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@liaizon@wake.st · Joined ⁨Feb⁩ ⁨2019⁩

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The Community Privacy Residency is a 3-week residency bringing together researchers, builders, and community organizers to co-design and build open-source tools for community privacy, with a focus this year on Countersurveillance, Privacy & Cryptography, and Community Infrastructure. Come to our Demo Day on tomorrow to see the projects we have been building this summer! Food and drinks and lovely people included.

You can also rsvp on the fediverse here: gath.io/HM7KPYMkwXwoIjoJYuPoK

A hand drawn poster for Demo Day
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When I started producing a weekly #anarchist video podcast 20 years ago, I could count in one hand who the other anarcho video podcasters were (at least the ones I knew existed)

Today I'm so fuckin happy to find folks producing high quality video podcasts that not only empower peeps but make info accesible to a large audience without feeling preachy and dogmatic!!🙏👏

So while going through a YouTube wormhole of diy #meshcore solar repeater builds, I stumbled upon (well, the algorithm told me about...) @bennjordan

Benn's click bait video "Gadgets For People Who Don't Trust The Government" totally worked (and the thumbnail helped!) This geek porn clip masterfully embedded intro to anarchism bits interspersed the different gadgets Benn talked about. I wish many anarchist propagandists took a cue from Benn and started making media outside the anarchist ghetto.

You made it this far down my grumpy old man rant? Then share this clip with your nerdy cousin and save him from becoming just another far right troll.

youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4rEaRduk

YouTubeGadgets For People Who Don't Trust The Governmentby Benn Jordan

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I only follow the European Commission for their rare incomprehensibly unhinged stuff https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/117030824880557533

Parody magazine cover titled "D'n'R Directives & Regulations" featuring a white robot vacuum on a wooden floor, a quote from a headphone-wearing cat complaining about noise levels, and the headline "THE HOOVERGATE THAT NEVER WAS."European Commission on MastodonEuropean Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)Attached: 1 image In 2014, in Europe, there was much ado about 666. That was the number of an EU law that required vacuum cleaners to use a maximum of 1,600 watts – and there was a lot of talk about the EU allegedly ‘’banning powerful vacuum cleaners!’’ What actually happened is that manufacturers had to get the same suction with less power. And they did. Because when aims are clear, engineers know what they’re doing.

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this week at #trashpalace :

Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse aka The Gleaners and I (2000) directed by Agnès Varda

from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off

🥔🧡🥔🧡🥔🧡

TRASHPALACE screenings are every tuesday night in North Melbourne & streaming online for 7 days at trashpalace.tv

a clock with no hands, two leopard toy and Agnès Varda behind the title
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It is an honour to have been interviewed on behalf of the @drfed team for @APC's Building a Free Internet of the Future series.

https://www.apc.org/en/news/drfed-reducing-complexity-and-enabling-more-people-shape-fediverse

Association for Progressive CommunicationsDrFed on reducing complexity and enabling more people to shape the FediverseDrFed is a web-based platform for developing and debugging implementations of ActivityPub – an open standard and protocol for decentralised networking. A team of four people from East Asia is developing DrFed. We interviewed one of them, Hong Minhee, regarding openness, tech, technical specs, the Fediverse’s strengths and limits, language barriers to decentralisation, and far more.