Michael Downey 🧢

@downey@floss.social
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Software freedom and digital rights activist in all aspects of work and life. Currently trying to help the world become good Free & Open Source Software citizens.

Previously, started FLOSS.social years back, and have been on multiple project boards.

Quality toots since 2017.

#BlueHats #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #HumanRights #DigitalAutonomy #SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy #fedi22

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When you're out in the streets for mass mobilization demonstrations, do not leave your disabled comrades behind. Mask up in a high-filtration mask. Something like an N95 or better.

We need you to mask up to stop the spread of COVID and other airborne pathogens – especially in this era of abject abdication of public health.

Liberation happens in community. We have to embrace that we are intertwined. We have to act like it.

Mask up for solidarity and as liberation praxis. N95 or better to filter airborne pathogens.

#anarchism #communityCare #maskUp #covidIsNotOver

Big update: The Internet Archive has launched a new version of GifCities, the search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. It's now easier to explore the glitter, chaos, and charm of early web animation.

Search better. Share better. Blink more.

Learn more: https://blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/keep-on-gifin-a-new-version-of-gifcities-internet-archives-geocities-animated-gif-search-engine/

Next week, OFE joins the UN Open Source Week! The week builds on last year’s OSPOs for Good conference we helped pioneer. OFE will also be showcasing EOSA at a side event on Tuesday. Learn more about the event: https://www.un.org/digital-emerging-technologies/content/open-source-week-2025
“Cryptome was a critical piece of showing what kind of transparency the internet could bring,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn told @newyorktimes for the obituary of John L. Young, a pioneer online librarian of secrets who died in March at 89. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/john-l-young-dead.html
John L. Young, 89, Dies; Pioneered Posting Classified Documents Online

His site, Cryptome, was a precursor to WikiLeaks, and in some ways bolder in its no-holds-barred approach to exposing government secrets.

The New York Times
The Beach Boys - God only knows (1966) fully restored video

Dedicated to the memory of Dennis and Carl Wilson whose lives changed the world as we know it in a profoundly positive way. Equal dues and respect to their e...

YouTube

One of the infuriating things with e-mail is, e-mail conversations are actually a tree structure but mail apps try to show them as threads which gets incredibly confusing

That, and every message contains every previous message so there's a superlinear growth in the size of the conversation. If your correspondents use a different mail client than you then your client probably won't know how to strip out the history so it becomes an unreadable mess

I hate #email so much, can it just die already?

For more on #UN #OpenSource Week, including schedules and livestream links, check the following site:

https://www.un.org/digital-emerging-technologies/content/open-source-week-2025

🇺🇲 🇺🇳  PSA: The United States enacted new policy on 2025-06-04 restricting the entry into the United States of nationals of several countries. IANAL but it appears from Sec. 4(iii) that anyone coming to #UN #OpenSource Week next week under a G-4 (for IO personnel) or C-2 (UN visitor visa) would be exempt.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/restricting-the-entry-of-foreign-nationals-to-protect-the-united-states-from-foreign-terrorists-and-other-national-security-and-public-safety-threats/

Restricting The Entry of Foreign Nationals to Protect the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION During my first Administration, I restricted the entry of foreign nationals into the

The White House
Hong Kong authorities warn that those who download mobile game app "Reversed Front: Bonfire" could face charges of sedition. https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202506/10/P2025061000697.htm?fontSize=1
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The 2025 OpenForum Academy Symposium is coming to FGV Rio Law in Rio de Janeiro! Join us in a vibrant, globally connected space for debate + innovation on Open Source & Open Tech.

Only weeks left to submit your proposal!

https://symposium.openforumeurope.org/