Korea was unGoogled already and now itβs getting Googled. Disastrous for so many reasons.
Anyway, guides on how de-Google Your Life here liberationtoolbox.io
Sad that South Korea conceded to give over its maps to Google after decades of refusing. I loved that local Korean maps and apps were more prominent and important than Google Maps, which have colonized the world.
Memorializing this screen in history:
Everyone that leaves them erases their existence a little more, and deepens community another day.
Feels good to break up with Big Tech, doesn't it?
More on how at liberationtoolbox.io.
FUN FACT:
If no one uses OpenAl, OpenAl dies.
The same goes for many Big Tech corporations and their AI platforms.
We are the ones that set the expiration dates.
Tell your friends.
Tell everyone you know.
Imagine loving oppression so much that all imagination has been utterly stripped from your existence, and the only solution you can come up for anything is war. That is exactly Empire and Big Tech.
So when you examine the messaging by the U.S. regime about Iran, Venezuela, Iraq, Korea, and anywhere else in the entire world, it is never ever about freeing people. It is only always about oppressing them further.
The United States Empire can only oppress people, it can never free them.
Never in the history of the U.S. Empire, has it ever supported the freedom of any oppressed people. It cannot, by definition, since it requires oppression for its existence.
A reminder that the U.S. Empire may, at any moment, choose to do this with as much precision and destruction they choose, to any leader and People of any country in the world.
There are zero guardrails.
Zero procedure.
Zero checks and balances.
Zero regulation.
Zero soul.
Zero out Empire.
Being less killy does not make them better. Do not glorify corporations that weaponize AI. Period.
Although OpenAI ended up signing, do not forget that Anthropic also already had pre-existing relationships with the Pentagon in developing military AI systems for years.
OpenAI and Anthropic have both been murderous and have enabled surveillance systems on people everywhere.
How exhausted, cold, and scared Shah Alam must have been. He was trying to get home. And he never made it.
The number of times my heart has broken, is how many times it has cracked open to fight again.
The murder of Rohingya refugee from Burma Myanmar, Nurul Amin Shah Alam, is another cruel and vicious act of violence that shows how DH S is a death machine.
It also shows how anti-immigrantism and ableism are deadly. And DH S is the weapon enforcing them.
This takes away basic access and rights for trans and nonbinary people, and puts every single person in danger, regardless of how you identify or where you live.
Everyone should be fighting this.
As of today, Feb 26, Kansas has invalidated 1000s of trans peopleβs drivers licenses & birth certificates.
The new law mandates that identification docs must show the gender that was assigned to you at birth by some stranger who claimed to know you better than you know yourself.
They are robbing us of our very identities and agency.
Do not let them take you.
Learn to fight back at liberationtoolbox.io
Different names they use instead of
what I call straight up Biometric Theft:
β» βFacial Comparison Technologyβ
β» βAge Verificationβ
β» βHands-freeβ
β» βTouchlessβ
β» βFrictionlessβ
β» βSecure ID Verificationβ
β» βDigital IDβ
β» βSelfie Recognitionβ
β» βLive Selfieβ and many more.
There is literally no need for Womenβs and Menβs sports binarism. Definitely no reason to pair menβs teams with womenβs teams. Womenβs teams can just be doing sports on their own. Independently.
We have sports without BS to do. Byeeeeee.
The Womenβs Hockey team,
which is clearly amazing, could go out on their own. Not as a pair to a menβs team, but as THE Hockey Team.
Same for all sports. In the process, break down transphobia while we are at it.
Often, though, it is in the most literal sense of being by a rope and tree.
This does not just happen.
It is made to happen.
Every instance of anti-Blackness allowed is a confession by the system.
Lynchings of Black people are still
very much happening.
Sometimes it looks like police, prisons, data center locations, toxic waste sites, or the medical system. Sometimes it looks like the BBC leaving the n-word unedited in a pre-recorded airing, while managing to edit out βFree Palestine.β
A lot is happening.
Make a list of the truths you know.
And a list of sources you trust.
Keep focus on those truths and sources.
For new information, come up with a few questions to answer about what you are taking in.
Truths, sources, focus.
Pause and process.
Stay vigilant.
New piece up at Liberation Toolbox on how Big Tech is killing us and extracting from us for AI, and still how they wonβt be able to survive without us.
www.liberationtoolbox.io/ai-without-us/
Everyone that leaves Big Tech erases their existence a little more, and deepens community another day. Feels good to break up with Big Tech, doesnβt it?
Learn how to leave at liberationtoolbox.io
FUN FACT:
If no one uses OpenAI, OpenAI dies.
The same goes for many Big Tech corporations and their platforms.
We are the ones that set the expiration dates.
Tell your friends.
Tell everyone you know.
Anyway, sharing a new piece on liberationtoolbox.io later on protecting ourselves as we fight against oppression.
Stay private and secure out there yβall.
Oh you know, me on this μ€λ New Year just hanging out with my tinfoil hat so that no one steals my thoughts and destroys my mind. π
When I was talking about privacy, security, and surveillance decades ago people said I was being bananas. Not so bananas anymore, huh?
I love you, so I have given my entire life to liberation.Β
My love languages are privacy, security, and collective liberation.Β
I love you.
Happy Valentineβs Day.Β
I love you so I have a place for us at liberationtoolbox.io
I love you, so we make sure we are trained in resisting, protecting, and fighting back.
I love you, so I know that your privacy and security are dependent on my privacy and security.
Whew, I love you, so I am making sure we are disentangling from Big Tech together. Β
I love you, so we have a phone tree set up for our chosen family or neighborhood.Β
I love you, so I am fighting surveillance against each one of us.
I love you, so I make sure smart assistants and cameras are not around or on when we hang out at my place.
I love you, so we compare our Go Bag contents together.Β
I love you, so I fight for Indigenous stewardship and sovereignty.
