@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-06 10:35:30
The Authoritarian Stack.
This is brilliant – if you’re interested in human rights, democracy, and tech, and want to understand technofascism/corporatocracy bookmark and read this.👇
#AuthoritarianStack #tech
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-11-06 13:18:02
Interesting and well-made , "The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next"
#geopolitics
@servelan@newsie.social2026-02-04 18:04:09
'Objectively chilling': Judge stands against 'authoritarian regime,' restrains Noem's officers from firing 'munitions' at Portland ICE protesters | Law & Crime
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/objectively-chilling-judge-stands-against-authoritarian-regime-restrains-noems-officers-from-firing-munitions-at-portland-ice-protesters/
@niklaskorz@rheinneckar.social2025-11-06 13:03:43
If you are listening to the "Fulltime #Nix Podcast", maybe reconsider that choice.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-a…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-06 11:00:06
arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 68746 nodes and 51971 edges.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-04 17:57:17
MAGA is a fragile, already-teetering coalition that — even more than usual in US politics! — is run by, paid for by, and kept alive by a very, very few ultra-wealthy people. Yes, racism and fascistic thinking are rampant, but the forces that organize them into a coherent movement are forces of concentrated wealth.
I don’t think we even have to completely unravel the entirety of US political-economic imperialism to unravel this authoritarian slide. We just have to make authoritarianism in the US look unprofitable.
There’s plenty of good work for all of us there, inside and outside the US.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-06 02:51:09
French authorities charge four people with spying for China by allegedly seeking to obtain satellite data from Starlink and other critical entities (Jenny Che/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-05/fran…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-01-05 19:00:07
arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 133280 nodes and 396160 edges.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-05 03:40:57
US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities (A.J. Vicens/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-05 21:20:20
Just to underline that:
A huge portion of the MAGA authoritarian takeover plot rested on the false assumption that they could provoke a violent domestic conflict at a whim and jump straight to martial law. It seems they believed their own BS about how cities are hotbeds of unrestrained chaos and iT’S tHe LEft tHaT’s REALLY viOLeNT!!1!
They thought they were picking a fistfight. They didn’t expect to just get mocked, shamed, and videoed into social oblivion. They are both reviled and a laughingstock now.