🇩🇪 Heute ist DI.DAY, ein perfekter Moment, um wieder ein paar große Schritte in Richtung digitaler Unabhängigkeit von den Vereinigten Staaten zu machen und einige europäische Alternativen auszuprobieren.
di.day #DIDit #DUTgemacht
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Während im Bundestag über digitale Unabhängigkeit gesprochen wird, nutzt der Staat weiter Microsoft und Palantir. Das verhindert echte Souveränität, schreibt @ayajaff.bsky.social
As the 2026 Winter Olympics kick off with projected record-setting representation of women athletes, the GenderSci Lab is excited to share a new video we’ve created explaining how gendered social factors contribute to a higher risk of injury for women athletes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmLv...
We have Olympic fever in the GenderSci Lab this week! Check out our new video on how historical gender inequalities in sport contribute to present-day gender/sex disparities in injury rates.
Great for teaching and sharing with your communities.
Research paper and blog explainer in the thread.
The best moment to swap US #email giants for #European email providers, is long time ago.
The second best moment is now. Not next week.
European alternatives: buy-european.net/en/alternati...
#BuyEuropean #DigitalSovereignty
I went to college with Aliya. Here, she speaks to Congress about being assaulted by ICE in Minneapolis, pulled violently out of her car, and taken to detention, where she blacked out.
"You have no reason to believe you will make it out alive if you already being called a body."
Deleted my Amazon account, have been happy buying elsewhere for a while now #DIDay
“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)
More organizing safety & digital security resources (3/3):
• @fightforthefuture.org‘s Anti-Surveillance & OpSec Guide (buff.ly/LWLJxx7) & Lawmaker Outreach Tool (buff.ly/PenY4Wf)
• Activist Checklists: Prepare for a Protest (buff.ly/qi0Y7pB) & Organizing Action Digital Security (buff.ly/u31GGUB)
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
Great chance to get some amazing books by two of my favorite authors!
DIY sheet for #digitalindependenceday #DIDay 🎉 drive.proton.me/urls/ECP9769...
Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.
Today is #DigitalIndependenceDay, the perfect day to take some new steps to stop being a digital slave of 🇺🇸.
Check the resources below for great alternatives and awesome European digital tech.
#DID #DIDay #DeGoogle #DigitalSovereignty
Moved all my files from googledrive to proton drive, after using protonmail for years and being happy. They also have an inbuilt alternative for google docs: proton docs works quite well so far (the interface is nicer than cryptpad, which is also a nice alternative). proton.me
Bilbo asking ChatGPT if he should keep the Ring
the number of people i know -- all of whom should know better -- who are doing exactly this
ICE has told lawmakers the app, called Mobile Fortify - which uses facial recognition - can provide “definitive” determination of someone’s immigration status despite that fact that experts have been screaming from the rooftops that FR tech is unreliable.
www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
As explained in our short video, we found that these algorithms risk perpetuating “crude ontologies of sex and gender that undermine both scientific validity and health justice” (p. 1).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TqL...
Distinct algorithms for males and females in health research (“pink and blue algorithms”) risk embedding biological sex essentialist assumptions into medicine, for three reasons. Our paper now also in form of the new video by the @genderscilab.bsky.social : www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TqL...
For more, check out our explainer on the GenderSci Lab blog:
www.genderscilab.org/blog/sex-in-...
Does women’s health need sex-specific algorithms? In a paper just out in Big Data & Society (bigdatasoc.bsky.social) we at the GenderSci Lab warn against the growing use of so-called “pink” and “blue” algorithms, arguing that they risk embedding biological sex essentialist assumptions into medicine.
From this week's @techpolicypress.bsky.social newsletter.
"The Trump administration says it intends to organize the AI age the way Rome 'organized' the ancient world. Access to critical minerals is the priority that underlies these imperial ambitions." 🙄
www.techpolicy.press/pax-silica-a...
»Es ist erbärmlich«
Kaliforniens Gouverneur verlangt mehr Rückgrat
Er redet sich in Rage: Der weiche Kurs mancher Staatenlenker gegenüber Donald Trump macht Gavin Newsom fassungslos. Auf dem Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos fordert Kaliforniens Gouverneur mehr Rückgrat.
www.spiegel.de/ausland/gavi...
Americans may not have much time left to save their democracy. MAGA are already killing people in the streets with impunity - do you think they'd hesitate to cancel or rig the mid-terms?
If you’re outside of Minnesota and you’re wondering how to help, this guide is excellent.
And seriously. Take down your Ring doorbell TODAY.
ICE surveillance sweeps up activists, organizers, journalists, family members, and entire communities. When the government buys access to location data and online histories, everyone’s rights are at risk. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
China understood in the early 1990s at the latest that relying on fossil fuels was a dead end in terms of geopolitics for a country with limited domestic supplies. Going green was the only way.
It took Europe until 2026.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
To all the trans and gender non-conforming people out there: WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH!! I know it might not seem like it right now, but there is so much love for you. Here’s a room full of people who are rooting for you always! Please share with someone who needs to hear it!
