Alexander Zimmerman
@b-traven.myatproto.social
Mutineer on ship of Capital & State.
Exiled public Librarian bunking in so-called Maine, US.
Luddite currently sailing the Non-Profit Tech seas.
All the music, all the tea.
Exiled public Librarian bunking in so-called Maine, US.
Luddite currently sailing the Non-Profit Tech seas.
All the music, all the tea.
Pinned
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love seeing great people recognized for great work @meganpiont.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social
Gen-Zine: DIY publications find new life as form of resistance against Trump
Zines have made a resurgence as communities seek to share information on everything from ICE raids to local elections
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
love seeing great people recognized for great work @meganpiont.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social
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"Fifteen Months at Sea, No Pay: Exploitation of Migrant Workers in Taiwan’s Fishing Industry" by Antonio Prokscha
Fifteen Months at Sea, No Pay: Exploitation of Migrant Workers in Taiwan’s Fishing Industry | New Bloom Magazine
Taiwan operates the world’s second-largest distant-water fishing fleet, with about 1,100 vessels sailing in international waters. Behind this economic success lies a stark reality that labour rights…
newbloommag.net
December 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
"Fifteen Months at Sea, No Pay: Exploitation of Migrant Workers in Taiwan’s Fishing Industry" by Antonio Prokscha
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Day 10 #artAdventCalendar A piece for Manufactured Ecosystems about the future of pollination about who decides what gets pollinated if humans and our devices are the only pollinators. 🧪🐡
The definition of “weed” is usually pretty arbitrary and usually all sorts of native plants get caught up in 🧵
The definition of “weed” is usually pretty arbitrary and usually all sorts of native plants get caught up in 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Day 10 #artAdventCalendar A piece for Manufactured Ecosystems about the future of pollination about who decides what gets pollinated if humans and our devices are the only pollinators. 🧪🐡
The definition of “weed” is usually pretty arbitrary and usually all sorts of native plants get caught up in 🧵
The definition of “weed” is usually pretty arbitrary and usually all sorts of native plants get caught up in 🧵
"I am so tired of waiting.
Aren’t you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two—
and see what worms are eating
at the rind."
Langston Hughes
Aren’t you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two—
and see what worms are eating
at the rind."
Langston Hughes
December 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"I am so tired of waiting.
Aren’t you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two—
and see what worms are eating
at the rind."
Langston Hughes
Aren’t you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two—
and see what worms are eating
at the rind."
Langston Hughes
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Latest from me: a trip through the emerging network of radical, anti-Zionist, and diasporist Judaism in the U.S. With thousands of Jews leaving behind institutions they see as complicit in genocide there are new organizations waiting to support them in their Jewish journey.
As young Jewish people break with the establishment over Gaza, anti-Zionist shuls, chavurot and yeshivas flourish — building bold, justice-rooted forms of Judaism in the diaspora.
@shaneburley.bsky.social on projects offering pathways back to Judaism itself.
@shaneburley.bsky.social on projects offering pathways back to Judaism itself.
The Jewish Diaspora Movement
As young Jews break with established Jewish organizations over Gaza, a new kind of Judaism is flourishing.
inthesetimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Latest from me: a trip through the emerging network of radical, anti-Zionist, and diasporist Judaism in the U.S. With thousands of Jews leaving behind institutions they see as complicit in genocide there are new organizations waiting to support them in their Jewish journey.
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“male owners got an average of 4.3 vocalizations (meows, purrs, or chirps) during the first 100 seconds of getting through the door, compared to an average of 1.8 vocalizations for female owners… – and it wasn't affected by the cat's age, sex, or breed.”
www.sciencealert.com/cats-meow-mo...
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www.sciencealert.com/cats-meow-mo...
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Cats Meow More Than Twice as Much at Men, And We Can Only Guess Why
Cats meow more at owners who are men than women, new research has found, possibly because men tend to be more aloof when it comes to giving their pets attention.
www.sciencealert.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“male owners got an average of 4.3 vocalizations (meows, purrs, or chirps) during the first 100 seconds of getting through the door, compared to an average of 1.8 vocalizations for female owners… – and it wasn't affected by the cat's age, sex, or breed.”
www.sciencealert.com/cats-meow-mo...
🧪
www.sciencealert.com/cats-meow-mo...
🧪
“If I post content, I want to be the one contextualizing it, not some third party. It's especially bad because they're using the most click-bait style of headline generation, which is antithetical to how I try to be on social—which is absolutely NOT calculated, but organic, humorous, and sincere...
Happy to talk to @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social at @404media.co about this issue of Instagram adding weird sometimes inaccurate headlines and summaries for Google searches. I find it troubling. www.404media.co/instagram-is...
Instagram Is Generating Inaccurate SEO Bait for Your Posts
Instagram is generating headlines for Instagram posts that appear on Google Search results. Users say they are misrepresenting them.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
“If I post content, I want to be the one contextualizing it, not some third party. It's especially bad because they're using the most click-bait style of headline generation, which is antithetical to how I try to be on social—which is absolutely NOT calculated, but organic, humorous, and sincere...
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404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
www.404media.co
December 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
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We obtained Flock Network Audit logs via a public records request showing searches that other police agencies have made on the Santa Cruz, CA Police Department's Flock ALPR camera network. Thousands were illegal.
We sent the data to Have I Been Flocked - an excellent resource that we use daily.
We sent the data to Have I Been Flocked - an excellent resource that we use daily.
Data Import: Santa Cruz, CA
5M records from behind the Golden State's veil
haveibeenflocked.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
We obtained Flock Network Audit logs via a public records request showing searches that other police agencies have made on the Santa Cruz, CA Police Department's Flock ALPR camera network. Thousands were illegal.
We sent the data to Have I Been Flocked - an excellent resource that we use daily.
We sent the data to Have I Been Flocked - an excellent resource that we use daily.
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Mozilla Foundation and @algorithmwatch.org asked platforms to share their top 1,000 most-viewed posts. Every single one refused.
Add your name to our campaign demanding YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and X provide basic transparency✍️ https://mzl.la/4p2p8Wj
Add your name to our campaign demanding YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and X provide basic transparency✍️ https://mzl.la/4p2p8Wj
Demand the Data: What’s Really Going Viral? | Mozilla Foundation
Social media platforms aren’t sharing what goes viral on their sites. Tell YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and X to disclose their most-viewed content. Sign now.
mzl.la
December 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Mozilla Foundation and @algorithmwatch.org asked platforms to share their top 1,000 most-viewed posts. Every single one refused.
Add your name to our campaign demanding YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and X provide basic transparency✍️ https://mzl.la/4p2p8Wj
Add your name to our campaign demanding YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and X provide basic transparency✍️ https://mzl.la/4p2p8Wj
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EFF’s @jillian.bsky.social, author of "Silicon Values", joins @rabble.nz to unpack the global digital rights fight.
They discuss:
- Why the global majority should shape platform rules
- The danger of age-verification laws
- What’s at stake in AI training
Watch the full ep: youtu.be/fitJhVHTIBM
They discuss:
- Why the global majority should shape platform rules
- The danger of age-verification laws
- What’s at stake in AI training
Watch the full ep: youtu.be/fitJhVHTIBM
Defending Digital Rights in the Surveillance Era (with Jillian York)
YouTube video by revolution.social with @rabble
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
EFF’s @jillian.bsky.social, author of "Silicon Values", joins @rabble.nz to unpack the global digital rights fight.
They discuss:
- Why the global majority should shape platform rules
- The danger of age-verification laws
- What’s at stake in AI training
Watch the full ep: youtu.be/fitJhVHTIBM
They discuss:
- Why the global majority should shape platform rules
- The danger of age-verification laws
- What’s at stake in AI training
Watch the full ep: youtu.be/fitJhVHTIBM
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im still buzzing from visiting mayday rooms! www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...
Against The Grain: Archiving anarcho-punk - The Wire
The London based MayDay Rooms’ anarcho-punk archive is a valuable resource for radical cultures and politics today, writes Seth Wheeler in The Wire 503/4
www.thewire.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
im still buzzing from visiting mayday rooms! www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...
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Huge response to this. Clearly something ppl are hungry for. Any funders wanna bring us on to help grantees get off Big Tech infrastructure? That might be the quickest way to scale this
My org @fightforthefuture.org has been “de-googling” for the last year.
We’re totally off Google suite, Google docs, Drive, Calendar.
We’re using Signal and Element for chat, Nextcloud for docs, etc
Planning to publish a “how to” guide for other nonprofits and activist groups soonish.
We’re totally off Google suite, Google docs, Drive, Calendar.
We’re using Signal and Element for chat, Nextcloud for docs, etc
Planning to publish a “how to” guide for other nonprofits and activist groups soonish.
December 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Huge response to this. Clearly something ppl are hungry for. Any funders wanna bring us on to help grantees get off Big Tech infrastructure? That might be the quickest way to scale this
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ICE is currently staying at four hotels in the Twin Cities area.
December 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
ICE is currently staying at four hotels in the Twin Cities area.
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My org @fightforthefuture.org has been “de-googling” for the last year.
We’re totally off Google suite, Google docs, Drive, Calendar.
We’re using Signal and Element for chat, Nextcloud for docs, etc
Planning to publish a “how to” guide for other nonprofits and activist groups soonish.
We’re totally off Google suite, Google docs, Drive, Calendar.
We’re using Signal and Element for chat, Nextcloud for docs, etc
Planning to publish a “how to” guide for other nonprofits and activist groups soonish.
December 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
My org @fightforthefuture.org has been “de-googling” for the last year.
We’re totally off Google suite, Google docs, Drive, Calendar.
We’re using Signal and Element for chat, Nextcloud for docs, etc
Planning to publish a “how to” guide for other nonprofits and activist groups soonish.
We’re totally off Google suite, Google docs, Drive, Calendar.
We’re using Signal and Element for chat, Nextcloud for docs, etc
Planning to publish a “how to” guide for other nonprofits and activist groups soonish.
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This is so accurate it causes me mild physical pain.
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This is so accurate it causes me mild physical pain.
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Would you like a 101 explainer on the DSA to figure out why you should care?
Gotchu: agentsofinfluence.substack.com/p/europes-in...
(This includes clips from a Lawfare pod with Daphne Keller, Dean Jackson, and Joan Barata, who I can't tag b/c of my shitty plane wifi..)
Gotchu: agentsofinfluence.substack.com/p/europes-in...
(This includes clips from a Lawfare pod with Daphne Keller, Dean Jackson, and Joan Barata, who I can't tag b/c of my shitty plane wifi..)
Europe’s Internet Law Is a Rorschach Test
The Facts, the Fiction, and the Political Theater Around the Digital Services Act
agentsofinfluence.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Would you like a 101 explainer on the DSA to figure out why you should care?
Gotchu: agentsofinfluence.substack.com/p/europes-in...
(This includes clips from a Lawfare pod with Daphne Keller, Dean Jackson, and Joan Barata, who I can't tag b/c of my shitty plane wifi..)
Gotchu: agentsofinfluence.substack.com/p/europes-in...
(This includes clips from a Lawfare pod with Daphne Keller, Dean Jackson, and Joan Barata, who I can't tag b/c of my shitty plane wifi..)
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It’s that time of year: what was the piece of writing about AI that stuck with you the most this year, pop press or academic? A few of mine in the thread. ⬇️
December 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
It’s that time of year: what was the piece of writing about AI that stuck with you the most this year, pop press or academic? A few of mine in the thread. ⬇️
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📌 Link to Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Hosted by: Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition
#MainePrisonerAdvocacy #MPAC #CommunityClassroom #PublicEducation #CleanSlate #Ombuds #Parole4Maine
Hosted by: Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition
#MainePrisonerAdvocacy #MPAC #CommunityClassroom #PublicEducation #CleanSlate #Ombuds #Parole4Maine
December 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
📌 Link to Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Hosted by: Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition
#MainePrisonerAdvocacy #MPAC #CommunityClassroom #PublicEducation #CleanSlate #Ombuds #Parole4Maine
Hosted by: Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition
#MainePrisonerAdvocacy #MPAC #CommunityClassroom #PublicEducation #CleanSlate #Ombuds #Parole4Maine
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Don’t miss Catherine’s interview with the cast of Freedom & Captivity's “It’s Hard to Talk About: Stories of Incarceration” performance, inviting each guest to share one quote or passage from the show that resonated with them the most, and why. Listen live at 90.9 WMPG FM or stream: www.wmpg.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Don’t miss Catherine’s interview with the cast of Freedom & Captivity's “It’s Hard to Talk About: Stories of Incarceration” performance, inviting each guest to share one quote or passage from the show that resonated with them the most, and why. Listen live at 90.9 WMPG FM or stream: www.wmpg.org
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For today's gift book rec, I'm choosing one of the most devastating, beautiful, nuanced, gorgeous, tragic, incendiary, and, yes, hopeful books of the year: ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS, by OMAR EL AKKAD. Deservedly won the National Book Award. Summary in alt text. 7/?
![Red cover with the silhouette of a child with a missile falling from above with title ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL ALWYS HAVE BEEN AGAINST THIS, author Omar El Akkad "Author of American War"
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER • From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.
"[A] bracing memoir and manifesto." —The New York Times
"I can’t think of a more important piece of writing to read right now. I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now, all that it isn’t anymore. Please read this. I promise you won’t regret it." —Tommy Orange, bestselling author of Wandering Stars and There There
On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This tweet has been viewed more than 10 million times.
As an immigrant who came to the West, El Akkad believed that it promised freedom. A place of justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the War on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, El Akkad has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie. That there will always be entire groups of human beings it has never intended to treat as fully human—not just Arabs or Muslims or immigrants, but whoever falls outside the boundaries of privilege. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is a chronicle of that painful realization, a moral grappling with what it means, as a citizen of the U.S., as a father, to carve out some sense of possibility in a time of carnage.
This is El Akkad’s nonfiction debut, his most raw and vul…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jvhw6v6rt4motcndq4gh5qo7/bafkreieuaku7fvqyktelutykflyzanjmna6j3oiiqfkdxvgebund6pdz2e@jpeg)
December 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
For today's gift book rec, I'm choosing one of the most devastating, beautiful, nuanced, gorgeous, tragic, incendiary, and, yes, hopeful books of the year: ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS, by OMAR EL AKKAD. Deservedly won the National Book Award. Summary in alt text. 7/?
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🌟 #GivingTuesday
If you believe in collective decision-making, open governance, & strengthening communities, we invite you to make a contribution to Decidim. Every donation helps continue building tools that put people at the center of decision-making
Contribute: opencollective.com/decidim/dona...
If you believe in collective decision-making, open governance, & strengthening communities, we invite you to make a contribution to Decidim. Every donation helps continue building tools that put people at the center of decision-making
Contribute: opencollective.com/decidim/dona...
December 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🌟 #GivingTuesday
If you believe in collective decision-making, open governance, & strengthening communities, we invite you to make a contribution to Decidim. Every donation helps continue building tools that put people at the center of decision-making
Contribute: opencollective.com/decidim/dona...
If you believe in collective decision-making, open governance, & strengthening communities, we invite you to make a contribution to Decidim. Every donation helps continue building tools that put people at the center of decision-making
Contribute: opencollective.com/decidim/dona...
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"The initiator of an online petition calling for accountability for the fire was arrested for 'incitement.' It is quite obvious that 'national safety' does not include fire safety in the eyes of the government’s security agents." lausancollective.com/2025/tai-po-...
Tai Po in flames - Lausan
How Hongkongers are reviving mass action and mutual aid in the wake of the deadly fires in Tai Po.
lausancollective.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"The initiator of an online petition calling for accountability for the fire was arrested for 'incitement.' It is quite obvious that 'national safety' does not include fire safety in the eyes of the government’s security agents." lausancollective.com/2025/tai-po-...
"...25 residents had recently had miscarriages, while six had lost a kidney. 'One man about 60 years old had his voice box taken out because of a cancer that only smokers get, but that guy hadn’t smoked a day of his life'"
Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers
"The historical precedent here is Flint, Michigan."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
"The historical precedent here is Flint, Michigan."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers
A sprawling data center in eastern Oregon has been linked to a huge rise in rare cancers, muscle conditions, and miscarriages.
futurism.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
"...25 residents had recently had miscarriages, while six had lost a kidney. 'One man about 60 years old had his voice box taken out because of a cancer that only smokers get, but that guy hadn’t smoked a day of his life'"
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The state of Maine has been dealing with PFAS (aka "forever chemicals") issues since the 1980s, when sludge from sewage plants and paper mills were spread on farm fields.
Maine was first in the nation in identifying and investigating
PFAS contamination in consumer products.
Nasty stuff.
Maine was first in the nation in identifying and investigating
PFAS contamination in consumer products.
Nasty stuff.
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The state of Maine has been dealing with PFAS (aka "forever chemicals") issues since the 1980s, when sludge from sewage plants and paper mills were spread on farm fields.
Maine was first in the nation in identifying and investigating
PFAS contamination in consumer products.
Nasty stuff.
Maine was first in the nation in identifying and investigating
PFAS contamination in consumer products.
Nasty stuff.