I believe it is one of our missions, as antifascist nerds, to break the myth of an inaccessible and complex technology. The tools, services, and software we all use everyday are the more or less indirect outcome of broader socio-political and economical dynamics. Therefore, we can and we should bring forward a massive resistance as we do on other fronts.

How do we do burst the bubble?

How can we practically unmask the politicality of technology to people outside the digital sector?

How do we popularize digital media critique?

What forms of art, workshops, and formats could take advantage of?

On Wed 11 June, at 14:00 UTC, I will be hosting an online round-table session with @transparenttech to discuss and try to answer these questions.

I will be briefly sharing my experience and my ideas after making Knitting Our Internet. Above all, though, I want to welcome any kind of contributions to address this mission in a multifaceted, intercultural, intersectional, and decolonial way.

Free attendance! Register here ⬅️

#OurNet #CITR #IndependentTech #IndependentTechnology #Technology #PoliticalTechnology #KnittingOurInternet #Internet #InternetCritique #Fediverse

”Russian leaders created a false narrative to get voters to put them in power, where they could privatize public enterprises and monopolize the country’s wealth.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 5, 2025
#putin #russia #politicaltechnology #oligarchy

#SiliconCurtain

Alya Shandra - Minsk 3 will Lay Foundations for a Full-scale War in Western Europe Within 2-3 Years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ0-r6_b3PA

#disinformation #misinformation #propaganda #politicalTechnology #creatingMurderer

#Ukraine #UkraineWar #StandWithUkraine

Two of my favorite people on the State of America. Highly recommended. Boost to your followers

Jon Stewart on #Trump’s Win and What’s Next w/Heather Cox Richardson

In the aftermath of 2024 election results, Americans are rightfully worried about what a second Trump administration may bring. This week, #JonStewart is joined by #HeatherCoxRichardson, author of “#Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America" to explore what our past can teach us about the resiliency of our democratic institutions as we navigate an uncertain future

#tariffs #immigration #fascism #politicaltechnology #christiannationalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7cKOaBdFWo

We are celebrating #AaronSwartzDay by hosting Knitting Our Internet workshop at #SFSCON today (Seminar 2, 10:40).

Not only on this occasion, I always dedicate the whole workshop to the inspiring, bright, loving human being #AaronSwartz was.

Thank you for still making us pursue a better #Internet, and a better world, Aaron.

(The event is free, no reservation required. It’s not going to be streamed, but its video recording will be published.)

@AaronSwartzDay #Web #WWW #SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware #PoliticalTechnology #FSFE #Fediverse #workshop #InternetHistory #SurveillanceCapitalism

#Georgia #Tbilisi #Election #PoliticalTechnology
https://www.politico.eu/article/georgia-democracy-opposition-cec-prelim-results-dream-party-analysis/

Sunday musing...

This piece about the aftermath of the #StormBoris floods in Czech, Poland, Austria etc:

" “How many more wake-up calls are needed?” asked Kurt Seinitz, a columnist at the tabloid newspaper Krone, on Monday. “What else needs to happen to make people aware of the need for urgent action against global warming?” "
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/21/austrian-city-st-polten-faces-up-to-scale-of-damage-left-by-deadly-flooding

...lead to the thought that although extreme weather changes due to global warming have very large impacts, the rate of change -- despite being instantaneous on a geological timescale -- are long enough on a human timescale that their power to affect public attitudes towards adaption and mitigation actions is far less than we might hope.

When catastrophic regional floods like those return once a decade, rather than once a century, it will only take two or three cycles until it's established as normal. People will say, well, we've had these huge floods / ridiculous heatwaves / droughts / storms once a decade all my adult life; it's nothing new.

The peri-warming climate of my early life in the last decades of the 20th century will be a vague, functionally mythological image in the collective consciousness of history -- like life without mobile phones, or mass horse powered transport, or washing clothes by hand.

This ties in quite neatly with Dr Jeff Masters' observation that gigantic extreme weather disasters haven't moved the dial on public demand for emission reductions so far (and thus are unlikely to do so in future.)

Video version: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/09/video-can-a-colossal-extreme-weather-event-galvanize-action-on-the-climate-crisis/
Slightly longer, more discursive version: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/07/can-a-colossal-extreme-weather-event-galvanize-action-to-respond-to-the-climate-crisis/

#climateCrisis #globalWarming #adaptionAndMitigation
#PoliticalTechnology #climatePolicy

The #11tyconf talks have just started, and I love them so much already.

@mia, you read my thoughts after 10 seconds.

#11ty #eleventy #Technology #Politics #PoliticalTechnology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLxJ6PtuF9M

The Globalisation of Political Technology. https://www.deciphergrey.com/post/the-globalisation-of-political-technology

Globalized authoritarians.

"But what it is ‘political technology’? The term is common in Russia, but we don’t really use it in the West; although we are starting to use some associated terminology, like kompromat (‘compromising materials’). Political ‘technology’ is really political manipulation, normalised in Russia by the assumption that all politics is manipulation or realpolitik."

#PoliticalTechnology
#democracy

#politics #tRump #HeatherCoxRicharson
#media #politicalTechnology

Read an article on what might potentially be a collapse of the Swedish Tech-industry where the author thinks that the tech label is going to fall out of fashion because Klarna, Uber and Kry are a Bank, a taxi-company and a medical service provider respectively and we should just call them that

I can agree to some extent but the problem is that if you start calling Klarna a bank then the definition of a bank has forever changed

#tech #technology #PoliticalTechnology