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As the year closes I've made a lot of progress in recovering my online #privacy. I'm under no illusion that I've achieved complete anonymity online but nor am I cooperating with the full-time corporate/government #surveillance and invasive data collection that I was allowing previously. I see no reason to disrespect myself in that way nor a reason to give them an inch.

Protecting our privacy is the same as defending our #freedom, there is no end to the process.

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-11-21.html

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As the year closes I've made a lot of progress in recovering my online #privacy. I'm under no illusion that I've achieved complete anonymity online but nor am I cooperating with the full-time corporate/government #surveillance and invasive data collection that I was allowing previously. I see no reason to disrespect myself in that way nor a reason to give them an inch.

Protecting our privacy is the same as defending our #freedom, there is no end to the process.

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-11-21.html

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Begin the journey: Why your ethics might require adoption of Free Software

My own journey into free software began with my ethics. It was, and is, deeply personal but simultaneously connected to my understanding of the larger world I am a part of. I’ve long believed and argued to those around me that what we do as individuals matters. We are not helpless, we are not without power in our...

#FreeSoftware #GNU #Linux #FSF #gnuLinux #Apple #Microsoft #Google #Freedom

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-07-04.html

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Begin the journey: Why your ethics might require adoption of Free Software

My own journey into free software began with my ethics. It was, and is, deeply personal but simultaneously connected to my understanding of the larger world I am a part of. I’ve long believed and argued to those around me that what we do as individuals matters. We are not helpless, we are not without power in our...

#FreeSoftware #GNU #Linux #FSF #gnuLinux #Apple #Microsoft #Google #Freedom

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-07-04.html

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We have a choice to make: How we compute matters

I accepted Apple’s behavior for far too long. And then, one day, I said nope. Nope. Nope. NOPE. On some level, at some point I began to care about how they, a profit seeking company, were treating me as a human being. I simply had to stop pretending that it was okay for them to treat me in such a way. And that it was in my best interest to stop cooperating. We do not...

#Microsoft #Apple #Google
#GNU #Linux #FSF #FOSS

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-06-26.html

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We have a choice to make: How we compute matters

I accepted Apple’s behavior for far too long. And then, one day, I said nope. Nope. Nope. NOPE. On some level, at some point I began to care about how they, a profit seeking company, were treating me as a human being. I simply had to stop pretending that it was okay for them to treat me in such a way. And that it was in my best interest to stop cooperating. We do not...

#Microsoft #Apple #Google
#GNU #Linux #FSF #FOSS

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-06-26.html

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Community organizing and active citizenship

What does community activism actually look like? How do you get started? Some of the nuts and bolts to get started.

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2024-07-02.html

#BuildRealDemocracy #BuildCommunity #BuildResistance #BuildResilience #YouCanOrganize #WeCanOrganize

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Community organizing and active citizenship

What does community activism actually look like? How do you get started? Some of the nuts and bolts to get started.

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2024-07-02.html

#BuildRealDemocracy #BuildCommunity #BuildResistance #BuildResilience #YouCanOrganize #WeCanOrganize

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Pondering a white supremacy that is so deeply embedded in the organization of US society in 2024 that it’s just become a kind of invisible foundational bias that allows us to think of ourselves as “civilized” when, on a daily basis, large sectors of our economy engage in war profiteering.

The majority of the US barely register the violence that resonates from the origins of the nation. From our own violent settler colonialism ...

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2024-03-27.html

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Pondering a white supremacy that is so deeply embedded in the organization of US society in 2024 that it’s just become a kind of invisible foundational bias that allows us to think of ourselves as “civilized” when, on a daily basis, large sectors of our economy engage in war profiteering.

The majority of the US barely register the violence that resonates from the origins of the nation. From our own violent settler colonialism ...

https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2024-03-27.html