Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Video from protest today against Turkey's state-terror against the population of the self-liberated North and East Syria, in the Şehba area of the attacked areas.

Also, a statement from the antifascist feminist militia "Women's Defense Units" (YPJ):
"The attacks carried out by the occupying fascist Turkish state are a result of a common policy of hegemonic powers.
Today, in front of the entire world, the revolution of freedom, which has become the hope of the people, is subjected to attacks contrary to laws.
These attacks by the Turkish state primarily target areas such as oil, services, factories, and the service infrastructure of the region. Our citizens have been martyred in these brutal attacks aimed at annihilating the peoples in the region."
Read their entire statement on their website: https://ypjrojava.net/en/?p=20454

Ohio grand jury to decide whether to charge woman who miscarried for ‘abuse of a corpse’ - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/26/ohio-jury-woman-miscarriage-abuse-corpse #murica has gone mad

#UN Human Rights Office - "We are gravely concerned about the continued bombardment of Middle #Gaza by Israeli forces, which has claimed more than 100 Palestinian lives since Christmas Eve." - https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2023/12/comment-un-human-rights-office-spokesperson-seif-magango-continued-bombardment #israel

After Substack's decision to platform Nazis, I deleted my newsletter and my account and made a clean break.

I'm now publishing my work on tech, economics and humans on a platform I control.

In a year where I've already lost 30,000 followers by deleting Twitter, this is a tough one.

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But it's worth it to stand by my values.

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Vandalism’: Outcry over plans to replace Notre Dame Cathedral’s chapel windows - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/26/replace-notre-dame-cathedrals-stained-glass-windows-petition-macron-restoration "Thousands sign petition challenging Macron-backed restoration that would add contemporary design to building"

Home Office officials didn’t know the rules, lawyers didn’t know the rules…and ultimately there was a tiny loophole based on the subjective opinion of the government (would love to see the ethnicity and income of folks allowed through the eye of this needle).

This isn’t how to operate a fair and transparent system for citizenship in this country.

#ToriesOutNow

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/26/italian-woman-facing-removal-from-uk-despite-permanent-residency-card-brexit

During her youth Ada Lovelace was introduced to the Scot, Mary Somerville, who was known as the ‘Queen of 19th Century Science’ and was in fact the first woman to be accepted into the Royal Astronomical Society. Mary further encouraged Ada’s mathematical and technological development. It was actually through Mary Somerville that Ada first heard of Charles Babbage’s idea for a new calculating engine. 5/ via @historicuk

https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Ada-Lovelace/

#mathematics #computer #computerprogramming

Now with USB-C, 5x telephoto planet destroying laser, and natural Titanium dark side finish. #StarWars

Due to popular demand, here is a list of the fedi-services that are part of the infosec.* family:
1 - https://infosec.exchange - Glitch-soc fork of Mastodon (this instance does not block threads.net)
2 - https://relay.infosec.exchange - Activitypub relay
3 - https://video.infosec.exchange - Peertube instance (like youtube)
4 - https://infosec.press - WriteFreely blog*
5 - https://pixel.infosec.exchange - Pixelfed instance (like instagram)
6 - https://matrix.infosec.exchange - Synapse (with sliding sync) homeserver*
7 - https://infosec.place - Akkoma instance (like mastodon)
8 - https://infosec.town - iceshrimp instance (like mastodon)
9 - https://infosec.pub - Lemmy instance (like reddit)
10 - https://fedia.io - General interest mbin instance (also like reddit)
11 - https://fedia.social - General interst Iceshrimp instance
12 - https://elk.infosec.exchange - Elk web interface for Mastodon
13 - https://books.infosec.exchange - Bookworym instance (like goodreads)
14 - https://meetups.infosec.exchange (mobilizon)
15 - https://infosec.space - Glitch-soc fork of Mastodon (this instance does
block threads.net)
16 - https://convo.casa - Vanilla (for now) Mastodon instance

*indicates the instance authenticates against Infosec.exchange

The dissertation associated with this research about online discussion research is now available: https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.00017252

You can follow its author Lucas Anastasiou on gScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Cu1r7JYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

@bookstodon In 2023 there's been a huge expansion in the number of graphic novels, graphic memoirs, and graphic nonfiction published. They deserve a 2023 "Best of" list of their own. Here's mine; add yours. I always want to hear about great graphic books!

Best Graphic Books published in 2023:

THE LIBRARIAN OF AUSCHWITZ, Salva Rubio, Antonio Iturbe

YAZIDI! Aurélien Ducoudray, Mini Ludvin

SUNSHINE, Jarrett J. Krosoczka (author of HEY, KIDDO)

DICTATORSHIP: IT'S EASIER THAN YOU THINK! Sarah Kendzior, Andrea Chalupa, Kasia Babis

THE INFINITY HEART, Wendy Xu

FUNNY THINGS: A COMIC BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES M. SCHULTZ, Luca Debus, Francesco Matteuzzi

EIGHT BILLION GENIES: DELUXE EDITION, BOOK ONE, Charles Soule, Ryan Browne

GENDER IS REALLY STRANGE, Teddy Goetz, Sophie Standing

MONICA, Daniel Clowes (author of GHOST WORLD)

COURAGE TO DREAM: TALES OF HOPE IN THE HOLOCAUST, Neal Shusterman, Andrés Vera Martínez

ARTIFICIAL: A LOVE STORY, Amy Kurzweil

WASHINGTON'S GAY GENERAL, Josh Trujillo, Levi Hastings

#books #GraphicNovels #bookstodon #BooksWorthReading #BestBooks 2023

On our way to #37c3 \o/. We hope to see you there! We have a meetup on open source funding together with @PrototypeFund and @sovtechfund on Day 1 - 17.00-18.00 - Saal D. https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/en/event/meet-the-funders-sovereign-tech-fund-nlnet-prototy/

There are many people who are involved with NGI0 giving talks and organizing sessions. Here you'll find a (probably non-exhaustive) list https://nlnet.nl/events/20231227/index.html

See you at Congress!