Notices by Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@r_alb/116878691038594948

Also, what a lot of "I have nothing to hide" people miss is that stuff-that-needs-to-be-hidden depends on social and political climate at any given moment and changes with time.

Being pregnant while crossing the US border used to be a non-issue, nothing-to-hide type thing. Now US fascist lawmakers are pushing for pregnancy tests at the border.

This is just a very fresh example, there are endless others.

Once our data is out, we have no control over it. Will it be dangerous in 5-10 years? 👀

RE: https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage/116868811989829427

Oh, the deep, deep irony.

Important call:
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/new-call-proposals-shape-safer-and-more-inclusive-social-media-platforms

> This €1.48 million pilot project will involve young people from different countries and backgrounds in the conceptualisation and development of new European social media platforms, focusing on user safety, mental health, privacy and ease of use.

> The core ambition of the project is the roll-out of at least one protocol-based service that is actively centred around the needs of young user audiences and is in line with European values (…)

#Fediverse

In case anyone was confused by @mullvadnet's corporate damage control copy-pasta.

#Mullvad #MullvadVPN

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822264297340100

This is immensely disappointing, @mullvadnet.

Your co-CEO is funding far-right authoritarians. Authoritarianism is not compatible with free speech – anyone who claims to be fighting for free speech has to be aware of this. In fact, the reason we need free speech is to fend of authoritarianism!

You used "free speech" to defend anti-free-speech views. This is the "paradox of tolerance". Only, it is not a paradox. Allowing intolerance erodes a tolerant society:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

#Mullvad

I think it would be good to hear from @mullvadnet about this? 👀

> The IT company Mullvad’s founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a giant donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive re-immigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he told Flamman.
https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

Edit: I am holding any judgement regarding Mullvad until there is a response.

Nearly a quarter of voters in Europe now back far-right parties
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/24/nearly-quarter-votes-europe-now-cast-far-right-parties

People are angry, and they have plenty of actual real reasons to be angry.

Obviously authoritarian right does not have any real solutions, but the center and center-left parties had wasted decades on "keeping the hot water running" politics, so no wonder people are answering the siren call of far-right.

I mean, look at UK. Labour won in a landslide! And then… milktoast, plus narrative drift to the right. 🤦♀️

Whenever you hear a center or left party talking how they need to drift to the right to "get the undecided voters", know that this is only enabling the far-right.

If anyone is an "undecided" voter – meaning, potentially considers voting for the far-right – why on Earth would they ever vote for the milktoast centrist fake, instead of the real fascist deal?

It allows the far-right to move the Overton window ever more right.

This is not how you defeat authoritarianism:
https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-not-to-defeat-authoritarianism/

Instead of making concessions on human rights (including trans rights), immigration and refugees, and sprinkling it with vague promises about how AI will change everything, etc., centre and left parties should maybe actually get serious about:

1. Solving the housing crisis (which is basically everywhere now).

2. Healthcare.

3. Taxing the rich.

You know, things that are actually making people miserable and angry! And incidentally, things that keep polling high on voters' priority lists.

> Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds

> Independent report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/23/israel-deliberately-targeting-gaza-children-to-commit-genocide-un-inquiry-finds

Israel is deliberately killing children. There is *nothing* that can ever justify this.

#Genocide #Palestine #Israel

Iceland is tiny, so a company letting 40 employees go makes national news. The company in question, Rapyd Europe, of course claimed "AI" as the reason for the layoffs.

So, I called them out on their bullshit – in my first piece for the Reykjavík Grapevine:
https://grapevine.is/mag/feature/2026/06/20/rapyd-layoffs-attributed-to-ai-hint-at-something-else/

#Iceland #AI #Labor

Also, final thought (and something I mentioned time and again):

Somehow if you're Brown and in the North, you're an "immigrant" or "economic migrant", but if you're white and in the South, you're an "expat". :thaenkin:

Start calling white folks in the South "economic migrants" and see what happens.

> Brexit voting areas have seen faster growth in foreign workers since EU referendum
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/20/leave-voting-areas-foreign-workers-decade-since-brexit-referendum

> Less than 5% of payrolled employees were from outside the UK in June 2016. That had increased to just under 10% in December 2024

Yeah no shit. The whole far-right anti-immigrant rhetoric is not about not letting people in, it's about making sure they remain disenfranchised once in!

Cheap labour for the moneyed classes, *and* a leverage against local labour force. A double-whammy.

And if you still don't believe me, go and see what happens when immigrants actually stop coming.

All the same far-right pricks who were spewing the anti-immigrant rhetoric turn around and start lamenting how nobody wants to work anymore. Or, better yet, demand work visa programs! Seen it in Poland, seen it in the UK, seen it in the USA.

Yeah nobody wants to pick your apples and strawberries because you refuse to pay a living wage.

The problem with work visa programs is that they are usually built in such a way that the immigrant employee is locked into a given employer. Lose the job – get deported, more or less.

That's exactly the kind of power dynamic that allows exploitation and abuse. That's exactly the power dynamic that the far-right pricks actually want, whenever they lament immigration and demand building any kind of wall.

Don't fall for it.

RE: https://aoir.social/@aram/116771722724404040

This story again: CEO blames everyone but himself for his poor and easily-avoidable ego-fueled investment decisions.

@dansup amazing. Very happy for both of you!

@dansup congratulations! 🎉

Men would rather crash the world economy than go to therapy.

Elon Musk on track today to become world's first person to discover that even being a trillionaire does not fill the insatiable, desperate, ravenous void in a sociopath's soul and make people like you.

#Musk #SpaceX