Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Felon Trump is the first president to call for America to be attacked. And cowardly Republicans said nothing. We need everyone to go vote.

#midterms #election #elections #vote #usa

Excellent New Yorker cover this week. We all know he's gonna try.

Read every word of this excellent analysis of the NYT’s irresponsible coverage of the current election. https://www.findinggravity.net/the-new-york-times-invents-a-democratic-scandal-while-ignoring-a-new-trump-rape-allegation/

@foser explains it all for you.

It is genuinely nice to see the tech bros and billionaires getting all worried about security all of a sudden. I’ve been trying to keep my users safe for years, and it is seldom easy.

Shai-Hulud was and is a much bigger problem than most of what has happened in October (except that crypto shit. That shit is huge, but when you fuck around with grifters I don’t know what y’all were expecting).

Php2shell was scary, yes, but more than 300GB of creds have been stolen via supply-chain attacks.

Latest of many recent emails from Social Security fluffing the corrupt Trump regime starts: "Under President Donald J. Trump, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is transforming into a model of excellence..."

Voters: Remember that this crowd wants to gut Medicare and Social Security.

Can personal or proprietary information shared in an AI chatbot end up inside an LLM, where anyone might coax it out? The answer is...
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4242386/dont-trust-ai-to-keep-your-secrets.html

Encountered on a random website:

« You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. Please enable scripts and reload this page. »

What a weird error message! Apparently this is a SharePoint thing.

Unfortunately, I suspect the answers to this survey will worm their way into ACL policies, so if you want to try to save our field (NLP/compling that is) from this zombie apocalypse, consider filling it out and giving them a piece of your mind:

https://umfragen.tu-darmstadt.de/ai_in_research_practice

The press freedom crackdown in Egypt is getting even worse. An Egyptian court has ordered the closure of Mada Masr, one of the country’s last independent news outlets, and slapped its editor with a crushing fine.

The shutdown of Mada Masr is an attack on independent journalism everywhere.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw8rz14k1jvxo

An #ICE officer has been charged after striking a man with a car in #Houston https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/30/us/ice-officer-charged-houston?utm_source=cnn_Breaking_News&utm_medium=email #Texas #PoliceBrutality

Can journalists enter a polling place? Photograph a voter? Photograph a marked ballot?

What about polling place selfies? Your own ballot?

There are no blanket rules!

Get ready for election day NOW. Research your local jurisdiction and read these tips from our friends at NPPA:

https://nppa.org/news/874

LLMs are so unpopular that in the other thread, people are actively discussing changing email providers again because tuta is now using them

and they’re right, because a privacy company that uses LLMs for anything doesn’t give a shit about your privacy

LLMs are so unpopular that most people in the world, when asked, say they hate them

LLMs are so unpopular that the employees who are forced to use them under threat of being fired still spoke out to 404 about how fucking awful using LLMs at Proton is

and you think they’re inevitable? how?

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Rest in power, Jai Jai. Your work, your music, and your spirit live on.

I'm devastated to hear that #Proton 's CEO and CTO are treating their engineers in a terrible way, blindly trusting LLMs and creating a toxic culture where speed and growth trump security.

I'm not ready to make a radical switch yet but some little actions I implemented today could be useful for others, too:
1) I made my custom domain the DEFAULT email address in ProtonMail
2) I created aliases w my custom domain for shopping, newsletters, admin, etc.

Hoping this will make a transition smoother

“A statement in response to Andreas Malm being denied entry into the Un | Verso Books”

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/a-statement-in-response-to-andreas-malm-being-denied-entry-into-the-united-kingdom

> We can only assume, since no reasons have been given for banning him, that it is Andreas’s positions on Palestine, no different from the ICC and UN commissions, is the cause.

Videos and blog posts from "AI"-pilled software developers talking about how their careers are gone or in a dead-end seems to have become a genre in a very short space of time. At least a couple of notable examples just this week.