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X marks the despot, hackivists fight the power, and more hot flashes from media land

Remembering a pathbreaker for free media

DIY AI, more on Musk, and the NYT strike

Rightist media set the stage for fascist violence

Based on “privacy” rather than a woman’s right to control her reproduction, Roe v. Wade was never the "free, safe, legal, and accessible" abortion solution for all women that the Women’s Liberation Movement began fighting for in the 1960s.

The inside story of the world’s most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it.

We reject the efforts of legislators in states across the country to abolish the right to make one’s own decisions regarding their bodies, their health care, their families and their futures

We need a model of ownership that recognizes the collective interest we have in how personal data is used, avoids the costs of private exploitation by individual firms, and does not slip into authoritarian forms of state control.

Mergers, censorship, DIY news, and more media migraines

How Labor and Climate Movements Deal With Distancing, and More