"The existential risk to humanity from AI, it's stupid people." - @davidgerard
I have owned a #Librem5 for almost 5 years. Every year it has gotten a little bit better in terms of funtionality. It is now at the level of really quite excellent. Not perfect, but a real, useable, fun, freedom-respecting device. #linuxmobile
153M drivers' licenses collected for ID verification are being sold on the dark web. Fight data collection!
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/
Candidates are winning support by disavowing Big Tech, criticizing AI and promising to stop data center growth, Stephanie Jordan and Mary Armas write.
They point to Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan primary victory.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/big-tech-artificial-intelligence-ai-data-center-protests
(Legal backstory: county GOP leadership has filed a complaint that Irene broke a technicality, & thus needs to be fired.
Irene did not, in fact, do any of that.
The only reason this has worked so far is the NC state board of elections is GOP-dominated. So partisan attacks get a pass there.
So she's bringing the legal battle to court. That will force the local GOP to bring their case into the open & that the accusations are bogus.)
US readers- I've been talking a lot lately about how "Yes, the GOP will try & take your votes. And YES, THEY CAN BE STOPPED"?
There's a great example here in North Carolina right now!
Our area is one of the GOP's testing grounds for new ways to steal votes.
Stop them here, you stop them everywhere. Help us help you!
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It's Bisexual Awareness Week, y'all! ✊🏻☺️ And don't you forget it!
Palestine is the world.
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@manchicken Well stick around we have episodes all the time lmao
You may also like our OH MY WORD, FUCK YOU series, which recently reatured the Michigan Department of Corrections.
“Tobias Lütke, Shopify: when the AI slop is bad enough the AI CEO notices – Pivot to AI”
> But if you listen to the podcast — which I don’t advise, it’s a neutron bomb of inanity — he’s not walking back a thing. This is not a redemption story, it’s a doubling down story.
It's so good to see this in the MIT Tech Review. Let's hope the message gets through. 🤞Big props to @timnitGebru & @emilymbender for putting such a fine point on things!
"Instead of OpenAI being prosecuted for creating malware that hacked another company, press releases, news outlets, media personalities, and lawmakers refer to “rogue models” as if they acted on their own. Instead of researchers being questioned about their companies’ habit of plagiarizing academics’ work or using customer data to train models without consent, the public’s imagination is redirected to fears about what the future might hold upon the arrival of fictional superintelligent machines."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1144867/dont-be-fooled-summer-ai-hype/
@rhelune That's why I look for what I need here first: https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html
The Starlight network is awesome. I've contributed to it also, I added Drop to the list.
Fairphone taking big tech to the woodshed.
https://www.fairphone.com/stories/a-fair-tech-industry-isnt-impossible-it-costs-a-dollar-per-phone
RE: https://expressional.social/@Peter_Link/117313011772209343
how callous do you have to be to deny basic help to the very people you injured?
blogged: I said no and Apple said yes
https://dbushell.com/2026/09/22/apple-intelligence/
just more AI industrial complex bullshit
it's official, Facebook wants you to buy a subscription to post or comment with more than two links in a month
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa