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“A Note to Our Customers and Partners | Snyk”

https://snyk.io/blog/a-note-to-our-customers-and-partners/

> We are simplifying our structure so we can move faster for you, and that includes reducing the size of some teams.

Do we have a name for this genre of "our glorious AI future means we fire people" announcement? Like the "Our Incredible Journey" startup shutdown posts?

Violating the First Amendment is expensive.

People fired for protected speech are not only getting their jobs back, they're getting 6-figure payouts.

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-5856300/charlie-kirk-assassination-jobs-social-media-payouts-fired-first-amendment-settlements?utm_content=

Employers in March: Your salary, bonus, and eligibility for promotions hinges on demonstrating you use AI constantly. If not, don't expect to keep your job.

Employers in June: We are shocked, _shocked I tell you_, that employees have been frittering away our very expensive tokens on unnecessary shit like converting PDFs to slides.

https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-much-on-ai/

"This is Silicon Valley — a monoculture that sells itself as outliers, putting everything it has into supporting a generative AI industry that sends the vast majority of its value directly to the largest tech companies in the world. The staunch rationalists of the Bay that have built brands convincing people they’re immune to the influence of groupthink need you to think exactly the same way that they were told to.

Why would everybody agree to do something so stupid? Why would everybody act so crazily?

It’s simple: the tech industry has completely run out of ideas, and all that’s left is a cargo cult that hasn’t had a human experience since 2015."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/cargo-culture/

Google lost two star researchers and fell 6%, its worst day in over a year. The headlines blamed the exits. They missed that Amazon fell 4% the same day, and Meta and Microsoft dropped too. Two people leaving Google does not move Amazon. Something bigger did.

Here is what actually moved them as far as I see. The four giants building AI will spend more than $452 billion this year doing it, and their cash is vanishing into it. Google's free cash flow has already fallen 47% to $10 billion. Amazon's has collapsed 95%, to barely $1 billion. The market did not panic over two resignations. It woke up to a number.

And the forward number is quite worse. Wall Street now expects Google's full-year free cash flow to fall around 72% in 2026, from $73 billion to roughly $20 billion. The company that printed cash for two decades is on track to keep a quarter of what it made last year. Its own finance chief says next year's spending goes higher still.
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“New poll: majority support reopening EU negotiations - RÚV.is”

https://www.ruv.is/english/2026-06-16-new-poll-majority-support-reopening-eu-negotiations-478286

> When all survey participants are included, 44.5 per cent say they will vote “yes”, 39.4 per cent “no”, while 14.6 per cent are undecided.

Considering how quickly the nationalistic and borderline violent rhetoric here has been ramping up, I'm not optimistic about the outcome of the referendum

The "it doesn't have a thumb yet" joke really irritates me since it implies evolution ... it's a little ominous in a way that the very interesting vacuum cleaner robot doesn't deserve.

It also doesn't make any sense. A giant pick and place robot doesn't need a thumb, that's the whole point.

I don't know how people watch most media. There is so little real reporting, even a story about technology is just another opportunity for hype.

The thing that “AIs” are the best at is turning every communication into a conflict, where the LLM user is the attacker and the person who has to consume its output is the defender. https://blog.glyph.im/2026/06/adversarial-communication.html

A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use.

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Next Monday, the EU decides on Chat Control 1.0. Will they let the Trojan Horse through the gate and let Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn etc continue to scan all your messages?

We at Tuta say NO.

❌ No scanning
❌ No mass surveillance
❌ No age verification

Instead we fight for:

✅ Encryption
✅ Privacy
✅ Open Source

And so should the EU. Call your local representatives! 🥊

Privacy is not negotiable. Speak up now. ✊ #Privacy

I have a hard time trusting people who express a belief in the benevolence of robber-barons and tech bro dipshits.

Holy hell, could Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Ministry for the Future' "wet bulb temp catastrophe" be playing out right now in Pakistan (in the book I think it was set in a doomed Uttar Pradesh )? For their sake, I dearly hope not. Sending hope for cooling! https://www.dawn.com/news/2009970/51-degrees-and-counting-surviving-heat-in-jacobabad

Bill C-22 is a massive change from the status quo in Canada, and should be debated and fixed before moving it forward. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/canada-forging-ahead-its-dangerous-surveillance-bill

“The wake of a data breach would be a good time for Madison Square Garden to stop subjecting its patrons to biometric surveillance,” EFF’s @Adam_D_Schwartz told @404mediaco. https://www.404media.co/madison-square-garden-made-dossier-on-activists-who-opposed-facial-recognition/

LIMITS 2026 starts TOMORROW!

This week, June 23-25, join a global distributed community at our free yearly online-first conference #LIMITS2026.

LIMITS moves us closer towards #computing that supports ecological and just futures for diverse human and non-human lifeforms and thriving biospheres. We're excited for 15 peer reviewed papers, 10+ alternative contributions, open sessions, and a storytelling session with Bonnie Nardi.

Program and free registration: https://computingwithinlimits.org/2026/

Under the First Amendment, possessing literature cannot be criminal.

If prosecutors are correct that Daniel Sanchez moved zines because he feared they’d try to use them against his wife, that’s a commentary on their lawlessness, not his.

Our statement:

https://freedom.press/issues/texas-man-sentenced-to-30-years-for-transporting-pamphlets/

Fuck Judge Mark T. Pittman and Judge Reed O’Connor.

We are without words. Our thoughts are with the Prairieland Defendants and their loved ones.

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