Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Vibe Coding in Progress: No Thinking Allowed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeNS1ZNHQs8

Good heavy rain today if you're RFK Jr. and want to go swimming in a combined sewage overflow.

♲ @prplcdclnw@diasp.eu:

GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/gop…

On Sunday night, House Republicans added language to the Budget Reconciliation bill that would block all state and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years, 404 Media reports. The provision, introduced by Representative Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, states that "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10 year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."\
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The broad wording of the proposal would prevent states from enforcing both existing and proposed laws designed to protect citizens from AI systems. For example, California's recent law requiring health care providers to disclose when they use generative AI to communicate with patients would potentially become unenforceable. New York's 2021 law mandating bias audits for AI tools used in hiring decisions would also be affected, 404 Media notes. The measure would also halt legislation set to take effect in 2026 in California that requires AI developers to publicly document the data used to train their models.

#ars #arstechnica #ai #artificial-intelligence #artificial-stupidity #llm #llms #spending-bill #republicans #gop #health-care #regulation #privacy #security #generative-ai #training-data

Meta have been asking some users to confirm their identity with a 'video selfie', & for supposed account recovery. Soon, more users will be asked with threat of blocking or deleting their account as Meta prepares to launch their facial recog glasses (soon on shelves).

But it's not just about feeding their new product. Meta are harvesting biometric data on a vast scale, perhaps globally, & in full cohort with a dangerous regime.

Leaving Meta is an important act of resistance, now more than ever

“I don’t think people have a good sense of what (coastal surveillance towers) are capturing,” EFF’s Dave Maass told the San Diego Union-Tribune. “There should be some transparency about that, because if they are capturing people on the beach, questions should be asked.”
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/05/14/rep-levin-asks-for-surveillance-towers-along-san-diego-coast-to-prevent-maritime-smuggling/

A scholar who has served our nation has had enough of the Trump regime's attacks on knowledge: https://time.com/7285045/resigning-national-science-foundation-library-congress/

Important read...

Flock’s invasive new tool “will certainly help to bring expanded surveillance powers to police departments of all sizes that never needed this much information on any random person who happens to drive by,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton warned @404mediaco. https://www.404media.co/license-plate-reader-company-flock-is-building-a-massive-people-lookup-tool-leak-shows/

We are going to deploy storage limits on Codeberg. Here is what you need to know: https://blog.codeberg.org/new-storage-limits-on-codeberg-what-you-need-to-know.html

To avoid disrupting your valuable work, we will be careful and start with very generous limits. Over time, we'll tune the configuration based on your feedback.

We also plan on helping you find and lower resource consumption, should you be shocked with the amount of storage you currently consume.

(By the way, we are aware of a bug that makes repo size count twice. It will get fixed soon)

When is a "Co-op" Not Really a Cooperative? by David Ellerman & Tej Gonza

Certain to be a controversial thesis. Do you agree with Ellerman and Gonza?

https://geo.coop/articles/when-co-op-not-really-cooperative

https://blog.pmpress.org/2025/04/15/voices-beyond-lockdown-zine/

Secure Supply Chain- Liberty Phone.

Secure from source to shipment.

Purism's Made in USA electronics, manufactured securely since 2018.

Learn More at Purism: https://puri.sm/products/liberty-phone/

#SupplyChainSecurity #Purism

I started posting to Reddit.

The result: remarkable.

u/tomthedancingbug
posting to r/comics

https://www.reddit.com/user/tomthedancingbug/

Articles of Impeachment.

https://win.newmode.net/freespeechforpeople/call-vote-to-impeach-donald-trump

#USPol

feeling grateful for @Codeberg today -- it works well, is dependable, good alternative to github

there's a lot of tech focus on "innovation", but doing something ordinary and doing it well is so valuable

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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The Trump administration's new USA tourism marketing campaign! COME VISIT THE USA!
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https://boingboing.net/2025/05/14/tom-the-dancing-bug-come-visit-trumps-usa.html

#openstreetmap started blocking the mapping app I am using on my Nokia #N900 :(

"user-agent": "CloudGPS for N900"

I realize there's maybe 5 of us so no one's going to notice the suck we suffer :P

I wrote a proxy to lie about user agent. Annoying.

But free, public, mutual #Web is dying. How are kids going to learn if they have to jump through advanced hoops to access anything? Where will the new generation come from?

Maybe we should create an overlay network for nerds only.

#osm

📣 We're looking for communities and individuals interested in setting up their own Bonfire instances over the next weeks.
We need your help to:
- Use Bonfire in real-world scenarios
- Federate with each other and the wider fediverse to test interoperability
- Monitor performance under active use

Your feedback will help us get Bonfire Social across the finish line to a stable 1.0 release!
We’ll be happy to provide guidance throughout the whole process ✊

Please boost or reach out if interested!

Welcome @RadicalRoutes to social.coop and the Mastodon fediverse!

Radical Routes is a mutual-aid network of co-ops committed to working together for radical social change.

We have been holding space for them, pending this big moment. See past posts at #RadicalRoutes

Their website is www.RadicalRoutes.org.uk

See also https://www.veggies.org.uk/shop/books-and-publications/radical-routes/

FBI Warning on Messaging Apps
The FBI urges Americans to ditch SMS for encrypted apps—then demands backdoors via “responsible encryption.”

Big Tech resists.

Law enforcement wants access.

There’s another way:

Purism’s Librem 5 & Liberty Phone

✅ USA-made
✅ No Google/Apple OS
✅ Hardware kill switches
✅ Open-source PureOS
✅ Lifetime security updates
✅ Supports Matrix, Jami & more

Don’t just switch apps. Change the platform.

Read More Here: https://puri.sm/posts/fbi-raises-alarm-on-encrypted-messaging-apps-a-new-front-in-the-battle-for-digital-privacy-and-national-security/