We're going to need rebellions big and tiny if we are to make it through.
Anything you can do to resist is important.
Marisa Duarte, MLIS, PhD
Indigenous (Pascua Yaqui/ Xicanx), information scientist, associate professor at School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, author of Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet Across Indian Country (UW Press), femme, feminista, she/hers
Header: Resist Protect Love Repeat print by Mechoopda Maidu artist Jacob Meders
Profile: Selfie of Marisa Duarte, black hair, brown skin, green sweater
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EU’s Disinformation Code moves closer to becoming DSA benchmark https://tcrn.ch/41cZIvr
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Calls are growing for protests outside of #Tesla dealerships and beyond on Saturday, February 15th, 11AM. #TeslaTakeover teslatakedown.com
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H5N1 testing in cow veterinarians suggests bird flu is spreading silently
The findings suggest transmission and cases is going undetected.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/02/h5n1-testing-in-cow-veterinarians-suggests-bird-flu-is-spreading-silently/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Sharing good news because we need more of it.
The NIH just admitted their funding freeze was illegal and will resume issuing grants.
#3E protest Monday. End impunity. End oligarchy. End Autogenocide. This is one of Anonymous Hacker Group's responses to the Donald J. Trump regime.
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In this time of search engine decline and AI flooding the net with trash...
...it's time to bring back curated information. Expert reseachers and tomes of information.
This is the age of the librarian.
Leonard Peltier's sentence commuted.
This movement to develop a social media ecosystem on Bluesky protocol, as a deterrent to monopolistic platforms.
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La surveillance de masse, ça a changé.😜
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Patagonia Lake, Arizona, December 2024, O'odham territory, northern Yaqui hunting and trading region, once a creek (Sonoita Creek) and since 1968 a human-made reservoir. A large series of mines (copper, gold, silver, lead and other metallic elements) surround this valley, so the park rangers here advise not consuming more than 2 fish from this reservoir, due to possible contamination from mine tailings. This area is now a place to observe over 120 species of desert birds. There is an astronomy observatory on top of Mt. Wright, northwest of the reservoir. About 20 miles north of Mexico's northern border, there is also a pilgrimage and religious site nearby, where the devoted leave items beside a santo, a saint, in thanks or for support in their life struggles.
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"In tumultuous times, we believe in being prepared, not scared. Sound digital security practice often involves forming and relying on good habits. Building these reflexes now will help keep you better protected. This is why we’ve distilled advice our trainers have shared with thousands of journalists over the years into the actionable, concrete steps below.
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https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/journalists-digital-security-checklist/
#USA #PressFreedom #Journalism #CyberSecurity #Privacy #DataProtection
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Israel has burned northern Gaza’s last remaining hospital. And kicked out its patients, including neonatal and ICU patients. I picked a western news source since y’all seem more likely to believe those. I don’t know how else to get people to care.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hospital-gaza-siege-kamal-adwan-israel-evacuations-rcna185523
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HIPAA to be updated with cybersecurity regulations, White House says
https://therecord.media/hipaa-cybersecurity-regulations-update
Texas Canyon, Arizona, Apache territory, December 2024
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Mystery AI Hype Theater Episode 46: AGI Funny Business (Model), in which @brianmerchant joins me and @alex to look back on the hype of the early early days of OpenAI
Thx to Christie Taylor for production!
Sonoran Desert, Saguaro National Park West, midday, winter
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Verizon and AT&T were fined $46.9M and 57.3M respectively by the FCC in 2020 for selling customer location data to data brokers.
Both companies argue that recent Supreme Court rulings prevent the FCC from unilaterally imposing fines and instead a jury trial is required.
Also the FCC’s two current Republican oppose fines as they disagree that the FCC has jurisdiction over privacy violations.
It’s getting increasingly harder for govt agencies to penalize misbehavior.
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