Notices by Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)

Briefing: VPNs and the Online Safety Act https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-vpns-and-the-online-safety-act/

Sadly still relevant, here's a vlog I made back on the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center that was exploited to launch the War on Terror. (It was later even played to a high school classroom by one very bold teacher!) https://kolektiva.media/w/4ZzZnKsBSD9xFUQK1YxKMv

Know your enemy. Tributes to a dead fascist by Obama and Starmer, whose friends Clinton and Blair scuppered and sabotaged laughably mild social democrats like Bernie and Corbyn, who was proudly "undermined every day" by Mandelson, another Epstein friend. The protectors of capitalism are united. It's time anti-capitalists were united too. It's easier than ever, now you know your enemy.

It's a counterrevolution because they know capitalism has lost the legitimacy it once seemed to have: https://newrepublic.com/post/200158/americans-poll-capitalism-socialism-views

We're in an era of Late Capitalism where open fascists are canonised as part of this counterrevolution to the gains we made, where instead of Trans Rights and Black Lives Matter, the capitalist class and their spokespeople demand that only far-right lives matter, in accordance with their vile narrative. It's a sadly inevitable authoritarian strategy to protect an economic system that has never been so unpopular.

Oh and it's going well on "decentralised" Bluesky this morning, where their all-powerful "safety team" are scrambling to remind people not to glorify violence (against violence-glorifying fascists) while taunts and threats of violence towards trans folks and immigrants have continued to be ignored.

@acm_redfox Haha oops sorry!

@dgodon Thank you!

@sunflowerinrain I relate. And well said!

@stonebear2 Exactly this. Boosted!

@craignicol Yes, thank goodness! It's what I've been using most recently.

@MostlyTato That's a really nice thing to say, thank you so much!

@ApostateEnglishman Thanks - boosted!

@regendans Bloody hell!

@big_louse There is! Cool huh? https://tube.todon.eu/home

@durian Yeah too bad huh.

@lashman True! And it's great!

I'll finish by mentioning that we're about to wrap up the @freetechproject that came out of the Libre Digital non-profit I founded fifteen years ago, therefore for one last time I'm facilitating its tech-focused workshops for the 2025/26 season, so feel free to find out more about these topics there! https://www.libredigital.org/the-freetech-project-returns-with-tea-tech-online-workshops/

PineTime: Even cheaper than the Bangle.js, the more basic PineTime comes from the people who brought us the Pinebook Pro laptop and PinePhone, amongst other things that remind us of the hardware options out there — from the Fairphone and Framework devices with a focus on DIY repairability, to simply refurbished laptops with Linux on and cheap Raspberry Pi microcomputers. There is actually a lot of choice out there, that really depends on personal preference. https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/

Bangle.js: Rather than the various unethical and expensive smartwatches from the surveillance capitalists, you may wish to instead opt for the slightly more affordable, effective, and hackable Bangle.js 2 that has an incredible amount of interfaces and features readily available — developed by the community — so even if you don't want to hack it yourself, you can use it with ease. https://banglejs.com/