Mastodawn

This isn’t just “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/beware-government-using-image-manipulation-propaganda

Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who also serves as acting field director of the St Paul Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

fosfene Jan 25

Victator Jan 24

💔Alex J. Pretti💔 age 37, of South #Minneapolis was gunned on in cold blood by #ICE thugs today. He was Brandishing his phone recording 🧊.

No criminal record. Worked for the VA as an ICU nurse. Legal gun owner. Homeowner. Upstanding member of his community. He was a hero in his career, and went out like a hero trying to protect the women the ICE officer pushed down.

A TRUE hero all around, he didn’t deserve this. RIP #AlexPretti

🦔 Reposted from Feminist News

fosfene Jan 19

Anne Applebaum Jan 19

"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK36YjEx6PWcaiwVCToEIk3KY

Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw

Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?

The Atlantic

fosfene Jan 16

Electronic Frontier Foundation Jan 16

ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest, @404mediaco reports. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/report-ice-using-palantir-tool-feeds-medicaid-data

Report: ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data

ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

fosfene Jan 15

Metin Seven 🎨Jan 14

Want to move from US-based apps and services to Europe-based ones?

Some useful links to get you going…

https://european-alternatives.eu

https://euroalternative.co

https://www.switch-to.eu/en

https://www.goeuropean.org

https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/%F0%9F%87%AA%F0%9F%87%BA-european-alternatives-to-american-apps.46070

https://www.privacytools.io

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools

https://eurotechguide.com

https://switching.software

https://codeberg.org/ADHDefy/delightful-creative-tools

Big freeware / open source list:
https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/3tPYpALSRBVZ5od-0YfEKp+l

#EU #europe #USA #apps #software #tech #tips #FreeSoftware #free #FOSS #OpenSource

European Alternatives

We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

European Alternatives

fosfene Jan 15

Electronic Frontier Foundation Jan 14

We've said it before and nine federal courts have made it clear as well — you have the right to film ICE. EFF has joined 12 other free speech organizations calling on the Trump Administration to stop spreading the false claim that it is "illegal" to record ICE agents. https://ncac.org/news/free-expression-advocates-call-on-trump-administration-to-respect-publics-first-amendment-right-to-record

Free Expression Advocates Call on Trump Administration to Respect Public’s First Amendment Right to Record

The National Coalition Against Censorship leads a sign-on letter defending the First Amendment right to record ICE agents and hold power accountable. NCAC leads a national sign-on letter defending the First Amendment right to record ICE agents.

National Coalition Against Censorship

fosfene Jan 4

Hanse Mina Jan 2

Russian losses in 2025

#Ukraine #Russia #Russianlosses

fosfene Dec 25

PC Dec 24

A "shithole country" isn't a poor country that can't feed its children. It's a rich country that won't feed its children.

fosfene Dec 23

Augie Ray Dec 23

"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch.'"

Stop pretending ANYONE who voted for Trump has any morality or cares about protecting children or women.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/president-shares-love-young-nubile-131331220.html

‘Our President Also Shares Our Love of Young, Nubile Girls’: New Epstein Files Release Shows Purported Letter to Fellow Sex Creep Days Before Suicide

The Associated Press first reported on the existence of the letter in 2023 after it was referenced in documents released under FOIA by the Bureau of Prisons.

Yahoo News

fosfene Dec 23

Hanse Mina Dec 23

Germany’s far-right AfD accused of gathering information for the Kremlin

https://www.politico.eu/article/germanys-far-right-afd-accused-of-gathering-information-for-the-kremlin/

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #Germany #AfD