Regarding the #LosAngeles protests:

I feel strongly that the _only_ way the #Trump regime can truly be defeated is via mass protests.

When Hitler took over the Weimar Republic, there _weren't_ any large-scale protests. Most Germans just went along with it and minded their own business, and thus the Nazis could do whatever they wanted.

But if there are mass protests in the streets - as there are currently in the USA, then this sends a powerful message to the supporters of the regime. Remember how quickly Google, Facebook, and other companies bent their knees at the inauguration and afterwards? That's because they figured they had much to gain by supporting Trump, and there were little in the way of negative consequences for doing so.

Mass protests send a different message. They show that there is real anger and wrath in the general public about what Trump is doing, and this makes clear to all the quislings that there is a real price to supporting Trump. Maybe some of them will reconsider, and become less conciliatory to the government.

And this goes for the rest of society, too. Police, military, the courts - none of them are immune to public opinion. If they believe they have nothing to lose from subservience to Trump, then they will do so. But if there is a real cost - in public perception, in self-image, and so forth - then maybe they will question their orders.

Anyway: Godspeed, and keep it up.

#LAProtests #Trump #ICE #fascism

Boost dit, mensen!
#madleen

Op 14 oktober vervalt de ondersteuning van alle huidige Microsoft Exchange mailserver versies. Voor die tijd moet iedereen die dat nu draait OF over zijn gegaan op een hele nieuwe versie OF migreren naar de cloud. En dat laatste zou, met alle gevolgen van dien, weleens per ongeluk kunnen gebeuren bij de Nederlandse demissionaire overheid. Doe het niet!
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/demissionair-de-cloud-in-denderen/

Increasingly, surveillance is being normalized and integrated in our lives. Under the guise of convenience, applications and features are sold to us as being the new better way to do things. While some might be useful, this convenience is a Trojan horse. The cost of it is the continuous degradation of our privacy rights, with all that that entails.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/07/selling-surveillance-as-convenience/

#Privacy #DigitalRights #PrivacyGuides #Article

"Invisible radiation leaking out of private #satellites, like SpaceX's #Starlink spacecraft, is disrupting radio astronomers' ability to detect important signals from across the universe. Some researchers are so worried about this invisible pollution that they think we could eventually reach an 'inflection point,' beyond which ground-based #astronomy instruments could become radio-blind to the cosmos.”

https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/no-radio-astronomy-from-the-ground-would-be-possible-anymore-satellite-mega-swarms-are-blinding-us-to-the-cosmos-and-a-critical-inflection-point-is-approaching

#Space #SpaceEnvironment #RadioAstronomy

Rusland zat ‘zeer waarschijnlijk’ achter grootschalige datadiefstal bij politie, volgens inlichtingendiensten https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/05/27/rusland-zat-zeer-waarschijnlijk-achter-grootschalige-datadiefstal-bij-politie-volgens-inlichtingendiensten-a4894784?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_term=20250527

Een tot nu toe onbekende Russische groep zit achter hacks op Nederlandse organisaties, waaronder de politie in september 2024.

Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van de AIVD en de MIVD. De diensten noemen de betrokken hackersgroep ‘Laundry Bear’. Inmiddels zijn de onderkende getroffen Nederlandse organisaties geholpen bij het nemen van maatregelen.

De cyberaanvallen tegen Nederlandse instanties zijn onderdeel van een grotere internationale cyberdreiging van de hackersgroep.

https://www.aivd.nl/actueel/nieuws/2025/05/27/onbekende-russische-groep-achter-hacks-nederlandse-doelen

AI is the crack-dopamine of the wannabe creator - the hit of the output is everything. #ai #delusion

Reducing the world to capitalism vs communism is somewhat of an underappreciation of what humans are capable of. #economy #politics

@marleenstikker zou het iets zijn om hier samen met onze studenten van Industrial Design TU Delft aan te werken?

Waag Futurelab roept samen met Commons Network, Bits of Freedom, PublicSpaces en SETUP de Nederlandse overheid op om nú te investeren in publieke digitale infrastructuur en democratische technologie.

https://waag.org/nl/article/oproep-overheid-investeer-nu-democratische-tech/

Tussen orde en chaos groeit iets wilds. Geen plan, geen bevel maar leven. Ben jij klaar om het onbekende in te stappen? Mijn werk, missie, mijn levenswerk in een visie op van onderop. #samenkracht #spelen #commons #samenstuurder
https://kanteldenker.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/de-kracht-van-verandering-van-onderop/

Trump Bragging About Making Billionaires Even Richer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZQ24xe2nNo&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Martha Stewart went to prison for less market manipulation than Trump is doing.

“Photos taken by Time magazine photographer Philip Holsinger show Hernandez Romero at CECOT. Holsinger said he heard a young man say, ‘I'm not a gang member. I'm gay. I'm a stylist.’ The young man cried for his mother as he was slapped and had his head shaved, Holsinger said.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuelan-migrants-deportations-el-salvador-prison-60-minutes/

Politicians aren’t nearly outraged enough at the Trump regime disappearing these students of color. I’m not qwhite sure why?? But I bet we’d hear a very different tune if these students had the complexion for protection.

If you’re willing to sit silent when Black & brown people are denied due process and abducted by a fascist regime, then don’t be surprised when you’re the next victim of that same regime. That’s how fascism has always advanced—through complicit silence.

#courage #stand #reclaimsociety https://www.theverge.com/news/643670/microsoft-employee-protest-50th-annivesary-ai

@ionica the final sentence made me so sad because it’s so relatable: ‘I wish I could tell you this has all made me stronger somehow but in reality it has only shattered my confidence. You have made me feel like I do not belong in science and I cannot forgive you for that.’ Edit 1: link to article: https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a-no-thank-you-to-the-person-who-assumed-i-was-the-coffee-lady Edit 2: important remark @ionica I't so brave to write this down!

'There have unfortunately also been people who have been less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, because I know I am not unique in this experience.'

Rachel Los put ‘anti-acknowledgements’ in her PhD Thesis and they are 🔥

https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a-no-thank-you-to-the-person-who-assumed-i-was-the-coffee-lady