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pospi

@pospi@kolektiva.social

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354 Posts

Programmer of psyches, socialities, languages and computers.

Currently exploring crises of governance in White 'alternative' movements; especially far-right recruitment in Beatnik communities throughout #Permaculture, #Web3 / #DWeb, #Tech & #SystemsChange.

Recovering anti-colonial #p2p & #p4p technologist.

Relationally #Enspiral #Valueflows #Neighbourhoods #Scuttlebutt
Instigator #Economikit #hREA

Nonbinary-erring transfemme mostly on unceded Woiworrung & Kulin lands.

they/them

website	https://pospi.spadgos.com
github	https://pospi.github.io

pospi 1d ago

Nora Reed 1d ago

just realized that as soon as tech companies made the shift from siri style "personal assistants" to "AI" that you were supposed to trust for actual answers about things, they stopped gendering them all as feminine. grok, chatgpt, claude, they're all either neutral or masculine

pospi 1d ago

hexaheximal 2d ago

"no politics" or a thriving and inclusive online community. Pick one.

They are mutually exclusive. Stop pretending the two can coexist.

pospi 1d ago

Canvases By Peter 1d ago

A 61yr old woman who fled GAZA has been raided and detained, no not in the US, here in Australia! The Albanese Government is carrying out the work of DT's ICE right here in AU!

"security checks were made on her by both Australian and Israeli authorities before she was granted a visa and cleared to leave Gaza" and asking the ENEMY (Israel) for clearance on a person was such a *brilliant idea* wasn't it.. Idiots!

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/11/palestinian-woman-who-fled-gaza-detained-by-authorities-after-pre-dawn-raid-in-sydney-ntwnfb

#LaborFail #AustralianICE #HumanRights #News #AUSPol

Palestinian woman, 61, who fled Gaza detained by authorities after pre-dawn raid in Sydney

Maha Almassri told she had failed a visa character check and taken to Bankstown police station, then Villawood detention centre, cousin says

The Guardian

pospi 4d ago

Fedi.Tips Jun 19

Bluesky are openly welcoming, verifying and hosting accounts of prominent far right politicians. Trump's VP Vance is now on Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/jd-vance-1.bsky.social

"We welcome the Vice President to the conversation on Bluesky" (Bluesky in their email to Fox News)

More 🚩: Bluesky is centralised, run by a for-profit corporation, its CEO has blockchain background, it is partly owned by VCs & Blockchain Capital.

Bluesky are going down exactly the same Nazi Bar path as Twitter.

(via @mastodonmigration)

JD Vance (@jd-vance-1.bsky.social)

Christian, husband, dad. Vice President of the United States. jdvance.com

Bluesky Social

pospi 4d ago

Toni Aittoniemi 4d ago

Scratch the surface of any anti-vaxx, anti-masking or anti-lockdown organisation, and you’ll find weird cults of christians, climate change deniers, neo-nazis and eugenics buffs thinking they’re hippies. Keep digging and you’ll find Koch brothers, fossil fuel lobby and eventually Peter Thiel. But most of all you’ll find anti-liberalism, which is the irony of it all. It’s like an Ouroboros chasing it’s tail.

pospi 4d ago

GrapheneOS 4d ago

GrapheneOS is currently under a state sponsored attack attempting to misrepresent it as being for criminals, which we covered a bit at https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114784469162979608. These poorly researched, biased and inaccurate news stories have led to more harassment towards our community and team.

GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)

European authoritarians and their enablers in the media are misrepresenting GrapheneOS and even Pixel phones as if they're something for criminals. GrapheneOS is opposed to the mass surveillance police state these people want to impose on everyone. https://www.xatakandroid.com/sociedad/cada-vez-que-vemos-google-pixel-pensamos-que-puede-ser-narcotraficante-movil-perfecto-para-crimen-sencilla-razon

GrapheneOS Mastodon

pospi 5d ago

A quite nuanced expert investigation into possible #activist applications of #AI ☺️🤖 https://www.juniperbevensee.com/musings/does-ai-suck #LLMs
Personally I am in the anarchic "hate it" camp but even so, https://bsky.app/profile/juniperbevensee.bsky.social illuminates a lot about how bias and censorship are encoded into #ChatGPT & other commercial tools.

Does AI Suck? — Juniper Bevensee

Experiments in radical, decolonial and queer AI ethics Whether you love or loath AI, this piece will give you something to sink your teeth into.

Juniper Bevensee

pospi 6d ago

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯6d ago

"Britain’s drug gangs and Moscow’s hackers were just two nodes in a vast criminal super-network [that] included sanctioned oligarchs, Russian intelligence operatives and an Irish crime family."

(and of course that network also now includes the #Trump administration, because Howard Lutnick is/was Tether's money manager and Justin Sun is now the Trump family's business partner in #WorldLibertyFinancial)

* #TheEconomist: https://www.economist.com/1843/2025/07/04/how-tether-became-money-launderers-dream-currency
* no paywall: https://archive.ph/NiCRD

#moneylaundering #crime #corruption #crypto #cryptocurrency #iran #russia #uspol #howardLutnick #economist #economics #finance #uk #ukpol #garantex #threatintel #ransomware #cybersecurity #vladimirputin #oligarchs #putin #ukraine #kinahans #kinahan

pospi Jul 1

Blue Ghost Jul 1

ClearURLs is a browser extension that removes tracking elements from URLs.

Automatically removes trackers.
Blocks some ad domains.
Built-in tool to clean up multiple URLs at once.
Supports redirection to the destination.
Blocks hyperlink auditing (ping tracking).
Prevents ETag tracking.
Prevents Google from rewriting the search results.
Optimized for Firefox.

Website: https://clearurls.xyz
Mastodon: @clearurls

#ClearURLs #Firefox #Browser #Privacy #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #Trackers #Tracking

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pospi Jun 30

@garbados Australia's former prime minister, everyone 😆 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hmPVCKnkKWA

Prime Minister Tony Abbott explains why he ate a raw onion

YouTube

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯6d ago

"Britain’s drug gangs and Moscow’s hackers were just two nodes in a vast criminal super-network [that] included sanctioned oligarchs, Russian intelligence operatives and an Irish crime family."

* #TheEconomist: https://www.economist.com/1843/2025/07/04/how-tether-became-money-launderers-dream-currency
* no paywall: https://archive.ph/NiCRD

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GhostOnTheHalfShell 6d ago

@cryptadamist

I don’t think it would be wrong to characterize this as global mafia, seizing the means of government. I know some people would just say same shit different day, but there are levels.

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Local Agency 6d ago

@cryptadamist one thing that struck me about tether is how it allows the admins of the coin to essentially mint money without having to go through the federal reserve.

IOW

USDT outstanding > Tether dollar reserves.

Which is a great place to be if you don't give a shit about your host currency.

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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯6d ago

@laprice yes (and we know they printed money that at least a few times, when they got caught by NYS for lying about their reserves and then when they created a billion by lending $1 bn USDT to #CelsiusNetwork

unfortunately now donald trump can also print money outside the banking system with his personal stablecoin #USD1.

i suspect trump is even less likely than tether to be audited or scrutinized (and tether has never been audited).

#uspol #banking #uspolitics #trump #Celsius #tether #howardlutnick

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Local Agency 6d ago

@cryptadamist So illegal that they didn't have specific laws against it.

I'm still surprised the Biden admin didn't shut them down; but find it plausible that they didn't grasp the scale of threat and the scope of the enterprise.

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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯6d ago

@laprice it's either that or, if you put on your tinfoil hat for a minute, they allowed tether to continue existing because it is useful for the CIA etc. to have a way to move money around secretly.

i know it sounds crazy but a) i've thought about this a *lot* and it's hard to think of any other reason something as malevolent as tether wasn't shut down and b) the recent mass seizure of iran's crypto assets lend some credence to this theory.

it wouldn't even be the first time - in the 1980s the CIA and terrorists were using the same drug cartel bank (BCCI) to move money around the world. BCCI resembles tether in a *lot* of way and managed to continue existing for a really long time until it blew up in a huge scandal (and BCCI became a bacryonym for "Bank of Crooks and Criminals")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_International