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La #Russie franchi encore un cap dans l’horreur de sa #Guerre terroriste en #Ukraine!
ARD, 29.05.2025:
"Russland hat der Ukraine nach eigenen Angaben neue Friedensgespräche in Istanbul ab Montag vorgeschlagen."
Könnt ihr vielleicht solche Meldungen direkt einordnen?
So ungefähr:
"Kriegsverbrecher Putin hat erneut Lügner Lawrow vorgeschickt, um Zeit für die Weiterführung des völkerrechtswidrigen Angriffskrieges zu gewinnen" ?
Indem ihr die Sprachregelung eines Verbrechers aufnehmt, macht ihr euch nicht glaubwürdiger!
Waffen statt wohlfeiler Worte.
Kanzler Merz überraschte mit der Aussage, der #Ukraine reichweitenstarke Waffen zu liefern – und relativierte rasch.
Die Ukraine braucht aber Hilfe.
#SupportUkraine #StandWithUkraine #FreeUkraine
#Selenskyj und Merz: Fürs nähere Kennenlernen keine Zeit
Dans les premiers jours de l’invasion à grande échelle de la #Russie, l’#Ukraine a lancé un appel ouvert aux #Hackers pour rejoindre un front numérique contre le Kremlin. Depuis lors, l’#ITArmyOfUkraine s’est transformée en une force #Cybernétique agile à grande échelle, dont l’efficacité n’est plus à démontrer.
#Guerre #CyberGuerre #DDoS #Informatique #Hacking #Anonymous #SupportUkraine #Russie #FuckPoutine
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The world, especially the #unitedstates, must respond to #Putin and his invasion of #Ukraine. It is unfathomable that the #republicanparty are now allies with #Russia. The fact that we have not escalated our support for #Zelensky translates into #Putin winning. Why would anyone submit to stopping when you are winning 
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Destroying Autocracy – May 22, 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
DA comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
Featured Item(s)
Hamish Campbell writes:
We need to keep highlighting an old but still urgent tension: the intersection of technology and social change. In this too often unspoken divide, one side leans heavily on practical, technical problem-solving. They want working code, functioning systems, and tangible results, not abstract debates. To them, critiques about capitalism shaping code sound like distractions from the “real work.”
The other side insists that technical problems are social problems. They argue that all code is written by people, shaped by culture, power, and history. Ignoring the social dynamics behind technology guarantees we repeat the same failures.
The Open Media Network isn’t just about media, it’s about building the social soil
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, TechnoFeudalism, and other douchebaggery
The European Council of the European Union reports:
Wired reports:
/e/OS Is Better Than Android. You Should Try It
You really should. I love it on my Fairphone.
Tuta shows us:
Best private Google alternatives: The ultimate list to De-Google your life in 2025.
Bert Hubert shares:
What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech
Lionel Dricot has a:
The Center for Democracy and Technology reports:
CDT Advocates for Counter-Drone Authorities that Protect Civil Liberties
EuroNews reports:
EU to provide €5.5 million in emergency funds to help keep Radio Free Europe afloat
BleepingComputer reports:
European Union sanctions Stark Industries for enabling cyberattacks
TechCrunch reports:
Fortnite returns to the US App Store after a five-year gap
Signal says:
By Default, Signal Doesn’t Recall
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
Micah Flee reports:
DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage’s archive server
TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreessen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more
Tech Policy reports:
Proposed Moratorium on US State AI Laws is Short-Sighted and Ill-Conceived
Pariah States
EuroNews reports:
Poland’s Tusk says Russian hackers attacked party websites ahead of presidential election
The Register reports:
Russia’s Fancy Bear swipes a paw at logistics, transport orgs’ email servers
BleepingComputer reports:
Russian hackers breach orgs to track aid routes to Ukraine
The Kyiv Independent reports:
UK accuses Russian GRU of carrying out cyberattacks targeting logistics, technology organizations
AP reports:
Microsoft says it provided AI to Israeli military for war but denies use to harm people in Gaza
DarkReading reports:
Pandas Galore: Chinese Hackers Boost Attacks in Latin America
Big Media
404 Media reports:
Viral AI-Generated Summer Guide Printed by Chicago Sun-Times Was Made by Magazine Giant Hearst
Calmatters reports:
Google follows Newsom in reducing support for California local news
Big Tech
Bloomberg reports:
Google Decided Against Offering Publishers Options in AI Search
MIT Technology Review reports:
By putting AI into everything, Google wants to make it invisible
The Guardian asks:
Can the term ‘cloud fascism’ help us understand – and resist – the hard right?
It can’t hurt, but if you want to take action that will resist it, read our Manifesto via the link in the navigation.
Runbox reports:
Outlook stores email in Microsoft Cloud – what you need to know
TechCrunch reports:
Judge pressures Apple to approve Fortnite or return to court
Grok says it’s ‘skeptical’ about Holocaust death toll, then blames ‘programming error’
404 Media reports:
‘Configuration Issue’ Allows Civitai Users to AI Generate Nonconsensual Porn Videos
Ars Technica reports:
Meta hypes AI friends as social media’s future, but users want real connections
Renée DiResta
We’re all trying to find the guy who did this
Terror
404 Media reports:
Student Makes Tool That Identifies ‘Radicals’ on Reddit, Deploys AI Bots to Engage With Them
Cybersecurity/Privacy
404 Media reports:
Telegram Gave Authorities Data on More than 20,000 Users
Reuters reports:
So-called newspaper, The Washington Post reports:
Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras
The Register reports:
CISA has a new No. 2 … but still no official top dog
On a more encouraging note, It reports:
FBI, Microsoft, international cops bust Lumma infostealer service
The Internet Society reports:
Encryption Under Threat: The UK’s Backdoor Mandate and Its Impact on Online Safety
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Decentralisation as a shifting mental framework
Ben Wermuller says:
Let’s fund the open social web
IFTAS examines:
A New Social announces:
Ghost has:
Magic Pages has:
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
Keep fighting!
Ringleader, Battalion
Reuben Walker
Follow me on the Fediverse
#117 #ActivityPub #AI #ATProtocol #Autocracy #BigJournalism #BigTech #Bluesky #Democracy #Fascism #Fediverse #Ghost #Mastodon #StopChina #StopRedAmerica #StopRussia #SupportUkraine
Un groupe de #Pirates informatiques, #FancyBear, soutenu par la #Russie mène depuis 2022 une #CyberAttaque de grande ampleur contre des entreprises logistiques et technologiques impliquées dans l'acheminement de l'aide internationale à l'#Ukraine
Du 15 au 20 mai, l’#ITArmyOfUkraine a paralysé SprintHost, l’un des principaux fournisseurs d’hébergement de la #Russie. Des centaines de plaintes, des 4040 en pagaille, des dizaines d'entreprises laissées sans communication. Le fournisseur a publiquement reconnu la #CyberAttaque.
The Kyiv Independent is working hard to show the world the truth about Russia’s brutal war — and we’re keeping our reporting free for everyone. Because reliable information should be available to all, not just those who can afford it.
We’ve set an ambitious goal: to grow our community to 20,000 members and prove that independent journalism can survive — without paywalls, without billionaires, and without compromise.
But we need your support. Just $5 a month can help us keep going.
Join us here. (https://kyivindependent.com/membership/?utm_source=memb-tg-campaign14&utm_medium=tg)
#TheKyivIndependent #RussiasWarAgainstUkraine #RussiaUkraineWar #RussiaIsATerroristState #freepress #freejournalism #supportUkraine #Ukraine #slavaUkraini 
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Destroying Autocracy – May 15, 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
DA comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
Featured Item(s)
Cory Doctorow has:
Who Broke the Internet? Part II
It’s not who you think.
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, TechnoFeudalism, and other douchebaggery
The Verge reports:
Pope Leo XIV names AI one of the reasons for his papal name
Tech Policy has:
Europe’s Digital Sovereignty is a Democratic Imperative
Building the Eurostack: Can Open-Source Save Europe’s Tech Future?
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has:
Call on European Parliament to push for data enforcement to defend democracy
EuroNews reports:
Dutch competition agency launches two probes under EU Digital Markets Act
The Register reports:
Europe plots escape hatch from the enshittification of search
The ‘End of 10’ is nigh, but don’t bury your PC just yet
Wired reports:
North Korean IT Workers Are Being Exposed on a Massive Scale
Neutral
The Free Software Foundation Europe shares:
Legal Corner: The threshold of originality for copyrightable source code
Government Techology asks:
Does the Federal Government Have a Right to States’ Data?
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:
The FCC Must Reject Efforts to Lock Up Public Airwaves
IRS-ICE Immigrant Data Sharing Agreement Betrays Data Privacy and Taxpayers’ Trust
404 Media reports:
License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows
TechCrunch reports:
FTC delays enforcement of click-to-cancel rule
White House scraps plan to block data brokers from selling Americans’ sensitive data
The Verge reports:
Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired
Propublica reports:
The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk.
It’s not just Africa either.
Pariah States
TechCrunch reports:
Five things we learned from WhatsApp vs. NSO Group spyware lawsuit
The Kyiv Independent reports:
Poland detects foreign-funded election ads amid fears of Russian interference
BleepingComputer reports:
Moldova arrests suspect linked to DoppelPaymer ransomware attacks
DarkReading reports:
North Korea’s TA406 Targets Ukraine for Intel
Turkish APT Exploits Chat App Zero-Day to Spy on Iraqi Kurds
Big Media
So-called newspaper, The New York Times reports:
A Free People Need a Free Press
No shit, fuckers. Why have you been laying down on the job the last few years?
EuroNews reports:
UK to allow foreign states to own 15% stake in British newspapers
Big Tech
Privacy Guides shares:
The Register reports:
Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection
Meta’s still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb
ArsTechnica reports:
Meta is making users who opted out of AI training opt out again, watchdog says
Report: Terrorists seem to be paying X to generate propaganda with Grok
Jesus.
404 Media has:
Why Did Grok Start Talking About ‘White Genocide’?
Fuck me.
ArsTechnica reports:
Report: Terrorists seem to be paying X to generate propaganda with Grok
Jesus.
404 Media has:
Why Did Grok Start Talking About ‘White Genocide’?
Fuck me.
Tech Policy reports:
Racialized Grooming Gangs: How Musk and X Amplified Islamophobia and Racism in the UK
Cybersecurity/Privacy
MIT Technology Review reports on:
How a new type of AI is helping police skirt facial recognition bans
The Register reports:
Feds disrupt proxy-for-hire botnet, indict four alleged net miscreants
You think ransomware is bad now? Wait until it infects CPUs
As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database
Martin Fowler.com has:
Coding Assistants Threaten the Software Supply Chain
AI is still 95% horseshit.
W3C announces:
Privacy Principles is a W3C Statement
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Hamish Campbell opines:
We do need tools to share to help people on the path back onto the #openweb
The Library of Alexandra says:
Moderating Communities is Not a Burden
It just seems to be for tech bros.
Dead Superheron shares:
We Distribute reports:
Mastodon: Giving Journalists Options Away From Big Tech
ActivityPub for WordPress has:
5.9.0 – Easier Onboarding for Your Fediverse Experience
Ghost has:
Sciety announces:
Sciety secures funding from NLNet Foundation to help build discourse around preprints
Lemmy has:
Lemmy Development Update April 2025
TechCrunch reports:
Threads now lets creators add up to 5 links to profiles, track clicks
More enshittification from the c^nts at Meta.
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
The Fediverse Report has:
Taking Control of Your Timeline – in Different Ways
Free Our Feeds shares:
Free Our Feeds – Update #2, May 2025
Bluesky gives an update on:
The Dabbler has:
I updated my Bluesky PDS and it stopped working. Here’s how I fixed it.
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
Keep fighting!
Ringleader, Battalion
Reuben Walker
Follow me on the Fediverse
#116 #2 #ActivityPub #AI #ATProtocol #Autocracy #BigJournalism #BigTech #Bluesky #Bonfire #Democracy #Fascism #Fediverse #Ghost #Lemmy #Mastodon #openweb #StopChina #StopRedAmerica #StopRussia #SupportUkraine #WordPress
Le #Pentagone voit un risque de conflit militaire entre les #USA et la #Russie, si la #guerre en #Ukraine s’intensifie.
Ukraine: #Europa muss nicht nur zugucken, sondern konsequent sein.
Der russische Präsident Putin sucht keinen Kompromiss. Er sucht ein günstiges Format, um die #Ukraine zur Kapitulation zu zwingen
#StandWithUkraine #SupportUkraine #FreeUkraine
https://taz.de/Putin-will-Verhandlungen-mit-Ukraine/!6084292
@Kristian_Kiehling
"Putin for direct negotiations with Ukraine... it is up to Ukraine whether it agrees to negotiations, Putin continued."
Instead of correctly classifying these statements of the dictator and aggressor Putler, namely as a call for surrender, there is speculation about the noble motives. 
Real Sanctions are simple: EU travel ban to countries that are open to Russians. They last 3-6 months, then they are closed for Russians.
THAT is sanction!
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