We are excited to report the recent launch of Black Onions, a new site listing anarchist and anti-authoritarian onion websites.

Onion websites are a great tool against surveillance and censorship! They do not use the State-controlled domain name system, and they allow anonymizing the location of a website's server, equivalent to how Tor Browser anonymizes your location when you visit the website.

Visit Black Onions at any of the following addresses:
- blackonions.gd
- blackonions.li
- blackonions.st

Follow @blackonions to learn about new and updated onion addresses.

The Company That Published Fake Journalists in Sports Illustrated is Collapsing Dramatically After Massive AI Rebrand

*ahem* lol

futurism.com/artificial-intell

#AI has made it ‘close to impossible’ to assess university #coursework, regulator says - theguardian.com/education/2026 "Office for Students says institutions in England should return to traditional exams and in-person presentations" it's inevitable

The AI itself needs to be resisted, and, hopefully (in its current form) destroyed. But the AI isn't what got our field to this point, where the oppressive clutter of Computer Stuff is so pervasive and so exhausting that we would be willing to do anything, even surrender our own ability to *think*, just to be rid of it, just to be able to address the actual problem at hand. There is a crisis of tool complexity that we just *need* to find a way to address.

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Microsoft, from the very beginning, has been prolifically stabby, especially in the Gates era, and it bugs me with *great intensity* that both Microsoft, and Gates, have managed to rehabilitate their image and rewrite their sordid history. Especially bugs me that people think Gates is a good guy, and not just yet another ill-gotten billionaire who goes around with the tag "philanthropist" after decades of doing evil.

OK we have enough French translators, thank you!

We need translators for

⁃ Italian
⁃ Polish

sfba.social/@drahardja/1175768

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i can't wait for 18 months from now when quantum computers are going to be really important and everyone will have to care about them for some reason

The US Senator with the most stock in data center companies is also leading the push for the BAAJA permitting legislation that would make it easier to build the fossil fuel infrastructure the data center industry needs to expand.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), negotiated and introduced the “Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act” (BAAJA), that would exempt most energy infrastructure projects from federal environmental review, narrow communities’ ability to challenge those projects in court, and limit states’ authority to deny water-quality approvals for pipelines and other projects..

Whitehouse and his wife hold up to $12.3 million in AI-related stocks.

readsludge.com/2026/10/14/sena

#BAAJA

Tourism info about Monterey and Pacific Grove are always like, there used to be Chinese fishing villages here, California has been diverse for hundreds of years

Yeah, why don’t you print what happened to them?

Or that Pacific Grove had people putting on yellowface, carrying lanterns and wearing kimonos up until.. *checks watch* the 2020s?!?

Mozilla's study of nearly 25 million Firefox users found that its fingerprinting protections cut the share of uniquely identifiable users from 75% to 46%. That figure is measured against simulated commercial fingerprinters. Mozilla says some protections are on by default only in Private Browsing, and Strict Enhanced Tracking Protection applies them to all windows.

fingerprinting.study/

#Firefox #Privacy

"It's a tool, it's fine for coding. it's controversial but so were unit tests"

this perspective is making me a little bit crazy today. like, okay, we disagree on how ethical it is, how effective it is. that stuff is complicated, and there are colorable arguments even if I think they are wrong.

but how can you not see, at least, that it is historically controversial. that there are more people who fucking HATE it with real, visceral intensity beyond any superficial "flamewar" hostility

LLMs are inherently unethical. Yes, the technology itself is unethical.

I had expected that eMudhra would simply ghost the browser vendors, but I hadn't counted on their overconfidence. They still don't even understand how serious the problem was!

« Where we got lucky - The ECDSA weakness was identified and reported before it was used against any eMudhra‑issued end‑entity certificate. »

Three weeks later they still think it's about misuse of legit leaf certs!

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

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