Meanwhile, in New Zealand news, a couple put their house rebuild on hold to wait for the penguins under the house to finish nesting.
An updated list of Firefox settings to change in about:config to rid your Firefox of any AI activity:
user_pref("browser.ml.enable", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.chat.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.chat.sidebar", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.chat.menu", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.chat.page", false);
user_pref("extensions.ml.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled", false);
user_pref("pdfjs.enableAltTextModelDownload", false);
user_pref("pdfjs.enableGuessAltText", false);
Mobile IDs promise convenience, but before you download your state’s app, there’s a few questions worth asking yourself. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/should-i-use-my-states-digital-drivers-license
Any police officer or judge who knows the First Amendment shouldn't have asked for or signed off on the raid on the Marion County Record and the home of owners Eric and Joan Meyer.
But apparently, police don’t always read the law, and judges may need a refresher.
https://freedom.press/issues/kansas-county-pays-3m-for-forgetting-the-first-amendment/
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@subMedia/115532338627901771
Hey European comrades! We're invading your continent with inflammatory media from Turtle Island! Help us spread the good word that anarchist and anti-colonial resistance are alive and well in the so-called Americas!
Sick of horrors they're seeing by ICE, retired Chicago journalists unleash
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/letter-chicago-immigrants-broadcast-journalists/
Poll: 40% of young American women want to leave the U.S. permanently - https://boingboing.net/2025/11/14/poll-40-of-young-american-women-want-to-leave-the-u-s-permanently.html I find that hard to believe; surely it's far more than that... #trump
Hi, Mastodon friends,
I've been busy. I decided to turn that long blog post into a free book.
Once I started working with it, I saw a million ways to improve it and make it more readable, so I think it's better.
I had it professionally proofread, copyedited, and fact checked. Any errors are mine because I had to transfer all the marks to the Indesign document.
Anyone wanna advance peek?
I don't know how to put a PDF here, so it's on the blog page:
https://terikanefield.com/whyextremismhappens/
1/
We just published Chapter 12 of Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy by @luisrazeto (transl. by @Matt_Noyes)
https://geo.coop/articles/cooperative-enterprise-and-market-economy-chapter-12
‘Demonic’ #WindInTheWillows jumper #banned from #WestminsterAbbey | #London | The Guardian
Security guards who are ignorant of the origin of a picture think it’s supposedly #demonic. And even if it were, how would that hurt someone? It’s not even a provocative or threatening message.
Once a global leader on climate action, the #EU has given in to the right’s green-bashing - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/14/global-leader-climate-action-eu-right-green-bashing shameful and stupid
Fears for elephant seals as bird flu kills half of population in South Atlantic - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/bird-flu-h5n1-kills-half-elephant-seals-south-atlantic-south-georgia-antarctic-aoe grim
#Chinese #Hackers Used Anthropic's #AI To Automate #Cyberattacks
China's state-sponsored hackers used AI technology from #Anthropic to automate break-ins of major corporations and foreign governments during a September hacking campaign, the company said Thursday. From a report: The effort focused on dozens of targets and involved a level of automation that Anthropic's #cybersecurity investigators had not previously seen
#security #privacy #China #artificialintelligence
@computersandblues Yes! @coopcloud mirrored the video here: https://tv.undersco.re/w/euG6vQC1QzAZUhbCvRU5DV
I don't think lies help a post. The internet was built by the Department of Defense and required a lot of money to access when it was made available to the public; hardly a "tool of freedom".
https://mastodon.social/@eff/115543927161129467
Join EFF as a legal intern and fight for privacy, human rights, and freedoms! Your work can make a real difference. The deadline to apply is November 15! https://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/interns
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa