Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

To gain root access at this company, all an intruder had to do was ask nicely - https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/14/to-gain-root-access-at-this-company-all-an-intruder-had-to-do-was-ask-nicely/5239853 "Human IT managers thought they were being nice to the boss, but were assisting a threat actor"

Execs admit #AI makes them value human workers less - https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/13/execs-admit-ai-makes-them-value-human-workers-less/5239201 "As suits say they're burning cash on brainboxes without seeing results"

#Meta made $14 million just off of these scam ads - https://mashable.com/article/meta-profited-from-medicare-scam-ads-report "Americans have lost billions to malicious social media advertising." #adtech

faith in humanity restored

RE: https://mastodon.social/@neuronakaya/116501952845677898

We are largely the same kind of dumbass that everyone else is, honestly

@be @lightweight

I had exactly the same problem.. until at a certain moment suddenly my browser crashed and all open tabs were forgotten. I was suddenly back at one tab. Oh noos, disaster! 😱

And you know what happened? Nothing happened. Those tabs were all backlog. Interesting. Must read, should process. But once they were lost it was a relief, a burden from the shoulders.

You might say that today with Social experience design I study the solution development process for solving wicked problems. SX is anchored on a simple life philosophy which is based on the assumption that "simple solutions still exist".

With my tab hoarding I didn't honor that assumption. Based on observation that everything we need to solve wicked problems is already available. All the wisdom, knowledge, common sense, and life experience. It is all available in abundance, lying in the street, as we trample on it on our hurried day-to-day.

The information isn't the problem. Being too swamped to process it is.

Looking to follow more people/accounts working on disability studies, disability history, crip theory, disability justice, DisCrit, etc

Who are your favourite follows on Mastodon? Academic, activist, archival, personal, all welcome.

#disability #disabilityStudies #disabilityhistory #DisabilityJustice #criptheory #DisCrit #academia #academicchatter

OpenReception is an open source medical practice booking system. It's employing a lot of good and forward facing tech to enhance security as well as
privacy (passkeys, PQC, Shamir Secret Sharing, etc.).

Sounds like it might be a good alternative to tech stressed medical practices in #Aotearoa NZ.

Unfortunately the link is in Geman. But the publisher often/mostly releases the same content in English a few hours later, then a clickable flag appears on the same page.

Interesting to you, @lightweight ?

https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Terminbuchungssoftware-OpenReception-Entwickler-sehen-Ende-der-Passwort-Aera-11293916.html

#ManageMyHealth #OpenSource #DigitalHealth

Google replaces your PC mouse with yelling at Gemini

‘reimagining’ the mouse pointer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSWCWnLMj-U&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260513-google-replaces-your-mouse-with-yelling-at-gemini - podcast

time: 5 min 38 sec

Despite receiving scholarships to universities across the world, approximately 1,000 Palestinian students remain trapped in Gaza as Israel controls the borders and won’t let them out. [Video]

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/palestinian-students-trapped-in-gaza-by-israeli-border-closures/

Under a fascist regime everyone is a criminal, which is perhaps a truly hopeful and even aspirational thing.

We are all criminal, so not keeping others' secrets risks self-incrimination.

We are all criminal, so giving the authorities anything is never worth it.

We are all criminal, so we all hang together or be hanged together.

We are all criminal.

Why does @johnfetterman@bird.makeup want more dead Americans and Iranians? Why did he vote against ending an illegal, undeclared war that is gutting the economy and killing thousands?

My senator owes me some fucking answers.

So... when WordPress 7.0 gets released it's apparently going to have AI integrated into everything. I have no idea what I'm going to do with Eviscerati.Org - hopefully WP7 has some way to disable the AI, but the way things are going these days it doesn't seem like it. Anyone know if I have any simple migration options? I'm very tired of migrating my site, but I guess I need to at least think about it.

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Where are the thinkpieces on C-Suite automation with AI?

https://inthesetimes.com/article/comics-art-artificial-intelligence-labor-trump

I'd hope it's occurred to at least someone at GitLab that if we hand over software development to machines, the fantasy of control over that process will be short lived.

Further, it risks a future where we will not be able to read software written by 'AI', soon enough needing abstraction layers & interpreters to understand it. Human-legibility in code will be a bottle-neck.

Our computed languages, built to be read & written by people, could become increasingly irrelevant under this capture.

Get ready, NYC.
Our bagels, pizza, and bread are about to change, because a new law is set to make a ubiquitous ingredient illegal! I wrote about it on Boing Boing...

https://boingboing.net/2026/05/13/nycs-iconic-bagels-and-pizzas-could-change-because-a-carcinogenic-ingredient-may-soon-become-illegal-in-ny.html

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Here's your average family in Chagrin Falls, Iran
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