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Inside The #Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/18/inside-the-trump-administrations-man-made-hunger-crisis/ "They began to starve, and many — mostly children — died because their malnourished bodies couldn’t fight off infections, ProPublica found while reporting in the camp. Mothers had to choose which of their kids to feed."

[Full-time] Team Lead for Project and Grant Management at Tor Project https://www.fossjobs.net/job/11590/team-lead-for-project-and-grant-management-at-tor-project/ #GetFediHired #fossjobs

Among the countless Trump deceits in his deranged speech the other day was the reality of the so-called bonus for military personnel: The money had already been promised to them, as part of another program.

With this regime, lies and the default.

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/trump-rebrands-congressionally-approved-troop-housing-subsidy-warrior-dividend-bonus/410250/?oref=d1-featured-river-top&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

“Do LinkedIn users understand how their data is getting used and what’s going to happen with it, and what protections they do and do not have under LinkedIn’s own terms of service?” EFF’s @cmcsherr mused to Bloomberg Law. “I suspect they don’t.” https://news.bloomberglaw.com/artificial-intelligence/linkedins-war-against-bot-scrapers-ramps-up-as-ai-gets-smarter

Mozilla right now.

#firefox #mozilla

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Are there any librarians here with time to read something I wrote?

DM me.

𝐄𝐔'𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐂𝐮𝐭𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐆𝐮𝐭𝐬 𝐆𝐃𝐏𝐑 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬

Read here for a complete breakdown:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/eus-new-digital-package-proposal-promises-red-tape-cuts-guts-gdpr-privacy-rights

Where all trapped in a global memory care facility for the world's shittiest old man.

How the Non-Profit Industrial Complex keeps people quiet about genocide.

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/ff4f7d06-ded6-42c5-92d0-90edc69c7418

Suggesting dumping money into the weapons industry will help the economic situation of the general public is suggesting trickle down economics works, all the evidence demonstrates it doesn't, it just consolidates wealth

Cutting green regulation leads to climate catastrophes that drive migration

War leads to catastrophes that drive migration

The feedback loop here should be obvio, I find it frustrating that its not

Spoke to a former colleague recently. Their employer monitors employee AI use and wants to see number go up.

Since the obligatory AI nannying, multiple product teams have fallen apart and they’ve stopped delivering new features of value while users are leaving.

A whole layer of middle management are destroying good products to make a Potemkin village of fake automation to justify their bosses buying crap enterprise software. It’s as if the entire industry had their heads kicked in by a donkey.

We just transitioned CoSocial from an ad-hoc combine of AWS, OVH, and DO to @fedihost, see https://fedihost.co, a Managed Fediverse Hosting outfit. Already feels faster, and should be cheaper too. Self-managed instances are cool but not, I suspect, the general-case future.

Browser 'privacy' extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats
L: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/chrome_edge_privacy_extensions_quietly/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306201
posted on 2025.12.17 at 17:04:18 (c=0, p=4)

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Drones are essentially flying police officers. “If I’m in my backyard, if I’m on my deck, do I expect that I have to encounter a law enforcement camera? I shouldn’t have to,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @TexasObserver. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-drone-fleet-doubled-in-size/

No, you’re not a “prompt engineer”, you’re a sloperator.

When the AI bubble bursts it is going to be so messy and there are going to be so many questions about how we wasted so much money on nonsense: https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/ #GenAI

Doing a war for oil in 2025? Why not blockade New Bedford just in case whaling comes back, too.

This is Europe’s secret weapon against #Trump: it could burst his #AI bubble - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/17/europe-donald-trump-ai-bubble-us-economy-eu?CMP=bsky_gu#Echobox=1765949797 "All Brussels has to do is crack down on #Ireland, which for years has been a wild west of lax data enforcement, and the repercussions will be felt far beyond."