Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This comes shortly after #Etsy began to crack down on #AI slop sold on their site. The hypocrisy is astounding.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/etsy-restricts-ai-generated-seller-slop-rcna605216

#Etsy has updated their Terms of Service that forces sellers to allow the use of their photographs and text to train #AI. There is no opt-out.

It seems bonkers to me that Etsy, a website which ostensibly sells human-made creations, is forcing sellers to enable AI to learn from and subsequently copy their own products. I guess they now feel that they have enough market share that people will not leave over this.

https://www.valueaddedresource.net/etsy-expands-ai-training-rights/

I’m reflecting on all the different types of people who won as Democrats tonight. Different genders, different races, different ethnicities, different sexual orientations. Differences in style and, to some degree, in substance. But all recognizably and clearly antifascist, pro-democracy, committed to pluralistic constitutional democracy, rule of law.

That commonality should not be taken for granted. It is the bedrock on which we can build a more just and livable country.

Three top Indonesian policemen including President Prabowo Subianto's chief of staff have been arrested on suspicion of wiretapping the president, ministers and others, Indonesian authorities have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/11/04/asia-pacific/politics/indonesia-wiretapping-president/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #prabowosubianto #indonesia #southeastasia

Waiting for the New York Times' sure-to-come second day headline:

"Analysis: Why the elections were actually bad for the Democrats"

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/117556251305335153

I STAN THIS WOMAN SO HARD and yeah, the fact she reminds me of my nanas (who were of Taína ascendancy) totally has to do with it.

New México is the only place i’ve ever been where i was asked which First People’s nation i was part of. here am Black. over there, am Native. i love that.

From sltrib:

> Returns as of 9:30 p.m. show that three of the Utah State Board of Education’s 15 seats may move to democrats, if the results stick. That would give democrats a total of five seats on the republican supermajority board.

I believe if this holds, it puts the board in a much better position to contest book bans, and if Ken Ivory, the main force behind the book banning bill is indeed out, this seems like very good news

It's a good time to remember what the politics of the US tech industry have been over the past two years, and to remember the things executives thought they could get away with

Results are coming in, and I’m tracking how crypto and AI super PACs’ bets are faring live on Tech Influence Watch: https://influence.citationneeded.news/2026/results

I’ll thread the industries’ biggest wins and losses tonight below 🧵

#USpol #USpolitics #midterms

Texas is Blue.

Kentucky is Blue.

There’s a Black woman Governor.

A Native American woman Governor.

An openly gay Senator.

The Dems took the House & the Senate.

The people chose hope.

They rejected hate.

Now the work begins.

#uspol

my American friends are explaining the midterms to me, and I am shooting it straight into my veins

local man decides the news is good for your mental health, actually

Hot take: Trump and MAGA are no longer relevant. Their toxic actions have created a huge mess, and we need to do the hard work of cleaning it up.

What matters to me is accountability, reconciliation, and resuming the hard work of building a society that works for everybody. You can totally have different priorities and I will still work with you.

I’m so very tired of pettiness masquerading about as politics.

I'll just put this here

#AI #Dune

I'm so proud of you all.

Why yes I will be partaking in No Nazi November

Instagram deletes post description for DHS Icepick hack story.

Watch on screenrecorder how Instagram deletes Icepick story description from Unicorn Riot's post in real time. Recorded at 5:51 p.m. central time Nov. 3, 2026.

Read the article here: https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/icepick-leak-exposes-thousands-of-homeland-security-personnel-groups-and-more/

“there’s simply no way to tell if the anduril transphobe with haskell accelerationist (hs/acc) in his twitter username will be a good or bad influence on the community so we made him a board member”

for those keeping score at home, that’s at least the second functional programming language that anduril specifically has taken over as part of a fascist playbook move, specifically by installing their employees into the body that controls the language. to my knowledge, the first time they did this was with Nix, and the community and project have both been doing horribly since then.

anduril is turning the functional programming world into urbit, piece by piece

"So, what's your solution then? Would you rather ban [insert random piece of offensive technology here]?"

"Yes."

"What?! But that's impossible!"

"No."

Well this is fucked up. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/doj-monitor-elections-all-50-states-first-time