Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117561230111500738

White House Staffers Shocked to Learn That Trump Doesn’t Listen to Anyone, Not Even Them

If you’re in D.C. and would like to spend the next two years making Donald Trump and his people miserable, Jamie Raskin is hiring.

https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/about/job-opportunities

#USPol

RE: https://mastodon.social/@carstenfranke/117559201273902159

This is a good chart that reminds us that the US House is supposed to represent PEOPLE, not LAND.

The US Senate on the other hand…

Using an area map of districts and shading it according to the winner is grossly misleading.
Huge red areas in the Midwest that have very few house seats. But you get the impression of overwhelming Republican presence in the US. The NYT gives us a terrible example.
Using a square per seat gives you a much better representation. Most of the US districts are Democrat blue. AP has a great example.

New, from me:

Several staffers at the White House are using computers or mobile devices equipped with residential proxy services that render their internet address available for others to rent, security experts warned today. One of the proxy services is a Russian company whose founder’s web hosting business was ground zero for cyberattacks against election systems in Arizona and Illinois in 2016.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/11/want-to-rent-an-internet-address-at-the-white-house/

@alpenglow @drahardja @inarticulatequilter Yep. Etsy’s biggest investors include BlackRock and Goldman Sachs. Everything changed when they went public in 2015. This isn’t surprising if you’ve been following their trajectory over the past decade. They keep the indie handmade facade but they’re just another extractive corporation.

Ars Technica doing their best to silence people who've had enough of their uncritical coverage of SpaceX and Elon Musk. Moneyed interests have made it such a shit site.

#weAreFromTheBottomComingForThoseOnTop #destroyWhatDestroysYou

reminder - the key tell of fake anti-AI groups is: they never advocate abolition, only moderation. then it's a front group every time.

second tell is money. high paid staff and jobs. there's no fuckin money in this except from EAs and AI vendors.

here's the quick guide in three posts:

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/02/your-guide-to-astroturf-fake-anti-ai-groups/
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/10/jacob-coxon-how-to-run-an-ai-doomsday-media-campaign/
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/06/the-ai-doomsday-cult-recruits-social-media-influencers/

that last one starts with me getting a pitch from the EAs

A Chinese software company planted a backdoor that ended up in widely used consumer hardware -- including (Google) Android TV boxes. Yet Google didn't bother to check until criminals deployed botnets using those boxes. Banning the company is too little, way too late. https://betanews.com/article/google-bans-videostrong-xcpe-tv-box-botnet/

It occurred to me then that *most* people seem to think that animals only have value - and deserve protection - if they're 'owned'. Indigenous, ambient wildlife has - in most people's minds ~zero (or even negative) value. The crucial, unique value of our biodiversity has *not* been well explained to the mainstream. What do you think? @joncounts
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In November there are protests, events, campaigns to stop dirty ("AI") data centres in multiple EU countries: https://stopdirtydatacentres.eu/en/

#AI #noAI #technofascism #DataCentres #datacenters #datacenter #datacentre #StopDirtyDataCentres

Sustainable data centres? Penta Infra claims again and again on its website that they make sustainable data centres.

They boast about being awarded "most sustainable data center" by the lobby group the Danish Data Center Industry...

How much can a Company get away with before it is called #greenwashing ?

#StopDatacentre #StopDirtyDataCentres

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/117559094091527429

Write your representatives (and representative-elects), remind them that the mandate is to hold Trump and the GOP to account, not to sweep it under the rug.

And that begins with not electing Hakeem Jeffries or Chuck Schumer into ANY position of leadership.

More good news. Confirmation we flipped Nevada's sole Republican congressional district -- the 2nd, basically the northern half of the state -- and a seat never before won by a Democrat.

Outgoing congressman Amodei refused to endorse GOP candidate Flippo. And that was before we learned about Flippo's habit of saying his Bronze Star was for valor, which it was not, and wearing a military cap with unearned V pins on it -- something he valiantly blamed on his grandchildren.

Jesus, Hipkins, you don't _count_ taxes. This party has five taxes, the other has four taxes… is that how stupid you think people are?

It's a ludicrous way to frame things, and you should be ridiculing Luxon for trying it, not jumping to make yourself look equally thick.

If you want to sound decisive, try “We will reject any proposals from other parties that increase the tax burden on working people” or “A bottom line for Labour is that the average New Zealander will pay less tax under a government we lead”.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics_election-2026/2354786/chris-hipkins-puts-job-on-the-line-over-no-new-taxes

If you use #AI to make images to celebrate Dem wins, you’re still getting muted and blocked.

#aiSlop

NPR: Elon Musk will face scrutiny from Democrats after midterms

"...With a Democratic majority in Congress, the billionaire, who controls Tesla and SpaceX, will likely face investigations into the billions of dollars of government contracts his companies have been awarded since President Trump returned to office and his role leading the Department of Government Efficiency at the beginning of Trump's second term.

Musk gave more than $445 million to Republican candidates, political action committees and outside groups, according to federal election filings analyzed by OpenSecrets, a nonprofit that tracks campaign spending. That makes him the top donor in the midterms and among the very largest political donors in American history...."

https://www.npr.org/2026/11/04/nx-s1-6029650/elon-musk-midterms-democrats-texas-congress

#uspol #musk

Preparing for #40c3 - our latest sticker creation!
May be used to augment the information on dairy and other products.

Files for download here: https://codeberg.org/stickersforabetterworld/AlternativeNutriScore/

#fckafd #afd

Check out this documentary about #AI showing in #aarhus 💚

19 Nov: https://dukop.dk/10951/

"Ghost in the Machine exposes the historical and philosophical underpinnings of Artificial Intelligence, not as a neutral system of algorithms that suddenly came into existence, but as a technology shaped over many decades by eugenics, misogyny, and entrenched structures of power.'

@arclight @gluejar I often get alerts from ThriftBooks along the lines of “check out the latest from Franz Kafka”