I am not telling you who or what to resist. I’m just giving you some tools.
“Power absent ethics rests on an unshakable ability and desire to punish active resistance – to beat and arrest and try to ruin the lives of people who block freeways and set up encampments and confront lawmakers. But such power has no idea what to do against negative resistance, against someone who refuses to buy or attend or align, who simply says: I will not be part of this. Against the one who walks away.” […]
Test your goddamn inputs people
Everything which was behind us is in front of us. It's up to you how you respond.
Now would be a good time to familiarise yourself with the international protocols used for the collection and categorisation of digital evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Journos: if you are advising your readers on counter-surveillance measures but not dropping the adtech, you are not helping your readers. You are building a honeypot to trap them.
"I kept thinking about the person who made the basket."
Be as ruthless as the people who are coming for someone you care about.
“Don’t let anyone tell you that you didn’t see what you saw. They want to shake your confidence, to shame you into doubting reality, to get you to use euphemisms and political language that is ‘designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and give the appearance of solidity to pure wind'”. bitter southerner, via the One Nation Indivisible podcast; the inline quote is from Orwell’s Politics and the English Language.
I am giving you tools to use and I do not want to know what you will build.
A brief memo from Ray, Octavia, Eric, and Margaret.
An object lesson from the spring of 1940 has a message for you in 2024.
Day one, first principles, for the reproductive health care and privacy emergency which America just voted to unleash.