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category appreciator,
free and open source radical,
mutual aid farmer

https://jtriley.com
protect their right to exist
waking up to find a good chunk of our art is on its way to potentially be labeled as terrorist symbology is pretty wild
September 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
reading into topojson which seems to extract topological features from geojson data which is super cool, but it seems the animations visualizing the process seem to be down

@ocks.org sry for the ping, ik it's like 10 yrs old lol but i'd love to see the animations if you've a way to restore them 💜
September 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
norcal pigs raided some houseless folks outside a nonprofit food distro today. volunteers & the houseless begged to let them just take their things and leave.

they refused, then destroyed everything.

we keep us safe,
not the state,
not the police.
August 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
interestingly, there are technical foundations for this in crypto systems, but to serve the public interest we have to strip out capitalist mechanisms

"cryptoeconomic" mechanisms can be replaced w community trust assumptions; but audibility, validity, and distributed consensus work out of the box
"The constituent parts of Mamdani’s coalition—neighborhood branches, unions, tenant groups, mutual-aid networks, libraries, and cultural partners—are the right places to grow a politics of insurgent credit that sustains participation through staged fiscal showdowns without disruption."
Tax the Rich Campaigns Need Coalition Credits
By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective As Zohran Mamdani and allied progressives turn a campaign victory into governing capacity, the primary weapons used against them will be fiscal. Centri…
moneyontheleft.org
August 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
happy juneteenth, great book for today: revolutionary s*icide by huey newton

chattel slavery abolition was a significant step but from far from the last in black liberation

from nestle's malian slaves to the systemic violence against the black community; there is no freedom until everyone is free
June 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
real mathematicians watching me "prove" statements by drawing silly little morphisms on the whiteboard like
May 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
idk who needs to hear this but liberation is abolition of systemic oppression, not granting freedom to participate

i don't want venezuelans to work at ice i want to abolish ice

i don't want women to be healthcare ceo's i want to free luigi
May 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
solarpunk is a fascinating idea; one where humans and tech co-exist in tandem with a tightly integrated relationship with nature.

but there's an attempted co-opting of solarpunk both through corporate greenwashing as well as crypto groups.

let's talk about it.

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April 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
it's so cool being met with a dead .gov link looking for the radio spectrum allocation chart

like do they even want us to obey the law
April 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
marches in every state today; stay safe, do good opsec, and get connected

in this moment we're activated, we want something to do, we want to effect change right now

but this is a long game. showing up in solidarity with our fellow peoples is a significant step but there's more to do

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April 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
threats of deporting nat born citizens is on the table.

wireless signals off, if it transmits it tracks.

move in groups, dress in black.

encryption on, biometrics off, give no consent.

stay safe; we need you for the long game.
April 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
there are no "apolitical" software devs, only those who are unaware of whom their software empowers

open source is the prerequisite,
free and open source is the baseline,
facilitation of digital sovereignty is the imperative

we have to be there for ppl pushed out of the subscription economy
April 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
as a software engineer,

the most revolutionary action you can take right now is put down your computer and plant food for your people
April 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Rayhunter, a free and open source software executable recently announced by @eff.org, has the means to potentially detect the usage of Stingrays to twiddle with cell traffic!

Here's an exploration of the currently implemented analyzers in the Rayhunter :3

jtriley.com/rayhunter
April 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Happy Trans Day of Visibility!

Despite being like 0.95% of the population (at least in the US), you can find a trans flag pfp on just about every software system with material impact.

Appreciate you for being you 💜
March 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
from fm to sms, wifi to bluetooth, jiggling radio waves is the core of all modern comms tech

in studying for the technician license, i wrote an article that introduces electromagnetic radiation, antennas, and modulation techniques from fm up to qam-256 :3

jtriley.com/radio-commun...
March 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
alongside the usual opsec in political demonstrations, it's helpful learn what spyware your local police dept is rolling with

here in the us, the electronic frontier foundation has an osint database of the surveillance gear the local pd's have access to.

atlasofsurveillance.org

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Atlas of Surveillance
Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research
atlasofsurveillance.org
March 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM