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Conversation between Dr. Ruha Benjamin & Naim Aburaddi: ...

2026-03-30T15:38:37Z

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Conversation between Dr. Ruha Benjamin & Naim Aburaddi:

*Phoenix of Gaza: From Freedom Dreams to Falasteen Futures*

as part of the palestinian digital activism form

#palestine #tech #PDAf2026

Palestinian Digital Activism Forum happening today & tomorrow ...

2026-03-30T15:26:57Z

Palestinian Digital Activism Forum happening today & tomorrow [pdaf](https://7amleh.org/post/pdaf-2026-en )

Theme: The battle over the Palestinian Digital Narrative in the Information Age

#palestine #tech #pdaf2026

"There's no Claude, there's just other people's ...

2026-01-31T09:42:20Z

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"There's no Claude, there's just other people's code", Leenaars offers a reality check

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026

What and who do you depend on in your projects? How fragile is ...

2026-01-31T09:38:20Z

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What and who do you depend on in your projects? How fragile is that infrastructure?

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026

The pager explosions in Lebanon in 2024, during which thousands ...

2026-01-31T09:34:32Z

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The pager explosions in Lebanon in 2024, during which thousands were wounded an many Lebanese people got killed, was a zionist supply chain attack

Background: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/9/17/lebanons-terrible-year-from-exploding-pagers-to-israeli-occupation

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026

What does war look like today? "It's not [just] enemy ...

2026-01-31T09:31:19Z

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What does war look like today?

"It's not [just] enemy lines, it's **your lines of code** that are causing real-world damage", says Leenaars

As a form of warfare, code & computation is:<li>Super cheap</li><li>Very low risk</li><li>High yield</li>

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026

Dependency on short-form content & LLMs is hampering ...

2026-01-31T09:29:23Z

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Dependency on short-form content & LLMs is hampering childrens' brain development, suggests Leenaars

It's a form of dementia, but worse, because they're not even *developing* a fully functioning brains

(disclaimer: i don't know the exact studies on this, just reporting the talk)

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026

But don't fall into the trap of jumping into European-based ...

2026-01-31T09:26:30Z

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But don't fall into the trap of jumping into European-based big tech!

That'd be the same predators, just based in a different location

Instead, what this moment needs is social initiative, not more 🤑 says Leenaars

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026

It's Stockholm syndrome, Leenaars says. Mentions the example ...

2026-01-31T09:24:47Z

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It's Stockholm syndrome, Leenaars says.

Mentions the example of the Dutch government - ministry of Finance making a big project out of moving to Microsoft, even though this creates:<li>More dependence on US-based tools</li><li>Productivity loss</li>

#fosdem #fosdem2026

There's a big opportunity at this moment. Society is in panic ...

2026-01-31T09:21:32Z

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There's a big opportunity at this moment. Society is in panic mode, because it's become too dependent

And society is looking at tech workers for a solution

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026

Are these big tech companies your friends? Will they take care of ...

2026-01-31T09:18:24Z

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Are these big tech companies your friends? Will they take care of you?

So many of these companies offer convenience. But at what cost?

You become dependent.

There's abuse

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026

Exhibit 1: Github (= Microsoft) WIth a repo on there, even if you ...

2026-01-31T09:15:19Z

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Exhibit 1: Github (= Microsoft)

WIth a repo on there, even if you don't share you code with anyone, you still share it with Github/MSFT, which in turn shares it with the US government

"We've been played", says Leenaars

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #github

Leenaars discusses the early days of the internet, how much ...

2026-01-31T09:12:59Z

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Leenaars discusses the early days of the internet, how much optimism there was.

And how much, in retrospect, naïvité in choosing partnerships -- both with what became Big Tech and with governments

#FOSDEM #fosDEM2026

First talk! Michiel Leenaars speaks on FOSS in times of war, ...

2026-01-31T09:07:46Z

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First talk! Michiel Leenaars speaks on FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI

Live here now: https://live.fosdem.org/watch/janson
Direct: https://stream.fosdem.org/janson.m3u8

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026

Another talk relevant to workers: 1 Feb, at 16:05 **[Burnout in ...

2026-01-31T08:32:30Z

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Another talk relevant to workers:

1 Feb, at 16:05
**[Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together](https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/GNKEPR-burnout_in_open_source_a_structural_problem_we_can_fix_together/ )**

This talk identifies 6 factors that contribute to developer burnout: <li>difficulty getting paid, </li><li>workload and time commitment,</li><li>maintenance work as unrewarding,</li><li>toxic community behaviour, </li><li>hyper-responsibility </li><li>pressure to prove oneself. </li>

Recommendations for structural changes to address developer burnout: <li>pay OSS developers</li><li>foster a culture of recognition and respect</li><li>grow the community </li><li>advocate for maintainers</li>

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #burnout #TechWork

Curious (or not?) that one of FOSDEM 2026's sponsors is ...

2026-01-31T08:27:41Z

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Curious (or not?) that one of FOSDEM 2026's sponsors is google, which provides part of the tech infrastructure for israel to commit genocide in Palestine through its participation in project Nimbus...

some refs:<li><a href="https://time.com/6964364/exclusive-no-tech-for-apartheid-google-workers-protest-project-nimbus-1-2-billion-contract-with-israel/"; target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Google Workers Revolt Over $1.2 Billion Contract With Israel</a></li><li><a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/07/24/google-israel-artificial-intelligence-project-nimbus/"; target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Documents Reveal Advanced AI Tools Google Is Selling to Israel </a></li><li><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-google-project-nimbus-israel-idf/"; target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The Hidden Ties Between Google and Amazon’s Project Nimbus and Israel's Military</a></li><li><a href="https://www.notechforapartheid.com/"; target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">No tech for apartheid</a></li>

#FOSDEM #NoTechForApartheid #NoTechForGenocide #FOSDEM2026

FOSDEM starting in a bit! Some talks that could be interesting ...

2026-01-31T08:19:46Z

FOSDEM starting in a bit!

Some talks that could be interesting for workers:

31 Jan, 10:00
**[FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI](https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FE7ULY-foss-in-times-of-war-scarcity-and-ai/ )** -> war always most hurts working people

> We need to talk about war. And we need to talk about companies building bots that propose to rewrite our source code. And about the people behind both, and how we preserve what is great about FOSS while avoiding disruption. How do geopolitical conflicts on the one hand and the risk of bot-generated (adversarial) code on the other influence the global community working together on Free and Open Source software?

cc Techwerkers (npub1jfh…csqm)

#FOSDEM #fosdem2026 #tech #techwork

In addition, Booking workers say NO to workplace retaliation and ...

2025-08-11T20:21:17Z

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In addition, Booking workers say NO to workplace retaliation and discrimination:

> "We demand explicit assurance that employees are free to express solidarity with the Palestinian people without fear of retaliation, discrimination, or the application of double standards. This includes but is not limited to public expression, workplace discussion, and conscientious refusals to participate in activities that contradict such views."

Should be a given, because any such workplace discrimination & retaliation is prohibited under Dutch law, but hey :dunno: you never know

#TechWorkers #Booking #NoTechForApartheid

What would it look like for Booking to cease complicity in the ...

2025-08-11T20:18:08Z

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What would it look like for Booking to cease complicity in the illegal occupation of Palestine?

Booking workers demand, concretely:<li>Remove the more than 50, currently bookable properties on illegally occupied Palestinian land from Booking.com’s platforms</li><li>Suspend all operations in Booking.com’s Tel Aviv office, which offers material support for apartheid and war crimes</li><li>Carry out a transparent audit of any AI or dual‑use technologies developed, deployed, or supported by the Tel Aviv office, with independent oversight and remedial action</li>

#TechWorkers #Booking #NoTechForApartheid

The workers' core demand is that Booking should cease its ...

2025-08-11T20:12:08Z

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The workers' core demand is that Booking should cease its complicity in the illegal zionist occupation of Palestine:

> "We demand the company discloses all ties to the illegal Israeli occupation and immediately ceases its business relationship with apartheid Israel and adhere to international law as outlined in the United Nations’ Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights"

#Booking #TechWorkers #NoTechForApartheid

Booking workers issue a statement, calling on the company to quit ...

2025-08-11T20:09:06Z

Booking workers issue a statement, calling on the company to quit its human rights abuses

"**Statement**

As employees, we call on the business to hold itself to its own standards. We call on Booking.com to stop infringing on the human rights of the Palestinian people and to immediately seek to mitigate and remediate the human rights impacts caused by or linked to its business operations."

https://www.stopbookingapartheid.org/statement

#Booking #NoTechForApartheid #FreePalestine

Activists of the Dutch group Geef Tegengas blocked the entry ...

2025-08-11T14:16:44Z

Activists of the Dutch group **Geef Tegengas** blocked the entry gates to Microsoft's data centre in Middenmeer, the Netherlands

The action is in protest at the company's facilitation of surveillance data on Palestinian people used in genocide

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/10/activists-in-netherlands-protest-on-roof-of-microsoft-site-storing-israeli-military-data

#GeefTegengas #NoTechForApartheid #NoDataForGenocide #Middenmeer #Netherlands

No pride in genocide, Cisco Youth Demand group disrupts the ...

2025-07-07T14:19:45Z

No pride in genocide, Cisco

Youth Demand group disrupts the Cisco’s float as part of London pride, pointing out how the company of is complicit in genocide and “hiding their crimes behind a veil of pink washing”: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-pride-palestine-protest-youth-demand-b2783254.html

#pride #London #UK #Cisco #FreePalestine

Expressing support for Palestine Action can now land you 14 years ...

2025-07-06T18:48:49Z

Expressing support for Palestine Action can now land you 14 years in jail in the UK

Anything to not have to confront the real issues, including the UK's support for zionist-driven genocide in Palestine I guess?

#PalestineAction

Albanese's closing note in *From economy of occupation to ...

2025-07-01T19:19:26Z

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Albanese's closing note in *From economy of occupation to economy of genocide*:

'Globally witnessed atrocities require urgent accountability and justice, which demand diplomatic, economic and legal action against those who have maintained and profited from an economy of occupation turned genocidal.

What comes next depends on everyone.'

#FreePalestine #UNReport

Trade unions, workers and others in civil society have a role, ...

2025-07-01T19:16:56Z

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Trade unions, workers and others in civil society have a role, too.

Francesca Albanese urges people in these groups:

> '... to press for boycotts, divestments, sanctions, justice for Palestine and accountability at the international and domestic levels; together, the people of the world can end these unspeakable crimes.''

#FreePalestine #UNReport #BDS #techworkers

For corporate entities (that includes Google, Amazon, ...

2025-07-01T19:14:42Z

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For **corporate entities** (that includes Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Palantir, Booking, etc.), the UN Special Rapporteur recommends:<li>To promptly cease all business activities and terminate relationships directly linked with, contributing to and causing human rights violations and international crimes against the Palestinian people, in accordance with international corporate responsibilities and the law of self-determination;</li><li>To pay reparations to the Palestinian people, including in the form of an apartheid wealth tax along the lines of post-apartheid South Africa.</li>

#FreePalestine #UNReport

Recommendations! The UN Special Rapporteur urges **Member ...

2025-07-01T19:11:09Z

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Recommendations! The UN Special Rapporteur urges **Member States** (so, including the Netherlands):<li>To impose sanctions and a full arms embargo on Israel, including all existing agreements and dual-use items such as technology and civilian heavy machinery; 2. To suspend or prevent all trade agreements and investment relations, and impose sanctions, including asset freezes, on entities and individuals involved in activities that may endanger the Palestinians; </li><li>To enforce accountability, ensuring that corporate entities face legal consequences for their involvement in serious violations of international law. </li>

#UNReport #FreePalestine

''Business continues as usual'', Albanese writes, ...

2025-07-01T19:02:58Z

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''Business continues as usual'', Albanese writes, but nothing about the situation *is*, or should be, usual.

Corporations assume they'll be able to get away with it? Executives assume they will, too?

Will they?

Sorry if I'm a bit cynical but I don't think international law means much to those with plenty of cash backed up by huge weapons systems

Enter: Christenen Voor Israël. Fracesca Albanese calls out this ...

2025-07-01T18:53:24Z

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Enter: Christenen Voor Israël.

Fracesca Albanese calls out this Dutch group as among the 'key financial enablers of illegal projects' in occupied Palestine.

Funds from Christenen Voor Israël support illegal colonies and train settler paramilitaries, the UN Special Rapporteur finds.

Sounds pretty illegal nah? How come this group is allowed to continue to operate?

#ChristenenVoorIsrael #FreePalestine #UNReport

Good old Booking*com gets a mention too, in the section on ...

2025-07-01T18:46:55Z

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Good old Booking*com gets a mention too, in the section on 'Occupation tourism'.

The UN Special Rapporteur finds that Booking and Airbnb 'profit from the occupation by selling tourism that sustains the colonies, excludes Palestinians, promotes settler narratives and legitimizes annexation.'

Booking is already facing a criminal complaint in the Netherlands on suspicions of money laundering its criminal profits.

#Booking #FreePalestine #UNReport

How are universities and centres of research & learning ...

2025-07-01T18:22:22Z

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How are universities and centres of research & learning involved?

Sometimes their contribution is financial and material. (Viz. EU Horizon money channelled to zionist entities; research for weapons and surveillance tools.)

But universities' role is also, especially, *ideological*. Offering respectability and legitimacy to entities that are in truth neither respectable nor legitimate.

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese:

> Universities – centres of intellectual growth and power – have sustained the political ideology underpinning the colonization of Palestinian land, developed weaponry and overlooked or even endorsed systemic violence, while global research collaborations have obscured Palestinian erasure behind a veil of academic neutrality.

#Palestine #UNReport

What sort of violations may corporations have committed in ...

2025-07-01T18:12:58Z

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What sort of violations may corporations have committed in Palestine?

Any corporate entity that continued its activities and relationships with 'Israel' may knowingly have contributed to:<li>(a) Violation of the Palestinian right to self-determination; </li><li>(b) Annexation of Palestinian territory, maintenance of an unlawful occupation and therefore the crime of aggression and associated human rights violations; </li><li>(c) Crimes of apartheid and genocide; </li><li>(d) Other ancillary crimes and violations.</li>

according to the UN Special Rapporteur.

#Palestine #UNReport

'Colonial endeavours and associated genocides have ...

2025-07-01T18:02:33Z

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'Colonial endeavours and associated genocides have historically been driven and enabled by the corporate sector'
*-- Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967*

Burn 🔥🔥🔥

But it's so true

#Palestine #UNReport

Hey @npub1m96…ag4y 👋 The UN Special Rapporteur concludes ...

2025-07-01T17:53:31Z

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Hey European Commission (npub1m96…ag4y) 👋

The UN Special Rapporteur concludes you've been financing apartheid and genocide.

Over €2.1 billion since 2014.

Is there anything you'd like to add?

#EUComission #HorizonEurope #Palestine #UN #UNReport #EU

Funny how 'arms manufacturers' and 'big tech' are ...

2025-07-01T17:44:03Z

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Funny how 'arms manufacturers' and 'big tech' are now obviously mentioned in a single sentence, eh?

#Palestine #UNReport #tech

Why do corporations keep propping up the criminal zionist regime? ...

2025-07-01T17:42:02Z

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Why do corporations keep propping up the criminal zionist regime?

Because it's lucrative.

Occupation, apartheid, genocide ... because it generates revenue.

From the Special Rapporteur's conclusion 👇

#Palestine #UNReport

In other words, corporate executives must be held accountable ...

2025-07-01T17:38:02Z

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In other words, **corporate executives** must be held accountable for their contribution to the zionist illegal occupation of, apartheid, and genocide in Palestine, according to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.

#Palestine #UNReport

From the UN report's summary: 'This report investigates ...

2025-07-01T17:35:08Z

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From the UN report's summary:

'This report investigates the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory.'

'(...) far too many corporate entities have profited from Israel’s economy of illegal occupation, apartheid and now, genocide.'

'The complicity exposed by this report is just the tip of the iceberg; ending it will not happen without **holding the private sector accountable, including its executives**.' (my emphasis)

#Palestine #UNReport

Advance version of Francesca Albanese's report on corporate ...

2025-07-01T17:32:00Z

Advance version of Francesca Albanese's report on corporate interests in the genocide in Palestine is out:
https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ahrc5923-economy-occupation-economy-genocide-report-special-rapporteur

It's titled *From economy of occupation to economy of genocide* ...

#Palestine #UNReport

Kneecap's set at Glastonbury 🔥🔥🔥 BBC decides not to ...

2025-06-28T21:40:41Z

Kneecap's set at Glastonbury 🔥🔥🔥

BBC decides not to broadcast 😅

#Kneecap #Glastonbury #FreePalestine

Palestine Action fights back against proscription by UK home ...

2025-06-25T21:01:39Z

Palestine Action fights back against proscription by UK home secretary:
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/palestine-action/

Background:

> The Home Secretary has announced her plans to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, which would be an unprecedented attack on civil liberties and the right to protest.

> (...)

> For years, pro-Israel lobby groups, the Israeli government and Elbit Systems have been lobbying for repressive treatment of Palestine Action. Just days before government sources told the press of their intentions to ban the direct-action group, 'We Believe in Israel' released a report and 'Campaign Against Antisemitism' wrote to the Home Secretary asking for her to proscribe us.

> Now, the Home Secretary is trying to rush through a vote in Parliament to make joining or supporting Palestine Action a terrorist offence. If they're successful, it would rank Palestine Action amongst ISIS and National Action, despite our actions being in line with a long history of direct-action protests targeting property and weapons linked to war crimes.

> (...)

> We hope you will support us in fighting this draconian attack on our movement.

One year after the sit-ins at Google offices in protest against ...

2025-04-15T16:45:39Z

One year after the sit-ins at Google offices in protest against Project Nimbus, where are things at?

Tomorrow there's a Q&A event that you can join for some reflections, learnings, and ways to support the fight against AI warfare

**Google sit-ins virtual Q&A event**
Wed, April 16
5pm PT / 8pm ET
https://t.ly/416retro

#DropNimbus #Google #GoogleCloud #AIWarfare

No Tech for Apartheid statement on Google's acquisition of ...

2025-03-19T20:21:03Z

No Tech for Apartheid statement on Google's acquisition of zionist cloud security company Wiz:

"**Google acquires isra*li start-up Wiz, Signals its continued invesstment in israeli apartheid & its commitment to genocide profiteering.**

Yesterday, mere hours after Israel escalated its violations of the ceasefire and unilaterally broke the agreement in full force, bombing Gaza and murdering over 400 Palestinians, Google formally announced its acquisition of Wiz. Wiz is an Israeli cloud security startup founded by former members of Unit 8200, the Israeli military’s infamous clandestine intelligence unit.

1/2

#NoTechForApartheid #Google #Wiz #TechWorkers #Palestine

Proper security works best when using multiple 'layers' ...

2025-02-02T19:51:27Z

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Proper security works best when using multiple 'layers' of intervention. Preferably a combination of technical tooling and social (education/policy) steps to protect one another.

Yet that's not what we're doing *at all* right now, noah comments.

Today, technical tools and messaging are ...

> used to protect profits at the expense of our being able to live truly self-actualised lives.

> We are told that masks are scary, that security is “too hard”, that companies or government entities that use pandemic-driven-eugenics or New Cold War driven weakening/distorting of digital security processes have our best interests at heart.

So, people working in security: "[are we] willing to let that stand"?

#FluConf #security #TechWorkers

Love this point: > security is a “force multiplier”, not a ...

2025-02-02T19:35:45Z

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Love this point:

> security is a “force multiplier”, not a blocker — that by taking action now, by making digital security a habit, we can make it harder for disaster to strike later.

And also, if and when disaster might strike, the impact can be reduced compared to when you hadn't taken any measures at all

#FluConf #security

If your threat is that the Mossad is gonna do Mossad things to ...

2025-02-02T19:33:19Z

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If your threat is that the Mossad is gonna do Mossad things to your email account, try as you might, YOU'RE STILL GONNA BE MOSSAD'ED UPON

(sorry for shouting)

#FluConf #security

Relevant resource from noah's article: James Mickens, [This ...

2025-02-02T19:26:58Z

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Relevant resource from noah's article: James Mickens, [This World of Ours](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf ) (link to PDF)

#FluConf

The result? If you're in security and are making light of ...

2025-02-02T19:22:48Z

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The result?

If you're in security and are making light of infectious diseases, happily infecting coworkers and others, then:

> we indicate that our commitment to security stops once our paycheque or fame or particular social mode of interacting is on the line.

#FluConf #security #cybersecurity

Some examples of how defence in depth tactics are currently not ...

2025-02-02T19:20:10Z

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Some examples of how defence in depth tactics are currently not being used in (cyber)security, as mentioned in the article:<li>Major security conferences have done away with all infection mitigation measures. Worse, DEFCON, even awarded badges to ppl who got a COVID-19 infection at the con</li><li>Event organizers allow representatives of the US govt or "former" Unit 8200 employees to speak at cybersecurity community events</li>

(love the "former" quotes, which are in the original article :D )

#FluConf

Noah states:<li>Every security professional, every tech ...

2025-02-02T19:12:21Z

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Noah states:<li>Every security professional, every tech worker and indeed everyone should use defence in depth tactics (a.k.a. the '"Swiss Cheese Model")</li><li>YET at the same time, the cybersecurity industry is not using defence in depth tactics -- not to keep users safe, not for coworkers, friends, family, none ...</li>

The result? An "attitude of indifference to threats that do not have fancy monikers, or threats that are *merely biological*" (my emphasis).

#FluConf

Next up at#FluConf is noah (@npub1kug…jtsk) with: **The Swiss ...

2025-02-02T19:01:04Z

Next up at#FluConf is noah (noah (npub1kug…jtsk)) with:

**The Swiss Cheese Model: How Infosec Must Learn From Pandemic Response**

Read it here: https://covid.tips/fluconf-post/

The article's blurb:

> As a digital security professional and a pandemic activist it has been tremendously revealing to me to see how my professional community has responded to the pandemic. After a brief year of "safe mode" conferences and online trainings, the "back to normal" urge overrode many people's threat models and notable figures in the community began joking about getting covid at conferences, or client engagements, or work trips and so on. This proposal is something of a manifesto aimed at reminding the security community (and indeed the technology community) about our commitments to Defence in Depth, and drawing comparisons between still-successful pandemic interventions and how we can apply these same techniques to information security...and a plea for a new kind of cybersecurity community, one that aims to work in solidarity with our users rather than in spite of them, one that strives to prevent digital as well as physical social murder.

this resonates so strongly here 😬 😭

#CovidIsNotOver #security

Question: Can the fediverse replace X/Insta/FB? (surprising, ...

2025-02-01T14:59:40Z

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*Question:* Can the fediverse replace X/Insta/FB?

(surprising, paraphrased 😄) *Answer* from tante:

> Well ... maybe it shouldn't?

> Because then you're still stuck in this logic of there having to be this thing that everybody's on

> For example, instagram sucks. Everyone is stylized and successful and beautiful. It makes me feel bad. Should we then build an open source version of something that makes people feel bad?

> Try rethink things and what works for > *your*> community. And that may be something super small, instead of the one-to-one replacement of such a big platform

#fediverse #fluconf #SocialMedia

And tante closes their talk with two book ...

2025-02-01T14:49:08Z

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And tante closes their talk with two book recommendations:<li>Brian Merchant, <a href="https://bookwyrm.social/book/1442772/s/blood-in-the-machine"; target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Blood in the Machine</a></li><li>Jathan Sadowski, <a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite/"; target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The mechanic and the luddite</a></li>

#fluconf #books #liberations

Tech workers get a mention too! Tante: > If you care about ...

2025-02-01T14:40:32Z

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Tech workers get a mention too! Tante:

> If you care about liberation, don't make things shittier for the workers

Try to build in a way that allows a community to build autonomy and agency

#fluconf #TechWorkers

Another luddite insight: Embrace disorder It's really not ...

2025-02-01T14:38:08Z

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Another luddite insight:

**Embrace disorder**

It's really not necessary that everything needs to stick to a single big standard imposed upon the world

Allow weird divergence & idiosyncracy

#fluconf

@npub1j8v…ld5q on a neo-luddite approach: **Learn the power of ...

2025-02-01T14:36:14Z

tante (npub1j8v…ld5q) on a neo-luddite approach:

**Learn the power of NO.**

Just because big tech is doing something (AI shite, notifications, data scraping etc), doesn't mean you need to do it too

session details: https://fluconf.online/sessions/a-luddist-criticism-of-open-source-/

#fluconf

Next week 12 December in De Balie, Amsterdam: ...

2024-12-04T15:18:25Z

Next week 12 December in De Balie, Amsterdam: [@Mer__edith](https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith ) on Signal, privacy and inequality in the tech industry ✨

https://debalie.nl/programma/techdenkers-in-conversation-with-meredith-whittaker-12-12-2024/

The people of Amsterdam won't let themselves be stopped by an ...

2024-11-13T17:31:29Z

The people of Amsterdam won't let themselves be stopped by an arbitrary, oppressive ban on protests.

Here's Dam square right now. Around 150 people hold flags and banners, chanting: <li>Amsterdam is saying no to genocide!</li><li>Tout le monde déteste la police!</li>

They are surrounded by masses of cops and at least 20 police vans.

live surveillance cam on dam square: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd9d4q6WvUY

#Amsterdam #Netherlands #ProtestBan

And guess what? They got arrested. Arrested for walking around ...

2024-11-12T12:21:35Z

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And guess what? They got arrested.

Arrested for walking around together in public space on the streets of Amsterdam with empty placards and banners.

#Amsterdam #Netherlands #ProtestBan

The major of Amsterdam has banned all demonstrations and protests ...

2024-11-12T12:15:47Z

The major of Amsterdam has banned all demonstrations and protests in the city until Thursday.

Do you think this, well, sucks?

Tough luck.

The people of Amsterdam who disagree with city policies (or any other matter, such as *an ongoing genocide*) currently have no way to express their discontent together with others in public space.

But there's always creative ways. A handful of people gathered together on Dam Square with empty banners and placards to bring out the absurdity of the situation.

#Amsterdam #Netherlands #ProtestBan

Amsterdam is on fire. Yesterday police thugs violently beat a ...

2024-11-11T20:06:03Z

Amsterdam is on fire.

Yesterday police thugs violently beat a person wearing a hijab into hospital, and assaulted many others at an anti-genocide gathering.

But the major says: You're not allowed to protest. You'll just have to suck up whatever the authorities do to you.

It's been nuf.

📷 Plein '40-'45, Amsterdam, via thisisappa

👋 Hey everyone, i'm Kit, joined here recently Will most ...

2022-11-21T22:26:44Z

👋 Hey everyone, i'm Kit, joined here recently

Will most likely be tooting about tech + society, information systems ... maybe some anarchist philosophy? :blobaww:

Here's a podcast I occasionally produce some episodes for: Vulnerable By Design (npub14rw…4zhp)

#introduction