Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Welp. Between this and the earlier AI-"written" book, I am thisclose to recommending that we cease purchasing titles from Springer

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/

"Based on a tip from a reader, we checked 18 of the 46 citations in the book. Two-thirds of them either did not exist or had substantial errors. And three researchers cited in the book confirmed the works they supposedly authored were fake or the citation contained substantial errors."

#ChatGPT creates phisher’s paradise by recommending the wrong URLs for major companies - https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/ai_phishing_websites/ "Crims have cottoned on to a new way to lead you astray" not so clever

This is a serious data question for Mastodon nerds -- is anyone aware of a single data governance product that actually does anything useful? I'm reviewing everything I can find for a client, and not a single one seems to offer any serious benefits over dbt lineage. They don't even seem to support access models more sophisticated than just like, keeping a big table mapping users to tables they're allowed to read.

Trump, Musk, and their apparatchiks will have caused the deaths of more than 14 million people by 2030, and more than 4.5 million of them will be children.

This is a crime against humanity. In a just world, the perpetrators would die in prison.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext

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Today marks 2 years of incarceration for Peppy and the work continues! In solidarity with Krystal and Peppy and towards liberation!

https://freepeppyandkrystal.noblogs.org/post/2025/06/30/two-down-but-we-stay-up/

Dear journalists: If you call the Trump-Republican omnibus legislation that (among other things) takes health care from millions to further enrich billionaires the "big beautiful bill" -- you are doing propaganda for the regime.

What the hell is wrong with you people? Don't you understand this?

Kilmar Ábrego García says he was tortured in El Salvadorian prison. Hundreds of people are still there, sent there from the US by the Trump administration to be tortured, all sanctioned by the Supreme Court and Congress. https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/mr-abregos-account-of-torture-at

Popular culture loves to lionize some of the worst behavior of the police, in a genre known as "copaganda".

Here's a guide for creative folks on how not to do surveillance copaganda -- don't do marketing for the people who relentlessly spy on everyone.

https://stopcopaganda.compost.digital/

Ich bin auf der Suche nach der Möglichkeit, beruflich die #microsoft Bubble zu verlassen. Ich arbeite mein Leben lang schon im Bereich ITK, also Voice und Telefonie. Seit 5 Jahren im Kontext Microsoft Teams.

Ich würde gern in die #Linux Welt einsteigen, es finden sich aber wenige Chancen für jemanden der beruflich nur Microsoft kennt. Muss auch nicht Voice sein, aber etwas mit Kommunikation wäre schön.

Kann mir der Mastodon Algorithmus helfen? Kennt jemand wen?

Paramount's decision to settle with Trump will be remembered as one of the most shameful capitulations by the press to a president in history.

Each time a company cowers and surrenders to Trump’s demands it only emboldens him to do it again.

Read our statement:

https://freedom.press/issues/paramounts-capitulation-to-trump-is-a-dark-day-for-press-freedom/

EFF's Executive Director, Cindy Cohn, has been fighting for privacy rights for decades. On the latest episode of Guy Kawasaki's podcast, "Remarkable People," she joins him to talk about Why Privacy is Democracy's Last Line of Defense: https://guykawasaki.com/who-defends-your-digital-rights-meet-effs-cindy-cohn/

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced July 1 that she is working with the Justice Department to pursue criminal charges against CNN over its reporting on an app that allows users to track Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/kristi-noem-targets-press-leakers-as-homeland-security-secretary/#July%201

How the Maximum Fun podcast network converted to a worker-owned #cooperative!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgb9vq2EG_g

"Since the start of the pandemic, many communities in Washington, D.C. have embraced what’s known as the solidarity economy: a network of grassroots efforts centered on meeting people’s needs."
#SolidarityEconomy

https://thewash.org/2025/06/26/amid-economic-uncertainty-a-solidarity-economy-grows-in-dc/

Caution has turned to cowardice – the #BBC is failing viewers with its #Gaza coverage - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/02/bbc-gaza-doctors-under-attack-documentary-israel-war "The craven failure to broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is just the latest example of skewed journalistic values over Israel’s war" painfully obvious

More than 80% of UK farmers worried about climate crisis harming livelihood, study finds - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/02/farmers-climate-crisis-livelihood-extreme-weather-study "Farmers warn of risk to Britain’s food supply as more than three-quarters take hit to income from extreme weather" turns out that #climatecrisis stuff wasn't exaggerated after all

A one TERABYTE hard drive costs less than a day's minimum wage and yet everything lives on someone else's computer, what the heck

🐀 Dad's what's information

🦝 It's like misinformation but there's less of it and it's true

Reading daily on a 2007 ereader has reminded me just how tiny text is and I don't think Modern Kids even know about file sizes

one black-and-white page of manga shrunk to fit this ereader's screen takes up as much space as a novella

you can fit fifteen novels in one second of video

a 4gb SD card of books would probably have me completely sorted out for reading material until it's time to die of old