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The Power of Community

 The room is silent, except for the sound of a single voice. A group of 12 people sit in a circle, listening intently as Nita recounts the moment she found out her parents had been killed and the profound effect it had on her life. She speaks without interruption for 45 minutes, and the silence is so deep you could hear a pin drop. Many in the room have tears in their eyes. Although this is…
Popcorn
After the relatively huge response to my last AI post about the conflict at CCC Hamburg , I asked an AI: 
 
 “When someone reacts to conflicts by calling for ‘popcorn’ or (metaphorically) eating it, like in a movie theater, and makes that known to the people involved in the conflict, what group-dynamic function does such a person take on?” 

The Conspiracy of Silence

 Because the conspiracy of silence most often follows the trauma, it is the most prevalent and effective mechanism for the transmission of trauma on all dimensions. Both intrapsychically and interpersonally protective, silence is profoundly destructive, for it attests to the person’s, family’s, society’s, community’s, nation’s and international community’s inability to integrate (and…
CCC Hamburg
A conflict at the Chaos Computer Club Hamburg involving a “90% ban” is being discussed on Mastodon right now. I ran it through Perplexity AI as an experiment to see what it would come up with, and I’m sharing the output here unchanged and otherwise without comment. An invitation to empathy. 
 
 analyze the conflict and map out the different positions of the actors within…
Social Invisibility

 While many people know what bullying is, we talk far too little about a quieter but just as effective form of social violence: ostracism, the deliberate act of making someone socially invisible. Instead of obvious insults or yelling: no invitation, no eye contact, no reply, no feedback. 

39c3
joepie91 : 
 
 I really do not enjoy the response to what happened being a lot of vague posts combined with people looking for someone or something to immediately and decisively blame (within Chaos circles or otherwise), instead of taking a moment to emotionally support each other and then working out what exactly went wrong and how it can be prevented going forward. 
 And yes, I…
A Mortality Salience Cue

 “It has been suggested that when one is excluded from a group, it is a mortality salience cue. This may be because it provides an insight into how the world would be (with regards to the group) if the individual were non-existent.” 
 
 
 “Humans are a social species that desire to be part of a group, to the extent that an individual’s well-being depends on…
Event Ban
In March 2025, the CCC arbitration board decided retroactively that the (external!) delivery of my workshops counted as an unauthorized “indirect attempt to approach” my ex-fiancée, and issued an event ban until the end of 2026. They said I was “unable to make agreements.” 
 I filed an appeal, explaining that I had no way of knowing she’d even attend the event, and that nothing in my workshops…
To talk about violence is forbidden at the Chaos Computer Club.
I have deliberately chosen a provocative title here to draw attention to an unfortunate dynamic that comes with dealing with the topic of interpersonal violence. I want to stimulate reflection and invite people to talk, even if and precisely because the topic is so uncomfortable. 
 Since 2018, I have been working more intensively and more explicitly on the emergence and persistence of violence…
Please keep criticism objective vs. the right to be pissed off

 Instead of just trusting someone who’s done exactly this kind of thing a hundred times before — and who’s also, provably, among the top experts in the field — people demand that criticism be expressed “objectively,” “through the proper channels,” “without emotion,” and that I please stop disturbing the peace of the community.
Apparently, that’s even to protect my own standing in said…
Metalab #2: Social Arson?
overflo: TL;DR: Good luck, metalab. Do better. I’m out. (ÖGS: Austrian Sign Language) 
 
 “We used to be an anarcho-underground place where LOTS of opinions clashed — people actually talked to each other and broadened their horizons that way. 
 There were also opinions that, today, would simply never be heard — partly because you passed this farce of a house rule / Code of…
Ubuntu: The Indigenous Ethos of Restorative Justice

 In Western culture, we are socialized to believe that the desire to inflict counterviolence upon or retaliate against someone who has hurt us or a loved one is innate and that justice has always been done and will always be done in this way. In fact, far from universal or natural, this adversarial vision of justice is a relatively recent cultural and historical construction, arising around…
The SIX C Model

 From our point of view, ideally, just as every lay person should know how to provide basic physical emergency first aid in order to help those who are physically injured and prevent further harm before emergency teams arrive to the scene, the same should exist for Psychological First Aid. There should be a common knowledge base throughout all community levels concerning brief interventions…
Entropia

 
 There is a difference between : 
 
 not liking someone 
 behavior which justifies kicking someone out of some space in a documented and transparent process 
 making rumors and causing gossip about someone ending up in completely abstruse stories ruining someone’s life 
 
 Choose wisely. 
 And yes, sadly Chaos bubble tends to choose the last of the…
The Scene Is the Nail in the Coffin

 “So that’s how humanity’s biggest conflicts get solved now: between two noses. It’s all perfectly clear: if you’re not with me, you’re against me. And because no one just has a political opinion anymore but is a political opinion, any disagreement feels like a personal attack.” 
 
 
 “And that’s how you get welcomed into what they call club culture. The place where people boycott…
Re: how to social spaces?
In response to a mailing list question: 
 
 dear Chaos,
can anyone here share some knowledge or resources on how to build sustainable social circles? 
 
 I’ve had some really good experiences with local NVC practice groups 1 and IoPT groups 2 . You learn techniques and get opportunities to practice — a lot of it you can directly bring into hackerspaces and apply or offer there…
Authoritarian Notions and Hackspaces

 Ask yourself as an inhabitant of a hackerspace: how are conflicts solved in the community? 
 If the answer is, that it’s a normal thing, that you deal with small conflicts, middle sized conflicts and big conflicts in a more relaxed way, that in one moment people scream at each other, say things which are abrassive during the conflict, but then a mode of peaceful co-existence can be found…
Professional Trouble

 
 @gamambel I’m wondering – do you get into trouble professionally for allowing yourself to express your opinions publicly? For example, writing about violence in the CCC environment? 
 
 Oh yes, and quite significantly. I did it knowing that this could happen, and from a privileged position; but the intensity and variety still surprised and affected me. I lost almost…
Toxic Relationships and Violence in Communities - Meetup at 38c3

 Like last year, there will be another (structured and moderated) opportunity at the 38th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg to discuss interpersonal violence, toxic relationship patterns, their backgrounds and dynamics, and in particular how to deal with toxic relationships as communities . There will also be a range of literature on the topic on display. 
 It’s also a chance…
Toxic Relationships and Violence in Communities - Metalab

 “The silent treatment is a form of social ostracization and a common tool used during conflict within many relationship types to inflict pain . It involves refusing to communicate with someone who is willing to communicate.” ( PsychCentral ) 
 “The silent treatment may be effective in satisfying the inflictor’s aggression, but it is an intensely cruel and…
Toxic Relationships and Narcissistic Abuse Meetup at 37c3
At this meeting at the 37th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg , we will collectively explore healing of toxic relationships and narcissistic abuse. We will share experiences, insights, and coping strategies to liberate ourselves from the chains of unhealthy connections, and discuss how we can support others who may still feel trapped in such situations. 
 The objective of this gathering…
Toxic Relationships in Community

 “What brings us together is not what we already know, but what we still want to learn. This exchange of knowledge is only possible if we approach each other with an open mind and with an attitude of mutual respect and support.
We want to create an environment characterised by tolerance, respect, curiosity, fun, openness to communicate, friendliness and…
On Living in a Traumatized Society: Narcissism, Toxic Relationships, and Other Forms of Violence.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 The lecture, “On Living in a Traumatized Society,” will cover the current state of research on physical, psychological and emotional violence, and its links to traumatic experiences in childhood. 
 
 A central aspect of the presentation is the role of childhood experiences in the development of violence.…
My Goal is Nonviolence.

 “Communicating non-violently means not only refraining from physical violence and obvious forms of verbal violence, such as threatening someone or calling them names. Accusations, judgments, interpretations , evaluations, analyses , manipulations, advice , praise , etc. are also subtle forms of violence and block real encounters unnoticed.” 
 
 I cannot undo the past. I…
Experiences of violence in hackerspaces
(Originally a post on a CCC mailing list) 
 Hey Chaos, 
 (Please reply off-list and personally if possible. I don’t want to discuss this here — that won’t lead anywhere.) 
 Obvious violence is everywhere. But in hackerspaces, it usually takes a more intellectual, sneaky form—verbal 1 and emotional abuse 2 . 
 As a co-founder of a hackerspace and someone who’s been deeply involved…
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 Mail: moritz@ thisdomain 
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 “Aversion to conflict is aversion to relationship. On a social level we don’t simply live with those…
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