Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Unlicensed law clerk fired after #ChatGPT hallucinations found in filing - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/law-clerk-fired-over-chatgpt-use-after-firms-filing-used-ai-hallucinations/ "Law school grad’s firing is a bad omen for college kids overly reliant on ChatGPT." just the start

A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing #NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/02/a-23-year-old-crypto-bro-is-now-vetoing-nsf-grants-while-staring-at-his-water-bottle/ more #murican madness

A centralized intelligence database on all Americans is not inherently legal.

It likely breaks the Privacy Act of 1974, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the 1st, 4th and 5th Amendments.

This must be stopped. Contact your Senators and Representative and ask them to stop it. I use @5calls to call mine.

https://newrepublic.com/post/195904/trump-palantir-data-americans

#USpol #infosec #privacy #law

Citizen gives "everyone the power to deem who is and isn’t suspicious, and who belongs or doesn’t belong in their community—which means they can be a digital superhighway for racial profiling and invasion of privacy,” EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2025/06/01/citizen-crime-tracking-app-pittsburgh/stories/202505300068

Calls for #Drax to be forced to fully disclose its #biomass sourcing | Drax | The Guardian

Drax used to be a huge #coal-fired #PowerStation which switched to burning biomass and so earned a label of being green (debatable, IMHO). However it has been sourcing at least some #wood #fuel from #NorthAmerica, which obviously involves #shipping it over and so has been accused of #GreenWashing its credentials.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/02/calls-for-drax-to-be-forced-to-fully-disclose-biomass-sourcing-renewables-subsidies-scheme

#UK #FossilFuels #RenewableEnergy

Israeli strikes on #Gaza schools used as civilian shelters are part of deliberate strategy, say sources - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/02/israel-strikes-gaza-schools-strategy "More schools identified as targets after controls on IDF action against Hamas operatives at civilian sites loosened" #israel

the delusion of AI coding/whatever: the perpetual feeling you're *one prompt away* from it getting it right https://revontulet.dev/p/2025-ai-first/

that is, AI works by gambling addiction

spin the gacha!!

From @Katharsisdrill@mastodon.nuzgo.net

#Cartoon #Fediverse #DecentralizedSystems #SocialMedia

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This is how newspapers should react when the government asks them to carry its water.

https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/29/ice-arrests-blur-photos-agents-san-francisco-court/

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FOIA reporting made headlines this week. WIRED and 404 Media made those articles free.

We learned that CBP is collecting the DNA of minors and that ICE has a backdoor into surveillance cameras.

Read more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/foia-reporting-makes-headlines-wired-and-404-media-make-the-articles-free/

Big Tech exploits a legal loophole:

Apps bypass privacy laws by forcing users to accept invasive terms or lose access.

GDPR & CCPA can't stop it—Surveillance Capitalism is baked into app design.

The solution?

Private and secure tech by Purism: https://puri.sm/products/liberty-phone

New video on farmers & money!

(Spoiler: we worked so hard to "save family farmers" that the folks who still farm............aren't working class anymore. This explains a lot.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlCUdb2onx0

Natalie Rak, also known as Rak, is a Poland based street artist #WomensArt

#StreetArt

I just remembered that at my last job, someone mislabeled an S3 bucket as "acquision" instead of "acquisiTion", then they hardcoded hundreds of things on top of that so it's fully locked for the rest of eternity.

Thank god I am out of data hell.

I was digging through some old files this morning and found these icons with the cooperative principles on them. I made them for stickers or buttons originally, but never did anything with them, so I dedicated them to the public domain and threw them up here if anyone wants to use them for anything (I can send an SVG too but you'll need all the fonts):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cooperative_Principles.png

The co-op principles: https://ica.coop/en/cooperatives/cooperative-identity

A Texas sheriff used 83,000+ license plate reader cameras to track a woman “suspected of having an abortion.” The reason listed in the record: “had an abortion, search for female.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-texas-cop-used-83000-cameras-track-her-down

#Exercise ‘better than drugs’ to stop #cancer returning after treatment, trial finds - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/01/exercise-better-than-drugs-after-cancer-treatment-international-trial-finds "First clear evidence that structured exercise regime reduces risk of dying by a third, can stop tumours coming back or a new cancer developing" amazing

The #Forgejo monthly update was published ✨

Ongoing issues with the Matrix chat room were addressed by recreating the room. Users are encouraged to join the new room, as the old room is deprecated. Security updates have been released for versions v11 and v7. Progress continues on the moderation feature funded by @nlnet. Work on federated user activity continues, including the ability to follow Forgejo users from GoToSocial.

https://forgejo.org/2025-05-monthly-update/