I'm telling you: this motherfucker knows that USians are literally done with the ruling class. And he knows what they muse about doing out loud in the privacy of their own homes. And he wakes up screaming every night thinking about it.
Do I think it's gonna get there - a literal eating of the rich? No. I don't.
But I do think the rage and violence of USians has risen to the point where, when the economy tanks like a motherfucker in June-July, there will be some blood and fire.
/fin
new post, in which I outline the absolute absurdities of recent 0-day disclosure, and curse myself for having any foresight on what might happen in the coming years.
read it here: https://sdomi.pl/weblog/29-please-do-better-thanks/
(and do bring the tea…)
Since May 22, 300 detained immigrant workers at Delaney Hall in Newark have been on a work stoppage and hunger strike.
“We are also doing this to demand freedom,” one worker said. “We’re not treated like people. We’re treated like animals.”
https://inthesetimes.com/article/new-jersey-prison-immigrants-strike-ice-trump
I read lots of books on #coops, so I thought I would start writing short reviews of them for co-oppy people on #Bookwyrm. First up is this interesting book called Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy by Williams and Satgar. Its well worth a read.
https://bookwyrm.social/user/caribou/review/11387098#anchor-11387098
In Arizona, clean energy candidates beat utility insiders backed by business groups and Turning Point Action.
Marjorie Kelly and Thomas M. Hanna
report that advocates for renewable energy and affordability now hold a majority on the Salt River Project board.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/arizona-salt-river-project-democratic-utility-public-ownership
Akira Urushibata on Misleading Numbers From Anthropic's Project Glasswing (False Marketing by FUD Tactics)
https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/29/Akira_Urushibata_on_Misleading_Numbers_From_Anthropic_s_Project.shtml
#Techrights
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Thinking about leaving Google but not sure where to start?
@fight, @mayfirst and @ptp are hosting a webinar on de-googling yourself and your organization.
📅 Wednesday June 3rd, 2–3pm ET
🔗 https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/degoogling-webinar/
Hello, world!
We're Wiki Workers United, a global solidarity union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation.
This account will share updates on our organizing effort, relevant news/info, and maybe the occasional meme. We promise to keep posting volume reasonably chill.
More info here:
And we welcome the community to express support here:
Hey @limeleaf 👋 We had the idea of creating a starterpack for tech co-ops but you already did it. Great! :) Seems like the focus was to have personal accounts in there. Would you be open to add all the organizational accounts currently floating around? Or is there even the possibility to collaborate somehow on the list? Otherwise we could collectively collect them all in answers to this post.
Meta has been blocking human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. EFF joined ALQST and 10 other organizations in calling on Meta to restore access to accounts and provide more transparency about their practices https://www.alqst.org/en/post/meta-blocks-human-rights-accounts-from-reaching-audiences-in-saudi-arabia-and-the-uae
In response to *gestures wildly*, I've written about LLMs and why tech communities (in particular) should take an ethical stance against their use.
Flathub moves to ban nearly all apps and submissions made with generative AI https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/flathub-moves-to-ban-nearly-all-apps-and-submissions-made-with-generative-ai/
More than 300 federal agents descended on a Chicago apartment building. Black Hawk helicopters. Doors kicked in. Residents zip-tied and detained.
Rebecca Burns reports on why tenants now suspect the raid may have served as an eviction by ICE.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/eviction-by-ice-on-chicago-tenants-landlord-renters-immigrants
In order to make it look like at least one company isn't totally losing their shirt by using "AI," the Financial Times (an outlet that absolutely knows better) was forced to remove expenses from their analysis. Think about that one for a moment: the numbers were so bad that they felt the need to add an asinine assumption, just to avoid coming to the obviously true conclusion: everyone is losing massive amounts of money on this. Yes, even Amazon.
"According to a report from Axios, an AI consultant revealed that one of their enterprise clients accidentally racked up a staggering $500 million bill in a single month on Anthropic’s Claude after failing to implement spending caps or usage controls for employees. Yes, half a billion dollars. In 30 days. On AI usage."
I'm sure they got some killer code out of it though, right? A new must-have app, or something, right? Right?!?
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