Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

'I Would Never Do This To You:' Protesting Flock, Arizona Man Presents Plan to Surveil Government Officials
https://www.404media.co/casa-grande-arizona-flock-city-council/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Bars should stop using ID scanners that share information, return to standard ID checks, and prove to their customers that their privacy and security still matters. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/why-are-gay-bars-building-databases-their-patrons

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Look folks the genie is out of the bottle. The genie went from $20/mo to $200/mo. The genie is spending $8 for every dollar it makes. The genie is reactivating every coal power plant it can. The genie needs 60% of your town's water. The genie is hiding $1.65 trillion in debt. But it's out of the bottle! The genie is out of the bottle folks.

Venture Capitalists and anybody with some disposable income, please send some of that fake money that doesn't do anything my way. I promise not to contribute anything of substance to society with it. https://www.patreon.com/BrianMcFadden/posts/silicon-schlock-164717189

@UlrikNyman

Many reasons. Honestly the main reason for me lately is that it makes coding a miserable experience. Gambling, waiting, retrying. Then reviewing garbage and fixing things and updating agents.md, but the LLM ignores a lot of the that. Then more reviewing large PRs from peers that they didn't review well and so they are full of bugs that look good and need extra scrutiny to find. After correcting them, no one learns anything unlike the mentoring in traditional reviews.

please, please do this. https://killthecookiebanner.eu/

“Poor genie keeps trying to crawl back into the bottle. Everybody hates him.”

@yoasif @GrapheneOS @log Its use would not be to keep HIM out of jail, it would be to keep the data on the phone from getting anyone ELSE arrested.

In social resistance movements and in guerilla movements (Stop Cop City contained both), being willing to take one for the team comes with the territory

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116994661553101555

Wikipedia depends on collective action and cooperation to exist, and they talk about fairness, but somehow they think those ideas aren't good enough for their own organization?

It's a shame that they're drawing this out. The foundation would be better off without the cost of fighting a union drive, and they'd only be living their publicly-stated values by voluntarily recognizing their workers.

“You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen.” - William Goldman, The Princess Bride

Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want
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RE: https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/116994647085023405

Some delightful government corruption over here.

Today is announcement day 🔥

Bonfire is shifting its centre of gravity: from social features to community tools. Four things ship today, and the whole story is here: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...

1. Bonfire for communities
Groups and topics, community rules, decision-making (from quick polls through structured consensus to weighted score voting, where an objection can count for more than an approval), events, shared organisation profiles, announcements.

A ready-to-use space you can then take apart: add what's missing, fork what almost fits, switch off what you don't need.

2. Our first Mosaic case study
Six months with Jacobin's German edition, building jacobin.social from the ground up: a home for 3,000+ readers, wired into their Ghost publication, in their language and their look and feel. Their readers crowdfunded the project, which included a reboot of the magazine and a new community space. Now every publisher can benefit. What one community funds, every community inherits. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...

3. A deep Ghost integration
Keep publishing exactly as you do now, and Bonfire can become the home for everything that happens around the work: your archive imported, new articles followed, members and tiers synced, sign-in through Ghost, federated discussion under every piece. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/ghost/

4. The Telling
One script tag turns any web page into a federated conversation. Readers reply with an account they already have, on Bonfire, Mastodon, anywhere. The thread lives on your server, and you can take it with you. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/telling/

Being straight with you: this is a 1.0 beta. Groups work within a server and don't federate yet. We're designing that in the open with the W3C groups task force, because we'd rather it work across the whole fediverse than ship a dialect only Bonfire speaks.

Want to poke at it? Groups are live on the campground, our open test instance. Make an account and try it out: campground.bonfire.cafe

Finally, we've rebuilt the website to reflect the new direction: bonfirenetworks.org/

Now back to following up with crowdfunding backers to organise install parties, co-design workshops, and other rewards. Thank you for your patience 💛 #fediverse #ActivityPub

I can’t emphasize this enough though: if your company’s name is listed proudly alongside Palantir, you’re fine with being listed alongside a company whose money is in selling an awful fucking product that’s used to target people for death

and that’s because you’re also that type of company and would like to advertise that fact

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/116992357509562695

Torvalds and Thiel
Sitting in a tree

#noAI #AI #LLM #LLMs #technofascism #vibeCoding #agenticAI #security

NYC is moving ahead with city-run grocery stores, with Mayor Mamdani announcing today that a core basket of staples will be priced 30% below typical retail prices.

Back in December, J. Patrick Patterson looked at the idea—and where it’s already been tried.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/municipal-owned-grocery-store-food-desert-rural-chicago-kansas-city-detroit-market-vendors-public-community-care

. . . The literary agent model has never been challenged in court, but I find it hard to believe that what the agent does (negotiate a contract, represent a third party, and explain contract terms to a third party) would not be considered illegal.

Finally, one more.

Publishers generally send the entire royalty check to the agent. The agent deposits the money, and then sends the author's share to the author.

Lawyers do the same but the industry is highly regulated.

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. . . because the only thing they have to offer new authors is access to the publisher.

Conclusion for this issue: The agent is an out-sourced slush reader, so there is a conflict of interest.

Here is the definition of conflict of interest in relation to laws governing lawyers: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibility/publications/model_rules_of_professional_conduct/rule_1_7_conflict_of_interest_current_clients/comment_on_rule_1_7/

(2) second issue. Agents negotiate contracts but they are not trained in contract law.

This is called unauthorized practice of law . . .

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