#stopisrael — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #stopisrael, aggregated by home.social.
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I swear, I check my donation link every second JUST HOPING.
I want to feed my family. I want to escape this nightmare.
I hate this life — living in a tent, scared and starving.
Please, donate anything you can. Every bit helps🇵🇸🙏
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#FediForGaza
@glmxndr
@Shibanarchiste -
I swear, I check my donation link every second JUST HOPING.
I want to feed my family. I want to escape this nightmare.
I hate this life — living in a tent, scared and starving.
Please, donate anything you can. Every bit helps🇵🇸🙏
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#FediForGaza
@glmxndr
@Shibanarchiste -
I swear, I check my donation link every second JUST HOPING.
I want to feed my family. I want to escape this nightmare.
I hate this life — living in a tent, scared and starving.
Please, donate anything you can. Every bit helps🇵🇸🙏
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#FediForGaza
@glmxndr
@Shibanarchiste -
Good morning! 🇵🇸🙏
We're running out of time, and we need your support now. My family desperately needs your donations, and every contribution,no matter how small, can make a big difference.Please stand with us, help us through this, and don't leave us alone
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza -
Good morning! 🇵🇸🙏
We're running out of time, and we need your support now. My family desperately needs your donations, and every contribution,no matter how small, can make a big difference.Please stand with us, help us through this, and don't leave us alone
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza -
Good morning! 🇵🇸🙏
We're running out of time, and we need your support now. My family desperately needs your donations, and every contribution,no matter how small, can make a big difference.Please stand with us, help us through this, and don't leave us alone
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza -
Remains of 106 Palestinians recovered from beneath Gaza’s rubble
🇹🇷🇵🇸 #FreePalestine
#BoycottIsrael #BoycottIsraelProducts #BoycottIsraeliCapital #Palestine
#stopPalestineGenocide #gazaGenocide #savegaza #Gaza #Kudüs #WhitePhosphorusBombs #IsraelTerroristState #IsraelisATerorristOrganisation #IsraelCriminal #StopIsrael
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity
#StopArmingIsrael #BDS -
Remains of 106 Palestinians recovered from beneath Gaza’s rubble
🇹🇷🇵🇸 #FreePalestine
#BoycottIsrael #BoycottIsraelProducts #BoycottIsraeliCapital #Palestine
#stopPalestineGenocide #gazaGenocide #savegaza #Gaza #Kudüs #WhitePhosphorusBombs #IsraelTerroristState #IsraelisATerorristOrganisation #IsraelCriminal #StopIsrael
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity
#StopArmingIsrael #BDS -
Remains of 106 Palestinians recovered from beneath Gaza’s rubble
🇹🇷🇵🇸 #FreePalestine
#BoycottIsrael #BoycottIsraelProducts #BoycottIsraeliCapital #Palestine
#stopPalestineGenocide #gazaGenocide #savegaza #Gaza #Kudüs #WhitePhosphorusBombs #IsraelTerroristState #IsraelisATerorristOrganisation #IsraelCriminal #StopIsrael
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity
#StopArmingIsrael #BDS -
Remains of 106 Palestinians recovered from beneath Gaza’s rubble
🇹🇷🇵🇸 #FreePalestine
#BoycottIsrael #BoycottIsraelProducts #BoycottIsraeliCapital #Palestine
#stopPalestineGenocide #gazaGenocide #savegaza #Gaza #Kudüs #WhitePhosphorusBombs #IsraelTerroristState #IsraelisATerorristOrganisation #IsraelCriminal #StopIsrael
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity
#StopArmingIsrael #BDS -
The West’s support of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people tells you everything you need to know about “Western values”.
Western values are dollars, euros, and cents.
The next time some white person from Europe or the US preaches to you about their values, laugh in their faces. Loudly. Make sure everyone around you hears what a sick joke they are.
#israel #genocide #ethincCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #US #USA #Europe #EU #TheWest #complicity #europeanValues #westernValues #bullshit #fascism #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine
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The West’s support of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people tells you everything you need to know about “Western values”.
Western values are dollars, euros, and cents.
The next time some white person from Europe or the US preaches to you about their values, laugh in their faces. Loudly. Make sure everyone around you hears what a sick joke they are.
#israel #genocide #ethincCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #US #USA #Europe #EU #TheWest #complicity #europeanValues #westernValues #bullshit #fascism #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine
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The West’s support of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people tells you everything you need to know about “Western values”.
Western values are dollars, euros, and cents.
The next time some white person from Europe or the US preaches to you about their values, laugh in their faces. Loudly. Make sure everyone around you hears what a sick joke they are.
#israel #genocide #ethincCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #US #USA #Europe #EU #TheWest #complicity #europeanValues #westernValues #bullshit #fascism #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine
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The West’s support of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people tells you everything you need to know about “Western values”.
Western values are dollars, euros, and cents.
The next time some white person from Europe or the US preaches to you about their values, laugh in their faces. Loudly. Make sure everyone around you hears what a sick joke they are.
#israel #genocide #ethincCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #US #USA #Europe #EU #TheWest #complicity #europeanValues #westernValues #bullshit #fascism #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine
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The West’s support of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people tells you everything you need to know about “Western values”.
Western values are dollars, euros, and cents.
The next time some white person from Europe or the US preaches to you about their values, laugh in their faces. Loudly. Make sure everyone around you hears what a sick joke they are.
#israel #genocide #ethincCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #US #USA #Europe #EU #TheWest #complicity #europeanValues #westernValues #bullshit #fascism #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine
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💔 We only need $100.
$100 may be a small amount to you, but for my family, it means food and water.
I am the sole provider for my family. Please… don’t let our plea for help disappear into the silence. 🙏🏼💔
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza -
💔 We only need $100.
$100 may be a small amount to you, but for my family, it means food and water.
I am the sole provider for my family. Please… don’t let our plea for help disappear into the silence. 🙏🏼💔
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza -
💔 We only need $100.
$100 may be a small amount to you, but for my family, it means food and water.
I am the sole provider for my family. Please… don’t let our plea for help disappear into the silence. 🙏🏼💔
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza -
#Urgent
- The bodies of more than 100 martyrs, including 70 children, were recovered from under the rubble; they were killed as a result of Israeli warplanes bombing a residential block during the war of extermination in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza
@simon_brooke
@apenkop
@Shibanarchiste -
#Urgent
- The bodies of more than 100 martyrs, including 70 children, were recovered from under the rubble; they were killed as a result of Israeli warplanes bombing a residential block during the war of extermination in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza
@simon_brooke
@apenkop
@Shibanarchiste -
#Urgent
- The bodies of more than 100 martyrs, including 70 children, were recovered from under the rubble; they were killed as a result of Israeli warplanes bombing a residential block during the war of extermination in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza
@simon_brooke
@apenkop
@Shibanarchiste -
This video shows a small part of our daily reality in Gaza. 💔 We struggle to prepare even a simple meal with the little we have. My family urgently needs help with food, water, medicine & basic needs.
Please donate or share our campaign. 🇵🇸🙏❤️🩹
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
@emmadavidson
#Palestine #FediForGaza
@adachika192
@PeteKirkham
@TheCentralScrutinizer
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza -
This video shows a small part of our daily reality in Gaza. 💔 We struggle to prepare even a simple meal with the little we have. My family urgently needs help with food, water, medicine & basic needs.
Please donate or share our campaign. 🇵🇸🙏❤️🩹
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
@emmadavidson
#Palestine #FediForGaza
@adachika192
@PeteKirkham
@TheCentralScrutinizer
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza -
This video shows a small part of our daily reality in Gaza. 💔 We struggle to prepare even a simple meal with the little we have. My family urgently needs help with food, water, medicine & basic needs.
Please donate or share our campaign. 🇵🇸🙏❤️🩹
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
@emmadavidson
#Palestine #FediForGaza
@adachika192
@PeteKirkham
@TheCentralScrutinizer
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza -
#Breaking News
Britain finally raises its voice against the atrocities in Gaza. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband:
"What is happening in the Gaza Strip is absolutely horrific; medicines are being blocked, and children are dying while waiting for treatment. Our government must act decisively."
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza
@simon_brooke
@apenkop -
#Breaking News
Britain finally raises its voice against the atrocities in Gaza. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband:
"What is happening in the Gaza Strip is absolutely horrific; medicines are being blocked, and children are dying while waiting for treatment. Our government must act decisively."
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza
@simon_brooke
@apenkop -
#Breaking News
Britain finally raises its voice against the atrocities in Gaza. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband:
"What is happening in the Gaza Strip is absolutely horrific; medicines are being blocked, and children are dying while waiting for treatment. Our government must act decisively."
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza
@simon_brooke
@apenkop -
🤔🔴#Breaking - Haaretz:
- Implementation of the Gaza agreement is faltering due to growing disagreements between the Trump administration and the Netanyahu government.
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza
@simon_brooke
@apenkop -
🤔🔴#Breaking - Haaretz:
- Implementation of the Gaza agreement is faltering due to growing disagreements between the Trump administration and the Netanyahu government.
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza
@simon_brooke
@apenkop -
🤔🔴#Breaking - Haaretz:
- Implementation of the Gaza agreement is faltering due to growing disagreements between the Trump administration and the Netanyahu government.
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza
@simon_brooke
@apenkop -
An Israeli soldier was identified enjoying a vacation in Italy with his girlfriend after allegedly abusing displaced women in Gaza.
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza
@simon_brooke
@apenkop -
An Israeli soldier was identified enjoying a vacation in Italy with his girlfriend after allegedly abusing displaced women in Gaza.
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza
@simon_brooke
@apenkop -
An Israeli soldier was identified enjoying a vacation in Italy with his girlfriend after allegedly abusing displaced women in Gaza.
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza
@simon_brooke
@apenkop -
Before the war, I used to worry about work, bills, and tomorrow’s plans.
Now, I worry about finding food and keeping my family safe.
I never imagined my life would change this much. ❤️🇵🇸
What is one simple thing you used to take for granted?
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza
@simon_brooke
@apenkop
@Shibanarchiste
@niboe
@disisdeguey
@PeteKirkham -
Before the war, I used to worry about work, bills, and tomorrow’s plans.
Now, I worry about finding food and keeping my family safe.
I never imagined my life would change this much. ❤️🇵🇸
What is one simple thing you used to take for granted?
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza
@simon_brooke
@apenkop
@Shibanarchiste
@niboe
@disisdeguey
@PeteKirkham -
Before the war, I used to worry about work, bills, and tomorrow’s plans.
Now, I worry about finding food and keeping my family safe.
I never imagined my life would change this much. ❤️🇵🇸
What is one simple thing you used to take for granted?
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza
@simon_brooke
@apenkop
@Shibanarchiste
@niboe
@disisdeguey
@PeteKirkham -
Good morning from Gaza💔
To all compassionate hearts my family urgently needs food and basic necessities.The situation is becoming unbearable
We urgently need $200🙏
Who will be the first kind heart to break the silence and give us hope?🤍
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza
#FediForGaza -
Good morning from Gaza💔
To all compassionate hearts my family urgently needs food and basic necessities.The situation is becoming unbearable
We urgently need $200🙏
Who will be the first kind heart to break the silence and give us hope?🤍
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza
#FediForGaza -
Good morning from Gaza💔
To all compassionate hearts my family urgently needs food and basic necessities.The situation is becoming unbearable
We urgently need $200🙏
Who will be the first kind heart to break the silence and give us hope?🤍
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
#Palestine #FediForGaza
#FediForGaza -
📷️ #FensterFreitag 🪟 🇵🇸
During summertime, a genocide is still going on...
#Brussel #bxl #Bruxelles
#Ixelles #Elsene #Gaza #WestBank
#Nakba #stopIsrael #stopGenocide
#FreePalestine #venstervrijdag #windowfriday -
CODEPINK:
One year ago today, the Israeli occupation abducted Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya.He has been tortured and detained in Israeli prisons ever since.
Medical associations, like the AMA, must speak out.
Join us to write to them
https://www.codepink.org/ama#CodePink #DrAbuSafiya #FreeTheHostages #BringThemHome #Gaza #Genocide #NotATarget #StopIsrael #Isral #Gaza
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Destroying Autocracy – December 25, 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.
So folks, this is the final edition of Destroying Autocracy. Recently, I ran across a quote that fits with why I ran this project:
“I am absolutely convinced that only a small minority, a very small minority, among us, are seriously reached and profoundly moved by our propaganda of criticism, of doubt, of rebellion, of free investigation, of independent research. On the other hand, it is clear that our first interest lies always in seeking to increase this minority; to keep it, under all circumstances alive, active, refreshed. Our own happiness depends on it.
— Emile Armand”Thanks for following us. Now, on to what’s next.
The Programmer’s Fulcrum is now the home for a fusion of Symfony Station and Battalion. Its tagline is Devs Defending Democracy, Destroying Autocracy, and Developing the OMN.
You can sign up now.
We are posting on the Fediverse now at @thefulcrum
Please copy and paste our handle into you favorite client to follow us. Original website content will start next week.
Featured Item(s)
I ran across these last week.
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
These are principles that should be implementing when developing for the Open Media Network.
Jan Wideboer writes:
Over the past few months, I thought a lot about Digital Sovereignty. I talked to experts, from analysts over legal experts to people running companies and public authorities. I tried to distill what is really at the core of the principle.
OCT – My Framework for Digital Sovereignty, Part 1
This is a good way to look at it.
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:
Stanford’s star reporter takes on Silicon Valley’s ‘money-soaked’ startup culture
TechPolicy shares:
Making the Digital Markets Act Developer-Friendly
The Guardian reports:
This is Europe’s secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble
The Guardian view on Australia’s social media ban: dragging tech companies into action
MPs question UK Palantir contracts after investigation reveals security concerns
BleepingComputer reports:
Italy fines Apple $116 million over App Store privacy policy issues
Waterfox announces:
No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla’s Next Chapter
The Register notes:
Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful
You don’t need Linux to run free and open source software
This is one you should read and take action on. 🙂
Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam’s big tech
It’s FOSS reports:
Denmark Begins its Exit from Microsoft — and This is Just the Beginning
At least the enemies of privacy are slowly telling Microsoft to fuck off.
NextCloud shares:
The Republic of Serbia deploys Nextcloud for compliant, on-premises collaboration
Robert Riemann asks:
EU OS: Which Linux Distribution fits Europe best?
Hamish Campbell asks:
What Did We Learn from Web3, Crypto?
Signal has:
This was 2025 for Signal: strong growth and many new features
CoMaps shares:
CoMaps and its community at the end of 2025
Neutral
The Center for Democracy and Technology has:
TechPolicy Press reports:
The Path to a Sovereign Tech Stack is Via a Commodified Tech Stack
Platforms Report to EU Regulators Under DSA With an Eye on US Politics
Europe Tried to Take Control of Its Digital Stack in 2025. Where Does It Stand Now?
The Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes Back
Krebs on Security reports:
Dismantling Defenses: Trump 2.0 Cyber Year in Review
Cory Doctorow says:
America’s collapsing consumption is the world’s disenshittification opportunity
Tech Dadu reports:
EU Prepares Wider Data Retention Rules, VPN Providers Could Be Affected
The Register reports:
Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy
Pariah States
And:
Amazon security boss blames Russia’s GRU for years-long energy-sector hacks
China, Iran are having a field day with React2Shell, Google warns
BleepingComputer reports:
France arrests Latvian for installing malware on Italian ferry
Denmark blames Russia for destructive cyberattack on water utility
DarkReading reports:
Russia Hits Critical Orgs Via Misconfigured Edge Devices
Dormant Iran APT is Still Alive, Spying on Dissidents
EuronNews reports:
Pro-Russian hackers claim French postal service cyberattack
Big Media
Ben Werdmuller asks:
Just for brain-dead people.
Nieman Lab’s Predictions for Journalism 2026
Journalists talk about the elephant in the room: our relationship with Big Tech
CyberCultural shares:
My 2025 Indie Web Report and Thoughts on the Open Web
404 Media reports:
Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
Big Tech
The Nerd Reich reports:
Tech Billionaires Flirt With the Guillotine
JD Vance’s Theo Bro Network: Silicon Valley Meets ‘God’
Futurism reports:
Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything
The Rebel Tech Alliance reports on:
404 Media reports:
Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
SuperBloom examines:
From Content to Interface: Rethinking Platform Transparency Through Design
Wanna-be Big Tech
Mozilla spouts techbro delusions:
Mozilla’s Next Chapter: Building the World’s Most Trusted Software Company
Fuck Firefox.
Pivot to AI has the reality:
Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?
Zen, Waterfox, or LibreWolf, peeps.
Cybersecurity/Privacy
The Register reports:
New React vulns leak secrets, invite DoS attacks
Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts
Krebs on Security reports:
Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content
DarkReading reports:
Attackers Use Stolen AWS Credentials in Cryptomining Campaign
BleepingComputer reports:
Microsoft 365 accounts targeted in wave of OAuth phishing attacks
Mullvad is:
Announcing GotaTun, the future of WireGuard at Mullvad VPN
Framasoft asks:
Qui suis-je et quelle est mon identité ?
404 Media reports:
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Fediverse
Tim Chambres shares:
My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions
Ploum shares:
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment
The Social Web Foundation explores:
Implementing Encrypted Messaging over ActivityPub
Literally, awesome.
Connected Places has:
PeerTube announces:
Publish your videos with PeerTube for mobile!
It’s FOSS reports:
Decentralized YouTube Alternative PeerTube Adds Creator Mode
Holos shares:
ActivityPub for WordPress has:
Jose Murilo shares:
Museums in the Fediverse: Experiments with Tainacan, ActivityPub, and WebSocial
DeadSuperHerson says:
Ghost’s ActivityPub Integration Feels Half-Baked
I feel the same way. And it’s why I am running a backup of The Programmer’s Fulcrum on WordPress to keep Ghost honest. We’ll see where TPF ends up in 2027.
Mastodon shares its:
Piefed announces:
PieFed 1.4 is released – emoji, federated stackoverflow and AI content filters
Empathy Forward announces:
Fedify shares:
Fedify 1.10.0: Observability foundations for the future debug dashboard
Slightly Decentralized Social Media
Connected Places has:
ATmosphere Report 147 – Year’s end reflections
ATProto Community has:
Ændra Rininsland: Supporting and growing ATProto development in 2025 and beyond
I am going to check Leaflet out.
TechCrunch reports:
Bluesky launches a privacy-focused ‘Find Friends’ feature without invite spam
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.
Never stop fighting!
Ringleader, Battalion
#ActivityPub #AI #Autocracy #BigJournalism #BigTech #Bluesky #Democracy #Fascism #Fediverse #Holos #Mastodon #Peertube #RSS #StopChina #StopIsrael #StopRedAmerica #StopRussia #SupportUkraine #TechnoAnarchism #TechnoFeudalism https://battalion.mobileatom.net/?p=4242
Reuben Walker
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Destroying Autocracy – December 11, 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.
This is the penultimate edition of Destroying Autocracy with the final one coming December 25th. We have friends in town so there will not be one next week.
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 and it’s coming soon.
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 next month.
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Featured Item(s)
Deutche Welle writes:
DW Access is a lightweight app designed to ensure access to independent information in regions where digital freedom is under threat. It provides users with a secure way to reach DW content even under severe censorship.
DW Access: New app counters global censorship
And Ben Werdmuller writes:
When people think about RSS, they most often associate it with the long-departed Google Reader — but it’s far from dead. From direct subscriptions to syndication into apps that aggregate and re-present content, RSS remains the standard for feeds. It’s the glue that holds the timely web together.
Most people know RSS powers blogs and podcasts. But it powers popular news apps too, from aggregated headlines on MSN or in SmartNews to up-to-date headlines in business services like Lexis Nexis or Bloomberg.
It’s also widely used to keep track of status updates of all kinds: weather, software updates, infrastructure uptime, and so on. Most of this activity happens behind the scenes. Publishers often think of feeds as an afterthought, but entire industries rely on them. It’s a workhorse that’s become essential infrastructure for the web.
There are more RSS items below.
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:
404 Media reports:
DHS’s Immigrant-Hunting App Removed from Google Play Store
ICEBlock Creator Sues U.S. Government Over App’s Removal
Tech Policy Press reports:
The EU’s Fine Against X is Not About Speech or ‘Censorship’
Cory Doctorow has:
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI
Speaking of, Josh Collins says:
AI optimism is a class privilege
Speaking as an old affluent white man, I agree.
Fairphone shares:
We’re big fans of open-source buildable code at Fairphone. Here’s why.
Open WebSearch has:
Partner in Focus: Open Search Foundation
The Register reports:
Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level
Google’s AI training tactics land it in another EU antitrust fight
Really Simple Licensing spec lets web publishers demand their due from AI scrapers
The Tyee reports:
The Man Who Tracks Silicon Valley’s ‘Nerd Reich’
TechCrunch reports:
The Guardian reports:
Nextcloud reports:
Île-de-France offers 550,000 students and staff a sovereign cloud collaboration platform
6-figure deployments show momentum of sovereignty in France
It’s FOSS opines:
This Could Be The Linux Phone We All Have Been Waiting For
APC shares:
What I shared about digital commons and the NGI0 grant programme during this year’s Global Gathering
NPQ reports:
This Giving Season, Nonprofits Should Address the Chill in the Air
Elena Rossini starts a series:
A newbie’s guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 1: reasons + requirements
Neutral
Tech Policy Press reports:
Europe Fined X, But It’s Still Avoiding the Real Threat to Democracy
Policymakers Overlook How Open Source AI Is Reshaping Global Power
NiemanLab reports:
Public media sees infrastructure as its next act of service
Ars Technica reports:
Big Tech joins forces with Linux Foundation to standardize AI agents
The Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes Back
404 Media reports:
Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses
Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It
NOYB shares:
Digital Omnibus: First Analysis of Select GDPR and ePrivacy Proposals by the Commission
The Nerd Reich reports:
Financial Times Discovers the Network State Cult
The Gist shares:
Pariah States
The Kyiv Post reports:
Cyberattack on Reporters Without Borders Linked to Russian Security Services
The Register reports:
UK to Europe: The time to counter Russia’s information war machine is now
DarkReading reports:
Feds: Pro-Russia Hactivists Target US Critical Infrastructure
BleepingComputer reports:
North Korean hackers exploit React2Shell flaw in EtherRAT malware attacks
Big Media
NiemanLab reports:
The political journalism that matters most will be built from the ground up
The year journalism stops outsourcing its independence
Big Tech
Platformer reports:
Where Meta’s biggest experiment in governance went wrong
404 Media reports:
Instagram Is Generating Inaccurate SEO Bait for Your Posts
NetzPolitik reports:
All you need to know about how adtech data exposes the EU to espionage
TechDirt reports:
Elon’s Crying Censorship Over An EU Fine That Has Nothing To Do With Censorship
Politico reports:
X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine
Fascists are such snowflakes.
The Register reports:
Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner
Forever.
Thomas Rigby shares:
They See Your Photos: 12 months on
Amusing, but unfortunately a real product from the c^nts at Google.
Wanna-be Big Tech
Youssuff Quips looks at:
Terror
The Register reports:
193 cybercrims arrested, accused of plotting ‘violence-as-a-service’
Cybersecurity/Privacy
Freedom of the Press Foundation shares:
Lessons from Defense Department ‘Signalgate’ report
BleepingComputer reports:
Portugal updates cybercrime law to exempt security researchers
DarkReading reports:
Gemini Enterprise No-Click Flaw Exposes Sensitive Data
Fediverse
Connected Places has:
The Digital Services Act and Theories of Power
Linuxiac reports:
PeerTube 8.0 Brings a Modern Video Player and Team Channel Management
José Murilo shares:
Museums in the Fediverse: Experiments with Tainacan, ActivityPub, and WebSocial
Steffen Voß has:
Wie spielen WordPress und Mastodon zusammen?
Events, WordPress und das Fediverse
Mastodon has:
Trunk & Tidbits, November 2025
The world needs social sovereignty
RSS
John Onolan says:
Robert Alexander is:
Discovering the IndieWeb with calm tech
Fantastic.
Peter Ries pursues:
Reading news from non-RSS websites
Slightly Decentralized Social Media
TBD
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
- That’s it for this week. Please share this edition of Destroying Autocracy.
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Reuben Walker
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Destroying Autocracy – December 04, 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 next month.
Featured Item(s)
Hamish Campbell writes:
ActivityPub is a shared vocabulary, a public language for moving meaning and connection across the open web. It gives you nouns and verbs, and the community defines the grammar through lived use.
This is why the OMN works with ActivityPub, a metadata and meaning layer, not a platform, flows, not silos. ActivityPub is the widely deployed 4 Opens protocol that treats publishing as a flow, a conversation.
Unlike the more vertical stacks (ATProto is a good example), ActivityPub doesn’t force a worldview. It doesn’t tell you, “this is how your network must be structured.” It doesn’t enforce hierarchy or lock you into one interpretation of identity, authority, or workflow. It’s a KISS path – here’s a shared language, verbs for publishing and receiving, express objects, updates, relationships. The rest is up to the commons.
This flexibility is exactly why the OMN can become a part of this flow.
Why the OMN works with ActivityPub – And why we need a bridge to p2p
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggery
DDEV has:
Power Through Blackouts: How DDEV Community Helped Me in Ukraine
TechPolicy Press shares:
How to Test New York’s Algorithmic Pricing Law
The EU’s Digital Omnibus Must Be Rejected by Lawmakers. Here is Why.
Singapore announced an:
Issuance of Implementation Directives to Apple and Google Under the Online Criminal Harms Act
The MIT Press Reader has:
The Secret History of Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for Privacy
The Guardian reports:
Irish authorities asked to investigate Microsoft over alleged unlawful data processing by IDF
Neutral
TechPolicy Press reports:
What the European Commission and Civil Society Both Get Wrong on the Digital Omnibus
Why Platforms Don’t Catch Climate Misinformation — and How to Change That
EuroNews asks:
Which European countries are building their own sovereign AI to compete in the tech race?
Numerama reports:
TechCrunch reports:
Mistral closes in on Big AI rivals with new open-weight frontier and small models
Wired reports:
The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the states. Activists Are Fighting Back.
The Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes Back
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:
Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing
EDRi has:
Promises unkept: The EU-US Data Privacy Framework under fire
404 Media reports:
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI
Pariah States
DarkReading reports:
Tomiris Unleashes ‘Havoc’ With New Tools, Tactics
DPRK’s ‘Contagious Interview’ Spawns Malicious Npm Package Factory
Student Sells Gov’t, University Sites to Chinese Actors
TechPolicy Press reports:
The Gulf’s AI Rise and the Risk of Entrenching Authoritarianism
The Register reports:
China using AI as ‘precision instrument’ of censorship and repression, at home and abroad
Big Media
Axios reports:
Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools
Big surprise.
Big Tech
The Guardian reports:
How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to ‘win the narrative battle online’
More than 1,000 Amazon workers warn rapid AI rollout threatens jobs and climate
Anti-immigrant material among AI-generated content getting billions of views on TikTok
BleepingComputer reports:
Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
Big surprise here. But, if you’re amoral enough to use it, you deserve all the privacy invading ads you get.
Google deletes X post after getting caught using a ‘stolen’ AI recipe infographic
Nature reports:
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Wow.
The Guardian reports:
The question isn’t whether the AI bubble will burst – but what the fallout will be
National Review reports:
Meta Researchers Privately Compared Instagram to Addictive Drug, Bombshell Court Filing Shows
Wanna-be Big Tech
OMG Unbuntu has:
Mozilla’s ‘Rewiring’ to AI – Saving the Web or Saving Itself?
Cybersecurity/Privacy
TechCrunch reports:
European cops shut down crypto mixing website that helped launder 1.3B euros
DarkReading reports:
New Raptor Framework Uses Agentic Workflows to Create Patches
Bleeping Computer reports:
Fake Calendly invites spoof top brands to hijack ad manager accounts
The Register reports:
Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows shortcut flaw after years of espionage abuse
Fediverse
Coywolf has:
Mastodon creator shares what went wrong with Threads and ponders the future of the fediverse
Ben Werdmuller shares:
Sean Coates explores:
The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization
Great and important stuff.
Ploum asks:
Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?
Wouldn’t the fix to this would be to show a larger version of a user’s profile image with text posts?
RSS
Planet Codigo has:
Mi solución RSS con software libre y autogestionado
Slightly Decentralized Social Media
TBD
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 #Autocracy #BigJournalism #BigTech #Democracy #Fascism #Fediverse #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Roundabout #RSS #StopChina #StopIsrael #StopRedAmerica #StopRussia #SupportUkraine #TechnoAnarchism #TechnoFeudalism #Threads
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Free Palestine. From Kneecaps Oct. 10th performance.
#genocide #kneecap #freepalestine #gaza #GeoPolitics #fascism #zionism #nationalism #Politics #politicians #stopgenocide #StopIsrael #boycott #resist #murder #CrimesAgainstHumanity #war #warcrimes #antifa #machismo #technofascism #oligarchy #oligarchs #farright #fight #neveragain #neveragainisnow #hitler #nazis #nonazis #neonazis #supremacists #technofudalism #accelerationism #history #israel #warmongers
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Quds News reports that at least 20 Lebanese civilians are being secretly held in Israeli prisons—some captured during Israel’s 2024 invasion, others abducted after the ceasefire while returning to border villages.
Lebanese fisherman kidnapped by Israel and abandoned by Lebanon:
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/lebanese-fishermen-abducted-israel-naqoura-southMaryam Shehab’s report for Quds:
#Lebanon #Israel #Kidnapping #ReleaseTheHostages #BringThemHome #StopIsrael #SaveLebanon
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#Gaza: Doctors without Borders is deeply disappointed that Dr Mohammed Obeid, a respected orthopaedic surgeon, and long-time MSF colleague, remains detained and was not released as part of the recent #ceasefire agreement. We call for his immediate and unconditional release.
video on BlueSky:
https://bsky.app/profile/msf.ca/post/3m3n3xtz24c2n#MSF #Genocide #Israel #Palestine #StopIsrael #SaveGaza #ReleaseTheHostages #BringThemHome
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On Monday, the Israeli military released 250 Palestinian political prisoners, along with over 1,700 Palestinians who had been held hostage by the Israeli military in detention without charge.
#HostageExchange #BringThemHome #ReleaseTheHostages #Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #Ceasefire
@palestine -
Aljazeera's October 19th investigation made similar findings as NYT
"Based on a detailed review of all videos, Sanad’s analysts conclude that the flash Israel attributed to a misfire was in fact consistent with Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system intercepting a missile fired from the Gaza Strip and destroying it in mid-air."www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10…
#Gaza #HospitalAttack #IsraelLied #WarCrime
#SaveGaza #StopIsrael
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow