Mastodawn

Residents in Nijmegen, a Dutch city, gathered to read out loud all known victims of the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict. It took them 1.5 hours to read out the names of all Israeli victims. It took them more than 100 hours to read out the names of the Palestinian victims.

https://www.news.com.au/world/residents-in-dutch-town-reads-names-of-gazas-victims/video/a456711e17f2dd5c34a7dd29a55b74d4

holga 1d ago

Delta Chat 1d ago

Tomorrow at #CFC25 there are two sessions about #DeltaChat:

How to set up a #chatmail relay server, an easy way to make your first timid steps with server administration: https://pretalx.c3voc.de/chaos-feminist-convention-2025/talk/TWRT8X/

And an overview on #webxdc apps, and how they bring back computing to your social context, locking out the tracking companies: https://pretalx.c3voc.de/chaos-feminist-convention-2025/talk/9VMYAJ/

The webxdc talk will also be streamed, if you want to join remotely :)

Self-hosting Chatmail relay servers - for anonymous & encrypted Instant Messaging Chaos Feminist Convention

Chatmail relays are for anonymous, secure, and autonomous/decentralized chatting with Delta Chat - great to get started with Server Administration.

holga 2d ago

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers 2d ago

Every flag is black in a fire!

https://crimethinc.com/TheBlackFlag

"The black flag means negation, anger, outrage, mourning, beauty, hope, the fostering and sheltering of new forms of life and relationship with this earth. We are proud to carry it, sorry we have to, and await the day when such a symbol will no longer be necessary."

🏴

holga 2d ago

The so called "tragedy of the commons" is rather a tragedy of the neoliberal attitude that externalizes care. Peoples have been very well able to care for their environment. Elinor Ostrom and many anthropologists provide numerous examples of humans not only caring but enriching their environment. But our capitalist mindsets must believe in the "tragedy of the commons" because otherwise there would be no "natural" justification for not caring and letting go things to shit and the planet to heat

holga 2d ago

Many people.i talk with and know, like to imagine "future technologies" and are quite well informed on current developments and technologies ... Which are coming with hypes often fueled by money interests. Despite numerous hypes failing to deliver, sometimes at all, manufactured popularity and hypes still drive tech development cycles. Everyone is talking about Xshiny so it must be interesting, right? I prefer to work with a few people I like to do things together with and see what we can do.

holga 2d ago

A.A. Delafin, blackguard 2d ago

It's important to understand that the climate crisis isn't a technological problem looking for a solution, but a systemic one looking for dismantling.

holga Jun 30

Instead of AI wouldn't it be useful if the German government invested into core infrastructure for trains and bicycles, and powering it with _current_ energy (also termed "renewables" but it's really just about using the massive energy around us every day).

Instead, current mainstream industrial policy remains to keep digging out past concentrated energy (fossil and nuclear) that was already safely stored away ... and burn it, injecting more and more heat into the biosphere.
#bataille

holga Jun 30

Jan Penfrat Jun 30

Today I will spend hours in the @EUCommission's #DMA workshop with #Apple so you don't have to. It'll be painful, it'll be funny, it'll be hot! 😆

The workshop starts with Apple lawyers speaking time in which they are supposed to explain how they comply with the #DigitalMarketsAct. Instead, they waste everybody's time with marketing BS and pointless rants against the law (or as they say "the Commission's interpretation of the law").

What a waste.

holga Jun 27

The Public Domain Review Jun 27

Emma Goldman — born #onthisday in 1869 — was a radical critic of capitalism, the state, patriarchy and colonialism during the fertile political years of the late 19th and early 20th century. More on her life and “anarchism without adjectives” here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/emma-goldmans-anarchism-without-adjectives #otd

holga Jun 27

Awet Tesfaiesus, MdB Jun 27

Union und SPD wollen heute den Familiennachzug zu subsidiär Schutzberechtigten aussetzen. Jede Mutter, jeder Vater kann erahnen was es bedeutet, über Jahre von seinem Kind getrennt zu sein.
Was die Regierung heute entscheiden will, ist nicht nur inhuman und unbarmherzig. Es ist auch sachlich falsch, es verhindert eine erfolgreiche Integration.