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Corporations are making it harder to repair your devices—locking you out and forcing you to pay for repairs and replacements you don't need.

Join EFF along with Adam Savage and Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit. We'll explore the Right to Repair and answer your questions live! https://eff.org/livestream-repair

When a license plate is captured by an automated license plate reader (ALPR), it’s instantly compared against a list of vehicles that the police are actively looking for, known as a “hotlist.” EFF has learned that one of these hotlists targets immigrants on behalf of ICE. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/are-your-local-police-using-flock-safety-alprs-scan-immigrants

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Still time to implement these for the knockout rounds. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

🚨THE KIDS ACT IS AN INTERNET SURVEILLANCE BILL🚨

Congress is rushing the KIDS Act toward a vote. This blend of KOSA, the SCREEN Act, SAFE Bots, and other bills is a single package that is a threat to privacy and free expression for ALL internet users. 🧵(1/10)

The new version of KOSA says it doesn’t require age verification, but it also obligates sites and apps to take reasonable steps to determine whether a user is a minor or an adult. How will they do it? By collecting more information about age before a lawsuit happens. (4/10)

People, I am begging you, if you have air con in your flat please PUT IT ON YOUR DATING PROFILE.

“How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization • Buttondown”

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/

In the Prairieland case, the government built a terrorism theory around “antifa,” protest tactics, Signal chats and zines.

This week, the defendants were sentenced. FOIA records now raise questions about evidence the defense says was missing from trial.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/prairieland-antifa-trial-protest-repression-fbi

🚨 Important update about my latest #WSocial article 👀

A user on #ATproto cracked the code and came up with a reasonable explanation for the made up number of comments on W Social's homepage.

The number next to the speech bubble (comment icon) are an "engagement metric": the sum of boosts and likes. It all makes sense now!

https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/

(scroll down to the end of the article for the update)

Why the spread of powerful local #AI models makes #copyright enforcement even harder - https://walledculture.org/why-the-spread-of-powerful-local-ai-models-makes-copyright-enforcement-even-harder/ #china #redflaglaw

I do appreciate that all of these creepy-ass companies are giving me the heads-up to submit delete requests.

my favorite thing about the slop era is when you get an LLM booster really mad and they reveal the tasks they’re doing that can’t be accomplished without AI and it’s all really basic text editing they never learned to do properly

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This worst part is not the little mistakes, e.g. the wrong condition written on a form. Doctors make those mistakes too, and even though the LLM makes more of them, they're easily corrected.

The bigger issue is the focus problem. The LLM doesn't know what's important.

I'm currently seeing a doctor for a course of treatment. We check in monthly to see how the treatment is going, tweak my other meds, and talk about any issues that come up.

Because he is a normal human person, he starts every consult by asking me how I am and what's happening in my life. At our last consultation, I mentioned some life stress.

The LLM wrote in my consult notes that I was consulting him for the life stress. It doesn't even mention the condition I'm being treated for. Now that's in my notes, and when the doctor goes to review them (or if another clinic needs to look at them), they'll get completely the wrong idea about the consultation. The very serious medical condition is de-emphasised, and the inconsequential chatter is given pride of place.

I'm basically in the position of having to write my own consult notes for every consultation, and give a list of corrections to the doctor. It's another laborious task that makes medical care inaccessible.

Having a chronic illness brings a thousand small administrative tasks. One of the most frustrating new ones is having to go through every doctor's note, letter, pathology form, and consultation report and correct the little bits of fiction that their LLM note-taking app has added in.

I don't need this extra task! My illness is already a full-time job.

#LLM #fuckAI #chronicillness

another take about the proliferation of ai music meaning that people need to "get out and see shows in real life" and these always upset me as an immunocompromised person

you can find non ai music online still. there are still lots of people doing it. try being more mindful about your listening and not listening to the spotify playlists that they fill with slop

support people on bandcamp and mirlo and bandwagon and subvert

check out live streamed music which is still happening for real. i know a place where you can check out hundreds of hours of modular synths

stop separating "real life" from "online" as if they are mutually exclusive, and make people like me feel like shit and like nothing they do counts. Every time i play a show i have to take a risk because nobody masks and they don't clean the air and a lot of my friends can't come and that fucking sucks

Shows are great. But not everyone can make it to shows. Not everyone lives somewhere there are shows. Not everyone is physically able to attend shows. Some people are high risk and have to take a risk every time.

This is a Yes, And situation. Be more mindful about music if you want to hear stuff that people made.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@businessinsider/tech-km6gng0uz/-/a-BALGlI31RUqTufKtvSdxdA%3Aa%3A48159484-%2F0

The word is #dystopian, not "darwinian".

"We're in a dystopian moment where employees have to prove their enforced deskilling" - fixed it for you, silicon valley scum.

and calling it "skills" to add insult to injury.

The monsters pushing this on people must be brought to justice after the bubble implodes.

SCOOP: #WSocial is doctoring metrics on its homepage, inflating the number of comments on posts by prominent people on its network.

I suppose a more accurate tagline for them should be "Trust your feed?"

My article about it: "W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data"

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/

#blog #BigTech #EUBigTech #TEP #TrustedEuropeanPlatforms

So, about all those AI datacenters that we are supposed to need...

Mon, 22 Jun 2026
Due to unprecedented and historically high temperatures in the region, it has become impossible to maintain the environmental conditions required for the safe operation of equipment hosted at the facility.

(Cogent datacenter in France)

https://www.mail-archive.com/frnog@frnog.org/msg80526.html