mara @mara@systerserver.town

I hope people understand that when we talk about censorship we are thinking of different things. While some may think erotic stuff or swear words got censored is annoying, other may get sentenced to 3 years in prison just because they logged on Twitter and reposted only. Whoever trying to use that “all lives got censored/ some westerners too” rubbish to tell me something they think they know so well can f*cough.

EU folks, the latest @EU_Commission proposal for scanning private communications and undermining end-to-end encryption is an extreme threat to privacy.

It threatens the right to meaningful encryption and would force your communications to be subject to scanning and classification by AI outside of your control. Truly dystopian shit.

This won't become law without the EU parliament's assent, so please follow this closely and speak up. See EDRI's analysis here:

https://edri.org/our-work/private-and-secure-communications-put-at-risk-by-european-commissions-latest-proposal/

Mini travel log, bologna-linz-florence, end april/may 2022

I'm starting a small call for entries for a yet-to-exist 'zine on tech for resting, being lazy, letting be, and having a break. Share wide and far.

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For the first Fallow Zine, la Jachère is interested in contributions about the following topics, but not limited to them.

- Lazy tech or tech for the lazies
- Tech that falls into place, fits, is just enough
- Tech for rest, pause, have a break, take a breath
- Tech for preservation, of the status quo, of energy, of a moment, of equilibrium

More on https://jache.re/notes/call-fallow-zine-1.html

- Deadline: 21. June 2022 (more or less… deadlines are thresholds to play with)

#zine #technology

Access Server, American Sign Language with Optional Captions https://tube.systerserver.net/videos/watch/5249d4a1-852e-4dfe-8b4c-42bb2eeb656c

#^20 of the best films to help understand what’s happening in Ukraine

Documentaries and fiction features that contextualise the unfolding horrors in the former Soviet republic, as chosen by researchers at Ukraine’s Dovzhenko national film centre in Kyiv

Artifice & Intelligence by Emily Tucker

https://techpolicy.press/artifice-and-intelligence/

Good advice for anyone writing on technology, actually.

"Words matter.

Starting today, the Privacy Center will stop using the terms “artificial intelligence,” “AI,” and “machine learning” in our work to expose and mitigate the harms of digital technologies in the lives of individuals and communities."

[...]

"Corporations have essentially colonized the imaginative space that Turing’s paper asked us to explore. Instead of pursuing the limits of computers’ potential for simulated humanity, the hawkers of “AI” are pursuing the limits of human beings’ potential to be reduced to their calculability."

[...]

"Instead of using the terms “Artificial intelligence, “AI,” and “machine learning,” the Privacy Center will:"

* Be as specific as possible about what the technology in question is and how it works.

* Identify any obstacles to our own understanding of a technology that result from failures of corporate or government transparency.

* Name the corporations responsible for creating and spreading the technological product.

* Attribute agency to the human actors building and using the technology, never to the technology itself.

"Technology is the active human interface with the material world.

But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources.

This is not an acceptable use of the word. "Technology" and "hi tech" are not synonymous, and a technology that isn't "hi," isn't necessarily "low" in any meaningful sense.

We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called "technology " at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers -- as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe..."

http://ursulakleguinarchive.com/Note-Technology.html

🔉 We Stand with Ukraine – compilation by eastbloc sound alliance https://notowar.bandcamp.com/releases

64 tracks. All purchases go to humanitarian aid and queer feminist networks in Ukraine, or in help of Ukraine.

The artwork is an homage to Maria Prymachenko. On February 27, 2022, during the Battle of Ivankiv an approximated 10-25 original works of Prymachenko were destroyed.

This time NEXT WEEK. I'm doing an @inkscape@twitter.com live stream with designer C.R. and hopefully a few other guests to go through all of the exciting new features in Inkscape 1.2.

Please come and chat with us about this exciting release! Subscribe at https://www.youtube.com/c/MartinOwens

"Design in the command line: Recipes for tasty outcomes" by Manufactura Independente will be starting soon in the Jupiter room. Check this talk out and more via: https://u.fsf.org/3ir #LibrePlanet

Many great conversations and talks on feminist practice in the archive of Radio Web MACBA. https://rwm.macba.cat/en/buscador/radio/etiquetas/8m-10281

Woman’s Audio Archive (Marysia Lewandowska)
Queer activism in Spain in the 1990s. (Fefa Vila)
Oxymoron of the notion of “single mother” and Yoruba culture. (Oyèrónké Oyèwùmi)
And many more.

russian feminist resistance to putin's war: https://jacobinmag.com/2022/02/russian-feminist-antiwar-resistance-ukraine-putin