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This week, we’re sharing two segments.

First up, a chat with Cooper Quintin, a senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and developer of the Rayhunter. Rayhunter is open-source firmware to turn specific hotspots into IMSI-catcher, effectively scanning for and logging any signs of fake cell towers (often known under the brand-name of Stingrays) in the area. Law enforcement has at times deployed these as a way of collecting information about phones in the area and could use it to intercept some communications like sms or phone calls. Cooper talks about what’s known of law enforcement use of IMSI-catchers, what has been observed of the data collected by deployed Rayhunters, phone security at demonstrations and related topics.

Then you’ll hear Radio Ausbruch from Frieberg from this month’s B(A)D News podcast from the A-Radio Network talking about the repression and deBanking of anti-repression projects like ABC Dresden and Rote Hilfe in Germany based on pressure from the US government related to the so-called Antifa Ost case. This carries heavy implications for prisoner support, anti-racist and other social struggles.

Links

• Cooper at DefCon talking about Rayhunter: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=meC2JqNAbCA
• EFF on what Rayhunter has found so far: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/rayhunter-what-we-have-found-so-far
• Github for Rayhunter: https://github.com/EFForg/rayhunter
• EFF Mattermost chat platform: https://opensource.eff.org/
• A project for detecting Meta Rayban sunglasses: https://github.com/NullPxl/banrays
• Ouispy bluetooth scanning and notification tool: https://github.com/colonelpanichacks/oui-spy

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Featured Track:

• TFSR by The Willows Whisper

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This week we had so much fun hosting Carmen and Shelby from the Asheville Tool Library on the People’s Radio Hour! As the name implies, it *is* a place where people can check tools out to use. But it’s also so much more than that! With a seed saving project and community garden underway, an art loft, and ample opportunities for community building and volunteerism, the Asheville Tool Library is offering our community a chance to learn, build, tend, and befriend!

Learn more about the Asheville Tool Library:
https://ashevilletoollibrary.org/​

https://www.instagram.com/ashevilletoollibrary/​

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This week, an interview with Aryanum, a member of the Persian-language anarchist group Anarchism Perspective, based in Iran and Afghanistan. Anarchism Perspective is a synthesist anarchist group based mostly in the region that organizes solidarity and resistance as well as publishing writings at Anarshism.com . For this episode, we speak about the recent uprising in Iran that was met with bloody repression by the regime, with internet blackouts and low-ball estimates of 30,000 dead at government hands from January 8^th and 9^th 2026 alone. Aryanum speaks about the posturing by monarchists supporting the return and enthroning of Reza Pahlavi II, the son of the last Shah, and the weaponization of Islam by the Mullahs of the regime and other topics.

Anarchism Perspective links

• Website: https://anarshism.com
• email: [email protected]
• Anarchism Perspective Telegram: https://t.me/+RRUTo6xyoT468fgO & https://t.me/anarchism_perspective
• Insurrection Library: https://t.me/Insurrection_Library

Other Links

• Critique of Mass Mobilization by Anarchism Perspective: https://www.anarshism.com/critique-mass-mobilization-strategy/
• Aryanum’s past writing on religion as a type of power: https://www.anarshism.com/funeral-theocracy-religious-capital-en/
• Article on labor struggles in the run up to the uprising: https://classautonomy.info/workers-councils-reportedly-forming-in-iran/
• It Could Happen Here interview: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/whats-happening-in-iran-317260060/
• CNN report on mass deaths: https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/10/middleeast/tehran-iran-protests-deaths-arrests-intl
• Basij volunteer milita of IRGC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basij
• Hrana (Kurdish human rights group): https://www.en-hrana.org/category/news/
• https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/decolonize-anarchism-in-praise-of-burning-down-clerical-fascism-in-iran
• https://www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-protesters-dont-owe-us-an
• Thread on mastodon about the usefulness of Delta Chat via locally run servers when the internet (and therefore connection to Signal) was cut off: https://archive.ph/GBR6A
• 70% of Iraniun population suffers from malnutrition: https://ghalamrorefah.ir/id/1959/

Another Farsi Group, Anarchist Front:

• https://t.me/AnarchistFront1
• https://links.anarchist-front.org/
• https://link.kompektiva.org/@anarchistfront
• https://anarchistfront.noblogs.org
• https://t.me/anegofromworldgap
• https://t.me/AnarchistFront

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Featured Track:

• TFSR by The Willows Whisper

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This week – join DJSmittymon  as he welcomes “Elizabeth McCorvey”  to the Positive Vibes’ Early Morning Music Sessions..  a part-time psychotherapist, full-time musician and full-time delight. Elizabeth writes original “Americana/Bluesgrass” music about people and places that didn’t ask for her opinions. 

Elizabeth won the Musicians Organizing Activist Committee (MOAC) Protest Song Writing Contest.  We will be live from the studio talking about the release of new single ** Ain’t Gonna Lay Down**    We will be joined by members of MOAC..   talkin music and more..  Happening this Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 – starts around 9am..   tune in / turn it up!..  enjoy…  smittymon

 

MUSICAL GUEST:  Elizabeth McCorvey

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