Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org

Elections measure the composition of existing class power, they are not path to power

Desconfiar de la #IA #DeepSeek parece razonable, pero también lo es desconfiar de #Google, #Meta, #X, #OpenAI y todas las big tech estadounidenses. La feroz campaña mediática contra DeepSeek evidencia la hipocresía de Occidente. Aceptamos el espionaje, control y fallas de seguridad de las tecnológicas estadounidenses, pero nos alarmamos si la competencia es china. El espectáculo mediático es lamentable. Ojalá aplicáramos el mismo nivel de crítica y exigencia a los oligarcas estadounidenses.

YESTERDAY

Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away.
Oh I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly,
There's not half the files there used to be,
And there's a milestone
hanging over me
The system crashed so suddenly.

I pushed something wrong
What it was I could not say.

Now all my data's gone
and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.

Yesterday,
The need for back-ups seemed so far away.
I knew my data was all here to stay,
Now I believe in yesterday.

#filk #beatles

Invent Monopoly, do not collect $200...

Lizzie Maggie's "Landlord's Game" and how an anti-capitalist board game invented by a woman became an uber-capitalist game that profited a man: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-landlords-game/

#38C3 Ilegal Instructions: A Call for #Antifascist Action?

https://ps.zoethical.org/t/illegal-instructions-a-call-to-anti-fascist-action/8860

We’ve made the hard decision to end our experiment with Mozilla.social and will shut down the Mastodon instance on December 17, 2024. Thank you for being part of the Mozilla.social community and providing feedback during our closed beta. You can continue to use Mozilla.social until December 17. Before that date, you can download your data here (https://mozilla.social/settings/export), and migrate your account to another instance following these instructions (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozilla-social-faq). 

For some last-minute, end-of year #permacomputing joy, please join us in Berlin for a workshop:

## POST:COM:POST ##
** Regenerating rotting devices.**

* A Permacomputing Berlin Workshop *

15 December 2024
12:00 - 17:00

hosted by:
/rosa
Heidelberger Str. 28, 12059 Berlin (Alt-Treptow/Neukölln)

In this workshop, we will attempt to install the Linux-based PostmarketOS on "obsolete" Android devices and find convivial new uses for them. This event will be more of a collective hacking and experimentation session than a traditional pedagogical instruction format. We can't promise to make every old device work again but we can offer a fun, informative and supportive environment.

For sign-up and more info: https://berlin.permacomputing.net

Workshop by
@cas
@praxeology
@andscape
@computersandblues
@tbernard (in absentia)

"Alpha" edition of WEKILL//LEAKS was cool, looking good, and fun to play... but inbalanced and sometimes a bit confusing.

After 6 months of playtesting and adjustments (and the building of a computer seimulation!) a "Beta" edition is being printed! More streamlined and fun to play, and much much more balanced!

https://dissent-and-datalove.institute/artworks/wkl/

Come to #38C3 and get in touch to get yours, from an exclusive limited run of 100 (boxed!) copies.

Playtest event on day3, at 18h00 at the @HouseofTea https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/event/wekillleaks-a-game-of-courageous-publishing-and-im/

If you want to support the project and get a chance to get your own boxed copy, please donate here:

https://opencollective.com/dissent-and-datalove

#38C3 #Gaming #SeriousGaming #CourageousPublishing #ImperialistShitfuckery

How a significant part of public opinion sees people on bikes https://feddit.it/post/12975997

"Texan so carbrained, he comes to Swiss subreddit to tell them they should have more traffic deaths"

submitted by u/TheTommyMann
https://redd.it/1h75c7f
#fuckcars

SÚMATE a nuestro siguiente seminario web! Compartiremos resultados preliminares de la investigación "Cortar el hilo"...

¿Quieres saber cómo desprenderte de los servicios de G?

Próximo viernes 6 de diciembre 11am UTC -6. Regístrate aquí: https://outreach.mayfirst.org/civicrm/mailing/view?id=1430&reset=1

Did you know that you’re not required to give tech billionaires permanent access to your data? Claw back your data from big tech, starting with X. Start deleting all your tweets today for free https://cyd.social/delete-all-your-tweets-for-free-with-cyd/

Our GSMA SGP.21 consumer eUICC in plastic card form factor is finally back in stock. Install any eSIM profile on a removable card: https://shop.sysmocom.de/sysmoEUICC1-eUICC-for-consumer-eSIM-RSP/sysmoEUICC1-C2G #3gpp #gsma #esim #telecom

Nuevo número de la revista Internet Ciudadana "¿Tecnologías digitales para la vida o para la destrucción?" https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1367-45d3-5cc6-e15473299217

In case you didn't notice yet: #38C3 will have an actual 1990s circuit switched ISDN telephone exchange (Siemens EWSD) providing wired POTS and ISDN services on-site: https://youtu.be/qIpDiiJTZTA?feature=shared #retronetworking #ccc2024 #ccc #isdn