Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116630681087209164

This kind of bullshit is just ONE reason why I staunchly oppose this technology and any others used to create widespread surveillance dragnets.

It’s long past time to deflock our communities.

If you are considering the Kagi search engine, there are aspects you should be aware of from an ethics perspective.

https://khevans.com/2025/08/21/kagi-ethics.html

”A portion of your fee goes towards Yandex, indirectly funding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Vlad, the CEO, has stated that 2% of their total costs in 2024 goes towards Yandex. He has also stated that there is no intent of changing this.”

”At least other search engines like DuckDuckGo have halted their partnerships with Yandex. Kagi’s refusal to do so and Vlad’s firm support of Yandex is quite telling. If others have ceased partnering with Yandex, why can’t Vlad?”

”It’s worth mentioning that Kagi previously listed the sources they used in their search. It seems that they’ve now hidden that information on that page, seemingly contradictory to their “commitment to transparency.”

”A portion of your fee goes towards Elon Musk’s xAI, of X/Twitter, to support Grok in their AI assistant. Indeed, you can simply not use this assistant, however all paying users are effectively subsidizing the cost of the Grok API calls. There is no way to opt-out of this.”

there are no good search engines left and paying for kagi makes that situation worse

go use one of the small ones that sucks at search and help make it better. don’t come on here and roleplay like you’re doing us a fucking favor by paying kagi’s token bill

"It is sweeter for us to wander with the wretched and the outcasts than to sit, crowned with roses, at the banquets of the rich."

- Elisée Reclus

Can someone update me on the state / existence of #ActivityPub platforms with end-to-end encryption?

Does such platforms exist? If so, what are they, and do any of them natively use e2ee by default

#e2e #e2ee #socialmedia

https://judyandthejerks.com/

I made a website for my band! Infinite shout outs to @The_Counterforce and the various "how-to" guides. Having fun on the internet and learning new skills is cool and possible.

‘There is profound disappointment in him’: mood in Russia turns against Putin - https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/may/24/there-is-profound-disappointment-in-him-mood-in-russia-turns-against-putin "there is a growing realisation that utterly senseless, self-destructive decisions keep being made. People who once defended Putin no longer do. Any sense of a future has disappeared.” poor little putin

Rancid monopolist Meta wars on competition. https://www.404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/

#noAI #aiSlop #fckLLMs #unplugBigTech #fascistEnablers

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) https://isaiprofitable.com/

#MachineSociety

Hello #GetFediHired - I'm back again.

My current contract is coming to an end at the close of June.

I don't suppose anyone knows of any orgs looking for someone with my spikey experience across business operations, cybersecurity and compliance?

I managed to get a software company that had no hope of getting through CE+ previously, through CE+ at the start of the year. And I'm trained as an ISO 27001:2022 internal auditor.

Open to roles in #Cornwall, or remote in the UK.

Thanks for sharing.

The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

The business model of Tinder etc. isn't to find you the love of your life, it's to keep you on their site, making you pay for as long as possible.

The business model of Big AI isn't to solve your problems with the least amount of tokens. It is to keep you close enough to *think* you might soon have the solution while you keep on spending more and more tokens.

Both (and many other services) make their money based on hope, not on results. That's my opinion.

Do you use #Wikipedia, #Wiktionary, #WikimediaCommons, #Wikidata, or other #Wikimedia resources? The #WikimediaFoundation has just disbanded an entire team of staff who work closely with volunteer contributors, coincidentally while some of those same staff have been working to form a union. Volunteers from various projects are planning collective action in solidarity with the workers. On the English-language Wikipedia, this action might include an editorial strike (no new content) or making the wiki read-only. #union #solidarity

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workers_United

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@jaythvv/116622235875062745

batshit AI crazy Microsoft says AI more expensive than human worker 😂

As this Dutch experience teaches, Aotearoa New Zealand is vulnerable to Big Tech spying on behalf of the USA government.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/05/us-tech-firms-share-dutch-regulator-officials-names-with-senate/

'Companies such as Microsoft and Meta have shared the names of civil servants and academics working on European tech regulation with a senate committee investigating “tech censorship” or “jawboning”, news magazine Vrij Nederland reported on Friday.

The cabinet has described the news as “extremely worrying”, given that the named officials could now face travel bans or even sanctions, Vrij Nederland said.'

Comic inspired by this article: https://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-solar-farms-health-concerns-st-clair-county

This week's comic: The dangers of solar panels

#solar #energy #SolarPower

(Similarly, I might well be criticized for discussing things in relatively idealistic terms, and ignoring how one might be *coerced* into using or promoting AI. I will defend my discussion on idealistic terms, as "AI is bad, don't use it because of this list of reasons" is already a nuanced and complex statement about what one should ideally do. Adding the other layer of constrained choices under capitalistic coercion is another necessary complexity, but a separate and complementary discussion.)

To wit, AI products such as LLMs:

• Are primarily developed under eugenicist philosophies, and primarily financially benefit fascists.
• Are trained on uncompensated and nonconsentual labor.
• Require unconscionable and unsustainable levels of energy and water waste.
• Are used to undermine labor rights, such as the power of artists to say "no" to unconscionable demands.
• Necessarily consolidate and centralize power.
• Present unacceptable risks due to disinformation and other errors.