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mariannedh.bsky.social
Writer, lawyer, digital rights activist, migrant. Cat person. PDF hoarder. Coffee addict. Swiftie. / she/ella / http://the-far-away.com
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SPECIAL: Recent Actions Against NGOs in Venezuela en.alertavenezuela.org/special-rece...

I turn 40 in a few days and @leors.bsky.social said I had to have a gift list. So I made a gift list because whatever @leors.bsky.social says is the law. You may now show your devotion via material objects. www.giftster.com/gift/public/...

Se acaba de encender la taller-señal: Taller de escritura en línea para para personas de América Latina con proyectos de ficción en marcha. Sesiones semanales (Europe friendly). Comienzo: 14 de junio. Inscripciones: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

what is the point of existing moment to moment if thought is such a burden that it must be perpetually offloaded to machines

We were created to hold the powerful accountable, and now that the president is weaponizing the power of his office, we are doing just that. whistlebloweraid.org/whistleblowe...

The Greener Grass: Public Space, Walled Gardens, and the Privatization of Free Expression Online marianne-diaz-hernandez.ghost.io/the-greenest...

Just released the English translation of "Our Bodies as Data", a paper I wrote on biometrics, identity, and what it means to digitize the self. It’s an old piece, but it still holds the core of what I’m working on now. www.academia.edu/128780002/Ou...

Hoy a las 13:00 (GMT-6, hora de la CDMX 🇲🇽), estaré con @mariannedh.bsky.social y @tumbolian.bsky.social platicando sobre sistemas de identificación en México y el rol del tecnosolucionismo en la obstrucción del libre desarrollo de la identidad. Acompáñanos, a través de las redes de @r3d.mx 👁️👇

Registration for #RightsCon 2025 (Taipei and online, February 24-27) closes today at 23:59 PST! I will be attending online, and so can you. Don’t miss the deadline! www.rightscon.org/registration/

January’s toll on press freedom was high: Journalists killed in Mexico, Colombia and Peru. Venezuela escalates repression. A rare win in Guatemala: José Rubén Zamora granted house arrest. Civil society keeps fighting. ifex.org/journalists-...

qué grande un país que te sirve champaña en el desayuno

This war is being fought inside your head the-far-away.com/2025/02/06/t...

I've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI

🇻🇪 Carlos Correa, Executive Director of NGO Espacio Público, has been missing since hooded (presumed) public officers intercepted him in Caracas on Jan 7. As Nicolás Maduro takes over a new term, Venezuelan activists warn about increased retaliation. #LiberenACarlosCorrea #DóndeEstáCarlosCorrea

joke is on you, i was already going to do anything sandal asked me to do in the first place

yes

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

Please help me spread the word on my Global Majority focused starter pack for digital rights advocates and academics. Let’s diversify this space! Please let me know if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/AkTwncy

quién me puso en un starter pack >:(

I don’t know if I have told you that I’m obsessed with pigeons, and that in the battle between humans and pigeons I’m with the pigeons. Here’s one of my all-time favorite podcast episodes, from the sadly canceled “Surprisingly Awesome” podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/2Rgj...

Cuando son las diez de la mañana de un martes en niuyor, quiero contarles que en vez de decirme “esto también pasará”, yo me canto a mí misma “es increíble súper increíble todo lo que puede pasar en una semana es algo increíble todo lo que puede pasar”.

this.

voy actualizando el starter pack: go.bsky.app/6yipkg5

“look, the ball of the Torment Nexus is already in motion, there’s nothing I can do” “it’s your ball. you bought it”

Paren todo que me acabo de enterar de que “A man on the inside”, la serie nueva de Michael Schur con Ted Danson, está basada en el documental chileno “El agente topo” de Maite Alberdi. Por “enterarme” quiero decir que le di play y me di cuenta.

Of all the timelines this is clearly the darkest, which is why I propose we commit to being evil.

The art of losing and getting lost the-far-away.com/2022/01/16/t...

We went up to Cold Springs yesterday, so here’s a Sardinian donkey.

Expert Explains the Hidden Crowd Engineering Behind Event Venues youtu.be/L2XfHREa0j0?...

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Sociologist: how we understand the cup is actually the result of socially constructed interpretations of the world

Access Now is not here yet, but in the meantime I’m collecting our staff here as we’re arriving: go.bsky.app/85vS1w4

If you have met me, you’ll know that I’m a stark defender of uncomfortable and displeasing speech, which is necessary for any healthy society. But that doesn’t mean it has to be everywhere all the time or that people aren’t allowed to talk about the things they enjoy. Joy is fundamental, too.

¿ya usaron el rayo venequizador?

this is my favorite account