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RE: https://chaos.social/@thefinalstrawradio/116590394663363769

Check out this amazingly insightful and wide-ranging interview between two members of The Peoples Want and our friends at @thefinalstrawradio.

NEW: Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for evading income taxes.

It hasn’t stopped the FCC from sending him $1 million a year to sell obsolete internet service in Alaska.

The money comes from a special government subsidy program. You help pay for it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-telecom-subsidies-roger-shoffstall?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Alaska #FCC #Internet #Wifi #Telecom #Government

Apropos of nothing...don't do meth kids, it'll make you real...strange...and not in a good way.

if there is any doubt that we should move off github, let this shatter your doubt

we all need to move away asap

maybe to codeberg? it's pretty great

of course if your project is some genai bs. stay on github

codeberg should be the genai-free forge

Guess what the "i" in "iPhone" stands for?

‘Should we leave them to die?’ The battle over how to save #orangutans from the curse of #palmoil - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/may/19/should-we-leave-them-to-die-the-battle-over-how-to-save-orangutans-from-the-curse-of-palm-oil "orangutans seem particularly ill-suited to being moved. Wild orangutans have a mental map of the forest built up over many years. They know which trees are fruiting and when. "

Reading about the 600 megawatt proposed data center in Coachella, CA is mortifying.

It’s expected to raise temperatures in the vicinity by 8° to 16°F. And where’s the water going to come from?

https://thepalmspringspost.com/valley-residents-confront-officials-at-data-center-town-hall-over-unanswered-questions/

This is such a great interview that we made a transcript for it!

Replacing Banks with Savings Clubs
An Interview with Rob Callender (via the @punchcard podcast)

https://geo.coop/articles/replacing-banks-savings-clubs

Last week, we hit our goal of 10 new signups for the #henhouse beta! This week, we want to sign up another 10.

If you want to help us launch member-owned, independent, privacy-first web hosting, sign up today at https://nc.limeleaf.coop/apps/forms/s/22NspSnYg6r4kADg683pAykt

The main Forgejo instance is back, SSH also works again. We have no remaining maintenance for this evening, all services should be working again without any hiccups.

If you feel or see any problem, please report it to https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues

And all this new shit means that yes, another print issue is here. The Counterforce Issue #11 is now available for you to print and distribute!

https://the-counterforce.org/zines/the-counterforce

“If people are afraid to talk to reporters, we are poorer as a society for it.”

Hope Davis reports on a Chicago landlord’s attempt to silence tenants after a rent strike—and why press freedom experts say the case could have a chilling effect.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/landlord-chicago-tenants-silence-rent-strike

You might've heard it by now: the Linux kernel is so insecure that AI can find many LPEs for them, so we'll be taking this evening to migrate to *BSD.

In all seriousness, although we've mitigated the currently known LPEs via blocking modules, seccomp and sysctl, we still want to run with a kernel that has patched it. We will be doing that this evening. That means that each server will be taken down to boot into the new kernel, and services will be temporarily inaccessible.

#KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own - https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/14/kde-bags-13m-as-europe-realizes-it-might-need-an-os-of-its-own/5240562 "Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund backs the desktop project while public sector interest in homegrown alternatives grows"

Trump’s $10 Billion IRS Lawsuit May Become a $1.7 Billion Slush Fund for MAGA’s Self-Proclaimed Victims - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/15/trumps-10-billion-irs-lawsuit-may-become-a-1-7-billion-slush-fund-for-magas-self-proclaimed-victims/

👏🏽 Europe's first and only Digital Justice Fund is live, thanks to Weaving Liberation 👏🏽

This fund will support politics, visions and strategies to challenge systemic harms, who are currently under-resourced or excluded from funding, to build power and liberatory digital futures.

If you're a non-profit initiative working on #DigitalJustice organising in Europe, this opportunity could be for you.

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I'm disappointed. It's past 5pm already, and there's still no fresh #kernel zero-day today.