Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Spot the signs and save a planet. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

"Hi, we are Green Halcones, a social cooperative owned by formerly incarcerated individuals based in Los Angeles, California. We are working to make neighborhoods beautiful, grow healthy food, and protect the environment for future generations."

https://geo.coop/articles/introducing-green-halcones

@_elena

>Wondering if the fediverse - and Mastodon in particular - is undergoing a major spam / bot signup wave at the moment

Yes, broadly and consistently.

> I wonder if #agenticAI has anything to do with the uptick in suspicious, bot-like accounts

Yes, broadly and consistently.

It is overwhelming some servers and some moderators, and many more are just tired of dealing with it.

IFTAS needs to hear from admins and moderators in the annual survey:

https://tally.so/r/81MW6k

Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

“They are not prepared to change their society to come to terms with reality. And so they go down with the ship.”

Dr. Richard D. Wolff on Europe’s economic decline, rising militarism and the war in Ukraine.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/europe-economic-collapse-ukraine-war

Get 20% off this new title with code JULY here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1948

Really, being non-neurotypical is a blessing. Also a curse, but it all evens out by old white men's brains exploding over us not giving a fuck about hierarchy 😬

Hey, I'm going to give this a try. #Fedihire

I have written tons of blogs, whitepapers, books, and ad copy for tech companies about cybersecurity and general enterprise IT. See my portfolio: https://kimcrawley.com

I used to make a comfortably liveable income. But since the Gen AI menace, my livelihood has been destroyed and I can't pay my rent. I'm now writing Kickstarter funded self published books to survive.

I could really use proper writing gigs, though.

Some of the bestselling cybersecurity books, such as The Pentester Blueprint, were partly or completely written by me.

Please email kim.crawley at stopgenai dot com, or message me on Signal via crowgirl.84

Because this zombie question refuses to die (and in fact someone asked me about developing an on-chain Lifehouse federation just the other day): as of mid-2026, so far as I am able to determine, there remain *zero* implementations of a DAO that (a) achieve ends that might generally be recognized as progressive, (b) which could not be achieved by other, entirely conventional means.

As is so often the case, the problems technically-inclined people are motivated to address are those which are congenial to their skills and predilections, not the ones which are salient. If you want to organize, I’m sorry: it still involves having to deal with other people, and will for the foreseeable future.

Gotta love the Onion - even when the humor has real bite.

anyway even if 100% of computer programmers *were* using AI, that wouldn't mean that AI is good or effective or worthwhile. could just mean that 100% of computer programmers are reckless shitheads

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116885989584245586

For me, there are four major reasons to oppose AI (with my note the other day about both disaggregating and aggregating in mind):

1. AI products are founded on eugenicist philosophy and primarily benefit fascists.
2. AI products are created by exploiting labor and are designed to continue undermining labor rights.
3. AI products carry unconscionable environmental costs.
4. AI products introduce unconscionable risk of new defects.

Only one of those is even indirectly about quality.

A good #sysadmin article on how to tell if AI scrapers are eating your bandwidth.

https://bunny.net/blog/how-to-tell-if-scrapers-are-eating-your-bandwidth/

Every federal prosecutor who's involved in cases like this -- blatant abuse of the legal system to punish people who've done nothing wrong except annoy the regime -- should end up disbarred. Losing these bogus cases isn't nearly enough to punish such flagrant misconduct.

https://newrepublic.com/post/212886/doj-pirro-loses-first-ask-reflecting-pool-vandalism-case-david-hearn?utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Threads

"Worried about Flock cameras? All new cars in the EU now need to have a camera aimed at the driver's face in the latest privacy nightmare"

"Every new car sold in the EU must now include a driver-monitoring camera, sparking latest data privacy row"

https://www.techradar.com/vehicle-tech/hybrid-electric-vehicles/worried-about-flock-cameras-all-new-cars-in-the-eu-now-need-to-have-a-camera-aimed-at-the-drivers-face-in-the-latest-privacy-nightmare

#Privacy

I'd love to get into home solar and batteries, but I rent, so we can't modify the breaker box, roof, etc.

Our heat is a gas furnace with hardwired power, which means when the power goes out we also lose heat. (It might even be against code for the furnace to plug in! Not sure. This is MA, USA.)

Is it possible to set up a solar/battery combo to weather a heat or cold emergency in this situation?

(more details in thread)

The House passed the KIDS Act, but the fight isn’t over. The Senate can still reject this package of internet bills that will harm our privacy and free expression. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/house-passed-kids-act-senate-should-reject-it

RE: https://social.coop/@coopcloud/116812106394313102

Kite-flying again, today, in ~52 minutes 🤙

— 3wordchant

Across the U.S., cities are being told the answer to crumbling, overcrowded jails is to build more cages. Organizers have a different answer.

Join us on July 15th for a panel on how communities are fighting jail and prison expansion, and winning. https://bit.ly/howtostopajail

Die "Deutsche Stiftung für Engagement und Ehrenamt" marschiert dann mal konsequent 2026 in die falsche Richtung. Ich musste das drei mal lesen 🤦🤦🤦.

Absolut nicht DUTgemacht. Bitte überlegt euch das noch mal.

#BigBlueButton