Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Big Journalism is pimping a paper that starts with bias and then ups the ante -- an entirely bogus claim that Big Tech owes journalism orgs money for linking to them.

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/google-owes-news-outlets-at-least-10-billion-yearly-study-estimates/

The reality is that tech owes media companies money for cheating them in on the advertising revenues.

But journalists and their bosses can't be bothered to sort this stuff out, so they go with the easy bullshit.

What an embarrassment.

Most people don't know how to use markdown and aren't going to learn. Bragging about NOT having a WYSIWYG editor is a bad look, unless your aim is specifically to reduce your software's usefulness and reach. Because all you're doing is making someone like me have to teach six 65 year olds how to write markdown. I'd rather stick with [shitty corporate but user friendly software] than put myself through that. Thx.

call for applicants for the second Journalism & Women Symposium health journalism fellowship! https://jaws.org/jaws-health-journalism-fellowship/ #journalism #health #reporting #fellowship

NEW POST

My colleague Sannie Lee has met many students who are looking into getting into technology, taking narrow professionally-oriented majors. Sannie, however, has found that a traditional liberal-arts degree has given her skills that are highly relevant to her work as a product manager.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/2023-liberal-arts.html

With all the positive, privacy-friendly #EU changes of #GDPR and #eprivacy it's bizarre to see #eIDAS2 trying to introduce ID wallets and government-controlled man-in-the-middle root certificates.

This seeks to undermine HTTPS and - even in good hands - would be a backdoor we must not tolerate.

Stop #eIDAS! Stop mass surveillance!

Context (German): https://netzpolitik.org/2023/eidas-trilog-hunderte-wissenschaftlerinnen-und-dutzende-ngos-warnen-vor-massenueberwachung/

Reminder: "AI cannot function as a business without the theft of intellectual property, on a positively grandiose scale, to create its training sets."

I'm sure the actual human artists don't mind though, right?

https://www-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.businessinsider.com/marc-andreessen-horowitz-ai-copyright-2023-11?amp

That Big Poll Showing Trump and Biden Are Evenly Matched? Trump Helped Pay for It. | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/175387/wsj-poll-showing-trump-biden-evenly-matched-trump-helped-pay

Welp, if you were wondering when it was time to get the fuck out of GitHub, here's your sign ig 🤷‍♀️

@KimSJ I'm guessing tech companies have a secret bet going over who can complete the Enshittification Cycle @pluralistic describes the quickest and GitHub is REALLY determined to win.

We are scheduling system upgrades with elevated risk on Sunday, November 12 during about 10 - 23 CET.

We expect brief periods of downtime in best case, let's not talk about the worst case 😉

I so, so, so don't want to drive any new car that can do this:

A federal appeals court refused to bring back a class action lawsuit alleging four auto manufacturers had violated Washington state’s privacy laws by using vehicles’ on-board infotainment systems to record and intercept customers’ private text messages and mobile phone call logs.

The court ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors, which are defendants in five related class action suits focused on the issue.

The plaintiffs had appealed a prior judge’s dismissal. But the appeals court ruled Tuesday that the interception and recording of mobile phone activity did not meet the Washington Privacy Act’s standard that a plaintiff must prove that “his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation” has been threatened.

A suit filed against Honda in 2021, argu[ed] that beginning in at least 2014 infotainment systems in the company’s vehicles began downloading and storing a copy of all text messages on smartphones when they were connected to the system.

An Annapolis, Maryland-based company, Berla Corporation, provides the technology to some car manufacturers but does not offer it to the general public, the lawsuit said. Once messages are downloaded, Berla’s software makes it impossible for vehicle owners to access their communications and call logs but does provide law enforcement with access, the lawsuit said.

Many car manufacturers are selling car owners’ data to advertisers as a revenue boosting tactic, according to earlier reporting by Recorded Future News. Automakers are exponentially increasing the number of sensors they place in their cars every year with little regulation of the practice.

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

The auto industry has even more contempt for your privacy than Big Tech, which is saying something. Now an appeals court has ruled that the car makers can intercept and sell your private information, and you can't do a damn thing about it.

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

Well, one thing: Don't hook up your phone to these sleazy companies' "entertainment" systems.

The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin just said (on Threads) that last night's results show that 90% of political reporting is garbage.

That's because 90% of "coverage" is speculation and opinion. An email I received from the NYT the Tilt assured me that it was a good night for Democrats but that doesn't change anything for 2024.

Rubbish.

Elections tell us how voters feel. Polls do not and pundits do not.

“Virtually every serious condensed-matter physicist I know saw right away that there were serious problems with the work,” says Peter Armitage, an experimental physicist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

[Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist]
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03398-4

Dream job alert: Defend civil liberties and innovation at EFF as a Staff Attorney working on patent, copyright, and related fields.

https://www.eff.org/staffattorneyip

Over the past few years all the major tech companies of the GAFAM have shadow-banned or literally banned most of the collectives using kolektiva.media. Now we've learned that the Turkish state has blocked access to our domain due to "distribution of terrorist propaganda". More than ever, the State, the cops and those in power want to keep revolutionary ideas and counter-information out of the mainstream.

This seemed like a good time to remind people that kolektiva.media is also accessible as an onion service using Tor Browser with the following link :
http://klktv54valq67z2llp6ew7cejyepqgcrnpaf2xhwlq7o64ufk5tb6kid.onion/

If you don't have Tor Browser, you can download it on the Tor Project website:
https://www.torproject.org/download/

If your ISP blocks access to the Tor Project website, you can visit this page for alternative ways to download the Tor Browser :
https://web.archive.org/web/20231107204733/https://gettor.torproject.org/

Furthermore, with all the mainstream social media algorithms showing us almost nothing but ads, you may feel like you're now missing some good anarchist content you were enjoying in the past. If it's the case, you can subscribe to a Peertube channel's RSS feed or also subscribe to the newsletters of different projects to never miss a video.

#anarchism #repression #censorship #tor

A New US Privacy Bill Seeks to End Warrantless Police and FBI Spying: The Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023 pulls from past privacy bills to overhaul how police and the feds access Americans’ data and communications.

https://www.wired.com/story/government-surveillance-reform-act-2023/

Elon Musk’s Brain Implant Startup Is Ready to Start Surgery - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-11-07/elon-musk-s-neuralink-brain-implant-startup-is-ready-to-start-surgery two words: dead monkeys

Great to learn of a growing African presence on the fediverse. For the first time, I came across an Algeria themed 🇩🇿 instance, perhaps the first instance set up for and by an African community here (there could be others that I'm not aware of).

The instance is dz.social (Dz, short for the country's local name "Dzayer" and .dz is the country's internet domain code.

It's a start. Happy to see a Maghreb presence here. P.S Algerians are amazing people to befriend.

https://dz.social/about