I have been enjoying the work of Dissent; namely of their Spring 2023 issue. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/issue/spring-2023/

The essay about Copy City at https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-fight-against-cop-city/ helped made clear and provided a working example of a multi-issue, cross-left-political banner towards liberation eventually devolves into a battle between corporations and its larger shielding — the State itself. We can hope for the State to reconfigure itself, but that takes decades. People going as far as to put themselves to prevent the ecologically corrupt disaster of the capitalist prison system should be enough to show people that this is not an accident or some misunderstanding.

And just backed a copy of this for myself and an inmate by way of Unchained, a support group for inmates in NYC. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/abolitionanddisabilityjustice.

Just backed the Iron Circus's newest comic line: Rigsby WI. https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/iron-circus-comics/rigsby-wi-volume-1

Lmfao, so much for the EU being a privacy bastion. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23winter-prepub-107-bouhoula.pdf

This is the world of surveillance. This is getting out of hand (and it's been). https://www.fastcompany.com/91087484/how-fast-food-is-becoming-a-new-surveillance-ground. I'm going to always ask folks to read and understand how all of this is tied to the American project, as highlighted in Logics https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/

Up and onwards, Keith! https://blog.glitch.com/post/my-last-day-at-fastly/ Glitch was lucky to have you.

alright enough corpo-wailing from me, back to being a work drone.

More days than not, the "beep boop" doesn't hit me in the feels the same way it did a decade ago. The "beeping blorp" just flops. Not even a bop.

TIL that "Ars Technica" means the art of technology

Lol, I'm actually looking for a mention of the tactics of infighting that COINTELPRO mentioned when they worked to infiltrate dissent groups.

Them: "What's that you're reading?"

Me: "oh, nothing, just a book about the government".

The book: https://archive.org/details/cointelpro_papers/page/n9/mode/2up

This video is good and a reminder that the government will lie first before telling the truth. https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1589606899569377282. This is not even like a side-thought: "national security" is the means of the United States of maintaining its existing means of operation with no interruption, no reform and no changes.

Imagine how many articles we've read today that has a bunch of "briefed" journalists who do truly believe that the same government that spent billions on killing Indigenous peoples to form itself would, this time, tell any sort of complete truth.

The fact that we have FOIAs should be a bigger reminder to not fall for that.

This, https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1487175300115054593, is how Snowden routinely reminds me that he a white boy for the Souf, lol.

I'm combing through his Twitter randomly (which I'm curious if he still uses it) and saw this https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1619381527569391616. This logic is very hopeful in the idea that a judical system will fix the issues of the paramilitary forces of a state in the USA. Itmakes me wonder if we need to do more teachings/learnings about how and why policing exists in America, how its form of policing got exported to many places (like South Africa post apartheid, more explicitly and retroactive training from the Israeli Defense Force to civilian police in places like New York City and Portland).

Got like 2.5 years left and if Snowden's right about this, it's going to be via Apple's Vision Pro acolytes who have ignored the years of VR (and just truly do not give a fuck about the harms of Foxconn). https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1585589721971003398. Watch WWDC get a VR component in 2027.

The act of mental decolonization is a very wild process. It's not linear. It's constant — society itself carries many artifacts of older colonization and the throngs of modern forms. But those moments where people are very excited to make these connections and build either their own defenses from it or find new ways to represent and identify themselves are always so joyous.

We need to stop making commercial apps. Like full stop. https://www.platformer.news/marissa-mayer-sunshine-shine-app-design-cofounder-quits/

Oh, sure, your country of 95% Africans can have your little election. But only if you choose to have no army, no police and have your election options selected by the client-state coalition backed by the US and UN. Fuck this shit. I'm wanting Famni to get back into power but damn. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article286650320.html

Best maps of Haiti I can find online are ones produced by the United States Army. Specifically, the United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, based in Virginia (public info).

The role of art is to provide a space for critique and we've lost that completely in this age. It's not socially safe to push back on what oligarchy define as "high art", despite the same system actively rejecting any chance for "inclusive" art when it comes to awarding it (which is signal enough that the institution will not accept you until it's profitable). It's always — always — fuck billionaires (and, shit, millionaires, while we're at it) if you're being honest about demanding systematic change for people.