Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Congratulations to @jamiem and the @mayfirst community for this beautiful report on getting out of the Google ecosystem! https://mayfirst.coop/en/post/2025/cutting-the-cord/

Your right to know deserves a plan. We just published ours.

Read our 2025-2026 strategic plan:

https://freedom.press/about/announcements/freedom-of-the-press-foundations-2025-2026-strategic-plan/

There's no tariff on bribes, apparently. https://www.patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

This proposal is a tax on American TV viewers, forcing them to buy new, DRM-laden TVs to continue accessing a public resource. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/fcc-must-reject-broadcast-drm

🟠 This week's Clässïk Tom the Dancing Bug:
GOD-MAN and his adorable sidekick GOD-GIRL!
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https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2025/05/15

https://calendrier.constellationmtl.net/event/salon-du-livre-anarchiste-anarchist-bookfair

HBD to storyteller, folk singer, and anarchist, Utah Phillips. Phillips spent his life amplifying the voices of workers, wanderers, and radicals. His songs weren’t just music—they were living history. Check out Utah Phillips’ work at the link in our bio.

"Birthright citizenship" says what it is right in the name. Unfortunately, Habeas Corpus and Emoluments Clause are nerd words.

A colleague misheard a patient listing their medical history. They then searched for the nonexistent acronym they misheard. Their search engine's 'AI assistant' dutifully made up* a matching condition. They did not realise the result was from the 'AI' and brought it to a meeting......

Use of LLMs as the default first item for search is dangerous.

(Yes this was a teaching moment)

*A conflation of real conditions in a trenchcoat

Vibe Coding in Progress: No Thinking Allowed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeNS1ZNHQs8

Good heavy rain today if you're RFK Jr. and want to go swimming in a combined sewage overflow.

♲ @prplcdclnw@diasp.eu:

GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/gop…

On Sunday night, House Republicans added language to the Budget Reconciliation bill that would block all state and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years, 404 Media reports. The provision, introduced by Representative Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, states that "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10 year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."\
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The broad wording of the proposal would prevent states from enforcing both existing and proposed laws designed to protect citizens from AI systems. For example, California's recent law requiring health care providers to disclose when they use generative AI to communicate with patients would potentially become unenforceable. New York's 2021 law mandating bias audits for AI tools used in hiring decisions would also be affected, 404 Media notes. The measure would also halt legislation set to take effect in 2026 in California that requires AI developers to publicly document the data used to train their models.

#ars #arstechnica #ai #artificial-intelligence #artificial-stupidity #llm #llms #spending-bill #republicans #gop #health-care #regulation #privacy #security #generative-ai #training-data

Meta have been asking some users to confirm their identity with a 'video selfie', & for supposed account recovery. Soon, more users will be asked with threat of blocking or deleting their account as Meta prepares to launch their facial recog glasses (soon on shelves).

But it's not just about feeding their new product. Meta are harvesting biometric data on a vast scale, perhaps globally, & in full cohort with a dangerous regime.

Leaving Meta is an important act of resistance, now more than ever

“I don’t think people have a good sense of what (coastal surveillance towers) are capturing,” EFF’s Dave Maass told the San Diego Union-Tribune. “There should be some transparency about that, because if they are capturing people on the beach, questions should be asked.”
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/05/14/rep-levin-asks-for-surveillance-towers-along-san-diego-coast-to-prevent-maritime-smuggling/

A scholar who has served our nation has had enough of the Trump regime's attacks on knowledge: https://time.com/7285045/resigning-national-science-foundation-library-congress/

Important read...

Flock’s invasive new tool “will certainly help to bring expanded surveillance powers to police departments of all sizes that never needed this much information on any random person who happens to drive by,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton warned @404mediaco. https://www.404media.co/license-plate-reader-company-flock-is-building-a-massive-people-lookup-tool-leak-shows/

We are going to deploy storage limits on Codeberg. Here is what you need to know: https://blog.codeberg.org/new-storage-limits-on-codeberg-what-you-need-to-know.html

To avoid disrupting your valuable work, we will be careful and start with very generous limits. Over time, we'll tune the configuration based on your feedback.

We also plan on helping you find and lower resource consumption, should you be shocked with the amount of storage you currently consume.

(By the way, we are aware of a bug that makes repo size count twice. It will get fixed soon)

When is a "Co-op" Not Really a Cooperative? by David Ellerman & Tej Gonza

Certain to be a controversial thesis. Do you agree with Ellerman and Gonza?

https://geo.coop/articles/when-co-op-not-really-cooperative