Notices by dust (sifr@anticapitalist.party)

the 40-page summary for policymakers of the latest report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services is out today (-)

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48169783

"We've got to go straight to the heart of capitalism and overthrow it."
George Monbiot on the only hope we have of mitigating climate change damage.

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'EU’s Parliament Signs Off on Disastrous Internet Law: What Happens Next?'
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/eus-parliament-signs-disastrous-internet-law-what-happens-next

'A Socialisme Ou Barbarie Anthology -
Autonomy, Critique, and Revolutionin the Age of Bureaucratic Capitalism'
pdf http://soubtrans.org/SouBA.pdf

"However, this trend towards social engineering and "nudging" individuals towards "better" behavior is also part of the Silicon Valley approach that holds that human problems can be solved once and for all through the disruptive power of technology."

"In that sense, perhaps the most shocking element of the story is not the Chinese government's agenda, but how similar it is to the path technology is taking elsewhere."

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/27/opinions/china-social-credit-score-creemers/index.html

'The Secret World of Amazon’s Power Reviewers'
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/style/amazon-reviews-vine.html

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https://www.thejustdatalab.com/resources

'The New Tech Worker Movement: What's Next?'

https://peertube.fr/videos/watch/104fab5f-913f-4a92-9d1e-8b0ab9595dc4

'The community network as a connectivity strategy for rural and remote Myanmar'

https://rising.globalvoices.org/blog/2018/12/31/the-community-network-as-a-connectivity-strategy-for-rural-and-remote-myanmar/

'How US billionaires are fuelling the hard-right cause in Britain'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/07/us-billionaires-hard-right-britain-spiked-magazine-charles-david-koch-foundation

hell yeah Amazon workers' strikes https://m.dailykos.com/stories/1814772

'Critical Interface Politics'
research group

https://crit.hangar.org

"Who's Behind ICE?
The Tech Companies Fueling Deportations"

https://mijente.net/notechforice/

Manyverse for Scuttlebutt landed fdroid

https://f-droid.org/packages/se.manyver/

"The Syrian Archive: A Methodological Case Study of Open-Source Investigation of State Crime Using Video Evidence from Social Media Platforms"

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/statecrime.7.1.0046

'Open Privacy will offer privacy/online safety training and one-on-one security assessment to at-risk communities, specifically gender and sexual minority (GSM) communities, sex workers, and survivors of domestic violence. Their assistance will be free-of-charge to community members, and the materials developed will be available online.'

https://medium.com/@digitaljusticelab/community-grant-program-interview-with-open-privacy-dbddb432ad15

Building the Peer-to-Peer Internet
Workshop Series by Toronto Mesh

https://tomeshnet.github.io/p2p-internet-workshop/

TIL there's a fully automated luxury communism newsletter

https://tinyletter.com/FullyAutomated/letters/radical-municipalism-and-tech

new, completely 🔆solar-powered🔆 website for Low-Tech Magazine!!

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

"How to Build a Low-tech Website?"

"Our new blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content."

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowtech-website/

"Archives should be tools for liberation. We are a group of archivists and archival studies scholars who are tired of seeing the same oppressive ideologies, structures, and tactics play out in both the historic records we steward and in the newspaper headlines we read every day. [...] We want to use archival records to learn past strategies and get inspiration to enact the structural change we need now. "

http://www.archivistsagainst.org/