Ambrose Andrews @znalo@librem.one

“In Orwell's 1946 essay on politics and language he showed how a captured mind stops generating sentences and starts assembling them from prefab parts. The phrases come pre-stacked - you reach for the slogan before you reach for the thought. He'd seen it on his own side, among people fighting for things he himself actually believed in. People fall for a "good" cause at the same rate they fall for a "bad" one. The test: can you state your own position in plain words you built yourself, right now, without any of the movement's stock phrases? If you can't, you may not actually hold the position. It may be holding you.”

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/be-thou-not-pilled/

The author of @allaboutberlin on how Google AI Overviews are killing independent web publishing, citing a 70% drop in traffic after seven years of steady growth. His work trains the model. The model is replacing his site. There is no credit, clicks, or revenue. This is what the "enshittification" of the open web looks like in practice.

Hard to imagine moving to Berlin without stumbling upon his guides at some point.

https://allaboutberlin.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nicolasbouliane_ai-is-killing-all-about-berlin-when-you-share-7463188284924616705-I3Mn

#AI #OpenKnowledge #Berlin #Google #Enshittification #OpenWeb #IndieWeb

'It is clear that Australia, as with all States members of the UN, have an obligation to support boycotting, divestment and sanctions of the State of #Israel until it ends the illegal occupation of #Palestine. And yet our government might proscribe the group as a hate group.' https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05/hate-crime/ #BDS

Ben-Gvir's penchant for torture pr0n is proving mildly embarrassing to the AUS government.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-31/flotilla-activists-take-evidence-of-alleged-abuse-to-icc/106741964

The imperial core has gained $15 trillion through exorbitant privilege since 1970, getting higher returns on foreign assets than what they pay on foreign debt. This privilege is financed by transfers from the global South, outstripping aid flows many times over.

This is a sad post about the future of free desktop accessibility on Wayland, for people who need assistive technology on the *input* side. https://nocoffei.com/?p=451 I understand now that when I had an opportunity to work on the future of accessibility on Wayland, through the Sovereign Tech Fund's funding of GNOME development in 2024, I failed to address the problem that was actually most urgent and instead prototyped an architecture that I thought was better for screen reader users. I'm sorry.

‘103. Indeed, entrusting an algorithm in practice with the power to select who is worthy or not, without anyone bearing responsibility for that judgment, is to hand over the task of redefining the boundaries of human possibilities. In this process, political responsibility is also lost, not just empathy toward those excluded, which can, after all, be simulated. The exclusion of the vulnerable becomes cloaked in a veneer of neutrality and objectivity, against which it becomes difficult to raise objections.’

This is an Encyclical about Robodebt

It is with great surprise and astonishment I learn today that setting PS1 in Bash does not count as being a prompt engineer. There goes my promising career as a chatbot expert.

The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said that medical imaging services are facing major challenges in the hospitals that are still operating, amid the ongoing Israeli closure and the prevention of the entry of medical equipment.

The ministry warned that the severe shortage of medical imaging devices is making diagnostic and therapeutic interventions more difficult, and is placing the health system under increasing pressure amid a rising number of patients and injured people.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

From Rwanda to Uganda, a gardener weaves agroecology and permaculture into a living poem of biodiversity 🌱🌍. Growing amaranth, okra, and wild greens without chemicals, nurturing soil and sovereignty. A sustainable dream rooted in love. https://agroecologymap.org/l/307 #Agroecology #FoodSovereignty

Regular PSA reminder:

While GnuPG 2.5.x implements hybrid PQC encryption based on ML-KEM, just like https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-openpgp-pqc/, GnuPG's implementation is entirely incompatible with the IETF-specified format, which all other libraries are implementing.
Both serialization and the KEM combiners differ.

The bottom line is that anyone who wants to use vendor-agnostic PQC with OpenPGP should *avoid GnuPG's PQC key formats*.

This is all exceedingly unfortunate and weird, and frankly, a total disgrace.

Palantir has issued a far-right, racist manifesto denouncing "dysfunctional" & "regressive" cultures & critticising "attempts to hound wealthy figures out of public life by scrutinising their behaviour."

It also called for "the expansion of AI weaponry."

Palantir shares fell immediately.

Palantir "has accelerated Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza", & yet the British govt has granted it access to NHS England.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palantir-shares-slide-after-manifesto-post-denouncing-regressive-cultures

#UKPol #USPol #EUPol #Palantir #racism #fascism #News .

8 AM:
I WILL DESTROY YOUR ENTIRE CIVILIZATION! I AM THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS! KRISHNA HAS NOTHING ON ME!!!

8 PM:
I meekly accept your terms. I agree to pay you $150M a day. I agree to slap myself and say "me!" every time you ask "Who is Booboo the Fool?" I agree to all terms that you write in Farsi.

Apartheid, Waiting for Ethnic Cleansing: Israel's 'Only Remaining Problem'
https://www.alterinter.org/?Apartheid-Waiting-for-Ethnic-Cleansing-Israel-s-Only-Remaining-Problem

"A population that has been displaced, which has had its homes and sources of livelihood destroyed, becomes more vulnerable to ethnic cleansing at the 'right' time. To put it succinctly, by every possible measure but one (and a tiny bit more) – the Zionist victory over the Palestinians is total. Political, military

'Amid a general lack of trust in Washington’s willingness or even ability to negotiate an agreement, #Iran issued its own list of conditions for a peace deal—including guarantees that the war would not resume, an end to attacks in Lebanon, Gaza, and Iraq, reparations for war damages suffered during the fighting, and recognition of Iranian right to exercise authority over the Strait of Hormuz.' https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-trump-war-ceasefire-pakistan #USFascism