Bill C-22 is a massive change from the status quo in Canada, and should be debated and fixed before moving it forward. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/canada-forging-ahead-its-dangerous-surveillance-bill
“The wake of a data breach would be a good time for Madison Square Garden to stop subjecting its patrons to biometric surveillance,” EFF’s @Adam_D_Schwartz told @404mediaco. https://www.404media.co/madison-square-garden-made-dossier-on-activists-who-opposed-facial-recognition/
LIMITS 2026 starts TOMORROW!
This week, June 23-25, join a global distributed community at our free yearly online-first conference #LIMITS2026.
LIMITS moves us closer towards #computing that supports ecological and just futures for diverse human and non-human lifeforms and thriving biospheres. We're excited for 15 peer reviewed papers, 10+ alternative contributions, open sessions, and a storytelling session with Bonnie Nardi.
Program and free registration: https://computingwithinlimits.org/2026/
Under the First Amendment, possessing literature cannot be criminal.
If prosecutors are correct that Daniel Sanchez moved zines because he feared they’d try to use them against his wife, that’s a commentary on their lawlessness, not his.
Our statement:
https://freedom.press/issues/texas-man-sentenced-to-30-years-for-transporting-pamphlets/
Become a Friend of PM, and support independent radical publishing. We’ll send you books monthly, and you'll get 50% off of everything on our website year-round. You’ll also receive this enamel pin set free. Offer ends 7/1. https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=139
please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can:
https://prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-writings/statement-by-benjamin-champagne-song/
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (25/2026): Alpen Avocado and a flip phone by Commodore
https://linmob.net/weekly-update-25-2026/
#Linux #LinuxMobile #Phosh #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #DanctNIX #postmarketOS #CommodoreCallback #MobileConfigFirefox
Transparency wins in Tennessee.
Judicial records can't be kept secret without a compelling interest, the TN Supreme Court has clarified.
This is a major win for public access to the court system.
https://www.aol.com/news/tn-supreme-court-raises-bar-100324266.html
#ClimateDiary “Above is a fictional weather forecast for August 18, 2050, broadcast by French television in 2014, intended to warn against the disastrous consequences of global warming.
Below is the weather forecast for June 22, 2026.”
(By @jakubwiech on unmentionable)
This brings out super starkly how #ClimateChange has accelerated so much more quickly than we thought even just 12 years ago.
honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-choose-ai-climate-goals-data-center-chief-warns/
#Trump Still Wants His #MAGA #Slush Fund… And His Cabinet Refuses To Sign Declarations That It’s Gone - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/22/trump-still-wants-his-maga-slush-fund-and-his-cabinet-refuses-to-sign-declarations-that-its-gone/ "Once again, in any other administration this entire thing would be seen as exponentially worse than Watergate"
> Hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players spent years filming the streets, parks, and buildings around them to earn in-game rewards. Those roughly 30 billion environmental scans are now owned by Niantic Spatial, and they helped train a camera-based navigation model that a U.S. defense contractor is preparing to put into drones and other military robots.
https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/
What's the lowest-power #RISCV #microcontroller ?
I'm planning to use the low-power core of ESP32-C6 for #jazda (no less than 7µA), but I'm sure there are cores that go lower than that.
Also, I'm running out of I/O pins on the -C6 and I might need to augment it with a "south bridge"...
$1.7-5.7 trillion! That's how much environmental damage only a tenth of the world's population does to the world annually.
https://www.earth.com/news/worlds-wealthiest-cause-trillions-in-environmental-damage-each-year/
While the world drowns in growing inequality and climate chaos, billionaires are hoarding hoard wealth and power. This can't continue. Add your name 👇
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/tax-the-super-rich/
5 million Americans have lost their health insurance solely because of the Republican’s Big Ugly Bill. Don’t let them deny it. Hold everyone of them accountable. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/medicaid-aca-enrollment-falls-5-million-new-report-finds-rcna351157t
Online gambling outfit Polymarket gets caught paying online "creators" to promote fake bet "winnings" in their feeds.
Great reporting from the WSJ, whose parent company is in business with Polymarket (which has ties with Trump family). At least the newsroom isn't corrupt.
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa