Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@AMS@infosec.exchange I've said this to two other people now:

Introducing AI features into a software project with limited developer resources means that limited developer resources will be spent developing and maintaining those AI features when they could be spent on all the other, (imo) better things that could or should be done. It's a poor decision from the standpoint of managing resources, and that by itself reflects poorly on the decisionmaker regardless of what was at stake. This is a valid concern regardless of whether the features are opt-in or opt-out.

and I stand by it. Sure, less is at stake than with KeePassXC, say. Still, I think it signals the beginning of the end of the project as I knew it, and I think it's important to pay attention to such signals. Whether you act on them or not is a function of your personal risk tolerance and threat model and whatnot. But writing them off or calling them "ok"? To me that feels like cope.

@xgranade@wandering.shop @Kiloku@burnthis.town @davidgerard@circumstances.run

Comic inspired by this article from @ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/foreign-food-safety-inspections-historic-low-fda

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This week's comic: The Listeria League

#food #foodsafety #health #fda #publichealth #consumers #cartoon #comic

People who pay U.S. income taxes: have you ever itemized deductions on your tax return?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itemized_deduction

#IRS #taxes #US

The Jewish religion and its attitude to non-Jews, by Israel Shahak (published in Matzpen, July 10 1981)

https://matzpen.org/english/1981-07-10/the-jewish-religion-and-its-attitude-to-non-jews-part-1-israel-shahak

Society claims "young men are turning to the Far Right because of feminists" and not "young women are turning to feminism because of Far Right men" because the FIRST RULE of patriarchy is to blame women for everything a man does.

#RapeCulture #ChildRape #WomenAndGirls #WarOnWomen #politics

The Roberts court unilaterally edited the Constitution when it ruled that Trump was immune from accountability when he breaks the law, no matter how egregious the crime. These corrupt judges could just as easily rewrite the Constitution to ban birthright citizenship.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/politics/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-bi

This fall, Hawaii's supreme court rejected an argument that recording interrogations is burdensome for police: “If children can record everyday events with ease, law enforcement cannot claim hardship to record perhaps its most consequential investigative act.”
https://boltsmag.org/hawaii-supreme-court-police-interrogations/

Cory Doctorow summarises his forthcoming book "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI" in a speech to the University of Washington.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington

'AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more.'

The secretive cabal of US polluters that is rewriting the EU’s human rights and climate law.

https://www.somo.nl/the-secretive-cabal-of-us-polluters-that-is-rewriting-the-eus-human-rights-and-climate-law/

'While Europeans were told that their governments were negotiating a landmark law to hold corporations accountable for human rights abuses and climate damage, a secretive alliance of US fossil fuel giants was working behind the scenes to destroy it. Collaborating under the innocent-sounding name ‘Competitiveness Roundtable’, eleven multinational enterprises have worked closely to eviscerate several EU sustainability laws, including the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). This Competitiveness Roundtable may be unknown, but its members are a who’s-who of polluting, mainly US, multinationals, including Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Dow. The group seems to have run rings around all branches of the EU and the Trump administration to get what they want: scrapping, or at least hugely diluting, the CSDDD.'

Join PM Press authors, PM tables, and much more at the Howard Zinn Book Fair on Sunday, December 7th in San Francisco! Several sessions feature PM authors, learn more below!

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"can u explain the gaps in your CV" yes those are spaces they help you know what's a word and what's another word, it's the long bar on the keyboard here gimme your phone I can help u it's easy

Dates for the #Phosh contributors meeting 2026 is now confirmed: 2026-05-22 to 2026-05-24.

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A first glimpse of @CollaboraOffice running on #Phosh

#LinuxMobile

For sale, Antitrust Act, never used.

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Another grand jury realizes it can say No to being used as a political pawn.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/grand-jury-declines-indict-ny-attorney-general-letitia-james-less-two-rcna247310

It is vital that as many members of the public as possible learn that if they are serving on a grand jury or trial jury that they can refuse to be political pawns.