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Unwary users might be risking their privacy by using OpenAI’s new web browser, ChatGPT Atlas, EFF’s Victoria Noble told ABC News Live. https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/privacy-concerns-new-open-ai-web-browser-126779458

This week's comic now up on Boing Boing
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The Smythe family of Chagrin Falls, USA, gets the trump dumped on them
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https://boingboing.net/2025/10/23/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-president-trumps-all-over-chagrin-falls-usa.html

https://kolektiva.media/w/2dt53X5esM6CrBor6vKUbu

This Day in Anarchist History, October 23rd 1956 we remember the Hungarian Revolution when student protesters and the broader Hungarian working classes took on the Secret Police and the Red Army.

After days of striking and rioting that boiled into a firefight, protesters were able to defeat the country’s Secret Police and even negotiated the withdrawal of the Red Army from Hungary… for a time, that is.

Impromptu proletarian militias wasted no time looting factories to arm themselves. Unfortunately time was in too short supply as the Red Army tanks were sent back just days later, this time with orders to brutally crush the revolt. 3,000 Hungarians were killed, about 20,000 were imprisoned and hundreds of thousands more fled. There was very little dissent from Hungary for the rest of the USSR’s existence.

Zuckerberg keeps trying to "innovate" some garbage thing no one wants when he should stick to buying things people are addicted to instead. Zuckohol, Zuckbets, Zuckanyl, etc.

Excessive government secrecy literally makes you sick.

Great FOIA reporting from ProPublica.

https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-hides-drug-names-contaminated-factories

If you are in #SantaClaraCounty #sfba #California, you can report ICE activity to Amigos de Guadalupe Center for Justice & Empowerment, by calling 408-290-1144.

More of these zines can be downloaded from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1R3l0A9ZHspfPH1OoLi6VjQB1dg1e1mw7 courtesy of Megan
Piontkowski.

#ICE

Wish there was a way for leafblowers to explode so that they only injure the person who hired them.

This week's comic now up on Daily Kos
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The president trumps all over the Smythe family of Chagrin Falls, USA. 👑💩
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/23/2349852/-Cartoon-Tom-the-Dancing-Bug-s-Smythe-family-of-Chagrin-Falls-USA-get-Trumped-on-by-the-president

Matthias has been hard at work implementing a way to render SVG icons with animations in GTK4: https://blogs.gnome.org/gtk/2025/10/23/svg-in-gtk/

#svg #gtk #gtk4

The #Chromebook model is google-damu (google-kukui), with the MT8183 #Mediatek SoC.

The speed is actually kind of embarassing, look at that user time. 33min vs 99min! But what else to expect from in-order cores?

Hey you, reader! Do you have an #ARM Chromebook? Could you benchmark it, too?

git clone https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/
cd bevy
git checkout 3dd5d7037
cargo fetch
time cargo build --example bevymark

If you send me the results, I'll publish them on my blog!

#benchmarking #linux #mainline

Does anyone know why my #RAM is running at half speed?

# inxi -m
Memory:
System RAM: total: 16 GiB available: 14.56 GiB used: 1.55 GiB (10.6%)
Array-1: capacity: 32 GiB slots: 2 modules: 2 EC: None
Device-1: Channel-A DIMM 0 type: DDR4 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 2666 MT/s
actual: 1333 MT/s
Device-2: Channel-B DIMM 0 type: DDR4 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 2666 MT/s
actual: 1333 MT/s

The system is a #Ryzen 2400GE.

#amd #hardware #x86 #computers

Good news everyone! I have risen from the dead to continue spouting my brand of foul blasphemies!

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-out-of-data-hell/

Good morning Fedi friends!

I'm writing a guide about how to install the #YunoHost self-hosting system... from the POV of a newbie.

I did so last December and it was the most empowering thing. I'm now the admin of my own GoToSocial, Pixelfed, PeerTube and NextCloud instances.

I'd love your input: which app should I feature / install in my guide?

#SelfHosting #DigitalSovereignty #AskFedi

Hah - interesting that this was considered newsworthy: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/576752/picton-man-uses-electric-car-to-cook-hot-breakfast-amid-power-outages during the ongoing windstorm that's knocked out power to many folks. He's got almost the same car model we do (same colour, different battery).

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content

Not at all shocking. We all know about fake news. But what about fake news that isn't made for human consumption, but rather for digestion solely by LLMs, and designed to influence how they represent the news to others? Newsguard had a report about just such a Russia-based network earlier this year.

https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global

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The Bottom Line

The New York Times gave us half the story:

✅ Unprecedented bailout
✅ Expert warnings it's reckless
✅ Argentina's terrible track record
✅ Secrecy about terms
✅ Political contingencies

But they missed:
❌ The $20B Tether coincidence
❌ Lutnick's conflicts of interest
❌ The missing gold mystery
❌ Overlapping investments
❌ Why Tether needs protection
❌ The crypto industry angle

Best case: Reckless geopolitical gamble that coincidentally benefits crypto interests.

Worst case: Coordinated Tether bailout disguised as strategic play, using taxpayer money to prop up the central bank of international criminal finance.

Most likely: Both. Multiple agendas, one bailout, taxpayers holding the bag.

Someone should probably investigate this. But based on the NYT completely ignoring the crypto angle, I'm not holding my breath.

When billions move in secret and policymakers have obvious conflicts of interest, asking questions isn't conspiracy theorizing—it's due diligence.

Sea otters were nearly hunted into extinction a century ago for their luxurious pelts.

But they have been surging in population in the Gulf of Alaska, bringing both benefits to nearshore ecosystems and drawbacks to the shellfish economy.

Described by commercial shellfish harvesters and Native Alaskans as pillagers of clams and crabs, sea otters are seen by many marine biologists as having positive impacts on kelp forests.

by Justin Catanoso
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/booming-sea-otters-and-fading-shellfish-spark-values-clash-in-alaska/

#news #otters #Alaska

When you ask ChatGPT a question, you're in control of the information you're sharing, EFF’s Lena Cohen told USA Today, but “when you're using the Atlas browser for day-to-day tasks, it's easier to forget that all of your activity could be sent to OpenAI."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/10/22/open-ai-launches-chatgpt-atlas-web-browser/86833766007/