For 10 years now the weakest link in the resistance to fascism have been all the people who think the war against fascism is a war of discourse that takes place on the level of idea, belief, or argument. The war against fascism is fought on the streets and in the fabric of civil society.

Happy birthday to Antonio Gramsci, one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century and a socialist hero.

how many democrats are gonna vote to keep funding this?

digital security hobbyists, and a lot of professionals, think that the goal is to be as close to 100% secure as possible, when the goal is actually to help people do all the things they want to do while minimizing risks as much as possible.

odi ET amo? in this economy??

With “Wikimedia Enterprise”, AI companies have to use (and pay for) dedicated APIs to scrape data, which helps to limit the strain on Wikimedia servers. (See eg arstechnica.com/information-...) This is a good thing for Wikimedia and for its readers.

earnestly asking all the lawyers and legal analysts and policy wonks who haven't, don't and won't put their bodies on the line in the face of government violence to kindly just not share your opinions about how the people who are actually brave should behave.

It should be rigorously forbidden to ask for any public money for any reason if your corporation has multiple people in management making over a million dollars a year. That should be an automatic fucking non-starter. Fire the fucking football coaches first. God damn.

watching werner herzog sell out in his old age is a little heartbreaking

any studio that attends this should be boycotted permanently.

someone posted a link to acoustic autechre covers and now i can't find it send help (and the link) plz

perfect opportunity for youth activists to stage a protest and flood the workshop

John Berger is a writer I've returned to again and again over the years. These essays—moving between Palestine, the war on terror, and the intimate toll of displacement and exile—are a critical reminder of what political writing can do.

i didn't start going to rallies for gay marriage at 12 just to watch all my friends gay elope goddamnit

I'm presenting a lunchtime seminar at work on Wednesday about my research on student-on-student misuse of nudify apps - you can watch live on Zoom, and the recording will be up pretty soon afterwards: hai.stanford.edu/events/riana...

It's not a coincidence that when Tor wanted to get rid of Jacob Appelbaum, they shuffled him off to academia, where he's been ever since.

the ai voice chat bot that progressive has now includes fake typing sounds this is a special kind of hell.

same tbh

Folks, I’m still looking for an immigration attorney who works on deportation defense (and appeals) for the family I wrote about here. IL and IN based preferably.

this pains me to say but the seth mcfarlane / mark wahlburg movie Ted was, apparently, somehow, inexplicably prescient www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/t...

The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either

There should be something like ostracism where everyone in a given cafe at a given moment can vote on which conversation is most annoying and those people have to leave the cafe.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.

So frustrating. Killing a free and easy way for Americans to file their taxes in exchange for a more complicated and or fee-based program from private companies is ludicrous. Why would a government want to make it difficult for citizens to pay their taxes?

The AI bubble is like if the Dutch also believes that the tulips were God.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

Folks I think it’s time to start phasing out Twitter screenshots on here. We all know what’s going on there, we all chose to leave, you farming for engagement doesn’t justify making us see that shit.

here’s what i think about pitchfork doing a comments section and reader scores open.substack.com/pub/jaimebro...

Going through my entertainment subscriptions to see.which ones I can switch over to recurring charitable donations. I haven't looked at some of these channels and services in months and if I'm sitting restless at home I'd be better off reading something and knowing that my money was helping someone.

Living a mile away from a DVD rental store that has basically everything (and a collection of film memorabilia and costumes!) is such a joy.

Anyone who doesn’t figure out it’s a Nazi tattoo within 18 years is definitely not qualified for the fucking US Senate.

i absolutely don't want to live in a world where i get emails with subject lines asking me to review the experience of euthanizing my beloved dog

Ut oh. Yesterday I reported that just 18% of the cases against people arrested September 27-28 at Broadview in Chicago had survived. Make that 9% -- they just moved to dismiss another case. www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/g...

@emptywheel.bsky.social 's reporting on just how many cases are falling apart against protestors has been really valuable for trying to help people exercise their rights in these fascist times www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/g...

Today, @consumerreports.org @aspendigital.bsky.social @gca.bsky.social released the 4th Annual Consumer Cyber Readiness Report, co written by @gigastacey.bsky.social @jefflandale.bsky.social and I. innovation.consumerreports.org/2025-Consume... #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth 1/x

We've been on such a roll updating pages and adding new ones!

my life would be better if dumbarton oaks, loeb, and i tatti had seasonal sales like Steam

For over a year now I’ve worked so hard and tried everything I could to avoid this. But I couldn’t save enough, so here we are. I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.

I want to take whatever the Goodreads recommendation algorithm is huffing.

While not written specifically for activists, I've worked with @yaelwrites.com on @consumerreports.org Security Planner tool for the past few years and it is definitely worth going thru if you're in a city overrun with fascists securityplanner.org

So much appreciation for foundations and grant giving organizations that scream their issue areas and geographic focus on the website landing page.

google docs moving the insert footnote button under a submenu is violence

A useful thread on the Itch and Steam censorship situation

Does anyone have resources on elder care facilities in Massachusetts? I'm helping family friends find info on this as their dad is likely not going to be able to take care of himself anymore.