Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"Microsoft, for example, cancelled Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider, ICC staffers said. His bank accounts in his home country of the U.K. have been blocked."

When you mention to companies or other people the power the U.S. government has over Microsoft, you usually come across as paranoid. We need to get back control.

As an individual user try https://cryptpad.fr (CryptPad) for your personal documents.

#digitalautonomy #icc

I'm not on Bluesky.

I learned from the past.

I'm not investing my time and energy (and data) again in another platform that could get bought by Elon Musk (or another malevolent billionaire) tomorrow.

Incredible (but predictable) : #Microsoft has blocked the International Criminal Court's access (#ICC) to its services on the orders of the #Trump mafia.

Read that carefully : an international organisation that has no presence in the United States and no US legal rights has had its work tools blocked simply because it disagrees with the Trump administration. 🚩

Get the hell out of it right now.

› https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

#Facism #Autocraty #Criminal #BigTech

Pack Your Corporate Social Media Go Bag

If you use #Bluesky or #Substack have an escape plan!

As repeatedly demonstrated, corporate platforms are vulnerable. Will you be ready when they inevitably bend to data exploitation, political manipulation and censorship? Has it already started?

Have a plan to evacuate to Public Social Media. Create backup accounts on #Mastodon and #Ghost and use them as secondaries. Be prepared. Begin building your online presence free from corporate overlords.

“Direct capture is a scam, carbon capture is a scam, blue hydrogen is a scam, and electrofuel is a scam. These are all scam technologies that do nothing for the climate or air pollution,”
https://heimildin.is/grein/24581/climeworks-capture-fails-to-cover-its-own-emissions/

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.

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/

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