Zines are cool, and @npub1n6lz...zmz9 is making one about the surveillance technologies used by ICE. "It will be 16 pages and printed on a risograph printer by a printshop in Los Angeles. It contains both reworked versions of our best reporting on ICE and some new articles for the zine. It will be available at the beginning of January."
404 Media
404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
 #zines #USPol #ICE #immigration #immigrants
Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it". #internet #TheWeb #OTD #OnThisDay #history image
"It’s notable that MySpace came from an LA-based company, eUniverse. While the Silicon Valley based Friendster tried to impose various technological constraints onto its users, MySpace adopted a more laidback, Venice Beach-like approach. You can do whatever you want with your profile and make friends with whomever you choose — that was the MySpace way."
Cybercultural
2003: MySpace vs. Friendster in a Battle for Digital Natives
Social networking becomes a trend in 2003, thanks largely to Friendster and a copycat called MySpace. But only one of these sites attracts the newl...
 #internet #TheWeb #SocialMedia #history #technology #cyberculture
On this day in 1955, the civil rights activist Rosa Parks rejected a bus driver's order to vacate a seat for a white female passenger after the "white" section of the bus was filled. Parks helped inspire the Black community to boycott the city buses, resulting in a landmark Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional, a *whole year later*. -
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Montgomery bus boycott - Wikipedia
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Browder v. Gayle - Wikipedia
 #OTD #OnThisDay #history #CivilRights #RosaParks #BlackHistory #BlackWomen
"By the end of 2002, blogging had blossomed into a thriving ecosystem of colourful personal sites that interconnected to each other via RSS, trackback and blogrolls."
Cybercultural
How the Blogosphere Takes Shape in 2002, Along With RSS 2.0
The blogosphere becomes a trend in 2002 — a growing ecosystem of weblogs interconnecting via feeds, comments and a new feature called trackback. ...
 #blogging #blogs #RSS #internet #TheWeb #cyberculture
I don't really keep up with Twitter/X news much these days, but this was kind of funny. "Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors."
The Daily Beast
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
 #news #TechNews #SocialMedia #Twitter