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Yesterday Oct. 9th 1989 was both:
A day to REMEMBER & HONOUR the AWSOME brave 70.000 of LEIPZIG 1989
4 weeks before the wall came down. Peaceful.
Also Oct 9th would have been the 84th birthday of #johnlennon
Here is our #SongOfTheDay from our #inspiring #playlist:
⏯ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLiWFUDJ95I&list=PLH8KJMQjXlbuZP7EncIw12BP-EJ6Trb7z&index=22
At WE AID we support even an #orchestra for #diversity
... and maybe YOUR OWN INITIATIVE?
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Yesterday Oct. 9th 1989 was both:
A day to REMEMBER & HONOUR the AWSOME brave 70.000 of LEIPZIG 1989
4 weeks before the wall came down. Peaceful.
Also Oct 9th would have been the 84th birthday of #johnlennon
Here is our #SongOfTheDay from our #inspiring #playlist:
⏯ www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLiW...
At WE AID we support even an #orchestra for #diversity
... and maybe YOUR OWN INITIATIVE?
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Yesterday Oct. 9th 1989 was both:
A day to REMEMBER & HONOUR the AWSOME brave 70.000 of LEIPZIG 1989
4 weeks before the wall came down. Peaceful.
Also Oct 9th would have been the 84th birthday of #johnlennon
Here is our #SongOfTheDay from our #inspiring #playlist:
⏯ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLiWFUDJ95I&list=PLH8KJMQjXlbuZP7EncIw12BP-EJ6Trb7z&index=22
At WE AID we support even an #orchestra for #diversity
... and maybe YOUR OWN INITIATIVE?
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GUTE NACHRICHTEN!
#DANKE an die Deutsche Postcode Lotterie – denn auch WE AID ist auf Unterstützung angewiesen.
Wir bedanken uns für die #Förderung – mehr dazu auf Linkedin:
WE AID macht gemeinnützige Hilfe einfach. Schnell. Unbürokratisch. On Demand:
#WEAIDfamily #humanitarian #GutesTun #Postcodeeffekt #postcodeeffect #yesWEAID #nothilfe #emergencyaid #disasterresponse #disasterrrelief #inklusion #goodews #freude #gutenachrichten
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GUTE NACHRICHTEN!
#DANKE an die Deutsche Postcode Lotterie – denn auch WE AID ist auf Unterstützung angewiesen.
Wir bedanken uns für die #Förderung – mehr dazu auf Linkedin:
WE AID macht gemeinnützige Hilfe einfach. Schnell. Unbürokratisch. On Demand:
#WEAIDfamily #humanitarian #GutesTun #Postcodeeffekt #postcodeeffect #yesWEAID #nothilfe #emergencyaid #disasterresponse #disasterrrelief #inklusion #goodews #freude #gutenachrichten
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GUTE NACHRICHTEN!
#DANKE an die Deutsche Postcode Lotterie – denn auch WE AID ist auf Unterstützung angewiesen.
Wir bedanken uns für die #Förderung – mehr dazu auf Linkedin:
WE AID macht gemeinnützige Hilfe einfach. Schnell. Unbürokratisch. On Demand:
#WEAIDfamily #humanitarian #GutesTun #Postcodeeffekt #postcodeeffect #yesWEAID #nothilfe #emergencyaid #disasterresponse #disasterrrelief #inklusion #goodews #freude #gutenachrichten
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Wir gedenken der Opfer der #Extremwetter-Lage mit #TiefBernd 2021 - in Deutschland als #Ahrtalflut bekannt.
In Europa –- Belgien & Deutschland – kamen 230 Menschen ums Leben.
WE AID wurde auch unter dem Eindruck dieser Katastrophe gegründet, um SCHNELLE Hilfe UNBÜROKRATISCH = EINFACH möglich zu machen.
Seit Gründung 2022 haben von WE AID unterstützte Initiativen hunderttausenden Menschen helfen können:
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Wir gedenken der Opfer der Extremwetterlage mit #TiefBernd 2021 - in Deutschland als #Ahrtalflut bekannt.
In Europa –- Belgien & Deutschland – kamen 230 Menschen ums Leben.
WE AID wurde auch unter dem Eindruck dieser Katastrophe gegründet, um SCHNELLE Hilfe UNBÜROKRATISCH = EINFACH möglich zu machen.
Seit Gründung 2022 haben von WE AID unterstützte Initiativen hunderttausenden Menschen helfen können:
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Wir gedenken der Opfer der #Extremwetter-Lage mit #TiefBernd 2021 - in Deutschland als #Ahrtalflut bekannt.
In Europa –- Belgien & Deutschland – kamen 230 Menschen ums Leben.
WE AID wurde auch unter dem Eindruck dieser Katastrophe gegründet, um SCHNELLE Hilfe UNBÜROKRATISCH = EINFACH möglich zu machen.
Seit Gründung 2022 haben von WE AID unterstützte Initiativen hunderttausenden Menschen helfen können:
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@hobbyqs Schaut Euch mal Handiclapped e.V. in Berlin an und vielleicht macht Ihr was zusammen.
Wir von WE AID haben letztes Jahr eine Initiative für inklusivere #Events mit unserer Platform unterstüttzt (Initiative "Crowdbash" von der #KleidereiBerlin), die wiederhum für Handiclapped fundraised hat.
Superschön, daß Ihr Euch um große Festivals kümmert. Daumen sind gedrückt.
💛 ➡️ htps://www.WE-AID.org
#WEAIDfamily #GutesTun #Nothilfe #inklusion #humanitarian #gutenachrichten #news
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@hobbyqs Schaut Euch mal Handiclapped e.V. in Berlin an und vielleicht macht Ihr was zusammen.
Wir von WE AID haben letztes Jahr eine Initiative für inklusivere #Events mit unserer Platform unterstüttzt (Initiative "Crowdbash" von der #KleidereiBerlin), die wiederhum für Handiclapped fundraised hat.
Superschön, daß Ihr Euch um große Festivals kümmert. Daumen sind gedrückt.
💛 ➡️ htps://www.WE-AID.org
#WEAIDfamily #GutesTun #Nothilfe #inklusion #humanitarian #gutenachrichten #news
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Heute ist #worlddroughtday
Eine Lösung: #Wiederaufforstung in Gebieten mit #Waldsterben oder wo #Fauna & Flora durch Konflikte zerstört wurden. Beispiel bei WE AID:
Die EINE MILLION #BÄUME Initiative von TREEPILYA, gegründet durch zwei Frauen:
💛🆒👉 https://www.we-aid.org/initiatives-2/treepilya/
or in english - a '#reforestation initiative founded by two #women:
💛🆒👉 https://www.we-aid.org/en/initiatives-2/treepilya/
#WEAIDfamily #disasterresponse #biodiversity #desertification #wald #planttrees #desertificationday #shecan #goodnews #news
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What will you do, to make your #community a #betterplace?
WE AID already helped for FREE starting initiatives in #edu #health #food #inclusion #events & even for humanrights.
It´s fast #FREE & easy – #getinspired:
😉→💛#yesWEAID
Join our youtube:
🎥💛⏯ https://www.youtube.com/@yesweaid?sub_confirmation=1
Its free, thank you!#yesWEAID #humanitarian #relief #nothilfe #emergencyaid #fluthilfe #socent #success #disasterresponse #liveunited #happiness #kindness #quoteoftheday #mastoart #hope #fotomontag #gutenachrichten #news
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> Readers are carefully protected from exposure to any serious discussion of the concept that arouses such horror. We were in Indochina not because of any U.S. material interests motivating a “forward” foreign policy, but as a matter of higher principle, exactly as when we aid and support #Stroessner in #Paraguay or the Shah in Iran...
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“Little wonder Ukrainians don’t talk about what will happen ‘after the war.’
They talk about what will happen ‘after the victory.’”
Incredible resolve.✊
As we #aidUkraine, we too must remain determined to #stopRussia.
No paywall.
What’s the endgame?
#RussiaOutOfUkraine!
SLAVA UKRAINI!https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/22/kyiv-ukraine-resistance-russia-victory/
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Destroying Autocracy – November 27, 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.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
The Programmer’s Fulcrum is the future (and smaller) home for a fusion of Symfony Station and Battalion. Its tagline is Devs Defending Democracy, Developing the OMN.
You can sign up now and for 2025 get an email with links to each week’s Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion “Destroying Autocracy” post along with their featured articles. And you’ll be set with TPF after the fusing in January.
We are posting on the Fediverse now at @thefulcrum @thefulcrum.dev and original website content will start in 2026.
Featured Item(s)
The Atlantic writes:
Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X rolled out a feature that had the immediate result of sowing maximum chaos. The update, called “About This Account,” allows people to click on the profile of an X user and see such information as: which country the account was created in, where its user is currently based, and how many times the username has been changed.
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, said the feature was “an important first step to securing the integrity of the global town square.” Roughly four hours later, with the update in the wild, Bier sent another post: “I need a drink.”
Almost immediately, “About This Account” stated that many prominent and prolific pro-MAGA accounts, which signaled that they were run by “patriotic” Americans, were based in countries such as Nigeria, Russia, India, and Thailand.
@MAGANationX, an account with almost 400,000 followers and whose bio says it is a “Patriot Voice for We The People,” is based in “Eastern Europe (Non-EU),” according to the feature, and has changed its username five times since the account was made, last year.
On X and Bluesky, users dredged up countless examples of fake or misleading rage-baiting accounts posting aggressive culture-war takes to large audiences. An account called “Maga Nadine” claims to be living in and posting from the United States but is, according to X, based in Morocco. An “America First” account with 67,000 followers is apparently based in Bangladesh. Poetically, the X handle @American is based in Pakistan, according to the feature.
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
Just FYI, December 25th will be the day I stop exploring the stupidity of our current timeline and the last Destroying Autocracy post. Again, see the notes above about The Fulcrum.
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggery
EuroNews reports:
Life after chatbots: Meet the ‘AI vegans’ refusing to accept a virtual reality
Kagi is:
Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
Fucking awesome if you use Macs.
TechPolicy Press reports:
Why Civil Society Is Sounding the Alarm on the EU’s Omnibus Rollback
The Guardian reports:
European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s
The Free Software Foundation Europe shares:
Germany Stack: Only Free Software Enables Digital Sovereignty
Wikimedia announces:
Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
Decidim reviews:
Decidim Fest 2025: Collective energy, digital sovereignty and a common roadmap
The Conversation reports:
Mullvad reports:
An important victory – but we still need to stop Chat Control.
Ploum says:
Fiona Fokus says:
I don’t care how well your “AI” works
Abso-fucking-lutely.
It’s Foss has:
Self-Hosting is Rising and Linux Users are Leading This Revolution
CNBC reports;
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy
Neutral
The Guardian asks:
Has Britain become an economic colony?
England always makes sure to ape the shitty parts of America.
W3C shares:
Preventing Abuse of Digital Credentials
Ben Werdmuller covers:
The Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes Back
Heise reports:
Analysis of the Digital Sovereignty Summit: Open Source Gets Scolded
We Are Solomon reports:
Hungry for data: Inside Europol’s secretive AI program
The Intercept reports:
The FBI wants to use Surveillance Drones with Facial Recognition Technology
How Corporate Partnerships Powered University Surveillance of Palestine Protests
The Counter Offensive reports:
Witkoff was secretly giving Russians advice
Pariah States
The Register reports:
CISA warns spyware crews are breaking into Signal and WhatsApp accounts
DarkReading reports:
DPRK’s FlexibleFerret Tightens macOS Grip
Big Media
The Columbia Journalism Review reports:
Could Public Skepticism of the Press Actually Be Good for Democracy?
It could since most Big Media is owned by right-wing c^nts.
ProPublica shares:
ProPublica’s May-August 2025 Impact Report: Independent Investigations That Spur Change
Big Tech
Sage Journals reports:
Renée DiResta reports:
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a MAGA influencer… in Lagos
The Daily Beast reports:
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
404 Media reports:
America’s Polarization Has Become the World’s Side Hustle
The Register reports:
Meta knows how bad its sites are for kids, say lawyers
MM+M reports:
What healthcare marketers need to know about Meta’s censoring of abortion ads
The Markup reports:
How American Big Tech guards the profits it extracts around the world
Tuta reports:
Google wants to kill Android freedom: Say Goodbye to installing independent apps
Cybersecurity/Privacy
BleepingComputer reports:
Cox Enterprises discloses Oracle E-Business Suite data breach
Hmm, cable companies are literally shit at everything.
Code beautifiers expose credentials from banks, govt, tech orgs
Malicious LLMs empower inexperienced hackers with advanced tools
DarkReading reports:
Infamous Shai-hulud Worm Resurfaces From the Depths
The Register reports:
FCC guts post-Salt Typhoon telco rules despite ongoing espionage risk
GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France’s privacy stance
Fediverse
Connected Places shares:
Mastodon announces:
Mastodon Joins Forces with WE AID
Bonfire has:
What is Bonfire? Plural by design.
Buttondown has:
Making social networking more like email
Terence Eden has:
Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!
Ghost has:
RadWeb Hosting shares:
How to Host Your Own Mastodon Server on a VPS (5 Minute Quick-Start Guide)
How to Install Pleroma on Ubuntu VPS (5 Minute Quick-Start Guide)
NodeBB announces:
NodeBB v4.7.0 — category boost fixes, remote media/emoji in chats, and more!
Slightly Decentralized Social Media
Connected Places has:
Internet Exchange reports:
‘Composable Moderation’ May Protect Bluesky from Political Pressure
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
- That’s it for this week. Please share this edition of Destroying Autocracy.
- Follow me on the Fediverse. Or this site via the button in the footer. Or via RSS. Or even our future home in 2026, if you want a head start.
Keep fighting!
Ringleader, Battalion
Reuben Walker
Follow me on the Fediverse#ActivityPub #AI #ATProto #Autocracy #BigJournalism #BigTech #Bonfire #Buttondown #Democracy #Fascism #Fediverse #Ghost #Mastodon #NodeBB #Pleroma #StopChina #StopIsrael #StopRedAmerica #StopRussia #SupportUkraine #TechnoAnarchism #TechnoFeudalism
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Destroying Autocracy – November 27, 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.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
The Programmer’s Fulcrum is the future (and smaller) home for a fusion of Symfony Station and Battalion. Its tagline is Devs Defending Democracy, Developing the OMN.
You can sign up now and for 2025 get an email with links to each week’s Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion “Destroying Autocracy” post along with their featured articles. And you’ll be set with TPF after the fusing in January.
We are posting on the Fediverse now at @thefulcrum @thefulcrum.dev and original website content will start in 2026.
Featured Item(s)
The Atlantic writes:
Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X rolled out a feature that had the immediate result of sowing maximum chaos. The update, called “About This Account,” allows people to click on the profile of an X user and see such information as: which country the account was created in, where its user is currently based, and how many times the username has been changed.
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, said the feature was “an important first step to securing the integrity of the global town square.” Roughly four hours later, with the update in the wild, Bier sent another post: “I need a drink.”
Almost immediately, “About This Account” stated that many prominent and prolific pro-MAGA accounts, which signaled that they were run by “patriotic” Americans, were based in countries such as Nigeria, Russia, India, and Thailand.
@MAGANationX, an account with almost 400,000 followers and whose bio says it is a “Patriot Voice for We The People,” is based in “Eastern Europe (Non-EU),” according to the feature, and has changed its username five times since the account was made, last year.
On X and Bluesky, users dredged up countless examples of fake or misleading rage-baiting accounts posting aggressive culture-war takes to large audiences. An account called “Maga Nadine” claims to be living in and posting from the United States but is, according to X, based in Morocco. An “America First” account with 67,000 followers is apparently based in Bangladesh. Poetically, the X handle @American is based in Pakistan, according to the feature.
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
Just FYI, December 25th will be the day I stop exploring the stupidity of our current timeline and the last Destroying Autocracy post. Again, see the notes above about The Fulcrum.
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggery
EuroNews reports:
Life after chatbots: Meet the ‘AI vegans’ refusing to accept a virtual reality
Kagi is:
Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
Fucking awesome if you use Macs.
TechPolicy Press reports:
Why Civil Society Is Sounding the Alarm on the EU’s Omnibus Rollback
The Guardian reports:
European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s
The Free Software Foundation Europe shares:
Germany Stack: Only Free Software Enables Digital Sovereignty
Wikimedia announces:
Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
Decidim reviews:
Decidim Fest 2025: Collective energy, digital sovereignty and a common roadmap
The Conversation reports:
Mullvad reports:
An important victory – but we still need to stop Chat Control.
Ploum says:
Fiona Fokus says:
I don’t care how well your “AI” works
Abso-fucking-lutely.
It’s Foss has:
Self-Hosting is Rising and Linux Users are Leading This Revolution
CNBC reports;
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy
Neutral
The Guardian asks:
Has Britain become an economic colony?
England always makes sure to ape the shitty parts of America.
W3C shares:
Preventing Abuse of Digital Credentials
Ben Werdmuller covers:
The Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes Back
Heise reports:
Analysis of the Digital Sovereignty Summit: Open Source Gets Scolded
We Are Solomon reports:
Hungry for data: Inside Europol’s secretive AI program
The Intercept reports:
The FBI wants to use Surveillance Drones with Facial Recognition Technology
How Corporate Partnerships Powered University Surveillance of Palestine Protests
The Counter Offensive reports:
Witkoff was secretly giving Russians advice
Pariah States
The Register reports:
CISA warns spyware crews are breaking into Signal and WhatsApp accounts
DarkReading reports:
DPRK’s FlexibleFerret Tightens macOS Grip
Big Media
The Columbia Journalism Review reports:
Could Public Skepticism of the Press Actually Be Good for Democracy?
It could since most Big Media is owned by right-wing c^nts.
ProPublica shares:
ProPublica’s May-August 2025 Impact Report: Independent Investigations That Spur Change
Big Tech
Sage Journals reports:
Renée DiResta reports:
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a MAGA influencer… in Lagos
The Daily Beast reports:
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
404 Media reports:
America’s Polarization Has Become the World’s Side Hustle
The Register reports:
Meta knows how bad its sites are for kids, say lawyers
MM+M reports:
What healthcare marketers need to know about Meta’s censoring of abortion ads
The Markup reports:
How American Big Tech guards the profits it extracts around the world
Tuta reports:
Google wants to kill Android freedom: Say Goodbye to installing independent apps
Cybersecurity/Privacy
BleepingComputer reports:
Cox Enterprises discloses Oracle E-Business Suite data breach
Hmm, cable companies are literally shit at everything.
Code beautifiers expose credentials from banks, govt, tech orgs
Malicious LLMs empower inexperienced hackers with advanced tools
DarkReading reports:
Infamous Shai-hulud Worm Resurfaces From the Depths
The Register reports:
FCC guts post-Salt Typhoon telco rules despite ongoing espionage risk
GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France’s privacy stance
Fediverse
Connected Places shares:
Mastodon announces:
Mastodon Joins Forces with WE AID
Bonfire has:
What is Bonfire? Plural by design.
Buttondown has:
Making social networking more like email
Terence Eden has:
Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!
Ghost has:
RadWeb Hosting shares:
How to Host Your Own Mastodon Server on a VPS (5 Minute Quick-Start Guide)
How to Install Pleroma on Ubuntu VPS (5 Minute Quick-Start Guide)
NodeBB announces:
NodeBB v4.7.0 — category boost fixes, remote media/emoji in chats, and more!
Slightly Decentralized Social Media
Connected Places has:
Internet Exchange reports:
‘Composable Moderation’ May Protect Bluesky from Political Pressure
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
- That’s it for this week. Please share this edition of Destroying Autocracy.
- Follow me on the Fediverse. Or this site via the button in the footer. Or via RSS. Or even our future home in 2026, if you want a head start.
Keep fighting!
Ringleader, Battalion
Reuben Walker
Follow me on the Fediverse#ActivityPub #AI #ATProto #Autocracy #BigJournalism #BigTech #Bonfire #Buttondown #Democracy #Fascism #Fediverse #Ghost #Mastodon #NodeBB #Pleroma #StopChina #StopIsrael #StopRedAmerica #StopRussia #SupportUkraine #TechnoAnarchism #TechnoFeudalism
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Destroying Autocracy – November 27, 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.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
The Programmer’s Fulcrum is the future (and smaller) home for a fusion of Symfony Station and Battalion. Its tagline is Devs Defending Democracy, Developing the OMN.
You can sign up now and for 2025 get an email with links to each week’s Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion “Destroying Autocracy” post along with their featured articles. And you’ll be set with TPF after the fusing in January.
We are posting on the Fediverse now at @thefulcrum @thefulcrum.dev and original website content will start in 2026.
Featured Item(s)
The Atlantic writes:
Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X rolled out a feature that had the immediate result of sowing maximum chaos. The update, called “About This Account,” allows people to click on the profile of an X user and see such information as: which country the account was created in, where its user is currently based, and how many times the username has been changed.
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, said the feature was “an important first step to securing the integrity of the global town square.” Roughly four hours later, with the update in the wild, Bier sent another post: “I need a drink.”
Almost immediately, “About This Account” stated that many prominent and prolific pro-MAGA accounts, which signaled that they were run by “patriotic” Americans, were based in countries such as Nigeria, Russia, India, and Thailand.
@MAGANationX, an account with almost 400,000 followers and whose bio says it is a “Patriot Voice for We The People,” is based in “Eastern Europe (Non-EU),” according to the feature, and has changed its username five times since the account was made, last year.
On X and Bluesky, users dredged up countless examples of fake or misleading rage-baiting accounts posting aggressive culture-war takes to large audiences. An account called “Maga Nadine” claims to be living in and posting from the United States but is, according to X, based in Morocco. An “America First” account with 67,000 followers is apparently based in Bangladesh. Poetically, the X handle @American is based in Pakistan, according to the feature.
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
Just FYI, December 25th will be the day I stop exploring the stupidity of our current timeline and the last Destroying Autocracy post. Again, see the notes above about The Fulcrum.
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggery
EuroNews reports:
Life after chatbots: Meet the ‘AI vegans’ refusing to accept a virtual reality
Kagi is:
Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
Fucking awesome if you use Macs.
TechPolicy Press reports:
Why Civil Society Is Sounding the Alarm on the EU’s Omnibus Rollback
The Guardian reports:
European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s
The Free Software Foundation Europe shares:
Germany Stack: Only Free Software Enables Digital Sovereignty
Wikimedia announces:
Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
Decidim reviews:
Decidim Fest 2025: Collective energy, digital sovereignty and a common roadmap
The Conversation reports:
Mullvad reports:
An important victory – but we still need to stop Chat Control.
Ploum says:
Fiona Fokus says:
I don’t care how well your “AI” works
Abso-fucking-lutely.
It’s Foss has:
Self-Hosting is Rising and Linux Users are Leading This Revolution
CNBC reports;
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy
Neutral
The Guardian asks:
Has Britain become an economic colony?
England always makes sure to ape the shitty parts of America.
W3C shares:
Preventing Abuse of Digital Credentials
Ben Werdmuller covers:
The Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes Back
Heise reports:
Analysis of the Digital Sovereignty Summit: Open Source Gets Scolded
We Are Solomon reports:
Hungry for data: Inside Europol’s secretive AI program
The Intercept reports:
The FBI wants to use Surveillance Drones with Facial Recognition Technology
How Corporate Partnerships Powered University Surveillance of Palestine Protests
The Counter Offensive reports:
Witkoff was secretly giving Russians advice
Pariah States
The Register reports:
CISA warns spyware crews are breaking into Signal and WhatsApp accounts
DarkReading reports:
DPRK’s FlexibleFerret Tightens macOS Grip
Big Media
The Columbia Journalism Review reports:
Could Public Skepticism of the Press Actually Be Good for Democracy?
It could since most Big Media is owned by right-wing c^nts.
ProPublica shares:
ProPublica’s May-August 2025 Impact Report: Independent Investigations That Spur Change
Big Tech
Sage Journals reports:
Renée DiResta reports:
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a MAGA influencer… in Lagos
The Daily Beast reports:
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
404 Media reports:
America’s Polarization Has Become the World’s Side Hustle
The Register reports:
Meta knows how bad its sites are for kids, say lawyers
MM+M reports:
What healthcare marketers need to know about Meta’s censoring of abortion ads
The Markup reports:
How American Big Tech guards the profits it extracts around the world
Tuta reports:
Google wants to kill Android freedom: Say Goodbye to installing independent apps
Cybersecurity/Privacy
BleepingComputer reports:
Cox Enterprises discloses Oracle E-Business Suite data breach
Hmm, cable companies are literally shit at everything.
Code beautifiers expose credentials from banks, govt, tech orgs
Malicious LLMs empower inexperienced hackers with advanced tools
DarkReading reports:
Infamous Shai-hulud Worm Resurfaces From the Depths
The Register reports:
FCC guts post-Salt Typhoon telco rules despite ongoing espionage risk
GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France’s privacy stance
Fediverse
Connected Places shares:
Mastodon announces:
Mastodon Joins Forces with WE AID
Bonfire has:
What is Bonfire? Plural by design.
Buttondown has:
Making social networking more like email
Terence Eden has:
Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!
Ghost has:
RadWeb Hosting shares:
How to Host Your Own Mastodon Server on a VPS (5 Minute Quick-Start Guide)
How to Install Pleroma on Ubuntu VPS (5 Minute Quick-Start Guide)
NodeBB announces:
NodeBB v4.7.0 — category boost fixes, remote media/emoji in chats, and more!
Slightly Decentralized Social Media
Connected Places has:
Internet Exchange reports:
‘Composable Moderation’ May Protect Bluesky from Political Pressure
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
- That’s it for this week. Please share this edition of Destroying Autocracy.
- Follow me on the Fediverse. Or this site via the button in the footer. Or via RSS. Or even our future home in 2026, if you want a head start.
Keep fighting!
Ringleader, Battalion
Reuben Walker
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Destroying Autocracy – November 27, 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.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
The Programmer’s Fulcrum is the future (and smaller) home for a fusion of Symfony Station and Battalion. Its tagline is Devs Defending Democracy, Developing the OMN.
You can sign up now and for 2025 get an email with links to each week’s Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion “Destroying Autocracy” post along with their featured articles. And you’ll be set with TPF after the fusing in January.
We are posting on the Fediverse now at @thefulcrum @thefulcrum.dev and original website content will start in 2026.
Featured Item(s)
The Atlantic writes:
Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X rolled out a feature that had the immediate result of sowing maximum chaos. The update, called “About This Account,” allows people to click on the profile of an X user and see such information as: which country the account was created in, where its user is currently based, and how many times the username has been changed.
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, said the feature was “an important first step to securing the integrity of the global town square.” Roughly four hours later, with the update in the wild, Bier sent another post: “I need a drink.”
Almost immediately, “About This Account” stated that many prominent and prolific pro-MAGA accounts, which signaled that they were run by “patriotic” Americans, were based in countries such as Nigeria, Russia, India, and Thailand.
@MAGANationX, an account with almost 400,000 followers and whose bio says it is a “Patriot Voice for We The People,” is based in “Eastern Europe (Non-EU),” according to the feature, and has changed its username five times since the account was made, last year.
On X and Bluesky, users dredged up countless examples of fake or misleading rage-baiting accounts posting aggressive culture-war takes to large audiences. An account called “Maga Nadine” claims to be living in and posting from the United States but is, according to X, based in Morocco. An “America First” account with 67,000 followers is apparently based in Bangladesh. Poetically, the X handle @American is based in Pakistan, according to the feature.
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
Just FYI, December 25th will be the day I stop exploring the stupidity of our current timeline and the last Destroying Autocracy post. Again, see the notes above about The Fulcrum.
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggery
EuroNews reports:
Life after chatbots: Meet the ‘AI vegans’ refusing to accept a virtual reality
Kagi is:
Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
Fucking awesome if you use Macs.
TechPolicy Press reports:
Why Civil Society Is Sounding the Alarm on the EU’s Omnibus Rollback
The Guardian reports:
European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s
The Free Software Foundation Europe shares:
Germany Stack: Only Free Software Enables Digital Sovereignty
Wikimedia announces:
Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
Decidim reviews:
Decidim Fest 2025: Collective energy, digital sovereignty and a common roadmap
The Conversation reports:
Mullvad reports:
An important victory – but we still need to stop Chat Control.
Ploum says:
Fiona Fokus says:
I don’t care how well your “AI” works
Abso-fucking-lutely.
It’s Foss has:
Self-Hosting is Rising and Linux Users are Leading This Revolution
CNBC reports;
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy
Neutral
The Guardian asks:
Has Britain become an economic colony?
England always makes sure to ape the shitty parts of America.
W3C shares:
Preventing Abuse of Digital Credentials
Ben Werdmuller covers:
The Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes Back
Heise reports:
Analysis of the Digital Sovereignty Summit: Open Source Gets Scolded
We Are Solomon reports:
Hungry for data: Inside Europol’s secretive AI program
The Intercept reports:
The FBI wants to use Surveillance Drones with Facial Recognition Technology
How Corporate Partnerships Powered University Surveillance of Palestine Protests
The Counter Offensive reports:
Witkoff was secretly giving Russians advice
Pariah States
The Register reports:
CISA warns spyware crews are breaking into Signal and WhatsApp accounts
DarkReading reports:
DPRK’s FlexibleFerret Tightens macOS Grip
Big Media
The Columbia Journalism Review reports:
Could Public Skepticism of the Press Actually Be Good for Democracy?
It could since most Big Media is owned by right-wing c^nts.
ProPublica shares:
ProPublica’s May-August 2025 Impact Report: Independent Investigations That Spur Change
Big Tech
Sage Journals reports:
Renée DiResta reports:
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a MAGA influencer… in Lagos
The Daily Beast reports:
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
404 Media reports:
America’s Polarization Has Become the World’s Side Hustle
The Register reports:
Meta knows how bad its sites are for kids, say lawyers
MM+M reports:
What healthcare marketers need to know about Meta’s censoring of abortion ads
The Markup reports:
How American Big Tech guards the profits it extracts around the world
Tuta reports:
Google wants to kill Android freedom: Say Goodbye to installing independent apps
Cybersecurity/Privacy
BleepingComputer reports:
Cox Enterprises discloses Oracle E-Business Suite data breach
Hmm, cable companies are literally shit at everything.
Code beautifiers expose credentials from banks, govt, tech orgs
Malicious LLMs empower inexperienced hackers with advanced tools
DarkReading reports:
Infamous Shai-hulud Worm Resurfaces From the Depths
The Register reports:
FCC guts post-Salt Typhoon telco rules despite ongoing espionage risk
GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France’s privacy stance
Fediverse
Connected Places shares:
Mastodon announces:
Mastodon Joins Forces with WE AID
Bonfire has:
What is Bonfire? Plural by design.
Buttondown has:
Making social networking more like email
Terence Eden has:
Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!
Ghost has:
RadWeb Hosting shares:
How to Host Your Own Mastodon Server on a VPS (5 Minute Quick-Start Guide)
How to Install Pleroma on Ubuntu VPS (5 Minute Quick-Start Guide)
NodeBB announces:
NodeBB v4.7.0 — category boost fixes, remote media/emoji in chats, and more!
Slightly Decentralized Social Media
Connected Places has:
Internet Exchange reports:
‘Composable Moderation’ May Protect Bluesky from Political Pressure
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
- That’s it for this week. Please share this edition of Destroying Autocracy.
- Follow me on the Fediverse. Or this site via the button in the footer. Or via RSS. Or even our future home in 2026, if you want a head start.
Keep fighting!
Ringleader, Battalion
Reuben Walker
Follow me on the Fediverse#ActivityPub #AI #ATProto #Autocracy #BigJournalism #BigTech #Bonfire #Buttondown #Democracy #Fascism #Fediverse #Ghost #Mastodon #NodeBB #Pleroma #StopChina #StopIsrael #StopRedAmerica #StopRussia #SupportUkraine #TechnoAnarchism #TechnoFeudalism
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I donated again to Develop Africa to support students in Sierra Leone.
https://www.developafrica.org/about-develop-africa
We provide education, child sponsorship, leadership development, workforce empowerment, computer/vocational training and more to poverty-stricken African communities. We aid in breaking the cycle of poverty, so our impact is not limited to those we directly help - future generations will be born into a healthier, more prosperous, and developed world.
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#songoftheday is a catchy #NEWSONG for #PEACE song - as if #TheBangles would meet #JoanJet – comes from a pair of ukrainian ladies living in #london: #BloomTwins
They write
"With our song we urge the world to stand with us.(...) and
BUILD RATHER THAN DESTROY."
A COOL 2023 #PEACESONG for all the conflicts out there. Put it on rotation
⏯ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOfHhz_hzPw
#WEAIDfamily #humanitarian #inspire #motivate #kindness #empathy #quoteoftheday #JukeboxFridayNight #fridaymusic #radio #goodnews
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#songoftheday is a catchy #NEWSONG for #PEACE song - as if #TheBangles would meet #JoanJet – comes from a pair of ukrainian ladies: The #BloomTwins
They write in the description "With our song we urge the world to stand with us.(...) and build rather than destroy."
A peace song for all the conflicts out there. Put it on rotation:
🎵⏯ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOfHhz_hzPw
#WEAIDfamily #humanitarian #inspire #motivate #kindness #empathy #quoteoftheday #JukeboxFridayNight #fridaymusic #fashion #goodnews
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Seen it? New reel - on #worldheritageday - moments from the BERLIN demo for #kindness, #diversity and #Democracy
BUNT STATT BRAUN:
💛⏯ https://www.instagram.com/yesweaid/reel/C56W7Qss747/
on our #instagram
#WEAIDfamily #humanitarian #disasterresponse #liveunited #unitedindiversity #goodnews #gutenachrichten #yesweaid #menschlichkeit #mitgefühl #vielfalt #gutenachrichten
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@eric you might also tell them that #Einstein himself used to work for the patent office and wrote his theory on relativity. BUT: He had mark 4 in #school in math. And a landhouse some 50km from where we write this. ANYTHING is possible if you spark kids´ imagination. Just as Albert said:
"Imagination is more important than knowledge". Add a cool diverse team to make the dream work since ANYbody is unique.
All the best from Berlin :)
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Es gibt in UK Anleitungen für die Bevölkerung, wie man sich vorbereiten kann, wie Gebäude gesichert werden können & was im Hochwasserfall zu beachten ist. Nach der #Ahrtal-Katastrophe wäre das wirklich in allen Risikogebieten wünschenswert, auch wenn es nur bedingt bei solchen Ausmaßen hift.
Hier ist die Seite - alles Gute!
#yesWEAID #torrentialrain #starkregen #überflutung #vorsorge #disasterresponse #disasterrelief #nothilfe #fluthilfe #wetter #news
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Dazu gibts bereits eine lebensrettende funktionierende Lösung - eine unserer unterstützten Initiativen hat bereits über 110 Systeme aus recycleten EV Akkus in die Ukraine geschickt. Für Intensiv- und Geburtsstationen, als Blackoutsicherung für Schulen und Kindergärten.
Ist robust (vom Roten Kreuz Portugal im Noteinsatz getestet, kombinierbar & verfügbar. Lest und schaut selbst, Support willkommen:
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#inspiring #goodnews #songoftheday
since we can´t find much QUEEN on Mastodon, lets add
🎥🎵➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB3RbO7updc
= #BohemianRhapsody at a #TEDtalk
dedicating it to
#Astronomer
#scientist
#philanthroph
AND #Rockstar#SirDrBrianMay´s BIRTHDAY a few days ago
and add an article found by @TheMetalDog (thank you!):
➡️ https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1785779/Bohemian-Rhapsody-2-Brian-May-Freddie-Mercury
#Queen are #givingback a lot to #fans & #communities, even today. #BrianMay
#yesWEAID #humanitarian #liveunited #TEDtalk #wewillrockyou #news
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🎥💛⏯ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upzOyEstkgU
YOU DID IT FAST! Lets go for more!
We planned 5.000 food parcels for #ukrainian #railworker #families. We made 6.000!
HOPE becomes RELIEF – with YOU.
WE continue fundraising for another 24.000 food parcels.
#yesWEAID #humanitarian #liveunited #goodnews #railroad #diasasteraid #food #news
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Since obviously here is way not enough #tubaday on mastodon yet, let´s add music with a #tuba
along with a THANK YOU to anyone uplifting others and helping to make this world a #BetterPlaceEnjoy the Lucky Chops #coco #live
🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺⏯ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKVoMn9ddQY
#WEAIDfamily #humanitarian #nothilfe #soundtrack #radio #festival #playlist #gutenachrichten #goodnews
#liveunited #inconcert #brassmusic #trombone #trumpet #saxophone #tuba #jahrdertuba #tubatag #tagdertuba #orchester -
“Happiness can be found
in even the darkest of times
if one only remembers
to turn on the #light "Dumbledore
in memory of #RIP #MichaelGambon who played #Dumbledore
... if you follow our twitter at
🎥💛➡️ https://twitter.com/yesWEAID/status/1707388845585506610
you´ve seen it already:
Give hope. Always. #Soundtrack x #songoftheday:
FIRST LIGHT Lindsey Stirling
🎵⏯ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScVWkYZkZFk&feature=youtu.be @50years_music#yesWEAID #HUMANITARIAN #MAGIC #disasterresponse #AlbusDumbledore #cine #inspiring #edm #dj #kino #news