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DHS expects to spend $1 billion in taxpayer money to nearly triple the number of surveillance towers along U.S. borders from 830 to 2,300, expanding a surveillance network that threatens the privacy and civil liberties of everyone in the border regions. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/explosion-surveillance-towers-coming-us-borders-costing-over-1-billion

Orbital AI datacentres come with latency issues. If they're in LEO, they will have moderately low latency to a moving point on Earth, but for a fixed client the latency will increase as more relays are needed to account for curvature, so the jitter is high. If you put them in geostationary orbit, the latency is fixed, but large.

The solution to this is to put not just the AI datacentres, but also the AI bros in orbit. If you put an AI bro and a small radio in LEO, in the same orbital trajectory as an AI datacenter, they will have very low latency - indeed, significantly lower latency than ground-based routing if both they and the datacentre are on the ground.

Importantly, AI bros have a lot less mass than datacentres. As such, they are much cheaper to launch. As a pilot programme, to assess feasibility, I recommend launching a test constellation of AI bros into LEO. Note that, unlike datacentres, AI bros are made out of non-toxic (at least, in the chemical sense) substances. The environmental impact of uncontrolled atmospheric reentry is significantly lower, making the risk from the failure of a pilot deployment significantly lower.

Decoy is an ambigious font that "hides" from AI - https://boingboing.net/2026/07/17/decoy-is-an-ambigious-font-that-hides-from-ai.html also humans...

#EVs outsold petrol and diesel in Germany for the first time. The birthplace of the car just changed its fuel. - https://thenextweb.com/news/evs-outsold-gas-diesel-germany-first-time but too late to save the industry...

Tom Homan Again Promises That ICE Will Keep Murdering People Until Democrats Stop Calling Them Murderers - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/21/tom-homan-again-promises-that-ice-will-keep-murdering-people-until-democrats-stop-calling-them-murderers/ great headline

Argentina Joins Global Treaty to Fight Illegal Fishing - https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2026/07/17/argentina-joins-global-treaty-to-fight-illegal-fishing well done, #argentina

Iranian women being shut out of engineering fields, official warns - https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607209913 well, that's stupid... #iran

#Australia’s Next Target In The War On Kids Online: Your #VPN - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/20/australias-next-target-in-the-war-on-kids-online-your-vpn/ go home, australia, you're drunk...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/116958382115564493

Mozilla also used to run a fedi instance, they killed it about 2 years ago:
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/mozilla-exits-the-fediverse-and-will-shutter-its-mastodon-server-in-december/

Way to go leading the open web. 🤡

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Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.

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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
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What we allow to happen to others eventually comes home to us...and part of me thinks we deserve it.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/07/palestine-laboratory-greg-stoker-politicide-loewenstein-ice-ukraine.html

We have restored the primary Forgejo instance, which handles authenticated traffic from codeberg.org, to the rebooted server. This deployment also resolves the issue where editing the wiki resulted in a JavaScript error, and where self-hosted Forgejo runners were displayed as offline when they were not.

We're still tracking and investigating the poor performance of codeberg.org

RE: https://sfba.social/@ryanboswell/116955954613253992

“An EV charger's charging port is a network port. We found SSH and Telnet services exposed on XCharge C6 chargers with default root:root credentials. A threat actor with a malicious EV can gain immediate full control access on the charger and perform energy theft or potentially cause physical damage.”

Just amazing.

RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@dantheclamman/116954518144682511

Again, this is just a specific example of the general genAI problem: It makes shit up & most of it will seem OK because you don't know enough about the subject matter to see the harm it does.

Until now we've been able to assume that even lies & misinformation took at least some effort & someone would need a reason for it - but now they just happen, with zero effort or reason.

We also thought the utility of asbestos & leaded gasoline outweighed the harms. We were wrong then, too.

#AI