wayathr0w

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by wayathr0w 1mo ago
>In May 2005, A/I was ordered to close the mailbox used by the Italian Anarchist Black Cross, Crocenera Anarchica, amid a sprawling investigation involving allegations of anarchist conspiracy and subversion. A/I complied with t
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by wayathr0w 7mo ago
>Flock coaches police on denying records requests, inserts itself into the legal process, and sells a 'transparency portal' its own staff calls useless.
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Flock vs. FOIA: The Suppression Manual(haveibeenflocked.com)
2 points by wayathr0w 7mo ago|1 comments
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The final nail – mapping animal exploitation in the United States(finalnail.com)
2 points by wayathr0w 2y ago|0 comments
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by wayathr0w 2y ago
Reads like a GitHub press release, except for this: >The report shows that the platform processed more than 2,000 takedown notices in 2024, which affected 31,151 repositories. >Of all notices received, just 41 were contested or retrac
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by wayathr0w 2y ago
Do any of these visualizations meaningfully incorporate the fact that many (if not most) books lack ISBNs?
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by wayathr0w 2y ago
What actually happened at 2020's protests & riots in the u.s., in the words of those who were there: https://paper.wf/downas/partisan-accounts-of-the-george-floy... Why delegitimizing those who don't abid
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by wayathr0w 2y ago
Can't speak for OP's link, but as a contrast No Trace Project's resources contain lots of advice from people who actually routinely face state repression, with in-depth analysis of specific cases. The scope is international (
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by wayathr0w 2y ago
Some of the crowd here is already aware of the issues with these recommendations, so let's take things up a level. https://www.notrace.how/ / http://i4pd4zpyhrojnyx5l3d2siauy4almteocqow4bp2lqxyocrfy6pry
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by wayathr0w 2y ago
Google is already a "defense" (military) contractor. They sell stuff directly to governments, well aware how it'll be used.
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by wayathr0w 2y ago
It's surprising to me that they ever made such a pledge, considering...you know. http://www.notechforapartheid.com/
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Aangat Lahat: digital mutual aid (free+noncommercial email, file host, & more)(aangat.lahat.computer)
1 points by wayathr0w 2y ago|1 comments
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by wayathr0w 2y ago
>The services under Aangat Lahat is my way of offering some sort of digital mutual aid that provides free online communications to people who want it. *Please know that this server is explicitly against capitalism, states, cops, fascists
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by wayathr0w 2y ago
Fuck national security & fuck "the west". These are not things we should seek to protect or defend. (And yes, fuck copyright too.)
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2011-2013 case against Jeremy Hammond – overview by the No Trace Project(notrace.how)
2 points by wayathr0w 2y ago|0 comments
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by wayathr0w 2y ago
Amazing what kidnapping a tech billionaire can get you.
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by wayathr0w 2y ago
>relatively expedient reconstruction If self-destruction is a necessary premise here, is that really a good thing?
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by wayathr0w 2y ago
>We need to build an alternative access to knowledge that bypasses the copyright/ownership of knowledge paradigm. That's what shadow libraries are doing, as are many other older & less prominent models of information distri
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by wayathr0w 2y ago
Depends. This case was specifically about a library of books whose uploads were all done or coordinated by IA's employees. That is something different than the various things, including but not at all limited to books, unaffiliated peo
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by wayathr0w 2y ago
This is nonsense. A great many of Internet Archive's in-house scanned books weren't previously available on shadow libraries; many of the Internet Archive scans have meaningful differences from the digital copies available elsewhe
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by wayathr0w 2y ago
Scott wasn't an anarchist either - hence "Two Cheers" instead of three. He worked for the CIA in the 1960s, self-identified as a "crude Marxist" at best, didn't believe it was possible or necessary to eliminate
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by wayathr0w 2y ago
Right, freedom and independence for the property owners. Whether that property is land, people, or "intellectual" is just as irrelevant to the Dreamer as if that property was obtained by deception or violence.
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U.S. presidential campaigns hiring social media "influencers" for posts(twiiit.com)
2 points by wayathr0w 2y ago|2 comments
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by wayathr0w 2y ago
>In a series of 3 posts, you will be asked to detail which of Biden's accomplishments have touched you personally. Participants will be briefed on his most noteworthy accomplishments and asked to select which one's they'd
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Juneteenth: No Freedom in Sight(flprisonersolidarity.org)
4 points by wayathr0w 2y ago|0 comments
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Partisan Accounts of the George Floyd Uprising(paper.wf)
3 points by wayathr0w 2y ago|0 comments
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by wayathr0w 3y ago
>while in most countries you can't properly publish a book without an ISBN (ie, have it sold in bookshops) I'm quite skeptical of this, given the amount of books I've personally seen published in recent decades without ISB
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by wayathr0w 3y ago
If you liked the comment-length analysis OCLC & want more, there's a whole essay on the subject. [1] >But one of the ironies of the scraping is that it's not going to be immediately helpful to the libraries who are unable t