Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I don't know how many of you are on spoutible, but i suggest not being there anymore. And not just because their terrible API disgorged literally all of the user base's personal data and passwords in like a BUNCH of ways. No.

More because literally every tech aware person who was considering moving to spoutible tried to ask that cbouzy dude questions or point out potential problems to him the addressing of which could have prevented *Exactly This*, but he took each and every gentle (and, okay, after a while, not so gentle) suggestion as a personal attack 🤷🏾‍♂️
https://www.troyhunt.com/how-spoutibles-leaky-api-spurted-out-a-deluge-of-personal-data/

Yeah, I'll burn a #GiftArticle for WaPo dunking on Nextdoor: https://wapo.st/3ukb2Zg

"“Nextdoor taught me that my neighbors are bad people,” said one former subscriber online. “I really would have preferred not to know that.” It’s not entirely the fault of the people who run Nextdoor. They’ve got all kinds of reminders to be kind, to not be racist, to not overreact. But its very existence fosters exactly that. It’s like owning a roadside bar and telling people not to drink and drive."

Fantastic investigation by NPR into the racist, antisemitic, misogynist roots of “porn addiction” junk science — the very stuff being peddled by antiporn groups in order to pass age-verification bills and other forms of online censorship https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1198916105/mens-health-masturbation-abstinence

Y Combinator CEO wishes death to SF supervisors.

"Die slow motherfuckers", says completely normal venture capitalist, having a completely normal day:

District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston, whom Tan has pledged $50,000 to unseat through a "Dump Dean"...
https://jwz.org/b/ykLj

San Francisco: Learn more about Proposition E—what it would do, why it's dangerous, and why you should vote No:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/what-proposition-e-and-why-should-san-francisco-voters-oppose-it

Texas is inviting criminals to loot Medicare. Follow the money... https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-texas-civil-medicaid-fraud-unit-falling-apart

Semafor is an interesting news site that has decided to partner with Microsoft to generate "news" stories with AI.

So much for the site's credibility. (This is not from the Onion, I regret to say.)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/microsoft-in-deal-with-semafor-to-create-news-stories-with-aid-of-ai-chatbot

If stadia are such great assets for cities, how come we never see private enterprise building them. Nor right leaning politicians selling them off?

Basically #FiscallyIrresponsible.

Wow. Paris just voted to triple the parking costs for SUVs.

A huge victory in the fight against car bloat.

https://www.bfmtv.com/paris/direct-votation-sur-le-stationnement-des-suv-a-paris-les-bureaux-de-vote-ont-ouvert_LN-202402040118.html

#paris #cars #safety #climate

Just added a new book to my list - Naomi Alderman's The Future: https://read.iridescent.nz/book/11127/s/the-future

If you are journalist who has been recently laid off, or if you know one, check this out!

Ghost, the superb, open source, newsletter platform (and rival alternative to Substack) is offering free subscriptions to help get started with self publishing.

Here's the link: https://teamghost.typeform.com/journalism?typeform-source=l.threads.net

When considering Ghost vs. Substack be aware that Substack takes a percentage of subscriber revenue while Ghost does not.

#ghost #substack

For this week's blog post, I thought I'd do some housekeeping and organize my blog.

I have law, history, and political book recommendations all over the place. Now they are (mostly) all on one page.

Come for a brief history of how the Party of Lincoln became the Party of the Ku Klux Klan.

Stay for a few heart felt mea culpas.

A Bunch of Good Books: https://terikanefield.com/a-bunch-of-good-books/

There's a huge disconnect for me rn in the IT space. Companies love to talk about an increasing deficit of smart, talented and skillful people available to help defend the cybers. Welp, a lot of those people are somehow now seeking gainful employment bc they've been laid off. Which is just nuts to me given the sheer scale, resources and effort our adversaries are throwing at everything now.

p.s. AI isn't going to fix anyone's security problems. If anything, it's going to compound them by orders of magnitude (at least in terms of data governance).

When a government attempts to discredit The Hague, it's a sign something has gone terribly wrong in that country. My latest:

#cartoon #comic #politics #war #humanrights #gaza

@owen @tsrandall

Why we are not hanging up fossil fuel executives by the ankles and letting the children of tomorrow beat them like piñatas is beyond me.

@lightweight Yes, that was a fun coincidence. Here's the kererū we saw:

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/198268156

I'm now downloading the 749 audio notes I made on my run so I can start the transcription. Each February I include Acer (sycamores), Agapanthus, and elderberry, (along with my regular birds, butterflies, etc.) so I have lot of observations to transcribe.

Curious what surveillance technologies law enforcement has in your area? Browse this map to find out: https://atlasofsurveillance.org

I detest Trump & his incessant lies beyond words. He's a loser who knows he can't accomplish ANYthing w/o cheating.

Via Ron Filipkowski:

New campaign finance reports reveal #Trump paid $20k to stage a rally of fake striking #union auto workers last September, with non-union people holding up ‘Union Members for Trump’ signs. The truth always comes out in the financial disclosures. https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-campaign-paid-20k-to-fake-a-union-rally

Free tip: if you're concerned about using AnyDesk or TeamViewer to provide remote support to clients/friends/family because those apps are essentially malware/nagware & you can't trust their servers, consider https://rustdesk.com - it's #libre/#FOSS & you can easily host your own server.

2/ "If you’ve ever wondered how Tesla makes money on EVs when nobody else can, the fact that it has a free pass to violate every environmental law on the books while receiving unprecedented subsidies for its ostensibly positive environmental impact should clear up any confusion" https://niedermeyer.io/2024/02/02/its-the-impunity-stupid/