Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Really bad phishing campaign being run by idiots who think we're going to believe the United Healthcare wants to do something generous for the people it insures...

@davidgerard The Google AI overview has to be the single most infuriating AI I've ever come across. It feels *exactly* like interacting with a pathological liar. Just the way it will confidently tell you utter bullshit based on the vibes of what you put into the search box, bullshit that is just immediately obvious. It makes my skin crawl every time.

File under: digital media literacy

The great @molly0xfff has a mini-thread up on Bluesky revealing how her Substack dashboard shows steady growth... despite the fact she stopped using that platform a year and a half ago: https://bsky.app/profile/molly.wiki/post/3ltd6biesvk2r

Substack's "network effect" may be an illusion. More on this here: https://bsky.app/profile/molly.wiki/post/3ltd6fud6jc2r

I'm really happy I left SS for Ghost in January 2024 and I never looked back... and yes, the abbreviation is not that coincidental

🔗: https://news.elenarossini.com/this-is-what-resistance-to-the-digital-coup-looks-like/

More good news! Another government is freeing itself from tech giants and vendor lock-in. The Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is dropping Microsoft Office/365 and moving to #LibreOffice, to get back control: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/08/danish-ministry-switching-from-microsoft-office-365-to-libreoffice/ #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware

Children in England ‘living in almost Dickensian levels of poverty’ - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/08/children-england-living-almost-dickensian-levels-poverty how shameful can you get?

In a momentous vote, the National Education Association voted to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League. The reason? “Despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the social justice educational partner it claims to be.”

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-national-education-association-just-voted-to-cut-all-ties-to-the-anti-defamation-league/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

To anyone still wondering if New York Times can disgrace itself even more than it already has, Dan Froomkin has an answer:

"The sad fact is that there is nothing terribly out of character about the New York Times’s decision to publish a deceptive hit piece about New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, based on hacked data supplied by a noted eugenicist to whom they granted anonymity."

#ZohranMamdani #NewYorkTimes
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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/the-sad-sad-state-of-the-new-york

If this isn't a war crime, what is? https://archive.is/2025.07.06-202730/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/world/middleeast/israels-deadly-assault-on-iran-prison-incites-fury-even-among-dissidents.html

Addendum: It's also wild how project planning does not seem to take into account the psychic damage that the team will incur in doing it. Like, how does no one factor the morale of the engineering team into these things? Engineers don't even get shot for desertion, they get raises at another companies for leaving, the current system isn't even rational on the grounds of capitalism.

Trumpian "populism" was always a lie. His budget bill makes it impossible to deny—but only if Trump opponents press this case relentlessly. https://plus.flux.community/p/with-his-pretty-ugly-bill-trumps

Police “buffer” laws are irreconcilable with the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Journalists, and everyone else, are entitled to observe and record police up close.

We joined a brief led by NPPA and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression opposing one such law – Louisiana’s Act 259.

https://media.freedom.press/media/documents/Deep_South_Today_FIRE_Amicus_FILED.pdf

I chaired the FCC. The 60 Minutes settlement shows Trump has weaponized the agency

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/05/fcc-60-minutes-settlement-trump

This week, @subMedia speaks about the first episode of the InterRebellium docu-series, The Estallido Social about the 2019 Chilean uprising

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/07/06/interrebellium-by-sub-media/

Anti-doxing laws, if not drafted carefully, could become tools to punish legitimate journalism and public advocacy.

Read the letter we signed with eight other organizations urging the Uniform Law Commission to pause potential legislation:

https://spj.org/spj-urges-caution-on-anti-doxing-laws-warns-of-threat-to-press-freedom/

U.S. invites Czech musician to play — then ICE traumatizes him at airport and sends him home - https://boingboing.net/2025/07/07/u-s-invites-czech-musician-to-play-then-ice-traumatizes-him-at-airport-and-sends-him-home.html why would any artist risk going to #murica now?

Top Economist Discovers Greed Exists and Might Be Bad

To Understand the Economy, This Fed President Is Ditching His Desk [Wall Street Journal]

https://archive.is/20250705042752/https://www.wsj.com/economy/tom-barkin-richmond-fed-profile-b800d337

The Threat Beneath: Hidden In-Chip Operating Systems

Modern CPUs from Intel and AMD ship with undocumented, embedded operating systems (Intel ME, AMD PSP) that run below your OS—at ring -3—with full system access and zero user control.

What’s at risk?

Persistent backdoors, remote code execution, firmware implants
Nation-state exploitation (NSA, China’s APTs, Shadow Brokers leaks)
Hidden microcontrollers that can operate even when powered “off”

https://puri.sm/posts/hidden-operating-systems-in-chips-vs-secure-auditable-oses-a-cybersecurity-comparison/

Don't sue me, Nintendo. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2025/07/07

Ok, this story doesn't pass the smell test at all. Who is doing photo editing with ChatGPT? Is that even a thing?

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/07/02/maine-police-department-apologizes-ai-altered-evidence-photo/

"Westbrook police initially denied AI had been used to generate the photo before eventually confirming its use of the AI chatbot ChatGPT."

"The problem is that class is not, at least solely, an identity; it’s a relationship within a hierarchy. In other words, it would be strange for me to “identify” with my class, because to do so would be to tacitly endorse the hierarchy itself. I’d like to live in a society without class, insofar as that’s possible—not a society where class is reified as a cherished identity and treated merely as a problem of representation."

https://lithub.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-working-class-writer-at-iowa-writers-workshop/