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Friends, foes, and lovers:
It's far from too late to boost, amplify, write about, talk about, and/or book me regarding these two upcoming books currently in a KS campaign. They could use your help.
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🔥 Latest issue of my curated #cybersecurity and #infosec list of resources for week #44/2025 is out!

→ It includes the following and much more:

💌 #Google disputes false claims of massive #Gmail data breach;

🇪🇺 The #EU says #Facebook and #Instagram broke Digital Services Act (DSA) rules;

🇺🇸 🇷🇺 Former US Defense Contractor Executive Admits to Selling Exploits to #Russia;

🤔 #F5 says a nation-state attacker had long-term access to its systems;

🧰 🩹 #OpenAI releases ‘#Aardvark’ security and patching model;

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Deep dive on US manufacturing and the obstacles to "reshoring" and job creation, from the inimitable Yves Smith.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/11/mission-impossible-why-the-us-cannot-reverse-its-manufacturing-decline.html

Isn't this is a stunning coincidence?

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/by-a-strange-coincidence-all-the

Ok. Jesus. You people know me. You know I'm, like, a big Microsoft dork. I have been very clear I make my living knowing my way around Microsoft 365. I have even admitted to [whispers] liking the Office apps.

But I may have just had my Jokerfying moment.

I'm writing something. Something I've been working on for a couple of weeks. Something about AI, and its power and water usage.

And I've been drafting it in Word. Mainly the iPad version. But tonight, putting the finishing touches on it in the desktop Word, I notice a message at the top of the window. Some obscured text and a button I've never noticed before.

I click. It unrolls.

And presents an AI-generated summary.

An AI-generated summary that I didn't ask for.

An AI-generated summary that I didn't ask for, summarizing the article I'm writing about being conscientious about using AI BECAUSE OF ITS COSTS.

FUCKING MICROSOFT. You make your haters' points better than they ever could. 🤦

📣 attention #Fediverse developers and champions 🚨

The Social Web Devroom at #FOSDEM2026 just announced a call for participation, inviting people to submit proposals for talks:

🔗 : https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/10/31/fosdem-2026-social-web-devroom-call-for-participation/

This year's edition (its first) was absolutely EPIC. I got to meet so many Fediverse makers, champions and instance admins.

The 2026 edition will have a new 50 minute talk format... and 10 hours of programming (instead of 5 this year).

Check out the link and submit your idea 😊

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Save the dates: We're having an online community get together at 2025-11-18 and an offline one at @datenburg at 2025-12-04 . Everyone interested in #Phosh and the @ev is invited to drop by and chat. Hope to see you there.

Details at https://ev.phosh.mobi/blog/get-together-25-11/

#LinuxMobile

I will say it's totally fair enough to mail a service in advance of signing up and asking "where would my stuff be stored?" and push for detail. Keep them on their toes, turn up the heat.

We would want to know the same with any item of ours that is precious. And just as we might also not want to participate in, or contribute to, markets or regimes that we're ethically opposed to.

Huge "pharmacy benefit manager" -- part of a cartel that is stealing uncounted billions from all of us via rigged healthcare market -- is ripping off taxpayers via the Pentagon.

No doubt the Trumpists are in favor, but you should be incensed.

Fine reporting by The Lever: https://www.levernews.com/how-a-pharma-giant-is-looting-the-pentagon/

If you’re a user of Libby (the library app), consider before following their suggestion to type #InspireMe into the search bar.

It seems harmless, but it turns on an unrequested AI feature, & there is no way to reverse that.

This comes courtesy of ProfHeyRochelle, who is now reasonably pissed over following the directions.

A federal judge told the top Border Protection official to start wearing his body camera this week.

We should FOIA that footage now.

Read about this story and more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/when-immigration-agents-hide-body-camera-footage-is-vital/

Schools, libraries, and other organizations can make private browsing the norm by deploying Privacy Badger on devices they manage. If you work at an organization with managed devices, talk to your IT team about Privacy Badger. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/libraries-schools-why-organizations-should-install-privacy-badger

This seems connected to the push to privatise management of health data as an opportunity for corporate profit;

"Everyone can spread the word that companies and government agencies carelessly allowing cybercriminals and hostile states to get access to private personal data is outrageous and unacceptable. Make a point of this on social media. Demand legislation for financial and legal accountability."

#DavidChapman, Better Without AI, 2023

https://betterwithout.ai/cybersecurity-vs-AI

#books #AI #BetterWithoutAI

Latest comic: When Worlds Collide

#economy #food #authoritarianism #comic #cartoon

New South Korean national law will turn large parking lots into solar farms
L: https://electrek.co/2025/11/02/new-national-law-will-turn-large-parking-lots-into-solar-power-farms/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45790867
posted on 2025.11.02 at 10:12:08 (c=0, p=3)

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Group 1: "All these instructions on the internet say I need a computer or sometimes even two; who has that kind of money?"

Group 2: "I have sixteen fully operational laptop computers that I fished out of a dumpster that desperately need a good home, but no one will take them, so they're cluttering up my apartment."

It feels like some problems would be solved if these two groups could talk to each other, but somehow it never seems to work that way : (

#freecycling #consumerism #capitalism