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Weekly Roundup | May 17, 2026

Welcome to all those joining from the Planting Seeds: An Indigenous Zine Fest in Chicago this past weekend. Thanks to your purchases, we were able to send a substantial portion of our proceeds to an unhoused comrade. For those who weren't able to buy, you can see all of our zines in online form here: ecology of liberatory movements, finding your people/intro to radicalism, egoism and cooperation, and ending gender-based violence.

Arriving this week is a new podcast, where Dip and Scooter discuss what organizing against the new wave of "bad internet bills" and other restrictive internet policies might look like. This podcast is available generally wherever you find your podcasts — just search for Chaos and Conviviality.

Continue reading for more, including urgent crowdfund requests, additional resources to dive deeper on this week's topics, and other stories that we missed. That's all for this week!

Some crowdfunds to contribute to

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"The collective understanding of tech is much more shaped by sci-fi and marketing, than by what is actually physically possible or what is actualy happening." - Dip (in this week's podcast)

Marginalia

Resources to dive deeper on the topics of the week.

For more details on the various internet bills going around Congress, please see the Bad Internet Bills page.
In a tangent in the latest podcast, Dip and Scooter discussed what the future of digital technology might look like, and linked a cool resource: the Low Tech Magazine, a solar-powered website detailing many low-tech solutions for the future.
In the podcast, Dip and Scooter discussed the way in which moral panics are used by lawmakers, and those influencing lawmakers, to advance otherwise unpopular policies. In the case of the bad internet bills, concern for the plight of children online is often stated as the primary motivator for such policy – a concern which is hard to take seriously given the protection afforded to those in power with clear patterns of child abuse and sex trafficking (i.e. Epstein Files), while arming and sanctioning the killing of 20,000+ kids in Gaza.