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Flock “can’t tech its way out” of the stalker cop problem, experts say

Flock to lock out cops who stalk exes, but agencies can still hide abuse.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/flock-cant-tech-its-way-out-of-the-stalker-cop-problem-experts-say/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side With Them
https://www.404media.co/person-hides-prompt-injection-in-legal-filing-telling-ai-to-side-with-them/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Every so often a politician does the unimaginable—Obama in 2008, AOC in 2018, Mamdani in 2025. Dr. Abdul El Sayed is doing it again in Michigan, and corporate media is wholly missing the moment. Anti-Muslim hate targeting him jumped twentyfold after the primary, and even the President attacked him from his global platform.

Yet he's united Michigan and struck enough fear into MAGA Mike Rogers that he so far won't debate him. Let’s Address This.

https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/dr-abdul-el-sayed-is-doing-something

Help us and Cloaked bring the fireside chat "AI, Data Privacy and the Legislative Road to Personal Safety," featuring EFF's Senior Policy Analyst Matthew Guariglia, to SXSW! Voting ends August 23rd. https://participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sxsw27/community-voting-sxsw/page/community-voting/session/1784810293331001kpUU

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What can a button tell us about the history of the Left?

Quite a lot.

Join archivist Isaac Silver for Buttons, Bagels, and Brunch, featuring artifacts from the rise, decline and rebirth of May Day.

Sunday, Aug. 23, 11 AM–1 PM in Chicago.

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“I just look forward to when things finally get all in place, where we can kind of relax a little bit and enjoy being seniors and not have to fight for the basics.”

Sandra Larson reports on older adults organizing for housing justice.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/older-adults-elders-fighting-for-housing-justice-tenants-union-ma-la-wi-nc

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Should "AI" Data Centers be converted into public libraries?

What is AIPAC, and what does it actually do in U.S. elections?

In 2024, Branko Marcetic investigated how the pro-Israel lobbying group and its super PAC, United Democracy Project, used millions in outside spending to shape Democratic primaries and target progressives.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/aipac-israel-palestine-gaza-squad-democrats-ceasefire

The replies to this are great

Turns out people on Mastodon have a lot of experience with failing companies 😁

A few more from personal experience. Possibly a little too specific

- You are told by a manager not to use the usual contact email address for a supplier or client and instead contact an employee directly using their personal email
- A manager quits at a short notice for "personal health"
- An angry scot shows up at the office, cursing the CEO and shouting "where's my money?!"

Paul Krugman is a conservative who cosplays as a progressive in order to fool liberals into supporting conservative economic policies. Robert Reich ran the same playbook when he was Sec. of Labor under Clinton. I despise these people - they are wolves in sheep's clothing

I enjoyed #rsync remote file completions for a while, but I upgraded to #Fedora 44 and now it chokes a few directories deep into the path :( I suspect some #bash expert failed on a whitespace inside the directory.

#linux #filesytem

The SEIU making sure that Uber and Lyft get what they want (not having to classify drivers as employees).

"Legislation extending collective bargaining rights to gig workers has positioned SEIU locals to represent hundreds of thousands of gig workers. Signaling a settlement between labor and industry on the gig work question, this deserves critical attention."

https://jacobin.com/2026/08/uber-rideshare-exploitation-unions-organizing

https://archive.ph/LeAc1#selection-693.172-693.425

Congrats to the dummy who set fire to their balcony last night. Smoking may be on the rise with the youths, but without Saturday Morning cartoons, they never were exposed to the PSAs to scare them about fire safety.

MediaTek going more and more open (source) as time goes on is extremely exciting, and hopefully something we can leverage in the #LinuxMobile space in the not-so-distant future

On a personal level, being part of this effort is incredibly rewarding, although quite challenging at times 😉

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/mediatek-genio-upstream-update-from-hdmi-20-to-booting-uboot-trusted-firmware-a.html

#OpenSource

The OSNews Fundraiser continues: you made me use Windows, now make me use macOS

The OSNews Fundraiser, to celebrate the fact I posted 20000 stories in 21 years, is still underway. The first major incentive was reached, and I, a long-time Linux user, published my experiences using Windows 11 for a month. It wasn't a success. Keep donating if you want to find ou

https://www.osnews.com/story/145747/the-osnews-fundraiser-continues-you-made-me-use-windows-now-make-me-use-macos/

#OSNews

Big fundraiser for @osnews, in honour of my 21 year tenure and 20000th post. Since my wife can barely work due to health issues (caused by her work, ugh), my family has to rely on my income much more heavily. And that means OSNews donations.

https://ko-fi.com/thomholwerda/goal?g=2

I've also got a few fun incentives:

Make me use Windows 11
A photo/video tour of my office and all my computers/devices
Make me use (and review) macOS
A tattoo of the OSNews logo (my first tattoo) on my shoulder

More details:

https://www.osnews.com/story/144982/the-21-years-and-20000-posts-osnews-fundraiser-a-euro-for-every-post/

Your support keeps OSNews free from ads and corporate influence, and allow me to continue to run what is one of the very last people-focused, independent technology news sites left in the world. Also, OSNews is militantly "AI"-free, in every step of the process.

“AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say? – Codemanship's Blog”

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/ai-software-development-what-does-the-data-say/

> If anything, the average team is taking longer to ship worse software

Anecdotally, this is what I've been hearing a lot too. Higher costs, more volume, worse outcomes. But still “inevitable” for some reason