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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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!

    bandwagon.fm/69c536bd333f7b28f

  7. 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 bandwagon.fm/668c277f7af2d4023 and @mirlo : mirlo.space/moonshine-brigade/

    We like to participate in the #TuneTuesday and #ThursdayFiveList hashtags, please join us 😃

    #introduction

  8. 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:

    Our Work/ Public AI

    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:

    OpenIce

    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:

    Fediverse Report – #125

    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:

    Trunk & Tidbits, June 2025

    Privacy Guides has:

    Privacy and Security on Mastodon

    Bandwagon has an update:

    July 2025

    Elena Rossini has:

    My adventures in self-hosting: day 211 (CDN edition)

    Forgejo announces:

    Forgejo v12.0 is available

    TechCrunch reports:

    Meta appoints generative AI VP to run Threads

    I guess it wasn’t shitty enough.

    Slightly Federated Social Media

    Connected Places has:

    Bluesky Report – #125

    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

    battalion.mobileatom.net/?p=21

  9. 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:

    ‘No smartphones before 14; no social media until 16’: The Anxious Generation author on how to fight back against big tech

    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:

    It matters. I care.

    Indeed!

    Big Tech

    The Guardian reports:

    US attacks on science and research a ‘great gift’ to China on artificial intelligence, former OpenAI board member says

    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:

    Fediverse Report – #120

    Bounce, and how the Open Social Web is continually changing

    Hamish Campell asks:

    Why does any of this matter?

    ActivityPub for WordPress has:

    6.0.0 – New Kids on the Block

    The IT Blog shares:

    PeerTube and Platform Control

    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:

    Trunk & Tidbits, May 2025

    We Distribute reports:

    Bandwagon is Bringing Music Sales to the Fediverse

    Fedihost shares:

    Getting Started on Lemmy

    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:

    Welcome to the new Werd I/O

    Other Slightly Federated Social Media

    The Fediverse Report has:

    ATmosphere Report – #120

    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

    battalion.mobileatom.net/?p=19

  10. 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)
    bandwagon.fm/67d72298c7456af35