Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Daily Kos!
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TRUMP SCIENCE!
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/10/2332469/-Cartoon-Tom-the-Dancing-Bug-presents-Trump-Science

A strong statement of resistance to the relentless marketing of "AI" in education spaces. I encourage all educators to have a look and consider signing on:

https://openletter.earth/an-open-letter-from-educators-who-refuse-the-call-to-adopt-genai-in-education-cb4aee75

German court rules #Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws - https://therecord.media/german-court-meta-tracking-tech "sets a precedent which the court acknowledged will allow countless other users to sue without “explicitly demonstrating individual damages,” " big #privacy

#Trump announces 50% tariff on Brazil, citing a ‘witch-hunt’ against #Bolsonaro - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/trump-tariffs-brunei-libya-moldova trying to use tariffs to interfere with a foreign nation's judiciary; says it all...

Children limiting own #smartphone use to manage mental health, survey finds - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/10/children-limiting-own-smartphone-use-manage-mental-health-survey the kids are alright...

From the President of Brazil.

Jim Spanfeller destroyed multiple media brands and has now written a self-ecomonium about how hard it's been ... on him.

Won't someone *please* think of the oligarchs?

https://defector.com/jim-spanfeller-somehow-worse-at-writing-than-running-a-media-company?giftLink=8d76e139360bae5a6a2d10c434f29c59

#Herb #Journalism #defector #journamalism

How's that AI coding going for you? Ah... I see.

Wired: McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants' Data to Hackers Using the Password ‘123456’

"... Carroll and Curry, hackers with a long track record of independent security testing, discovered that simple web-based vulnerabilities—including guessing one laughably weak password—allowed them to access a Paradox.ai account and query the company's databases that held every McHire user's chats with Olivia. The data appears to include as many as 64 million records, including applicants' names, email addresses, and phone numbers...."

https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-chat-bot-paradoxai/

#ai #cybersecurity #llm

I've spent not-insignificant amount of time at protests in the US, looking for signs of IMSI catchers and never found anything, so when I saw this, my ears perked up:

https://san.com/cc/exclusive-evidence-of-cell-phone-surveillance-detected-at-anti-ice-protest/

#Podcasttip

Why facts aren't important to populists leaders and followers.

@mattsheffield and prof. J Eric Oliver

America’s political divide is psychological, not ideological
https://plus.flux.community/p/americas-political-divide-is-psychological

It would be laughable that people of supposed integrity are still debating whether to leave XTwitter, but it's merely pathetic.

Fascist Barbie Noem held back FEMA search/rescue assistance in Texas for 3 full days after flooding began.

Always remember that cruelty and indifference to suffering are, in a big way, what motivates this regime.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/fema-texas-flood-noem

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The government is putting more and more pressure on journalists reporting on ICE.

We all must speak out against these chilling tactics.

https://freedom.press/issues/ice-wants-to-work-in-secret-we-shouldnt-let-it/

A German software developer talks about why he's not riding the Artificial Intelligence train.

https://mertbulan.com/2025/06/26/why-i-dont-ride-the-ai-hype-train/

'I’m not riding the AI hype train. There are just too many red flags—how the models are built, how they’re used, the impact on people and the planet, the money behind it all, and the motivations of the companies pushing it.'

Wishing for a world where corporate motives didn't clash with the sacred trust of journalism

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/wishing-for-a-world-where-corporate-motives-didnt-clash-with-the-sacred-trust-of-journalism/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

#Russia has committed flagrant human rights abuses in #Ukraine since 2014, rules #ECHR - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/09/russia-has-committed-flagrant-human-rights-abuses-in-ukraine-since-2014-rules-echr "Extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour among accusations upheld by court in judgment" and #warcrimes

Ag is a real job.

It takes real skills, knowledge, & people who gaf about what they're doing.

Stop treating agriculture like society's dumping ground.

Another crew was a bunch of minors who were working as "community service" for juvie.

They all smoked, bc juvie. Tobacco is packed with plant viruses that are super contagious; can be spread just by touch. So "don't smoke in the fields" is a key farm rule.