Humble Book Bundle: Protest Power Zines and Lit

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/protest-power-zines-and-lit-microcosm-books

Ughhh the oui-spy update got a bunch of claude commits, this sucks.

Last boost: I previously boosted the infographic of picking up a snail. I should have researched it before boosting, and would have found out it was AI slop.

I've unboosted it. I'll try and do better about researching the things I boost.

Some good reporting and accountability work here by TIRRC.
TN Highway Patrol (THP) has been working closely with ICE here.

"'Guilty until proven innocent?' Video from Nashville THP/ICE stops revives questions of racial profiling

Analysis of the newly released footage reveals moments where troopers reacted differently when they assumed drivers/passengers were born outside the US"

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/guilty-until-proven-innocent-video-from-nashville-thp-ice-stops-revives-questions-of-racial-profiling

Please don't give chat apps a photo of your face to analyze with "AI".

For that matter, please don't give anyone online a photo of your face to analyze with any tool.

The Red Hat Resistance.
(Links contain mentions of ICE, Nazis, authoritarianism, and related)

https://redhatfactory.com/pages/red-hat-resistance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iEKMU_KPjc

Okay so I'm starting to get the hang of #knitting the ribbing, and unfortunately it looks way better than the mess at the start of this project so I guess I'm gonna start over in a few more rows (I want a lil more practice lol, I keep forgetting which stitch I'm on)

Trying to make a cute thread bobbin printout that I like... 🤔

(Based on this template [you fold them in the middle to get more strength]: https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/printable-linen-floss-bobbins-4018973 )

I put all my skill points in software and 0 into hardware, so the hardest part of this for me may have been figuring out how to read a pinout diagram and figure out which pin the buzzer is mapped to.

Feeling good about figuring that out lol

Eventually maybe I'll proper fork the repo and make this available, if I test the thing and it works.

Could I have just ordered an ESP S3 or C3? Yes. But that would be too easy.

The other necessary bit was to update the dependencies to work with the C6, which is weirdly difficult?

I had to use an alternate espressif32 package and update h2zero/NimBLE-Arduino to 2.1.0 which deprecates NimBLEAdvertisedDeviceCallbacks, so that has to be modified in the code to NimBLEScanCallbacks

Fun fact, the pin to make the beeps is different on the C6 than both the S3 and C3.

on the C6, it's GPIO2 / BUZZER_PIN 2

Figured that out thanks to this issue: https://github.com/colonelpanichacks/flock-you/issues/23#issuecomment-3764325935

This is running the Flock You detection code, from here: https://github.com/colonelpanichacks/oui-spy

With some minor edits by me because I have an ESPS3-C6 board and the software is designed for either an S3 or C3.

I'm not actually sure if my edits work but it compiles and does the boot beeps, so we'll see next time I'm out.

Rate my soldering.
(Please don't actually rate it, this is literally my first time soldering and it's tiny and not great haha.)

PCBs by https://colonelpanic.tech but the soldering is me, don't blame that on them LOL.

Joy Is a Strategy: The White Leftist Struggle with Spirit

"To me, celebration is not a frivolous add-on to movement work—it is the work. Celebration is how we remember we are alive. That we are worth the effort. That freedom is worth the effort."

https://brightblackhoney.substack.com/p/joy-is-a-strategy-why-white-leftists

Looks like DuckDuckGo is showing Neocities search results again! (see update)

https://sakurajima.moe/@literalgrill/115970823968026850

I have a second, smaller drawer where I store my pronouns.

Severely just misread a sentence in this article.

I'm making a hat. :)

#knitting

"Reworking an arrest photo to make the arrestee look more distraught not only is a lie, but it’s also a doubling-down on a “the cruelty is the point” manifesto. Using a manipulated image further humiliates the individual and perpetuate harmful biases, and the only reason to darken an arrestee’s skin would be to reinforce colorist stereotypes and stoke the flames of racial prejudice, particularly against dark-skinned people."

https://mastodon.social/@eff/115969460976989263