I have moved an entire academic project funded by Open Research Area to Delta Chat @Delta Chat The project is called ClaimSov and is focused on analyzing discourses of "digital sovereignty" in EU, US, Russia and China. We have started with the question which messenger to use for our project related communications. We wanted to play the game of "digital sovereignty" and I suggested Delta Chat. The team decided to give it a try. Now we are two months into the project, and all the 13 team members from three universities are sharing several group chats, actively using webxdc apps for planning our calls and seminars, editing texts, voting for various decisions, tracking things on our agenda and even gaming. This is my first experience of using Delta Chat with my academic colleagues. I could only dream about convincing people, but that turned out so simple and I am glad we have done this!

An example of algorithmic resistance

📢📢📢 Urgent call for action against Chat Control! The EU still wants to pass the infamous "Chat Control" law, that would mandate scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos. This threatens fundamental privacy rights and can transform EU into a digital Gulag. Currently only 3 countries oppose this law, while 15 member states support it and 9 remain indecisive. This means, the balance can still be shifted! It is very important to influence at least those who are in doubt. For instance, you can contact a MEP (Member of the European Parliament) and demand to oppose to Chat Control. There is a tool that automates the process of writing and sending such letters:

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

Please check it out and send at least one letter! #StopChatcontrol

I've been monitoring Iranian connectivity for ~72 hours. The country is experiencing the most severe Internet outages in its history, and they come in waves (some ASNs manage to restore connectivity then disappear again). A community of technologists and researchers is trying to come up with something to help people there. People share measurements, reports from inside Iran, tools recommendations and other tips. The situation is unclear because measures are often coming from the outside and first-hands reports are fragmented and dispersed. In these hard times (which are also a test drive for Internet Freedom Community who's supposed to help civil society exactly at the moments like this one), I decided that I need a T-shirt. A special T-shirt with a print that some people will immediately understand and feel the mix of pain and humor behind it. So here is the mock-up of the T-shirt. I hope you'll like it. The graph is from Cloudflare Radar, for an Iranian ASN Tebyan.

Если вам нравится Delta Chat и вы хотите узнать почему мы внезапно стали очень популярны на Кубе и в США, вот небольшое объяснение (циферки, графики, статистика😋).

Delta Chat: A big user surge and funding for decentralized scale

Beginning June we witnessed a sudden surge of Delta Chat usage especially in the US and Cuba. We don’t know the social dynamics behind it but it ...

#deltachat

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The Anarchist Library

My Socialism

Takagi Kenmyo (Ensho) My Socialism 1959 Takagi Kemmyo (1864–1914) was a Jodo Shinshu cleric from Higashi Hongaji, expelled from the order because...

I found it somewhere long time ago, now I found it again and it is very funny #derrida #frenglish #chaos

My comrade Crimean anarchist, journalist and soldier of the Ukrainian defense forces Denys Matsola has been kept in detention in a russian prison in the district of Ivanovo for three years. It has now become official, there is proof of him being there. He is frequently tortured, especially by food deprivation and solitary confinement. His physical and mental health is under threat. There is a petition going around for his liberation.

Google Docs

Підписи під заявою "Ні тортурам! Свободу Денису Мацолі та Владиславу «Іскрі» Журавльову"

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gr0vDxmr0QZvEkBUAk4vfo14bPz6OC3ad_rwUBFzqb0/edit?usp=sharing

Of course petitions are weird. We all understand that we need to dismantle the death empire(s) and they wont disappear with petitions. But if you have the opportunity please sign it. Please do not comment about the usage of Google forms for this petition. I am also frustrated with this choice. But people who launched it are preoccupied by health and life of their friend and not by the criticism of digital capitalism. Don't judge them. Please share as far as you can. Denys should be free! More about Denys:

БФ «Схід SOS»

Ні тортурам! Свободу Денису Мацолі та Владиславу Іскрі Журавльову | БФ «Схід SOS»

Благодійний фонд «Схід SOS» 🕊️Корисна інформація для ВПО та постраждалих від ві...