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Written by arjan on 2025-01-26 at 20:06

Disability Justice Principles - Community meet up of QUACK (Queers Undoing Ableism Care Kollective): https://radar.squat.net/en/event/amsterdam/quack-queers-undoing-ableism-care-kollective/2025-02-02/disability-justice

Sunday 2 February 14:00 to 17:00 in Amsterdam, online participation possible

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Written by arjan on 2025-01-24 at 10:33

just realised the GNU #Emacs logo looks pretty bisexual

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Written by arjan on 2025-01-22 at 09:47

I want to try to avoid using the term "fuck" as swear word, because I feel it perpetuates the patriarchal concept of sex being an inherently violent act and using this term in non-sexual contexts contributes to compulsory sexuality.

I was reminded of this just now by reading the chapter Male Sexual Being from bell hooks' The Will to Change again.

How do others feel about this and what are good alternatives?

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Written by arjan on 2025-01-20 at 13:01

Low-profile and low-energy autonomous networking with Reticulum (workshop)

on Saturday 25 January 13:55 at LAG hacklab in Amsterdam

https://radar.squat.net/en/event/amsterdam/lag/2025-01-25/low-profile-and-low-energy-autonomous-networking-reticulum

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Written by arjan on 2025-01-18 at 11:16

me when reading "gf": do you mean gluten-free/genderfluid/girlfriend or a combination of those?

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Written by arjan on 2025-01-16 at 22:49

No billionaires at #FOSDEM https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html

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Written by arjan on 2025-01-14 at 21:50

Reminder that the #Guix Days mini (un)conference is conveniently also happening in Brussels during the two days before #FOSDEM: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/FOSDEM2025

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Written by arjan on 2025-01-02 at 14:13

We suspect that the reason for the massive self-censorship was partly due to the lack of spaces to debate and organize with concerned people about international, decolonial issues, including the Palestinian genocide. During the self-organized session, we established that many of us felt isolated, worried and frustrated, even paranoid or afraid. This suggests the need for another type of space at CCC, and/or for a self-critique from the assemblies that are dedicated to radical politics and/or freedom of expression and/or human rights.

We acknowledge the role that Germany's history and its current position (to finance and arm Israel while repressing solidarity towards Palestine) plays in this mass silence and self-censorship. However, being silent turns into complicity with the current genocide being commited in Gaza by Israel.

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Written by arjan on 2025-01-02 at 14:12

Independently from whether talks about the Palestinian struggle were given priority in the official program, the absence of self-organized sessions and in general of material traces, left us wondering about what caused this mass silence. This is all the more serious considering the technological aspects of the occupation, the apartheid, and the current genocidal acts in Gaza, as recounted by both independent and mainstream journalism.

As we would find it very scary and problematic to think that all the mentions of the Palestinian genocide could be consciously removed from the program both by CCC organisers and all assemblies, we can imagine that people simply did not dare to contribute a critique or position on the matter. So what brought speakers to self-censor, systematically omit speaking about Gaza, and avoid addressing the war crimes commited by the Israeli army? Was this a result of speakers' "personal" preferences only?

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Written by arjan on 2025-01-02 at 14:12

• a speaker wearing a T-Shirt depicting an armed Israeli soldier in front of an Israeli flag with the caption "NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES". When signaled to the awareness team afterwards, the person was warned the next morning that similar transgressive statements won't be further tolerated and security instructed to keep an eye on him on his remaining other talks.

• trolling by a group of Israeli supporters towards a jordanian speaker ("Disaster Capitalism in Gaza (Call to Action)"), requiring them to distance themselves from Hamas, during the Q+A of a talk focused on a technical solution to a "humanitarian" problem.

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Written by arjan on 2025-01-02 at 14:11

• a near absence of talks and interventions tackling the many technological aspects of the ongoing genocide and apartheid, with the exception of Rainer Rehak's talk on the infamous Lavender "algorithmic murder machine" as well as the talk by CADUS that carefully avoided any possibly divisive points.

• it is also noteworthy to point out the speakers of "Security Nightmares" did not mention the war in Gaza focusing only on the war in Ukraine. Even the detonated pagers in Lebanon were qualified as "ethically questionable" and not as a war crime and violations of human rights, as it has been internationally established and agreed upon. It was all the more disheartening that the discussion was quickly brushed off and entirely evaded.

• even in the distros and stands that kept materials from liberation struggles all around the world, total absence of materials regarding Palestine even in stands and spaces that are invested in the Palestinian liberation movement.

• what we feel is a systematic sabotage of support for Palestine, e.g. the repeated removal of Palestinian flags and stickers, and the replacement/overwriting of sentences and slogans in support of Palestinians with zionist slogans. example: https://pouet.chapril.org/system/media_attachments/files/113/748/346/815/280/482/original/5ce62adf98dfe8d6.jpg

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Written by arjan on 2025-01-02 at 14:10

To the Chaos Computer Club, and to the larger community that makes the Chaos Communication Congress happen.

Congress has been a place for politicized hackers from all around the world to meet, share and learn. Yet this year's #38C3 event has been lived by many of us as an awkward space of silencing and self-censoring with regards to the Palestinian genocide. We couldn't help but feel terrified at that, although not completely surprised.

It has been dreadful to once again hear discussions in which the only "argument" issued was "it's a complex situation" when trying to face the harsh reality of a 2 million people country being destroyed, blocked and bombed with barely any food or clean water, while one of the last running hospital was bombed three days before.

As an heterogeneous group of people that are part of communities that are interested, active or impacted by the struggle for liberation of the Palestinian people, we've felt necessary to start this discussion.

What follows is a series of experiences, questions and reflections that have been shared in the self-organized session "Let's talk about the not talking about Gaza" that was announced on the last day of the Congress (https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/event/lets-talk-about-the-not-talking-about-gaza/).

For starters, at CCC we have experienced:

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Written by arjan on 2024-12-13 at 10:14

reminder to kill the cop in your head

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Written by arjan on 2024-12-01 at 19:30

transmasc friend gave me some of his old feminine clothes <333

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Written by arjan on 2024-11-08 at 14:15

PSA that there is a noodverordening in Amsterdam this weekend which means more cops and they are allowed to just stop and search people. They are probably more likely to target people wearing face covering (including medical masks) and Palestine solidarity symbols like flags and keffiyehs.

https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/229435/halsema-weekend-noodverordening-en-demonstratieverbod-voor-hele-stad

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Written by arjan on 2024-08-26 at 19:26

🎪 Attentie, Anti-gas Actiekamp! 🎪

✊🏾 Data: 29 aug - 1 sept, Pernisserpark Rotterdam

--> Zaterdag 31 Aug: Massa-actie

🔗 Schrijf je in voor kamp en/of actie: https://tegengas.camp/

➡️ Broadcast voor updates: https://t.me/actiesLNG

🔥 Geef Tegengas organiseert een actiekamp! Met workshops, inhoudsessies en een massa-actie om de gasuitbreiding in de Rotterdamse haven te stoppen.

⚠️ Gas = giftig: Het steunt oorlogsregimes in Israel, Qatar en Rusland, maakt de wereld kapot via de klimaatcrisis, en vergroot sociale ongelijkheid. Dit gaan we massaal STOPPEN, dus doe mee & verpreid dit bericht!

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