Jan Wildeboer 😷
So we slowly start to see the mechanisms the US under Trump is establishing to silence and destroy critics or people they deem to be their enemy. From travel bans (Breton, von Hodenberg) to complete isolation from using US American software, banking and payment networks (ICJ/ICC judges and prosecutors). I will continue to untangle my digital life towards personal digital sovereignty. That's also why I am primarily on the Fediverse, by the way.
Also — if you are organising an international conference and still plan for that to take place in the US, think again. You are putting your international audience at risk. Not just Trump critics, also transgender people, non-white people and more groups.
Do note that I still refuse to make all US people responsible for what their administration is doing. But I do ask them to do everything they can to stop this development towards splendid isolation and authoritarianism. For your own sake.
Jeff Atwood
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967
There's something happening hereWhat it is ain't exactly clearThere's a man with a gun over thereTelling me I got to bewareI think it's time we stop, childre...
Joe@jwildeboer Working on it. TBA or Take Back America is one of my major goals throughout 2026; next year is our best chance to change things by switching the majority party in our Congress. Then move toward impeachment proceedings and conviction this time.
Not that J.D. Vance is any better, but at least then we could convict the felon on charges he deserves to be jailed for. Fortunately, some in the GOP are seeing the writing on the wall and either quitting or moving to the correct side of law.
Patrick Loftus 🖖
@jwildeboer Appreciated. Many of us are doing what we can locally. I still write letters to my representatives even though I suspect they’re ignored and only add me to a list.
One small task has simply been updating people’s older non-windows 11 compatible computers to linux which has been a good conversation starter regarding non-tracking FOSS.