Latest comic: Online shopping has become a hall of mirrors
#consumers #shopping #internet #technology #economy #cartoon #comic
California lawmakers have amended A.B. 1709, but the core problem remains: the bill is still a ban on social media access for youth under 16, and it still threatens the privacy and First Amendment rights of all Californians. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/amending-ab-1709-doesnt-fix-it-californias-social-media-ban-still-threatens-free
Americans are still working long hours, with no federal guarantee of paid vacation, sick days or parental leave.
Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon revisit the long fight for shorter hours—and why a 32-hour week will require organized labor with the power to win it.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/four-day-work-week-labor-unions-juliet-schor
Can't wait until this guy's swiss cheese brain is on display in the Mütter Museum. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/31/800077220/cartoon/blight-at-the-museums/
“On the non-use of AI in my writing process - Charlie's Diary”
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/08/on-the-non-use-of-ai-in-my-wri.html
> I do not use LLMs in my work. I don't use them in my non-work life either, for that matter. I despise the grifters selling these toys as "tools" and trying to convince us to use them to generate plausible answer-shaped text strings in place of actual internet search for verifiable sources.
Trump launches a war, possibly ends it, demands a Nobel Peace Prize and prepares to get back to terrorizing immigrants.
Tom Tomorrow follows the self-proclaimed dealmaker’s logic to its bleak conclusion.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-comic-tom-tomorrow-iran-deal-strait-of-hormuz-deal
Our development report for July is up.
👀 Check out our our latest improvements, 🐛 fixes, and what else is 🍳:
https://phosh.mobi/posts/development-news-2026-07/
Testing (and other) feedback appreciated.
Informative blog by @Purism explaining the technical relation between #PureOS and #Debian, and building blocks like #phosh, #phoc, #Mesa, and #libqmi.
https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-development-report-june-2026/
The blog reports the development for PureOS in June 2026.
"With the development pipeline in full swing, we’re updating some of the cornerstone components of PureOS for #Dawn. Phosh and phoc are both updated to 0.55.0, the latest Phosh release in June..."
#Librem5 #Purism #MobileLinux #Linux #opensource #phone #FOSS
“"A slant fit" in a specialist job market | As in guillotine...”
https://loudpoet.com/2026/07/30/a-slant-fit-in-a-specialist-job-market/
> The book world is notoriously myopic when it comes to evaluating experience outside of book publishing
True words.
“The obligatory AI post”
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/7/15.html
> What we appear to be discussing are products so worthless that they would never get produced unless production is practically free.
A labor movement capable of changing people’s lives needs organizers, durable institutions & journalism willing to follow the struggle closely.
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Supporting Phosh development is one of our association's core goals. We're thus happy that we can financially support bringing mobile data usage monitoring to Phosh.
https://ev.phosh.mobi/blog/mobile-data-use/
This will help users keep track of their data usage and avoid unpleasant surprises. Thanks a lot to our supporters for making this possible.
Want to help us support more projects like this? Please consider making a donation or becoming a supporting member:
https://ev.phosh.mobi/donate/
https://ev.phosh.mobi/about/joining/#becoming-a-supporting-member
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