#bandwagon — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bandwagon, aggregated by home.social.
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We're still on our summer break, but we have some important news for you: You can now find our music on all the big streaming platforms. 🎉
And because the big commercial plattforms actually suck, you can also find us on free and non-commercial alternatives like Mirlo and Bandwagon.fm. 🥳 Did we miss anything?
Photo by Nancy Wappler
#StonedMedusa #Music #Band #EpRelease #DemoRelease #Mirlo #Bandwagon #PsychDoom #StonerDoom #PsychedelicRock #PsychedelicDoom #DoomMetal #SaturDoom
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We're still on our summer break, but we have some important news for you: You can now find our music on all the big streaming platforms. 🎉
And because the big commercial plattforms actually suck, you can also find us on free and non-commercial alternatives like Mirlo and Bandwagon.fm. 🥳 Did we miss anything?
#StonedMedusa #Music #Band #EpRelease #DemoRelease #Mirlo #Bandwagon #PsychDoom #StonerDoom #PsychedelicRock #PsychedelicDoom #DoomMetal #SaturDoom
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We're still on our summer break, but we have some important news for you: You can now find our music on all the big streaming platforms. 🎉
And because the big commercial plattforms actually suck, you can also find us on free and non-commercial alternatives like Mirlo and Bandwagon.fm. 🥳 Did we miss anything?
#StonedMedusa #Music #Band #EpRelease #DemoRelease #Mirlo #Bandwagon #PsychDoom #StonerDoom #PsychedelicRock #PsychedelicDoom #DoomMetal #SaturDoom
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We're still on our summer break, but we have some important news for you: You can now find our music on all the big streaming platforms. 🎉
And because the big commercial plattforms actually suck, you can also find us on free and non-commercial alternatives like Mirlo and Bandwagon.fm. 🥳 Did we miss anything?
Photo by Nancy Wappler
#StonedMedusa #Music #Band #EpRelease #DemoRelease #Mirlo #Bandwagon #PsychDoom #StonerDoom #PsychedelicRock #PsychedelicDoom #DoomMetal #SaturDoom
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We're still on our summer break, but we have some important news for you: You can now find our music on all the big streaming platforms. 🎉
And because the big commercial plattforms actually suck, you can also find us on free and non-commercial alternatives like Mirlo and Bandwagon.fm. 🥳 Did we miss anything?
Photo by Nancy Wappler
#StonedMedusa #Music #Band #EpRelease #DemoRelease #Mirlo #Bandwagon #PsychDoom #StonerDoom #PsychedelicRock #PsychedelicDoom #DoomMetal #SaturDoom
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For #musiciansday I've decided to release some songs I wrote and collaborated on on #bandwagon
Who knew I was writing #bonkwave 25+ years ago. Or was I? I called it SchizoTronic Electro-Folk.
More tracks on the way. These are free, and creative Commons, so feel free to use these in your films, or any other project.
Don't forget to support your favorite ACTUAL musician today!
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Hello #fediverse have a nice #MusiciansDay
We are a 4 piece (banjo, guitar, double bass and drums) #americana / #altcountry band from 's-Hertogenbosch 🇳🇱
Bands that influence us are 16 Horsepower, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Firewater and many more.
You can listen to our 12 track debut album "The Misery Stains" on #BandWagon https://bandwagon.fm/668c277f7af2d40234b2f9d0 and @mirlo : https://mirlo.space/moonshine-brigade/release/the-misery-stains
We like to participate in the #TuneTuesday and #ThursdayFiveList hashtags, please join us 😃
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getting reading to talk about ccmusic.club at https://meet.jit.si/ccmusic
#ccmusic #netlabels #netlabel #music
#peetube #bandwagon #netnativemusic
As always, please boost!
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Destroying Autocracy – July 17, 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.
We are back from holiday and brief respite from Fascism Friendly Florida.
Featured Item
Hamish Campbell writes:
Capitalism’s invisible hand has always relied on hidden data. In the digital age, that data is metadata the overlooked, under-the-hood information that tells us who, where, when, how often, and what next. It doesn’t matter what you say or do if someone else controls the context around it. That’s where the power lies. Let’s be clear: the battle for metadata is the battle for the future.
Capitalism: Metadata is hoarded by the dotcons. This is the tech-feudalism of today—soft fascism in algorithmic form.
Chinese Communism: Here, the state doesn’t outsource metadata – it owns it. Surveillance is centralised. Social credit systems reduce people to patterns and can be used to penalise deviation.
Liberalism: Wants to privatise metadata to the individual, to revive the mythical free market of rational actors with perfect information. But this is a fantasy—metadata’s power comes from aggregation, and no individual can match corporate or state capacity to hoard it. The liberal path leads to a slightly less abusive cage.
Anarchism and the Commons: A Fourth Way
What does anarchism want? It wants the social conditions for free association. It wants autonomy, not just individual, but community autonomy.
In commons vs. the market, capitalism uses metadata to target, extract, and sell. We use metadata to share, trust, and build. The Open Media Network proposes a radical shift to replace the market with metadata commons. In capitalism, knowledge is hoarded for advantage. In the commons, it is shared for coordination. The market’s “invisible hand” becomes the commons’ visible knowledge, messy, partial, human, but rooted in mutual aid, not profit.
Metadata and the OMN Path: Who Controls the Invisible Hand?
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggery
TechCrunch reports:
Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed servers of Russian drone maker
The Kyiv Independent reports:
EU slaps new sanctions on Russia over hybrid threats, disinformation
BleepingComputer reports:
Europol disrupts pro-Russian NoName057(16) DDoS hacktivist group
ETH Zurich announces:
A language model built for the public good
Open Future reports on:
It’s FOSS reports:
Europe on a Roll: Plans Open Source Alternative to Confluence and Jira
OpenProject shares:
Empowering the Public Sector with OpenProject: An Open Source alternative for project management
Bloomberg Law reports:
States Target AI Hiring Tools as Federal Freeze Attempt Fails
404 Media has:
The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
Immigration Raid Tracking App ‘ICE Block’ Keeps Your Data Private, Researcher Finds
Open Ice is a new resource:
TechPolicy reports:
States Are Fighting Back To Defend Medical Privacy and Safeguard Democracy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:
Despite Supreme Court Setback, EFF Fights On Against Online Age Mandates
Neutral
TechPolicy reports:
How the EU’s Voluntary AI Code is Testing Industry and Regulators Alike
Making Media Pluralism Work in the Age of Algorithms
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:
EFF’s Guide to Getting Records About Axon’s Draft One AI-Generated Police Reports
The Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes Back
Platformer reports:
The campaign to make it illegal for ChatGPT to criticize Trump
Krebs on Security reports:
DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI
404 Media reports:
ICE Is Searching a Massive Insurance and Medical Bill Database to Find Deportation Target
TechPolicy reports:
The US Just Logged Off from Internet Freedom
ProPublica has:
The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
Ars Technica reports:
Trump sues Corporation for Public Broadcasting directors who refused to be fired
Pariah States
BleepingComputer reports:
North Korean XORIndex malware hidden in 67 malicious npm packages
DarkReading reports:
China-Backed Salt Typhoon Hacks US National Guard for Nearly a Year
4 Chinese APTs Attack Taiwan’s Semiconductor Industry
Noyb has:
How TikTok, AliExpress & WeChat ignore your GDPR rights
Big Media
404 Media reports:
The Media’s Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
TechPolicy reports:
Old Tricks, New Tech: How Legacy Media Capture Fuels Today’s Digital Authoritarianism
Mediations in an Emergency reports:
Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning
Big Tech
Ars Technica reports:
New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering
TechCrunch reports:
Of course, Grok’s AI companions want to have sex and burn down schools
OpenAI and Anthropic researchers decry ‘reckless’ safety culture at Elon Musk’s xAI
The Verge asks:
Where are the iPhone’s WebKit-less browsers?
Pluralistic by Cory Doctorow has:
Where are the iPhone’s WebKit-less browsers?
404 Media reports:
a16z-Backed AI Site Civitai Is Mostly Porn, Despite Claiming Otherwise
The Markup reports:
AI is helping students be more independent, but the isolation could be career poison
This times 1,000.
Terror
404 Media reports:
3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought
Cybersecurity/Privacy
Bleeping Computer has:
Google Gemini flaw hijacks email summaries for phishing
Malicious VSCode extension in Cursor IDE led to $500K crypto theft
Sounds like a win-win.
Police disrupt “Diskstation” ransomware gang attacking NAS devices
Ars Technica reports:
Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records
DarkReading reports:
Military Veterans May Be What Cybersecurity Is Looking For
Beats being in the National Guard.
Women Who ‘Hacked the Status Quo’ Aim to Inspire Cybersecurity Careers
The Next Web reports:
Whisper emerges from stealth with ‘God Mode’ to tackle cybercrime
Fediverse
Connected Places has:
Age Verification Laws: Are the New Social Networks Different, Or Not At All?
Steve Bate has:
ActivityPub Client API: A Way Forward
The Social Web Foundation has:
Seeking interop testing for geosocial ActivityPub client
Mastodon has:
Privacy Guides has:
Privacy and Security on Mastodon
Bandwagon has an update:
Elena Rossini has:
My adventures in self-hosting: day 211 (CDN edition)
Forgejo announces:
TechCrunch reports:
Meta appoints generative AI VP to run Threads
I guess it wasn’t shitty enough.
Slightly Federated Social Media
Connected Places has:
Reuters reports:
European project Eurosky aims to reduce reliance on US tech giants
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.
Keep fighting!
Ringleader, Battalion
Reuben Walker
Follow me on the Fediverse#125 #ActivityPub #AI #ATProto #Autocracy #Bandwagon #BigJournalism #BigTech #Bluesky #Democracy #Fascism #Fediverse #Forgejo #Mastodon #StopChina #StopIsrael #StopRedAmerica #StopRussia #SupportUkraine #TechnoAnarchism #TechnoFeudalism #Threads
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Destroying Autocracy – June 12, 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
Fediverse favorite and video pro, Elena Rossini has done the ecosystem an outstanding favor by producing a phenomenal promotional video. She is:
Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
I make a cameo appearance at the end. 😎
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggery
The Kyiv Independent reports:
US accuses Russian of laundering millions, helping Moscow obtain sensitive technology
DarkReading reports:
‘Librarian Ghouls’ Cyberattackers Strike at Night
OpenAI Bans ChatGPT Accounts Linked to Nation-State Threat Actors
Open_Future has:
Europe Talks Digital Sovereignty
Heise reports:
Digital sovereignty: EU launches its own DNS service with practical functions
Tech Policy has:
Public Sector Triage of the Federal Government’s Data Hemorrhage
Tech Oligarchy Imperils Democratic Information Flows
And everything else to do with democracy.
The Register reports:
Apple AI boffins puncture AGI hype as reasoning models flail on complex planning
Nordjyske reports:
Digitaliseringsminister vil mindske brug Microsoft i eget ministerium
Denmark tells Microsoft to get fucked. Well half-fucked for now.
Bloomberg Law reports:
DOGE Access to Government Personnel Data Blocked by Judge
Until the SupremeC^nts reverse it.
404 Media reports:
Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
Neutral
Balfour Jarnasob says:
Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’ is a huge risk
The Guardian reports:
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
TechCrunch reports:
Trump administration takes aim at Biden and Obama cybersecurity rules
404 Media reports:
Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to ‘Accelerate’ AI Across Government
Pariah States
The Guardian reports:
Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds
DarkReading reports:
China-Backed Hackers Target SentinelOne in ‘PurpleHaze’ Attack Spree
The Register reports:
Chinese spy crew appears to be preparing for conflict by backdooring 75+ critical orgs
AP New reports:
US-backed Israeli company’s spyware used to target European journalists, Citizen Lab finds
Big Media
The Nerd Reich reports:
Politico’s $50M Peter Thiel Problem
The San Francisco Standard reports:
The ICE agents disappearing your neighbors would like a little privacy, please
Citation Needed opines:
Indeed!
Big Tech
The Guardian reports:
Misogyny in the metaverse: is Mark Zuckerberg’s dream world a no-go area for women?
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project reports:
Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle
Verso Books asks:
Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?
If only.
Dutch News reports:
Dutch government websites still reliant on US cloud services
Fortune reports:
‘Sovereign AI’ is political branding. The reality is closer to digital colonialism
404 Media reports:
A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account
Senators Demand Meta Answer For AI Chatbots Posing as Licensed Therapists
Zero Party Data reports:
“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.
Business Insider reports:
Mark Zuckerberg has created the saddest place on the internet with Meta AI’s public feed
And the least private. What a c^nt.
Cybersecurity/Privacy
DarkReading reports:
Next-Gen Developers Are a Cybersecurity Powder Keg
GitHub: How Code Provenance Can Prevent Supply Chain Attacks
Gartner: How Security Teams Can Turn Hype Into Opportunity
The Conversation reports:
Tracking apps monitor remote employees’ performance — and invade their privacy
The Register reports:
Peep show: 40K IoT cameras worldwide stream secrets to anyone with a browser
DeepSeek installer or just malware in disguise? Click around and find out
This is what happens when you use Chinese software and AI. You get what you deserve.
Fediverse
Elena Rossini has this regarding the video in our featured item section:
My Fediverse Promo Video: Frequently Asked Questions
The Fediverse report has:
Bounce, and how the Open Social Web is continually changing
Hamish Campell asks:
ActivityPub for WordPress has:
The IT Blog shares:
Peertube starts a series:
Flutter application development: feedback (1/2)
This is very interesting if you are a developer.
TheNewStack reports:
Bringing Joy Back to the Web: Fediverse vs. Centralized Apps
Mastodon has:
We Distribute reports:
Bandwagon is Bringing Music Sales to the Fediverse
Fedihost shares:
I would recommend PieFed or mbin.
ActivityPub for WordPress announces:
Our 2025 Roadmap: Building the Future of WordPress Federation
This has the potential to double the size of the Fediverse (or more) in the long run.
Ben Werdmuller says:
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
The Fediverse Report has:
Is Bad Behaviour Spoiling the Move from Big Tech?
TechCrunch reports:
Bluesky backlash misses the point
None of this would matter if Bluesky were not a company trying to take money and in debt to VCs.
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.
Keep fighting!
Ringleader, Battalion
Reuben Walker
Follow me on the Fediverse#120 #ActivityPub #AI #Autocracy #Bandwagon #BigJournalism #BigTech #Bluesky #Democracy #Fascism #Fediverse #Ghost #Lemmy #Mastodon #Nextcloud #Peertube #StopChina #StopIsrael #StopRedAmerica #StopRussia #SupportUkraine #TechnoAnarchism #TechnoFeudalism #WordPress
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this new #pumiquxt #BandWagon album (mine) is very different from my first. only listen if you can appreciate monotone repetition
#NoiseDrone #DroneNoise #NoiseAmbient #AmbientNoise
(i know should use at least two less hashtags, but i struggle with categorization tendencies)
https://bandwagon.fm/67d72298c7456af3506a7ab7