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I recommend keeping face and fingerprint recognition off for your phones. Not just for when you are at protests or traveling, but always.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

In preparation for whatever may come, I gave a workshop on on-the-ground secure communications strategies to an inter-generational group ranging from ages 17 to 77 today. It is because I am constantly in front of and amongst people in rooms and communities that I have so much faith in us.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Empire weaponizes perfectionism to stoke fear and condition people into inaction. We then take those messages and internalize them to think it is we who are not enough. There is no such thing as a perfect way to show up. There is no one way to show up.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Whenever they ask for my name anywhere, whether to call when my order is ready or at restaurants when they need to call out that it’s my turn, I tell them that my name is “Palestine.”

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Abolish Palantir. Palantir Technologies is not a data analytics company. It is, as its own CEO and founder has stated, a “digital kill chain.”

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

On these streets when it is cars it is traffic, but when it is People marching, it is resistance.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

People are fighting with their lives on the line in the streets of LA, the waters off Gaza, and beyond, to protect our neighbors, families, loved ones, land, lives, present and future. For what will we have left to fight for if we are not fighting by now?

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Militarism does not ensure that wars do not happen, it guarantees they do. Soldiers cannot win wars, they can only keep them going. Politicians can never end wars, but they will always start them.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Having recently experienced martial law in Korea, what happened yesterday in LA, and is ongoing nationally, does not look very different.  Wikipedia says, “Martial law is the replacement of civilian government by military rule and the suspension of civilian legal processes for military powers.”

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Furious feuding fools.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Some of the most persistent attacks on the trans community, originate from the gay cis community. Trans hatred from gay cis people is an assault from a place that is often considered closer and more intimate, and thus it cuts deeper and can be more dangerous.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

In this liminal space between Asian Am Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Month and Pride Month, a reminder that if you are both queer and AsianNHPI, then you must fight for a free Palestine. It’s in our instruction manuals.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

The Korean election cycle has reached a fever pitch, and also politician fatigue, all at once. Early voting has begun, with Election Day on Tuesday.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Ward wandering through flames high above her head. Sidra’s partial tiny torso hooked on the side of a demolished building. Hind’s terrified pleading for help as her loved ones were shot beside her. Ahmed’s arms and legs flailing while engulfed in fire.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

A reminder for us to not fall into the age-old trap of vilifying countries that Empire has told us are its “enemies.” Empire itself is our most nefarious enemy.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

For those of us within the Imperial Core, we must pull the very rug out from underneath ourselves. Brace each other, as this is how we lift each other to new ground.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

In 2012, Trayvon Martin's murderer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted. As part of the response, the world marched and screamed because Black lives matter. This movement for Black lives set the stage for 5 years ago, 5.25.2020, amidst the peaking pandemic,

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Be mindful online, in person, and with each other. Remember that Empire is scraping, screening, stretching, and twisting our words, actions, and communications, for any excuse to take on all who challenge Empire. Be vigilant as always about instigators and infiltrators.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

For those of us in the Imperial Core, our connection to the violence against the people and land of the Congo is so palpably direct. Capitalist colonialism has strapped us to this violence directly through our devices, cars, batteries, and everyday items.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Empire is choosing to commit genocide in Gaza. It is a willful and deliberate decision. It is the government, churches, politicians, universities, non-profits, and individuals, too.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Adriana Smith. May the world have the rage to fight.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

I recommend AGAINST having your eyeball scanned for biometric recognition. Even more so, I HIGHLY recommend AGAINST having your eyeball scanned by World (fka Worldcoin). Resharing this warning I made a couple of years ago about the World Orb. Still against it. youtube.com/shorts/Vl-tH...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

I recommend AGAINST using Partiful. Not only are their privacy practices atrocious, Partiful is made up of several former Palantir staff. Palantir tech has active relationships with IOF and ICE. There is no reason to use Partiful. There is every reason not to.

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

They could have been awesome, but they chose to be oppressors instead. That was an intentional choice they made. Don’t be like them.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

I covered this a couple of years ago, and Sam Altman changing the name from WorldCoin to World still does not make the iris-scanning orb okay. It is still a military defense-supporting, capitalist Big Tech company taking your biometrics. I recommend against this.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

On this Mother’s Day, do not forget to love the mother you become to yourself.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Ending Islamophobia is one of the biggest fights we have in front of us worldwide. Anti-Muslim sentiment is pervasive across continents, people, races, and even within communities that view themselves as "progressive."

submitted 38 days ago • 10 comments

I never asked for peace. I demand liberation.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments