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Thinking about leaving Google but not sure where to start?

@fight, @mayfirst and @ptp are hosting a webinar on de-googling yourself and your organization.

📅 Wednesday June 3rd, 2–3pm ET
🔗 https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/degoogling-webinar/

#degoogle #BigTech #DigitalSovereignty #RABT #OpenSource

Hello, world!

We're Wiki Workers United, a global solidarity union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation.

This account will share updates on our organizing effort, relevant news/info, and maybe the occasional meme. We promise to keep posting volume reasonably chill.

More info here:

https://wikiworkersunited.org

And we welcome the community to express support here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workers_United

Hey @limeleaf 👋 We had the idea of creating a starterpack for tech co-ops but you already did it. Great! :) Seems like the focus was to have personal accounts in there. Would you be open to add all the organizational accounts currently floating around? Or is there even the possibility to collaborate somehow on the list? Otherwise we could collectively collect them all in answers to this post.

https://fedidevs.com/s/MjM4/

#techcoop #tech-coops #coop #coops

Meta has been blocking human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. EFF joined ALQST and 10 other organizations in calling on Meta to restore access to accounts and provide more transparency about their practices https://www.alqst.org/en/post/meta-blocks-human-rights-accounts-from-reaching-audiences-in-saudi-arabia-and-the-uae

Happy birthday to Louise Michel, born on this day in 1830. She was a teacher, poet, and revolutionary who fought on the barricades of the Paris Commune in 1871 and was exiled to New Caledonia. The "Red Virgin of Montmartre" never stopped.

In response to *gestures wildly*, I've written about LLMs and why tech communities (in particular) should take an ethical stance against their use.

https://linguacelta.com/blog/2026/05/LLMs.html

It took me a bit to realize that the person laid off by Wikipedia is our own @brooke. Now I'm even more motivated to support the #WWU than I was already!

An injury to one is an injury to all!

Flathub moves to ban nearly all apps and submissions made with generative AI https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/flathub-moves-to-ban-nearly-all-apps-and-submissions-made-with-generative-ai/

#Linux #OpenSource #Flathub #AI #GenAI

More than 300 federal agents descended on a Chicago apartment building. Black Hawk helicopters. Doors kicked in. Residents zip-tied and detained.

Rebecca Burns reports on why tenants now suspect the raid may have served as an eviction by ICE.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/eviction-by-ice-on-chicago-tenants-landlord-renters-immigrants

In order to make it look like at least one company isn't totally losing their shirt by using "AI," the Financial Times (an outlet that absolutely knows better) was forced to remove expenses from their analysis. Think about that one for a moment: the numbers were so bad that they felt the need to add an asinine assumption, just to avoid coming to the obviously true conclusion: everyone is losing massive amounts of money on this. Yes, even Amazon.

https://xcancel.com/askyoshik/status/2059849267725152285

"According to a report from Axios, an AI consultant revealed that one of their enterprise clients accidentally racked up a staggering $500 million bill in a single month on Anthropic’s Claude after failing to implement spending caps or usage controls for employees. Yes, half a billion dollars. In 30 days. On AI usage."

I'm sure they got some killer code out of it though, right? A new must-have app, or something, right? Right?!?

https://techstartups.com/2026/05/28/company-accidentally-spent-500-million-on-claude-ai-in-one-month-after-forgetting-usage-limits/

Okay, so, I went to lobbying day today at the state house and I lobbied Pat Jehlen and Erika Uyterhoeven on housing and climate stuff. A side conversation got me curious, though, and idk how to figure out a "correct" answer to this:

Can we repurpose old natural gas pipes to be grey water pipes, so that we could use rainwater for things like irrigation and other non-potable-water needs? Thereby also diverting some of the extra storm water from being a CSO issue?
#water #urbanplanning

@cap_ybarra @JeremiahFieldhaven on rsync, this is scary. It's getting to a point where just stopping updates for a while on crucial systems seems safer than applying them.

So my systems recently updated to rsync 3.4.3, and as soon as that happened my backup system - which does incremental backups using multiple --compare-dest= arguments - started to fail on anything but a full backup.

Revert to 3.4.1 and it works.

So I go look at the source in GitHub to see what might have changed, because there doesn't seem to be anything relevant in the changelog.

Since 3.4.1, 36 commits by "tridge and claude"

Oh for fuck's sakes.

Thanks to hard work by @flyingpimonster Maps now supports downloading map areas for offline use!

This has been a long-awaited feature and will finally be available in GNOME 51.

#gnomemaps #gnome #mapstodon #openstreetmap #offlinemaps

@BleepingComputer Can you please stop carrying water for them and using their marketing language in your articles? JFC it's disgusting.

They didn't delay the rollout to the public for any other reason than marketing, which you are doing for them right this very moment.

Repeating their bullshit "for the safety of the public" fuck right off.

#Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize ‘70% of Gaza Strip’, violating ceasefire deal - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/28/netanyahu-orders-israeli-army-seize-70-gaza-strip-violating-ceasefire-deal he'll take all of it - what did people think he'd do? that's the point of the #gazagenocide