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Liaizon Wakest on Autonomous Social Media and the Fediverse

This week, we spoke with Liaizon Wakest. Liaizon grew up in an anarchist commune in rural America. They can be found climbing into dumpsters from Mexico to Kazakhstan looking for trash to make art with. In recent years they have been focused on research into ethical technology and infrastructural anarchism. For the hour we speak about the interoperable, open source ensemble of federated online publishing servers and platforms known as the Fediverse and its most popular component, Mastodon. This conversation takes place in the context of media hullabaloo about Elon Musk seeking to purchase Twitter, the paradigm in which a rich egomaniac can own the addictive social media platforms over which so much social and political life is engaged and what positives we can draw from alternatives like Mastodon and the Fediverse.

This episode can be heard at TheFinalStrawRadio.NoBlogs.Org

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You can find Liaizon’s account on Mastodon (an analog of twitter) at @[email protected] or on Pixelfed (an analog of Instagram) at @[email protected]. And you can follow us on Mastodon by finding @[email protected] or by visiting https://chaos.social/@TheFinalStrawRadio in a web browser.

Another interesting anarchist media project engaging the Fediverse is Kolektiva, which has a PeerTube instance at https://Kolektiva.Media (analog of youtube) and Mastodon at https://Kolektiva.Social where they’re welcoming new users. Kolektiva includes participation from projects like Sub.Media and AntiMidia

You can find a real good interview by our comrades at From Embers about Mastodon which I mention in the interview from February 3^rd, 2022 entitled Social Networks, Online Life and The Fediverse: https://fromembers.libsyn.com/social-networks-online-life-and-the-fediverse

Announcement

Eric King Arrives at USP Lee: call-in continues

As a quick update on the situation of Eric King, he has been transferred this week from USP Atlanta to USP Lee where he and his supporters are concerned he’ll be placed into solitary and isolated for attack. You can find info on his situation as well as who to contact to press for his return to a medium security facility to match his current security points, visit SupportEricKing.Org and find the May 3^rd, 2022 post whose title starts “Eric Transferred”

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• Beauty, Power, Motion, Life, Work, Chaos, Law by DJ Shadow from Our Pathetic Age

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Closer to the Edge presents a Cinco de Mayo special on Thursday to celebrate Mexican/American culture and music. JD will spin all Prog bands and artists from Mexico, with selections from recent albums, in appreciation of Asheville’s vibrant Hispanic/Chicano/Latinx community! Tune in at 2 PM on May 5th until 4PM, and if you miss it live, the entire show will be archived, for on demand playback, right after airing. Contemporary Progressive Rock from Mexico, only on 103.3 FM and Asheville FM on your desktop, phone and all your computer devices. Be sure to check out the NEW Asheville FM App! Felices fiestas!!!

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Prisoner Solidarity, COVID, and Carcerality with IWOC

This week we are pleased to present an interview that Bursts did with two members of IWOC (the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee), Caroline works with Millions for Prisoners New Mexico (@iwocnm and @millionsforprisonersnm on the Fedbook), Incarceratedworkers.org and Xeno is with IWOC Sacramento (@sacramento_iwoc on Instagram).

 

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For the little-over-an-hour they speak on what it’s like to be working with incarcerated folks during the coronavirus pandemic, how prisons and the carceral mentality impacts everyone to varying degrees, the varying conditions in the prisons they are most tangential to, ways to connect with and support IWOC and many other topics!

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Eric King Call-In Continues

Anarchist, antifascist and vegan prisoner Eric King who you heard from in our April 3rd, 2022 episode has been sitting at the federal prison in Atlanta since his transfer from Grady County Jail. Our comrade shouldn’t be behind bars, especially after all he’s faced at the hands of federal prison staff, but he’s stable for the time being but the fear remains that the Bureau of Prisons is trying to wait out Eric’s supporters so we’ll drop vigilance and he can be quietly shipped off to the high security facility, USP Lee where he could be isolated in a Secure Housing Unit and be in danger of further attacks. Eric’s support team suggests that folks check out the latest post at SupportEricKing.Org to find contacts for people and continue to press officials to not move Eric to a facility above his medium security classification.

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This is just a quick reminder that you can find a printable zine of that chat and many, many more at tfsr.wtf/zines, alongside transcripts and unimposed pdfs for easy printing of all of our interviews dating back to at least January 2021. If you write a prisoner or run a zine distro or literature to prisoners project, check out the collection for new material. And if you can read and write in another language and want to translate any of the texts, you are welcome to with no permission needed, but please send us a copy and we’ll promote it as well. If you care to support our transcription process you can make a one-time or recurring donation or merchandise purchase, more information at tfsr.wtf/support

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• Kadi – Audio K off the Free Music Archive

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This week on Radio Active Kids, we’ll interview Kelli Welli! Her new album Robots Don’t Tell Jokes is great fun! Also, new tunes by Kira Willey, Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band, Steve Elci and Friends, Father Goose Music, Jaqualyn Taimana, The Gum Drops, Ants Ants Ants, Die Rollenden Steinchen, Strawbitty Yops, & Percy and the Prefects/Sonorus Studio on a comp by Totally Knuts! Plus, older songs by Dan + Claudia Zanes, Baron Von Rumblebuss, Banana Slug String Band, Ana Iniesta y la Banda de la Luna, Tricked Out Tricycle, & Diana reds and family for children! 8-10am ET Saturday at ashevillefm.org/show/radio-active-kids or tun.in/pjiei & podcasting at mixcloud.com/Radio_Active_Kids!

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 Celebrating Prince Rogers Nelson
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