Labor History September 17, 1849: American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery. During her lifetime, she made 17 rescue missions via the Underground Railing, which she helped create, freeing 70 enslaved people. She helped John Brown plan his 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry. During the Civil War, she served as a spy for the Union Army and helped plan the raid on Combahee Ferry, which liberated over 700 enslaved people. In her later life, she was an activist in the women’s suffrage movement.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #harriettubman #johnbrown #slavery #abolition #undergroundrailroad #civilwar #feminism

I made myself an Emotional Support Dumpster Fire. #crochet @c3dumpsterfire

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.