If you’re using Slack to organize, here’s a fun and easy way to make Slackbot deliver random articles of impeachment for Donald J. Trump. Depending on your team’s Slack setup, you might need administrative permissions to do this, but by default anyone can make a Slackbot response. Step One: Click the dropdown next to your team name, …
Category Archives: Technology
One simple Twitter trick to help our vision-impaired friends
People with vision impairment sometimes use screen-reading software to help them navigate the web. The software dictates audio based upon what’s on the screen. This works best when the information is text-based, and when it’s organized well. Unfortunately, not all webpages fit this description. Images, especially, are hard to parse with a screen reader. It’s long …
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Effective Facebook Use for Indivisible Groups
This informative guide to the ins and outs of Facebook was put together by an Indivisible working group last year: How to Use Facebook Effectively. 94% of Indivisible groups were using Facebook as of April 2017 and that makes sense—68% of Americans adults are on Facebook and 58% use it daily. Facebook is an effective …
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Introducing IT: Indivisible Technology
Introducing a new effort: Indivisible Technology Austin, the IT group that can help you #resist. If you hate the Trumpist agenda but love technology, we’d love to have your help. We’ll have regular working meetings for whoever can join – the first will be on Thursday, Oct. 5. We also plan to have a Challenge …
Five Easy Ways to Increase Your Digital Safety & Security TODAY
In a previous blog post, I created a list of a dozen or so things anyone could do to increase their online/digital security. It’s time to revisit this topic, but this time with a bit more focus. A dozen security tasks seems like a lot, doesn’t it? Well, don’t worry, you can massively increase your …
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Increase Security Awareness: Honeypots
We live in interesting, complex times – and a lot of it is due to the internet. Its power and reach is immense. We use it to organize, to get our message out, and to build movements. But there are plenty of bad actors out there who want to use the internet’s power against us. …
#Resist Meetups and Other Groups
Update: We heard from Meetup.com: they set up all of these groups. Part of their statement: “#Resist is an extension of the Meetup platform designed to help members easily find and host Meetup events with a civic engagement focus.” We weren’t alone in our concerns that 1,000 groups springing up overnight was a Honeypot attempt …
How to Customize Signal to Be More Like Slack (and vice-versa)
We posted recently about our concerns with using Slack for team communications. Here’s the thing: A lot of us love Slack. It is life-changing software that makes team collaboration roughly 1.3 gazillion times easier. And if you’re a geek, the API integrations are heavenly. Slack is great…for work or to organize a neighborhood barbecue. Slack (and …
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Why Slack Isn’t Such a Good Idea
Disclaimer: I can’t tell you what to do. I am not dictating a policy here, nor do I have the means to enforce one. This is a discussion of basic security concepts as they apply to Indivisible teams & data and how Slack measures up. It also includes some mitigations to take if you do decide to use Slack. …
Using Signal to Communicate Securely
You want to contribute to defeating the Trump agenda, but you don’t know where to start. At the same time, you’re a bit nervous about doing anything in public because, well, let’s face it, Trump seems hell-bent on establishing himself as an autocrat. And we all know how autocrats respond to dissent! So how does …