Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I'm rather proud of today's scoop. It began with a tip from a security researcher who wondered why 900,000 customer payment records were leaking from a network of sites that seemed to be related to the U.S. Postal Service.

It's been a wild ride figuring this one out. Pleas check out the full piece for a truly crazy story. Here's the lede:

"A sprawling online company based in Georgia that has made tens of millions of dollars purporting to sell access to jobs at the United States Postal Service (USPS) has exposed its internal IT operations and database of nearly 900,000 customers. The leaked records indicate the network’s chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked for the past year, and that the entire operation was created by the principals of a Tennessee-based telemarketing firm that has promoted USPS employment websites since 2016."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/05/promising-jobs-at-the-u-s-postal-service-us-job-services-leaks-customer-data/

Flawed software and evil managers wreak havoc on human beings. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/02/post-office-horizon-scandal-inquiry

So we're going to turn over even more decision-making to machines? Apparently so.

The killer feature of #Linux and #FOSS (in general)? Permissionless experimentation & innovation.

Congress is trying to outlaw end-to-end encryption again and it's time to take action. Tell your rep. to vote against the STOP CSAM Act.

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-outlaw-encrypted-applications

Is it just me or is web search getting dumber? I just tried to search for a report using DuckDuckGo, with the author's name and the full title as keywords. Instead of the text of the report, ideally from the original publisher, I got a bunch of vaguely related tech press articles. DDG are basically a front-end for Bing now, so I guess they're to blame. But I tried Monocles.de (Searx instance) and the results were only marginally better.

#WebSearch #DDG #Bing #Searx

CNN is fascinating because one week they'll fire a high profile anchor on the basis of being difficult to work with and the next week they'll carve out generous primetime coverage to a disgraced former president who is under criminal indictment separate from his rape trial.

Most of the population serves some purpose, whether in a job or not. Capitalism could not function without unhoused people being there as a 'threat' of future to the workers. All those serve capitalism do so by degradation. And the rest spend their days trying to forget what they are doing. There is literally nothing positive here. All serves to it, and it rots.

The Republicans' corruption of the judicial system includes funding a law school that lavishes expensive gifts on -- you guessed it -- Supreme Court justices. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/30/us/supreme-court-scalia-law-school.html

Hey Mastodonians, Eviscerati.Org has updated - a new chapter of The Points Between!

https://www.eviscerati.org/fiction/tpb/2023/05/the-points-between-chapter-16/

Chapter 16: Missing Days

Apparently over 600 court cases in Hawaii have been conducted entirely under seal since 2005, often for no reason other than because a litigant requested secrecy. This flagrantly unconstitutional practice must stop immediately. https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/05/the-problem-with-hawaiis-secret-court-files/

Happy Death to Capitalism Day to all who celebrate

@ferrisffalcis @RD4Anarchy @teledyn

Violence is assuredly the bedrock of capitalism, but there aren’t enough cops in the world to enforce it. Capitalism requires more than just violence to survive; it also requires ignorance of better possibilities, or even the idea that things could be better.

We are at a tipping point. Let’s learn from our history to continue to inspire our future.

International Workers’ Day Sale. 40% off labor and May Day books with coupon code WORKERS until 6/1 at https://blog.pmpress.org/2022/04/29/international-workers-day-of-may-day-sale/

every video essay should have a transcript

1. it's better for citations
b. it's an accessibility issue
iii. i don't want to have to listen to annoying video essayist voice when i could be listening to post-rock and reading

the fundamental issue of "the State has no right dictating anything about my gender or the steps i choose to take to alter my biological sex characteristics" doesn't change under the Dems. it just gets entrenched in medical establishment gatekeeping and i have little to no faith that the average voter gives even a fraction of a flying fuck about this