Notices by Camille Winds Down (camille@social.praxis.nyc)

I'm reorganizing my book shelf to make space for the many books that now make up my collection on radical social change, endings, loss, grief, and facilitation. These topics all inform my work as The Wind Down (https://wind-down.org)

@prolrage
I think fewer and fewer people in the world are falling for these incessant cries of antisemitism and also the implications that antisemitism is the biggest scourge on the planet.

Frankly, I think even Israel's biggest enabler (the US) is exhausted and beginning to move on. The US regime is interested in material gain, which Israel isn't really offering these days. And even a blind person can see that starving and bombing babies for years is WAY WORSE than disliking Israel.
@aral

Instagram's AI Chatbots Lie About Being Licensed Therapists

https://www.404media.co/instagram-ai-studio-therapy-chatbots-lie-about-being-licensed-therapists/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content

> When pushed for credentials, Instagram's user-made AI Studio bots will make up license numbers, practices, and education to try to convince you it's qualified to help with your mental health.

@skinnylatte
But you get notified normally? Or does it only tell you when the sender is on an Iphone?

Can someone with an Iphone let me know what it looks like when you receive a text from an unknown Android? Does it go into a separate box or something? Do you get a notification? If so, is it of a different type than the Iphone notifications? I have no plans to buy an Iphone, but I feel like there is a HUGE lag between when I text my Iphone friends and when they respond. Like I feel like I can text them all at once today and they will all respond way later but like all at the same time. 🤔

"The FBI visited me (an undergraduate student activist) over speech they admit is "constitutionally protected" : r/Anarchism" (video)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/1jwi2gd/the_fbi_visited_me_an_undergraduate_student/

@liaamancio

@liaamancio
Por mim também. Tudo elas podiam ficar lá.

In a letter to Angela Davis as she sat in jail in 1970, James Baldwin lamented that
> only a handful of the millions of people in this vast place are aware that the fate intended for you . . . is a fate which is about to engulf them, too. White lives, for the forces which rule in this country, are no more sacred than Black ones . . . the American delusion is not only that their brothers all are white but that the whites are all their brothers.
#amiasrinavasan #therighttosex

My friend just launched this New York City Trans Resource Share weekly newsletter
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#nyc

Mutual aid/ eviction defense NYC
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-myrna-avoid-eviction-after-loss

I do wonder if 20th century terms like fascist and Nazi are still fit for purpose or if we are just having a collective crisis of imagination.

There is a persistent narrative in the US that the Leftists are the ones who turn a "blind eye" to things that are "obvious social ills", rather than that Leftists are people who see those "obvious social ills" as symptomatic of deeper infrastructural issues that need to be extruded at the root rather than just whack-a-moled.

I do agree the institutional Left's game, all too often, is to dispute that said social ills are even social ills at all (the "don't believe your lying eyes" approach).

So I'm wondering how the anti-authoritarian Left can raise its profile such that there are voices saying, "Yes, we SEE that this situation is not good. However, we need to do surgery here, not just apply a bandaid."

And as we alleviate symptoms and tackle the root cause, we need to make sure the 'surgeon' isn't the same assailant that inflicted the wound. Oh, oh, and, also let people know that a critical part of that 'surgery' is SMASHING the current social order.

I think my issue with liberals is that they often see (and focus on!) the root cause, but are MARRIED to maintaining current social order. So they don't do much to address symptom OR underlying ailment.

A visit to the Greenpoint Tool Library: repair economies, object lending, and new production paradigms in times of climate change.
https://themaintainers.org/toolib/

#toollibrary #sharingeconomy

I find it helpful to search for the phrase "the President should" in Project 2025 to get a good overview of executive priorities and plans to consolidate power under the executive.
#project2025

Help the Community Creativity for Development (CC4D) MakerSpace and repair café in Yei, South Sudan, raise $8,000 to equip the space with sustainable electricity, essential repair tools, and furniture!
https://gofund.me/bda8b531

🙏🏾PLEASE BOOST🙏🏾

Nothing like Steve Bannon calling someone else the most racist.

This is about to be a YEAR y'all.

“Why do we have South Africans, the most racist people on earth, White South Africans … making any comments at all on what goes on in the United States?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/12/bannon-musk-trump-maga/

@nick
https://colet.space
I started a collective 6 years ago to try and get movement people to embrace open source. It was really hard to do this work and get movement people to pay for it/financially support it. I walked away 6 months ago, but the other two are still trying. https://matsutake.network/
@mlncn and @FreeScholar have had a lot more success with Agaric and I know there is also Tadpole coop and Sassafrass, but the climb is steep.
startup funds are needed in this space
@bhaugen