Tom Rees

@tomrees
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31 - Melbourne

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ProfessionCreative Design Lead (branding)
i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
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When you join the #FSF, you support lots of great work, including the #Librephone project and research on freedom in machine learning applications: https://u.fsf.org/49z #FSFTable
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Prosecutors ignored regulators who said no crime existed, hid evidence, threatened 25 years, then jailed two innocent men for protecting privacy. The US government are the real criminals.

https://blackoutvpn.au/blog/samourai-wallet-founders-prosecuted

#HumanRights #GovernmentOverreach #FreeSamourai #Authoritarianism #democracy

Feds Ratfuck Innocent Samourai Wallet Founders

US prosecutors crushed Samourai Wallet developers despite regulators saying their software was legal

Blackout VPN

The future is not looking bright if any man and his dog can be thrown into prison for writing a useful privacy respecting, open source tool on a conspiracy charge. Good video by #NaomiBrockwell #NBTV

#KeonneRodriguez and #BillHill did not break a single law. #FreeSamourai

https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Samourai:e

Support them at billandkeonne.org

He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison.

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Stand Up for Freedom: Pardon the Innocent Coders Jailed for Building Privacy Tools!

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There has been genuine progress to address fraud and corruption in local government, but there remains wide variation in practice and capability, particularly in areas such as expense reporting, staff training, and internal fraud detection, a report tabled in Parliament today has found. Read the report at https://vicparl.news/3K3u1yV.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/115451212483175539

So keen for this update on Loops. Highly recommend people suss out this fediverse video app once update drops

For all who would like to exit from #Bigtech I would recommend once more the encouraging #optout-project developed by Janet Vertesi:

"Yes, you can live without Big Tech.
If data is the new oil, then I'm here to help you go electric. Join the resistance", says @cyberlyra https://www.optoutproject.net/welcome-to-the-opt-out-project/

Welcome to the Opt Out Project - The Opt Out Project

Welcome, fellow and aspiring conscientious objectors! Yes, you can live a modern, digitally connected, twenty-first century life online without Big…

The Public Accounts and Estimates Committee is seeking public submissions to an inquiry into fraud and corruption controls in local government. See terms of reference and more information at vicparl.news/3WOQYcl.
Inquiry into fraud and corruption control in local government: a follow up of two Auditor-General reports - Parliament of Victoria

I see that someone dumped red paint and took a hammer to the Cook statue in Randwick (Sydney). And now people are running around tut-tutting and trying to figure out what to do.

Possible solutions:

1. Move it to a museum in its current state and put some signage up explaining the history of Cook and his interactions with the people who were already living in and around the Pacific when he finally turned up; the history of the statue itself; and explain why this vandalism keeps happening.

Or

2. Leave it where it is, and every year someone gets to take some whacks at it with a sledgehammer, and dump some more red paint on it, until it's a little stump of crushed sandstone and paint.

If you're interested in the back story on this particular statue check out Trove. This isn't the first time someone has proposed moving this thing. @trovenewsbot

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article114802545

#auspol #invasionday

CAPTAIN COOK MOVED ON. - STATUE AT RANDWICK. - Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931) - 21 May 1912

Some years ago a public-spirted resident of Randwick, Mr. H. S. G'baon presented the municipality with a fine status of Capitals James Cook, and it was erected on a small ...

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