Inspired by the USA Disappeared Tracker account on Bluesky, this dashboard visualizes people taken into ICE custody when the Trump regime demonstrated the undeniable political motive and animus to deny due process, even if charges (if they're ever filed) are eventually substantiated in a court of law.
This is a tracker of people that the US government has disappeared. Search by names, dates, states of residence, names of facilities, and transit lines.
Machine learning has become more and more powerful, to the point where a bad actor can take a photo and a voice recording of someone you know, and forge a complete video recording. Bad actors can now digitally impersonate someone you love, and trick you into doing things like paying a ransom. To mitigate that risk, I have developed this simple solution where you can setup a unique time-based one-time passcode (TOTP) between any pair of persons.
Github: https://github.com/ksze/PeerAuth
The proliferation of independent digital communities has introduced new possibilities and new challenges in how we conduct ourselves in online spaces that we build and maintain.
While the freedom of these environments has given us the means to explore connections in any way that we choose, it's also important to remember that the technology and platforms we use are in service to our humanity and personhood. They are tools to be used to help us build spaces that are healthy and sustainable.
To that end, the accords aim to define a code of conduct where cooperation, empathy and our shared humanity is at the core of all efforts.
A typeface of people silhouettes, to make it easy to build web graphics featuring little people instead of dots. Just add the contents of "weepeople.css" to your page, or link to that CSS file.
The repo has the CSS file, the glyphs, a Truetype font file, and v1 and 2 webfont files.
Welcome to introvert happy hour. Read books with friends in more than 500 cities around the world, or start a chapter of your own. It's a silent reading party, BYOBook!
Early in 1998, This is True author Randy Cassingham was distressed to see that not only had actor Jack Lord died, but that his death was virtually ignored in the mainstream media. Wanting to honor him somehow, Randy came up with the idea of an “honorary unsubscribe” — symbolically deleting Lord from the This is True online distribution list. (Randy had no way of knowing if Lord actually was a subscriber, since it’s virtually impossible to positively identify someone by their email address alone.) Reaction was immediate: True’s readers loved the honor, so now someone is honored almost every week in This is True’s email newsletter.
But there’s no point in rehashing what everyone already knows about. Rather than jump on bandwagons recognizing celebrities, the Honorary Unsubscribe is designed to “recognize the Unknown, the Forgotten, and the Obscure People who had an impact on our lives.” So you will probably recognize few of the names, but you’ll come to understand the impact the honorees have had on your life. These are the people you will wish you had known!
On the occasions that Randy does write about someone well-known, it’s usually because he has found an angle that most people don’t know about — or the person dropped out of the limelight and was forgotten.
We are not an organization, and we are not a nonprofit. We are neighbors. We don’t have a lot of time, and our budgets are nearly maxed. But we see our neighbors’ daily struggles and feel called to do something in a way that reflects our shared values—compassion, generosity, and trust.
LFP is for those who want and/or need to give. LFP is for those not easily able to meet everyday food and personal needs. LFP is for a hungry kid after school or a home cook who forgot to buy an onion. LFP is for everyone.
The LFP is small, limiting its quantity and variety. Bricks-and-mortar food pantries are better at meeting pervasive need. But some fall through the cracks. The LFP is a safety net. 29% of those experiencing food insecurity do not qualify for federal nutrition programs.
For example, many bricks-and-mortar food pantries require an application. Most have hours of operation. Anyone may access the LFP at any time.
Additionally, bricks-and-mortar food pantries are service providers, those who use them, “clients.” LFP dissolves that professional boundary. Whether giving or taking, everyone approaches the LFP the same way, mediating the shame that accompanies need.
LFP is a centrally-located reminder of our neighbors’ need that creates neighborhood space for exercising compassion, trust, and mutual aid.
Curated list of personal blogs on any topic, by mataroa.blog.
Centralized social media is harmful to society. We are building a gatekeeper-free decentralized system. Our mission is “social media done right”, to put people in control of their own identity and build the technology that would enable a shift to collaborative and intentional security models prioritizing active consent. To accomplish this, we will build a new architecture for the internet: removing the necessity of client-server architecture, replacing it with a participatory peer-centric model.
This is the home of the Spritely Goblins Distributed Programming platform - the core of our vision of a completely decentralised social internet.
Spritely’s technology is being released as free and open source software aiming for multiple programming language implementations and eventual open standardization. All of our work, ranging from decentralized identity, peer-to-peer user agents, decentralized social networks, encrypted and portable storage, and distributed object programming infrastructure is being built to enable a gatekeeper-free path where users and content are not tied to a specific server.
Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/spritely
The Human Library® is a library of people. We host events where readers can borrow human beings serving as open books and have conversations.
Aleph is a powerful tool for people who follow the money. It helps investigators to securely access and search large amounts of data - no matter whether they are a government database or a leaked email archive.
Requires a (free?) account?
Consider adding to Searx?
A self-hosted application for sharing wishlists and collaborating on gifts and presents. Organize people into groups. Set up wishlists for people and groups; collaborate on them such that they don't know who's doing what. Multiple people, multiple wishlists, multiple groups.
Uses MySQL as its backend.
Amazingly, the README tells you how to compile and run it, you don't have to dissect a Dockerfile to figure it out.
Masto is an OSINT tool written in python to gather intelligence on Mastodon users and instances.
ooh.directory is a place to find blogs that interest you.
Explore the categories, search blog details, flip through random blogs, or keep visiting the most recently-updated blogs to see who’s talking about what right now.
A human-curated small selection of accounts to spice up your timeline.
You can get RSS feeds of any specific tag in https://fedi.directory by adding /feed/ to the end of the tag's URL.
For example the tag for "Gardening" is at the URL:
The LHC is a loose collective of people interested in hacking. LHC began on /r/defcon as a way for people attending DEF CON ‘alone’ to meet up with other people.
Spooky Connections is an independent international open source investigation to probe transnational organized crime. We operate using open source information from established news outlets and primary sourced documents to graph, map, and document a clear understanding of organised criminal networks and activities.
The Human Library® creates a safe space for dialogue where topics are discussed openly between our human books and their readers. All of our human books are volunteers with personal experience with their topic. The Human Library® is a place where difficult questions are expected, appreciated and answered. The Human Library® host events virtually and in libraries, museums, festivals, conferences, schools, universities and for the private sector. We have published our books in over 80 countries.
This resource provides guidance on helping individuals who are experiencing homelessness obtain identification (ID) documents, including birth certificates, Social Security cards, state-issued IDs, DD214s, and Green Cards. This toolkit is available in English and Spanish.