#samizdat — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #samizdat, aggregated by home.social.
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🔴 Online il nuovo numero di Enthymema, rivista di critica, teoria letteraria e filosofia della letteratura.
In questo numero, una sezione sulla diffusione della cultura #underground sovietica in Italia, dalla letteratura alla musica alle arti figurative
⬇️ In #openaccess qui: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/issue/view/2848?mtm_campaign=mastodon
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@matus_chochlik I mostly agree - but the "alternative" in the form of Trumpism, AfD, etc. is really no better: it would be all of this, but with added incompetence (think 1970's marginally competent aparatchiks and engineers, with their vision of nuclear powered industrial society, replaced by 1980''s incompetent nepotist aparatchiks)
I am preparing article for certain paper-printed zine, itself keeping kontinuity with 1980's underground disent media, about Fediverse. I want to use title "Digital samizdat", emphasizing similarities between Fediverse approach and former eastern blok #samizdat movement. I want to attract attention of aging members of former disent and try to explain them what is going on in western digital society.
Lot of what we were thinking were going on in 1980's was just wild imagination, because these governments were no technically capably of processing huge amounts of surveillance data; their terror was limited to their Bastillas, which were not invincible. But this time, the surveillance is not government, but corporate operated, and the corporations are now really the government.
The discussion what really happened in our era, would take some time - but we need platform, where this discussion can take place.
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@Kristian_Kiehling
#SciFi #Unwiring is a collaborative story by IIRC #cstross and #CoryDoctorow about seeding a country with a network of wireless nodes.#FidoNet was (is?) a decentralised message passing network in the modem age.
#CIX and the program for it #AMEOL2 also allowed a phone call to receive and pass many forum messages to read and compose at leisure.
There is an #RFC for IP traffic by #pigeon which is extreme, but packets could go by USB stick, QR code ...
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The Asymptote magazine just published five poems by a prominent soviet underground poet Yan Satunovsky (1913—1982) from the upcoming book Prosthesis Factory (Publ. by World Poetry Books), translated to English by Ainsley Morse & Philip Redko.
I'm so delighted that Satunovsky's poetry is finally available for the world readership to know and love! < 3
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/prosthesis-factory-yan-satunovsky/
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After careful examination of all the various encryption algorithms, apps, alternative radio communications, mesh, and more... I have decided this is the best technical workaround for Fascist clampdown on free speech. #samizdat
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Whenever someone tells you that preventing disinformation requires giving states total control over what people can say online, remember the role of samizdat in bringing down the Eastern Bloc dictatorships. Those governments also believed that giving themselves total control over what their citizens can publish was in everyone's best interests.
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Trump’s war on knowledge requires re-inventing academic publishing as diamond open access
A year ago, Walled Culture wrote about a growing risk that we will lose access to the world’s knowledge, because of a failure by traditional academic publishers to place copies of the articles they publish in key backup archives. Although unacceptable, that oversight is more a matter of laziness and cost cutting on the part of publishers, rather than a result of outright animosity to the […]
#academicPublishing #archives #climateCrisis #diamondOa #donaldTrump #fair #nasa #ncbi #nih #noaa #nsf #pangaea #pubmed #samizdat #zbMed
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Michael J. Blood & Samizdat:
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In February, #Marc #Andreessen described the #Chatham #House group chats to the podcaster #Lex #Fridman as “the equivalent of [Soviet era] #samizdat”
“The combination of encryption and disappearing messages really unleashed it,” he said. The chats, he wrote recently, helped produce our national “vibe shift.”
They have rarely been discussed in public, though you can catch the occasional mention in, for instance, a podcast debate between #Mark #Cuban and the Republican entrepreneur #Vivek #Ramaswamy, which started in a chat.But they are made visible through a group consensus on social media.
Their effects have ranged from the mainstreaming of the monarchist pundit #Curtis #Yarvin to a particularly focused and developed dislike of the former Washington Post writer #Taylor #Lorenz.They succeeded at avoiding leaks (until, to a modest extent, this article) in part because of Signal’s and WhatsApp’s #disappearing #message features,
and in part because the groups had formed out of a mix of fear and disdain for journalists they believed were “out to get us,” as one member put it.
“People during 2020 felt that there was a monoculture on social media, and if they didn’t agree with something, group chats became a safe space to debate that, share that, build consensus, feel that you’re not alone,”
said #Erik #Torenberg, an entrepreneur who was the first employee of the tech community hub Product Hunt.
As #Krishnan was setting up a set of tech group WhatsApp chats at a16z, #Torenberg independently founded a group of tech chats on WhatsApp and some more political Signal chats.“They’re having all the private conversations because they weren’t allowed to have the public conversations,” Andreessen told Torenberg on a recent podcast,
after claiming in the name of secrecy that he’d never heard of such groups.
“If it wasn’t for the censorship all of these conversations would have happened in public, which would have been much better.”
Their creations took off:
“It might not seem like it, because of all the sh*t that people still post on X, but the internet has fragmented,”
the Substack author #Noah #Smith wrote after my inquiries for this story spilled into public Saturday.
“Group chats are now where everything important and interesting happens.”https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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Samizdat per Boualem Sansal per difendere la libertà di espressione di Francesco Scatigno https://www.magozine.it/samizdat-per-boualem-sansal-per-difendere-la-liberta-di-espressione/ #Autori #cultura #libertà #Samizdat
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People needed for demonstration at the Heritage Foundation!
214 Massachusetts Avenue, at 12 noon
Pass this along! (It’s gonna be epic)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=szARlD95nWE
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Pretty soon #samizdat will be trending in the USA. Mark my words. And Happy Aaron Swartz day, btw.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/celebrating-life-aaron-swartz-aaron-swartz-day-2024 -
@Ustinoff @awinkler @SLUBDresden
Die Deutsche Bücherei in Leipzig (1990 aufgegangen in der Deutschen Bibliothek, jetzt @DNB_Aktuelles) hat meines Wissens auch in der #DDR-Zeit Belegexemplare von allen Verlagen erhalten und müsste so ein ziemlich vollständiges Abbild der DDR-Literatur haben (vielleicht abgesehen von Untergrundliteratur/ #Samizdat).
Die #DNB müsste auch #GND-Nummern für die DDR-Autoren vergeben, deren Bücher keine ISBN erhalten haben. Wenn nicht, fände ich das so schlimm wie du. -
If a school requires parental consent before #students can borrow #books on certain sexual topics from the #library, this is the next step: "If a student does receive parental consent, the policy requires the student to sign an agreement that they will not share the content with other students. If they do, they will be subject to disciplinary action."
https://archive.is/5XuBsUpdate. If the copy above disappears, here's another.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240308140902/https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2024/03/08/arizona-school-district-approves-policy-allowing-student-punishment-for-sharing-books/72886688007/ -
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Thanks to a reader who had a copy of the file downloaded on his phone, we've got a copy of the #MBTA's #samizdat podcast.'
Listen here, and if you have insights about why this was too controversial for the Healey administration, sound off in the comments:
https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/10/06/we-got-a-copy-of-the-samizdat-mbta-podcast-listen-here
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@kinnla Ein ähnliches Heftchen habe ich in den 1990er Jahren nach einer Dichter:innenlesung in der Erfurter #Engelsburg gekauft. Irgendwann kommt jeder Trend in Berlin an ;-)
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The #fascists are trying to control the narrative and consensus reality. If they get power "Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future."
Want to make sure that people in the future at least know that you existed, how you felt about it and perceived it?
Write your story down. Make a work of #HeirloomFiction to make sure that you can't be erased. Pass it onto people. Bury a copy. Put one in your attic.
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Из приложения #Samizdat — Год войны: итоги
Чего на самом деле добился Путин за год полномасштабной войны России против Украины.https://storage.googleapis.com/samizdat/materials/2023/02/20/god-voini-itogi/index.html
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@meduza, designated as of 26Jan2023 by Russian Prosecutor General as an "undesirable" organization, advises readers in Russia or traveling there to delete posts where they've shared #Meduza reporting or that urge others to join Meduza’s crowdfunding campaign; and to use only a "secure channel" when contacting Meduza.
