Netzfund #trump #faschismus #usa #maga

Ik probeer de moed erin te houden, maar de totale overgave van de belastingdienst aan de Amerikaanse cloud voor hun documenten en email van de afgelopen 20 jaar valt me echt zwaar. En dat terwijl andere minder cruciale stukken overheid het wel lukt.

«at this point, AT Proto has become essentially a sort of ideological vaporware; a way for Jay Graber et al to run a social media platform while claiming they don't run a social media platform. This is, of course, just another iteration of the Silicon Valley monoproduct: power without […]

"White House Ramps Up Effort to Remove and Alter Information on Climate Change; Orgs Working to Rescue Climate Data Before It Disappears." https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project/2025-09-30/disappearing-data-part-ii-distorted "In a follow up to a previous […]

Now that puts quite a different light on trump telling zelenskyy "you don't have the cards", doesn't it ... https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/01/politics/qatar-pledge-trump-analysis

For those who don’t seem to quite get it yet. 🆘🇺🇸

Funding for the project I work on has been paused (stop work notice) due to the U.S. federal government shutdown and although its causing me an unreasonable amount of stress to be essentially out of work right now, it's nothing in comparison to the anxiety of […] [Original post on epistolary.org]

The Internet Archive @archive.org has an exciting slate of events lined up for their 29th anniversary, including hitting 1T archived pages! Check out: blog.archive.org/trillion/ #Wayback1T #WaybackMachine

The ADL took down its glossary of extremism after Trump-aligned figures objected to its description of Turning Point USA: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/adl-deletes-extremism-database-after-receiving-backlash-for-including-charlie-kirks-turning-point-usa/ The Wayback Machine has a partial […]

@paulwalk FYI https://hcommons.social/@mia/115286814918567887

I guess additional tariffs on European products are to be expected. If I were the Guinness CEO, right now, I’d be very worried https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/28/lowry-sinks-putt-that-retains-ryder-cup-for-europe-as-they-hold-off-us-comeback

Update. "#austria's military has switched from #microsoftoffice to #LibreOffice. The move was all about digital sovereignty, not cost savings. Other governments are moving away from Microsoft to protect their citizens' privacy." […]

This is clearly a pretext for many things, but the most obvious and immediate one is surveillance. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/

Hard to believe but true nevertheless: the #TurkishAirlines portal (still) has a policy that restricts passwords to 6 digits.

War ravaged Portland

> [T]he AI bubble is driven by monopolists who've conquered their markets and have no more growth potential, who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow by moving into some other sector, e.g. "pivot to video," crypto, blockchain, NFTs, AI, and now "super-intelligence." […]

libxml2's sole maintainer Nick Wellnhofer steps down, meaning libxml2 is now no longer maintained. https://discourse.gnome.org/t/stepping-down-as-libxml2-maintainer/31398 It's hard to estimate just how many companies depend on this software and critical security updates to the library, so I'm […]

Our team enjoyed a spirited reading group this week, the focus of which was research on undisclosed #llm usage in #scholarly #writing. We concluded that humanity was destined to implode under the weight of its own tech hubris. Since then this #wikipedia doc was brought to my attention. Human […]

I'm proud to be counted one of the "Voices of Change" by the European University Institute, along with so many close friends and allies. https://blogs.eui.eu/library/online-exhibition-who-owns-our-knowledge-exploring-open-access-through-voices-of-change/ #EUI #openaccess

Hundreds of billions in debt to support data center build-out for hypothetical incoming AI loads: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-25/ai-race-tech-giants-orcl-googl-raise-170-billion-in-debt-to-fund-ambitions This is not quite as scary as it seems, the companies borrowing are big […]

Devices I own should not start showing ads without me doing something to get them. We need laws that forbid manufacturers to deliver ads to sold appliances and devices. I am so sick and tired of the ad industry that they do everything to invade public and private spaces. We really need to talk […]

« Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea! » Source […]

Als je nog nachtmerries hebt van/over AI, ga dan eens goed zitten voor de Twitter banner van Els Rechts. 🤣 Het is vooral mooi hoe een groot deel van haar AI aanhang ook niet in haar richting kijkt en schreeuwt. Prachtige illustratie van de blinde haat […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

Ooooh, okay, it's a bribery scheme. #uspol #uspolitics #Corruption #trump #h1b #visa #bribery #fucktrump #fuckmaga

This video breaks down why two often-confused factions on the right are not the same thing: hardline Christian nationalism (“builders”) vs. the Groyper, black-pilled accelerationist scene (“burners”). I unpack how meme aesthetics, irony, and shock culture function as recruitment, status, and […]

I’m in this spot where I would love to get an email from a politician who tries to convince me of their perspective without immediately also asking me to contribute $1-3-5-more

I’ll keep posting this every day. Brian Kilmeade actually said we should genocide homeless people. And somehow… he still has a job.

Politico - Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) admonishes the FCC chairman for demanding ABC suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show over comments regarding Charlie Kirk — calling Brendan Carr’s actions “dangerous as hell” and “right out of ‘Goodfellas.’” […]

A friend shared an interesting thought exercise during dinner: What if non-radicalized Americans would en masse apply for ICE jobs, cash in the money as a way to deplete available funding (and pay for rent - your tax money at work), and then go on to slow down actions by just ignorantly being in […]

Share this far and wide. #kimmel #abc #nexstar #uspol

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115230366976982724 It just got even easier for #academic #scholarly #institutions to host their own Mastodon instance! #academicchatter

Malignant narcissists can't stand when you make fun of them because they lack any real sense of humor or introspection. And they're totally fine with trampling on the First Amendment if it makes their critics quiet down and self-censor. From NYT: "President Trump threatened on Thursday to […]

Imagine weaponizing the Justice Department to chase phantom crimes against your political opponents… then punishing prosecutors for not making them up. That’s not America, that’s authoritarianism.

All I hear about is the Target boycott, which is important, but now it's time to organize a large-scale boycott of CBS/Paramount (Colbert) and ABC (Kimmel). I cannot be the first person to entertain this thought. Who is working on this and how can we help? #cbs #paramount #abc #boycott

Huh, spam from 1Password offering me “Early access to Comet, the new AI browser from Perplexity”. I’m perplexed all right, about why 1Password, an outfit I mostly like, is doing this. I want a serious relationship with my security-technology providers, not a spammy one that flirts with sketchy […]

WELCOME TO WINDSOR CASTLE, DONALD TRUMP 🏰🇬🇧 The British public greeted him with a gigantic banner right outside the castle where he’s staying with the King this week—funded by 1,770 people. This trip is all about polishing Trump’s image 🪞✨ so please […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

#eduroam is one of the most wonderful things of global academia. #oat25

The US Dept. of Justice's NIJ Journal #285 included "What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism" which notes that far-right attacks "outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism". As 404 Media reports ( […]

This is truly the best way to expose each and every single one of these Republicans ini at a time

Apple TV+ subscription increase from $10/month to $13/month. 30%. Because salaries increase at the same rate, I assume?

"With the Kirk assassination becoming clearer, we need to talk about the radicalized, Right Wing subculture that carries out terrorism and mass shootings. They're an essential part of MAGA and so people really don't want to see what is undeniable." […]

Going by the trump administration’s communication regarding the Kirk assassination, and the media’s coverage thereof, I’m expecting that Pope Leo XIV will soon get a call to kindly ask him to start a sainthood process.

But the Epstein files

You remember when everyone (including AI firms) claimed that "Hallucinations" would soon be saved and I got so much shit for arguing that they are a structural property of LLMs? Now OpenAI releases a paper stating the same and just gets to move on (with all its sycophants). Really fucking […]

Alternative headline: Biggest purveyor of bullshit machines complains there's too much bullshit on the interwebs. https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/08/sam-altman-says-that-bots-are-making-social-media-feel-fake/

OMG Klarna payment has become such a shithole. Essentially unusable anymore.

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door. Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

NewsGuard - Despite a year of technical advancements in the AI industry, generative AI tools fail at a nearly doubled rate when it comes to one of the most basic tasks: distinguishing facts from falsehoods. https://www.newsguardtech.com/ai-monitor/august-2025-ai-false-claim-monitor/