Avery @avery@social.avery.cafe

BTW, today we released #PeerTube v3, complete with p2p live streaming features and a behind-the-scene short film.

Read more about it on our blog (and please share 😉) https://framablog.org/2021/01/07/peertube-v3-its-a-live-a-liiiiive/

Shoutouts to the tech companies and VCs taking their courageous, principled stands at precisely the moment that it's too late for courage or principles to matter.

PeerTube v3: it’s a live, a liiiiive !

🎉🎉🎉 PeerTube v3 is out today!!! 🎉🎉🎉

On the blog :
➡️ The stages of development
➡️ Peer to peer live streaming
➡️ A behind-the-scenes short film
➡️ What we imagine for the future!

https://framablog.org/2021/01/06/peertube-v3-its-a-live-a-liiiiive

Illus CC-By @davidrevoy

Let's be very clear here: in no small part the blame for what happened today lies with surveillance capitalism.

It is *profitable* to put right-wing/fascist/conspiratorial content in front of more eyeballs, since it generates more "engagement". So Facebook, YouTube and others became perfect channels for this kind of crap.

Big Tech made money on this, for them today's insurrection is an "externality".

"For those who are able to: please try to scrape and save any videos and livestreams of the Capitol storming and occupation. Just like after Charlottesville in 2017, many of those who are streaming will delete their streams once they realize how incriminating the footage is."
https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1346989282167119872

Tonight, and for almost two years now, #Assange will sleep in Belmarsh, the "British Guantanamo", with temperatures as low as 0 degrees at night, 23+h/24 in isolation + new covid restrictions including no shower and no visit.. in a ward where 80+ prisoners got tested positive.

oh and he is there for allegedly "skipping bail" when he actually had political asylum, then detained awaiting an extradition hearing he just got discharged with.

All good for the rule of law. Thanks UK!

#FreeAssangeNow

Not about the politics:

I used to live in DC, while homeless, and there were frequent curfews due to political unrest.

This often led to homeless people who had nothing to do with the situation getting detained and harassed. This group is probably going to be doing a lot of work for the DC homeless community.

Please consider giving them some money. Thank you

dccfh.org

(Boosts encouraged)

:thaenkin:​

For your safety, here's a thread of states and cities currently being targeted with direct, physical violence. Please stay home:

https://twitter.com/ENFPreee/status/1346938604313079808

do not ever forget that the cops invited them in

oh yeah my sister lives in DC, she was saying that the reason the cops aren't in riot gear is because "antifa and BLM weren't going to be there", there's literally no point for me to finish this post you know what I'm going to finish it with

Take a good look, USA. This is who we are now. We let this fester for too long and now we're finding out first-hand what this kind of shit will do to us

We've had reckonings in the past that were easy to laugh off or think "it couldn't happen here". Well, guess what? It did. We've become that which we used to tut tut on our TV Screens.

We took "peaceful transfer of power" off of our virtues list and smashed it.

We made a mockery of ourselves on the world-wide stage.

Time to fix our shit

To me as a poc, this shit is depressing and terrifying because they allowed them to go INTO THE CAPITOL BUILDING unimpeded, showing just how deep this system is entrenched in white supremacy. Who's gonna protect us, apparently fuckin nobody

lol imagine if leftist protestors literally walked around the capital. they'd get shot with real bullets.

This isn't the first time white supremacists have done this. They succeeded last time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1898