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We're so excited to announce issue 9, our TWO YEAR (!!!!) anniversary issue!
Featuring @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social, @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social, and more.
!!KICKED OUT OF FEDCON MILITARY RECRUITMENT CONFERENCE (aka @DEFCON) !! - for daring to raise our voice against war criminals and the rise of Al tech fascism. 20 years ago when I spoke at the DEFCON hacker conference it was "spot the fed". After years in prison for hacking charges related to Anonymous, I was excited to finally return - only to find it thoroughly run by feds and deeply enmeshed with the military industrial complex we fight against. A disgusting display, the first hour's fascist fireside chat with DEFCON's Dark Tangent and General Paul Nakasone - a four star general and director of NSA and US CYBERCOMMAND until just last year. With DT saying "Go Army!" shamelessly recruiting for the military and praising Al imperialism as US bombs fall on Gaza - we had to take a stand. As they smugly took their final jello shots with so much blood on their hands, we shouted "War criminal!" "Free Palestine!" "This isn't a hacker conference - it's a military recruitment drive!" For daring to speak out, we were aggressively kicked out by Las Vegas Convention Center security guards - who put hands on us, calling us homophobic slurs. No goons or anyone from DEFCON offered any discussion or due process. Shameful how Fedcon treats real hackers and freedom of speech. Hackers, take a stand against the military co-optation of our communities and the hacker ethic! Jeremy Hammond
repost from @FreeJeremyNet (Jeremy and Jason Hammond) on twitter:
KICKED OUT OF FEDCON MILITARY RECRUITMENT CONFERENCE (aka @defcon.bsky.social ) - for daring to raise our voice against war criminals and the rise of AI tech fascism.
"Trans people existing does literally nothing negative to your lives you crybaby wimps.
Your life is getting harder and costlier because of the oligarchs, not trans people"
Sticker spotted in Koreatown, Los Angeles, CA
As I was finishing up my walk in Lower Allston in Boston a woman said she was going around telling neighbors ICE is in the neighborhood today.
The bubble zone bylaw approved yesterday by Toronto city council is part of a national trend
Similar laws are popping up everywhere, especially in response to Palestine solidarity actions, and they pose a serious threat to free expression and dissent
My latest: breachmedia.ca/bubble-zone-...
Yup. I continue to say that AI is for those who fetishize THE IDEA and dismiss THE WORK. It's for those people who come up to writers and say, "I got a great idea for a book, I'll give it to you, you write it, and we'll split the profits 50/50," as if the idea is the hardest and most important part.
These principled artists have worked hard and put a lot on the line to protest Canadian wealth that funds both the arming of a genocide and feel-good prestige arts awards. Arts philanthropy looks good, bombing people does not. We are lucky to have these people. breachmedia.ca/scotiabank-i...
What I appreciate here is that the FT scored a video interview with Sam Altman (a high profile get!) for a conceit where he makes lunch and then another FT writer just ruthlessly savages his kitchen appliances and cooking techniques. www.ft.com/content/b180...
Don't make me tap the "they're using the 1920s Klan definition" sign
Two Lines Press is excited to open a focused submissions call for translations of literature from Asia and Oceania. We highly encourage submissions of work from less-represented languages and from BIPOC, women, and/or queer authors and translators.
www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
your regular reminder that buying Harry Potter stuff gives money to Rowling and she uses that money directly and in large quantities to fund attacks on trans people
no ethical consumption under capitalism and all but “don’t buy Potter stuff” is an extremely easy baseline to follow
remember in school learning about the great depression and textbooks being like “things were so bad people lived in makeshift towns called hoovervilles, it was inhumane”
well, what if times now are like that but also they routinely destroyed the hoovervilles with bulldozers
Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!
Can we have a real talk about AI… how the fuck is everyone not disturbed as I am? Why the fuck would you kill our planet faster just to make some dumb shit? How can people possibly consume AI content like it’s normal? I truly don’t understand how normalized it’s become and it’s scaring me
Former Death Star employees condemn new Emperor's plan to use Death Star for death star stuff
absolutely fucking horrifying just like 2018 with these kill machines and absolutely need to point out that the filipino festival goers are the ones who detained the suspect *for the police.*
we need to be meaner to brands doing harry potter collabs
Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
What a summary of the anti-trans movement:
March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th
March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000
woke up with the burning question of how secure Coca Cola Freestyle machines are and I'm sad to report that they come with facial recognition-ready cameras
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
In honour of Hayao Miyazaki I've implemented the biggest update to the GenAI mute/block list in a few months. Clear your feed.
Let me know of any missed accounts and any false positive I might have swept up. I'm not perfect and happy to review mistakes.
bsky.app/profile/eidy...
regular reminder to not take or post pictures of people’s faces at protests without their consent!
