lunatic internet r&d. Interested in speculative anthropology, playing table tennis and enjoying fathering, as much as possible in a breaking world. Mostly around Freiburg/Black forest. Cocreated some FOSS projects, still involved in some ....
if anyone I am following or interacted with passes through Freiburg train station, I'll hereby invite you to a nearby nice Cafe for a drink :)
DM me for #deltachat invite link
Ow. Extremely hard hitting and good speech on the racism fomented by the theocracy in Iran again Afghan people.
For context, it was reported in June that "Iran has deported more than 366,000 Afghans this year, including refugees and people in refugee-like situations, according to the [U.N. refugee agency]" and in June alone more than 256000 Afghans were returned from Iran to under the Taliban's atrocious rule, according to the U.N.'s IOM.
Many who are considered Afghan have never been to Afghanistan and know nobody in Afghanistan, but are classified as Afghan due to pure racism and thus are "returned" to where they have never been, ripping them from where they have roots to shove them one the ground where they have none.
Likewise entirely racism-based it was ruled a few years ago that Hazaras (minority ethnicity) who had entirely grown up and lived in Iran but then fled from there could, because it was not allowed to deport them to Iran, could be deported to from Sweden to Afghanistan, where they knew nobody and had no roots, with the explicitly stated rationale to deport even lone children that "that is where their race belongs" (I will never forget that phrase explicitly in the Migration Agency's statement of new deportation policy).
In der Perry Rhodan Reihe gibt es ein Volk, das vollkommen degeneriert ist und nur noch vor irgendwelchen Monitoren sitzt und sich Zeugs anschaut.
Wenn ich so durch die Stadt laufe und mir anschauen, wie sich alle ihre Smartphones vor die Nase halten, da glaube ich, wir sind auch schon so weit. Allerdings haben wir es nicht Mal bis zum Überlichtantrieb geschafft. 🙄
As a 65yo, I have achieved a certain hard-earned wisdom that may have eluded you. I will share:
1) Just get up and go pee, it's not goin' away.
2) Start the fitted sheet at the hardest-to-reach corner.
3) If you get a cold drink, only to discover that you already had one, drink the coldest one first.
4) Work and feel shitty, or don't-work and don't feel shitty. Don't-work and feel shitty is a lousy choice.
5) Being weird is, in fact, a perfectly normal thing to be. *Everyone* does it.
Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
The US State Department published a memo urging Washington to back far-right parties in EU elections to build obedient “civilizational allies,” branding mainstream Europe as anti-democratic and making threats against governments that resist—effectively exporting Trump’s culture war to erode European sovereignty.
On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Department, writes Caroline de Gruyter.
Fewer and fewer people know their location:
- where they are
- street names and cafes etc around them
- how to get anywhere else
Memory these days is outsourced to this little device which tells us where we are and how we can get anywhere and access anything. Like electrification back in the days this happened in roughly two decades.
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.
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 :)
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