Cyberlibertarianism has shaped how we see the internet. As tech aligns with the extreme right, it’s more important than ever to reassess it. This week hypervisible joins Paris Marx to discuss David Golumbia’s book on Cyberlibertarianism. Full ep: podcasts.apple.com/podcast/the-pr…

People are leaving FB realizing what official parody of David Golumbia warned us of for years and years, tech fascism -from 2021 "how facebook promotes fascism" analyzes an astrology ad. These are gateways to extremist right, red pill, q anon, to trump. I have friends radicalized right by algorithms.

Laila and Peter Greste were back outside Downing Street this morning. Laila is on day 127 of her hunger strike, launched on 30 September 2024, the day after Alaa’s sentence ended and the Egyptian authorities refused to release him. #FreeAlaa.

Things are shifting. This is a signal not a mistake

Stop posting pictures of protests with people's faces identifiable in them. Anything identifiable, clothing, hair, or tattoos puts people at risk in the future for arrest and harassment. Not only by cops but creepy rightwingers dox them and harass them.

N/KKI Because in the end, the women who die of sepsis getting back alley abortions, the migrants who are treated as subhuman, the suffering of so many, is on your hands if you are in a position where you have even a modicum of audience or power and choose to say nothing about injustice

Is it “academic freedom of expression” when i can’t apply for grants by studying diversity, equity, and inclusion? Is it “academic freedom” when I’m told i can’t teach critical race theory in my courses?

Alarm bells for anyone using US technology to stop doing so asap. With the erratically led US government that companies fear or want to suck upto, it may be weaponized or disabled in the blink of an eye ↘️

Medicaid covers cancer treatment in Hawaii for people from Marshall Islands. Cancer is the number 1 killer. The US bombed them 67 times including the largest nuclear test ever conducted. People die in exile from their polluted land, have birth defects, jellyfish babies, miscarry.

NEW: Dataminr, an official X partner, is helping the LAPD surveil protests against the Israeli war on Gaza across both in LA and across the United States. This includes tipping the department off about protests that are still in the planning stages.

These headlines are all related

NEW: Top Turkish TV watchdog executive calls TV channels one by one, instructing them to stop live broadcasts and coverage of the Imamoglu protests or face consequences.

Dervish!

Typical AI. Studio Ghibli AI art is trending when Miyazaki famously hated it calling AI art "an insult to life itself". All Ghibli style art is trained on his work without permission & these prompts are basically spitting in his face: disrespecting his work + stealing his labor.

Excited to launch Shared Horizons: Politics & Poetics of Transnational Abolition, a living digital archive envisioned by Vanessa E. Thompson & SA Smythe. Learn & contribute to transnational groups dedicated to ongoing liberation struggles beyond borders sharedhorizons.org🌹💪🏾📖

Ethics and aesthetics are the same. 404media.co/the-ai-slop-pr…