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What is "autocratic backfire"?

16 March 1939 | A Jewish boy, Adalbert Berkovits, was born in Simleul Silvaniei.

In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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▶ Watch our webinar about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/M42znxofU5Q

That's a hard NO
A better world is possible.

Major hedgerow restoration project begins on farm
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyxzj0vxvyo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Science and Environment @science-and-environment-BBCNews

National Trust's Wimpole Estate's hedgerow restoration project

The restored hedgerows will boost wildlife and help farm productivity, says the National Trust.

Signal recently released another grand jury subpoena which, as always, basically had nothing interesting to turn over in response. For the requested phone numbers they could only provide the account creation timestamp. https://signal.org/bigbrother/district-of-columbia/
Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia

Signal end-to-end encrypts both content and metadata by default far beyond most of our peers. Our aim is to have access to as close to no data as possible, meaning that we have a fraction of the personal information compared to the average communications service. We simply don’t have access to th...

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Unions are like condoms -- if someone tries to tell you you don't need one, you *definitely* need one.

« Le CIO va chercher à petits pas à réintégrer la Russie pour les JO de Donald Trump »

Pour un casque qui rendait hommage à ses coéquipiers tués lors de la guerre en Ukraine, un athlète ukrainien a été disqualifié des Jeux olympiques de Milan-Cortina. Le chercheur Lukas Aubin revient sur cet incident et, plus largement, sur la réintégration progressive de la Russie dans les arènes du sport mondial.

Par @justinebrabant › https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/130226/le-cio-va-chercher-petits-pas-reintegrer-la-russie-pour-les-jo-de-donald-trump?at_format=link&at_account=mediapart&at_campaign=mastodon&at_medium=custom7

« Le CIO va chercher à petits pas à réintégrer la Russie pour les JO de Donald Trump »

Pour un casque qui rendait hommage à ses coéquipiers tués lors de la guerre en Ukraine, un athlète ukrainien a été disqualifié des Jeux olympiques de Milan-Cortina. Le chercheur Lukas Aubin revient sur cet incident et, plus largement, sur la réintégration progressive de la Russie dans les arènes du sport mondial.

Mediapart

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.

We noticed.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/seven-billion-reasons-facebook-abandon-its-face-recognition-plans

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans

Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Electronic Frontier Foundation