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Baltimore City Budget Advances Worker Cooperative Conversion
#WorkerCoops #Baltimore

https://baltimoreroundtable.org/2026/06/press-release-baltimore-city-budget-advances-worker-cooperative-conversion-as-strategy-to-preserve-legacy-businesses-and-build-community-wealth/

News you can use!

The Heat Stupids and How to Prevent Them
#HeatStroke #HeatExhaustion

https://geo.coop/gleanings/heat-stupids-and-how-prevent-them

RE: https://mastodon.acm.org/@ACM/116929782094395296

My short (submitted) feedback on this:

I have stopped reviewing for all ACM publications because of the overwhelming number of plausible-looking papers generated by LLMs where I cannot trust that the results are actually related to having run an experiment. LLMs are destroying the integrity of science conducted by ACM members. The ACM should in no way be encouraging this behaviour.

All of my ACM publications (and I am the author of one of the eight most-downloaded papers in the ACM digital library) are released with a license that requires attribution. LLMs are incapable of guaranteeing attribution with their output. As a result, I regard any training of LLMs on my papers as copyright infringement.

@ACM Interesting move considering the recent opinion piece: Wither ACM? Publish or Perish?

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3815435

I guess the author of that article is right in suggesting that ACM really is just a publishing house now and doesn't really represent a society of professionals.

@mhoye 20 years ago what got me to finally really try linux was Ubuntu billing itself as "Linux for human beings" and ever since then it's been me cautiously picking my way towards whichever distro / ecosystem currently seems to be the least hostile to that basic premise.

The thing that saddens me about so many developments in Linux, at every level - from SystemD and the Wayland permission model up to snaps and flatpak and now apparently the kernel - is that these priorities are, obviously to me at least, not being spelled out explicitly because saying so out loud would be too obviously repulsive. Because today the primary constituencies of Linux are cloud fleet rentiers first, their developers second and human computer owners a distant third at best.

Truth Social is planning to sell access to Trump’s posts to Wall Street before they become public.

Trump is so brazen that not only is he admitting he posts to manipulate the stock market, he’s charging Wall Street to get in on the grift.

The UK won’t restrict #VPNs after all, and its own research is why - https://thenextweb.com/news/uk-drops-vpn-restrictions-online-safety " The UK has decided not to restrict VPNs to enforce its new teen social-media rules, after its own research found children use them for privacy, not to dodge age checks."

Nearly half a million people in Arizona have already lost SNAP benefits. In Illinois, 150,000 have lost eligibility.

They and the farmers who fed them, Danaka Katovich writes, will still be expected to finance a $1.5 trillion war budget.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/snap-cuts-pentagon-military-budget-iran-war

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has continued since David Vine wrote this in January. So has the lie that bombs can deliver freedom.

The violence only strengthens repression and turns the Iranian people into casualties of someone else’s war.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/attacking-iran-is-no-way-to-support-iranian-protests

Secret Panel HERE ✨ https://patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/say-yes-to-life-75910490

so i am hearing that AWS's global billing systems shat themselves

i have screenshots of a user in Germany who normally runs up $27/mo, getting a bill for $353 billion, which is more than e.g the GDP of Finland

it is not *smoking gun* that this was a vibe code error, still looking for that

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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The MAGAs, in "Stigmatized!" IN WHICH the intrepid couple do their own scientific research.
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For those unfamiliar with how voting works in the US Congress: you are allowed to vote against something the duopoly desires, only so long as your vote will not effect the outcome.

https://husseini.substack.com/p/performative-voting-voting-against

/ 1 POTENSH TRACK THIS SMOKE CULD TAKE THRU SUNDAY
/ U CULD BEHOLD THE SMOKE EBBING & FLOWING OVER UR NORTHEAST UNITED STATES EMPIRE
/ THE SMOKE OF UR DEATH SPIRAL
/ LET THIS BE A REMINDER
/ THAT U NEED 2 REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS
/ https://airquality.weather.gov/?element=apm25h01_bc&mapcenter=-79.67%2C42.68&mapzoom=6.747701854184715&subregion=CONUS&region=CONUS

Going to be linking to this anytime someone asks me about LLMs from now on.

https://gracefulliberty.com/llms/

> I do not use LLMs or other "Generative AI" for prose or code, nor do I accept it from others as open source contributions.

> I do not discuss my prose or code with LLMs.

> I do not consult LLMs for projects, contributions, assignments, research, or anything else.

> As far as possible and practicable, I have disabled LLM-integration in my tools or replaced tools that don't let me do so.

> Requests for me to use LLMs or read content generated by LLMs will be met with disappointment and gentle refusal.

> I want to use my skills and engage with other people in the process.

“Today’s stupid prompt injection: just write like the AI – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/16/todays-stupid-prompt-injection-just-write-like-the-ai/

Several years ago I wrote something along the lines of chatbots being the worst UI possible ("the opposite if good", iirc). People didn't listen then and I doubt they'll listen today

Meta does not want you to know that you can improve the quality of these AI glasses by just microwaving them for one minute. Pass it on.