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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 1d

If anything, we should be even louder in our resistance, because this is when imperialism becomes operationalized. We keep going. End the siege, end the occupation. Free free Palestine.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 1d

Ceasefires, to Empire, are often tactical moves to shift gears to another stage of colonization. This is what is happening in Gaza right now.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 1d

Settler colonizer Israel is still
actively attacking, occupying, invading, and targeting Palestinians.

Korea has been under a U.S.-imposed ceasefire for 70 years, and we have been occupied every day since, still.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 1d

This includes unlearning individualism and embracing interdependence. It means bending genders, honoring sacred cultural values, and learning to be closer to the land while also letting go of trying to own land.

Decolonize, Indigenize.
Land, body, and mind.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 1d

Our fight is to make Indigenous People’s Day every single day.
For this to happen, we must end settler colonialism entirely.

This means toppling Empire, LandBack, and also, defeating the internal colonizer in our minds.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 2d

This is a great opportunity to practice using cash. Try buying a few physical OMNY cards with cash and alternate using them. The system makes using cash difficult, so build a practice with one small cash purchase at a time.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 2d

The NYC MTA is transitioning to OMNY tap-and-pay cards, rendering swipe cards obsolete by June 2026.

OMNY is notorious for tracking riders through our devices, digital wallets, and credit card top-ups, and the MTA is besties with the NYPD. MTA Surveillance is a given.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 2d

It is not that modern humans are higher, superior, or more evolved than any other entity, it is that human individualism had the gall and greed to separate us from everything that brings life.

Indigenous sovereignty is the only way back, and also the only way forward.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 2d

I believe one of our highest purposes as individuals, is to let go of our role as individuals. This does not mean we lose ourselves, it means we come together as our selves.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 2d

May Indigenous people everywhere, Palestine, Hawai’i, Turtle Island, “Japan,” Puerto Rico, Aotearoa, the Amazon, “Australia,” Korea, across every continent, land, air, and water be free.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 5d

In addition to being an assaulter, for a multitude of other reasons such as breach of privacy, land and life impacts, surveillance, digital security, and harm to community, don’t do it.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 5d

Using someone’s digital likeness, their identity, without their consent, for any reason, whether for financial gain, extortion, or even entertainment, could essentially be considered assault.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 5d

If you make a deepfake of someone without their consent, you are committing a nonconsensual violation.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 6d

Let us recall what Palestinians have been demanding:

Ceasefire AND,
End the siege.
End the occupation.
A free Palestine.

We do not stop until Palestine is free.
We do not stop until everyone is free.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 6d

May Palestinians have a moment to breathe, gather, mourn, rest, and live.

A reminder for the rest of us. Korea has been under ceasefire for 70 years, technically still at war, and still occupied by the U.S. Empire.
We are not yet free. I wish more for Korea.

I wish more for Palestine, too.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 11d

This is a privacy and security nightmare. Everything about Empire’s OpenAI from beginning to end is death. Death of privacy, consent, and community.
No one needs OpenAI. Ever.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 11d

I currently recommend against uploading your biometrics to OpenAI’s new social feed app, Sora.

Sora’s Cameo option has the user upload their own biometrics to create voice/video Deepfakes of themselves. The user can also set their preferences to allow others to create Deepfakes of each other, too.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 13d

Beyond the flotilla of ships, we must be flotillas of pressure and protest in the streets and our communities, continuously. We must also be flotillas wherever we are all the time until Palestine is free.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 13d

As we send protection over each of the flotilla’s warriors, remember that while the flotilla is a sheer physical force in numbers, it is an even larger symbol for everyone to be in solidarity in every other way, too.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 13d

Several ships in the historic Global Sumud Flotilla of 50+ vessels have been and are being attacked and intercepted by “Israel.”

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 16d

Assata Shakur

"It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains."

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 18d

Long before this deal, I recommended that users audit their TikTok use. Oracle had already started hosting U.S. TT user data on its servers a while back.

I do not doubt that the platform will be further farmed for user data without consideration or consent.
Always learn more at liberationtoolbox.io

Liberation Toolbox by YK Hong

Liberatory Strategy + Tech Justice for our expansive world

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 18d

Again, I recommend moving away from and being mindful of using of TikTok.

Oracle, one of the most privacy-violating, pro-surveillance, genocide-supporting, pro-policing corporations to exist, is taking over co-ownership of TikTok.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 21d

While some boycotts can be about accountability, these boycotts now can end Empire if we are dedicated.

Don’t stop boycotting.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 21d

A reminder, when enough of us boycott, it works, and can work quickly even. It is a spectacular example of the power of organizing.

Yes, we can bring corporations to their ruin when we act together.

Also, there is no need stop boycotting when the corporations are rotten at the core.

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