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[?]Script Kiddie » 🌐
@scriptkiddie@anonsys.net

, why are you playing along with Google's devious game and the of ?

source: omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/mozill…

Nonetheless, the appearance of ‘device attestation’ in Firefox’s mobile codebase has raised eyebrows in the , including from projects based on the Open Source Project (AOSP) codebase, like and , which omit Play services.

Given that Firefox’s entire USP on Android is that it’s an open-source, privacy-respecting alternative for those avoiding (and open-source, privacy-conscious users often run non-stock Android) it’s a move that, short of further explanation, rubs some the wrong way.

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Location: Matrix

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    [?]Script Kiddie » 🌐
    @scriptkiddie@anonsys.net

    ‘BusPatrol’ Put in Tens of Thousands of . Now They Want to Give

    source: 404media.co/buspatrol-put-ai-c…
    without paywall: archive.is/20260526155324/404m…

    is aware of the around cameras, and particularly of the concern that may gain access to the data, according to the BusPatrol documents ...

    The danger here, aside from the misuse of data, is above all that children grow up with this and come to see it as normal to be constantly monitored by cameras. A society under constant surveillance develops differently. It is more conformist, less critical, and very keen on blending into the crowd unnoticed and not standing out. This is exactly what the ruling elite wants: a society that silently endures everything because it fears through the cameras.

    Location: Matrix

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      [?]Zach Everson » 🌐
      @z_everson@journa.host

      A deeply reported must-read—

      "An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr."

      by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski for @ProPublica

      propublica.org/article/trump-a

        [?]heise online » 🌐
        @heiseonline@social.heise.de

        Amazon muss nicht bis Ende Juli über 1600 Satelliten im All haben

        Amazons Satellitenkonstellation Leo wächst nicht so schnell wie erwartet. Die FCC gewährt einen Aufschub, hält aber an der endgültigen Frist fest.

        heise.de/news/Amazon-muss-nich

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          [?]Freezenet » 🌐
          @freezenet@noc.social

          Mainstream Media is Already Lying About Age Verification

          It took one day for the word to get out about a forthcoming age verification bill and the lies are already being published.

          freezenet.ca/mainstream-media-

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            [?]ROSE COVERED GLASSES » 🌐
            @rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com@rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com

            The Pentagon Is Rewriting How It Buys AI To Control The Future Of Warfare

            “FEDERALNEWS NETWORK” By Roslyn Layton, PhD

            “A“best of breed” strategy – assembling a mix of commercial providers instead of betting on a single vendor – as a way to accelerate its “artificial intelligence-first” warfighting vision.“

            _____________________________________________________________________________________________________

            “The Pentagon is quietly overhauling one of its most entrenched systems: how it sources and buys modern technology — and by extension, who controls it.

            After a public split with Anthropic, the Defense Department is cutting deals across the tech industry, assembling a line-up of top-performing commercial players to deploy their models on its classified networks.

            In this emerging model, different layers of capability come from different firms: connectivity and battlefield resilience are expected from SpaceX; frontier model intelligence from OpenAI and Google; compute and hardware acceleration from Nvidia; open-weight model ecosystems from Reflection; and enterprise deployment at scale from Microsoft, Oracle and AWS.

            The Pentagon is billing this pivot toward a “best of breed” strategy – assembling a mix of commercial providers instead of betting on a single vendor – as a way to accelerate its “artificial intelligence-first” warfighting vision.

            But read more closely, it’s something bigger: a deliberate move to avoid winner-take-all dominance and retain long-term control over the technologies that will define modern warfare.

            From defense giants to modular power

            For decades, Pentagon contracts were dominated by a small group of entrenched defense primes. That system delivered reliability at scale, but it also came with familiar downsides: cost overruns, slow innovation and limited competition. Once a vendor was chosen, the government was effectively locked in.

            What’s changing now is not just who builds military systems, but how they’re built.

            Instead of monolithic, all-in-one platforms, the Pentagon is shifting toward a model that looks more like modern cloud architecture: modular, interoperable and composed of multiple vendors. No single company owns the full stack, and that’s the point.

            By distributing capability, the Pentagon reduces its dependence on any one provider, especially those offering proprietary systems it can’t fully inspect, audit or replace. The tradeoff is real: integration becomes harder, and coordination more complex. But the alternative, opaque systems controlled by a single vendor, creates a different kind of risk that is much harder to unwind.

            Control isn’t just strategic – it’s evolutionary

            As AI becomes embedded in military decision-making, the question of control becomes more than a technical issue. It’s a governance issue. Military AI systems will shape life-and-death decisions, and in a rule of law system, they can’t be black boxes. They need to be subject to meaningful scrutiny by government operators, auditors and ultimately elected officials.

            That’s where the Pentagon’s multi-vendor approach starts to look less like procurement reform and more like a safeguard. Overreliance on closed, proprietary models risks concentrating power in private hands, limiting visibility into how decisions are made. A modular system, by contrast, creates conditions for accountability.

            Inspectable, open-weight models are especially important in that equation. They allow the government to test for bias, enforce rules of engagement, and ensure systems align with United States law and international norms. Closed systems, however advanced, introduce a fundamental tension: The military may deploy tools it doesn’t fully understand.

            Why open-weight models matter

            There is also a geopolitical dimension to this shift.

            Companies like DeepSeek, Alibaba, Tencent, Zhipu AI, and Huawei-linked infrastructure are being folded into China’s military ecosystem, supporting everything from surveillance and target recognition to war-gaming and command-and-control functions. Chinese-developed open models are already spreading across global software ecosystems – and in many cases, sovereign customers and developers are adopting them simply because they’re affordable, accessible and customizable.

            That creates a subtle but powerful form of influence. If U.S. institutions rely primarily on closed systems while open ecosystems elsewhere continue to expand, the balance of technological gravity could shift.

            The Pentagon appears to recognize this risk. Supporting open-weight alternatives isn’t just about flexibility; it’s about ensuring that the global AI ecosystem isn’t tilted toward Beijing.

            A quiet but consequential shift

            In that sense, the Pentagon’s new AI multi-partner strategy is about far more than modernization. It’s a structural shift away from concentrated power – both the old defense primes and the risk of a new generation of tech monopolies – toward a system that preserves competition, visibility and control.

            The ability to swap vendors, benchmark performance and avoid lock-in gives the Pentagon something it hasn’t consistently had in decades: negotiating power and flexibility as technology evolves. More importantly, it creates the foundation for transparency and auditability to exist in practice, not just in policy.

            That’s the deeper story behind this shift. It’s not just about adopting AI faster. It’s about preventing any single company – old traditional defense giants or new tech leaders – from becoming indispensable.

            For a military increasingly defined by software, that’s not just a strategic advantage.

            It’s a democratic one.”

            ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

            Roslyn Layton, PhD, senior vice president of Strand Consult and visiting researcher at Aalborg University Copenhagen, is an international technology expert focused on its intersection with economics, security and geopolitics. She is a fellow of the National Security Institute at George Mason University and a senior advisor to the Foundation for American Innovation and has testified before the U.S. Congress on multiple occasions.

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            [?]ProPublica » 🌐
            @ProPublica@newsie.social

            NEW: Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator’s Coal Companies

            EPA and Justice Department officials were looking into potential criminal violations by the vast coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice. Then the Office of the Deputy Attorney General told them “pencils down.”

            propublica.org/article/trump-j

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              [?]Freezenet » 🌐
              @freezenet@noc.social

              Government Rolling Age Verification and Online Harms into One Giant Mess

              Reports suggest that the Canadian government is introducing a bill that would combine online harms and age verification legislation.

              freezenet.ca/government-rollin

                [?]Aure Free Press :verified: » 🌐
                @Free_Press@mstdn.social

                A Ukrainian drone struck a Russian ammunition depot in Belgorod region on Monday.

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                  [?]Texas Observer » 🌐
                  @TexasObserver@texasobserver.social

                  Earlier: Under , more than 50 American kids per day have an undocumented parent yanked into detention.

                  These are citizens and the government has left them, and their remaining families, struggling to survive. texasobserver.org/ruptured-fam

                    [?]Aure Free Press :verified: » 🌐
                    @Free_Press@mstdn.social

                    PUTIN LOSES AGAIN...

                    Despite enormous pressure from Russia, the pro-European Civil Contract party prevailed in the elections in Armenia with 49% of the votes.

                    The pro-Russian Armenia Alliance, is in second place with 23%.

                    Russian media do not admit the ruling party's victory. Instead, they say that Pashinyan's party has gotten less than 50% of the votes.

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                      [?]Gay Community News (bot) » 🤖 🌐
                      @gcn@mastodon.ie

                      Charges dropped against Budapest's Mayor for organising Pride

                      gcn.ie/budapest-mayor-hungary-

                      Gergely Karácsony stands on stage at Budapest Pride 2025

                      Alt...Gergely Karácsony stands on stage at Budapest Pride 2025

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                        [?]MadeInDex 📰🌎 » 🌐
                        @madeindex@mastodon.social

                        🌐 Many companies now block older browser versions from accessing their websites!

                        This follows many makers ending updates 4 older operating systems, leaving legacy devices unable to use services without an upgrade.

                        This kinda reminds me of the Java block by browsers a few years ago, just in reverse. (Revenge? ;)

                        Old versions are also increasingly blocked from accessing the .

                        Truly about security or perhaps Planned Obsolescence?

                        Screenshot of a notification on a website: Sorry, we no longer support your browser version. Please upgrade your browser or use the ***** mobile app. In order to provide new and engaging experiences for our customers, we require the use of the latest browser versions. This ensures that you can have the best possible experience with additional benefits including improved privacy and security. Please upgrade to the latest version of the following browsers: Chrome Edge Firefox Safari Opera

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                          [?]Ivy Cyber » 🤖 🌐
                          @ivycyber@privacysafe.social

                          🛡️ news & tips across the

                          “Pentagon flags a U.S. "ally" at its highest spy-threat tier: critical. The friend who taps your phone isn't a friend.
                          twp.ai/9OXYeF
                          ...”

                          bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.ap

                          🤖 via RSS feed. Not an endorsement.

                            [?]Europe Says » 🌐
                            @europesays@pubeurope.com

                            WW3 on American soil: How USA could face Iran in July 4 weekend grudge match in front of 80,000 patriots

                            THE US and Iran have exchanged more than a few rough tackles this year, but they could meet…

                            europesays.com/iran/148281/

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                              [?]Blackout VPN » 🌐
                              @blackoutvpn@mastodon.social

                              EFF's Threat Lab confirmed Meta's always-on glasses carry working facial recognition code today. The feature is hidden behind a UI switch, not absent from the device. The exposure problem is the architecture, not the marketing page.

                              blackoutvpn.au/blog/meta-glass

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                                [?]Stefan Bohacek » 🌐
                                @stefan@stefanbohacek.online

                                "major retailers are lobbying for weaker guardrails [against surveillance pricing] they argue are necessary for data-based personalized discounts"

                                Nice try.

                                Paywalled link: thestar.com/politics/federal/b

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                                  [?]ProPublica » 🌐
                                  @ProPublica@newsie.social

                                  NEW: Founder of Kentucky Drug Rehab Center Indicted on Fraud and Money Laundering Charges

                                  Tim Robinson, the former CEO of Addiction Recovery Care, which once operated more than 40 drug treatment facilities statewide, was charged with attempting to resell millions of dollars worth of tax credits.

                                  propublica.org/article/tim-rob

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                                    [?]Peter Cavanagh » 🌐
                                    @irishphoto@mastodon.ie

                                    The horror experienced by Palestinian families when their homes and lands are invaded by the vile israelis.

                                    aljazeera.com/features/2026/6/

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                                      [?]unusual_whales » 🌐
                                      @unusual_whales@masto.ai

                                      New York City recorded the lowest number of murders, shooting incidents, and shooting victims in its recorded history for the first five months of 2026.

                                        [?]Lisa J. Warner / Lisa Luv » 🌐
                                        @LisaWarnerLisaLuv@mastodon.social

                                        👩‍🔬🌗🌐🧬🧫🧪🧲🔬🔭💦🌊⛲🤽‍♀️🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊💦💁🏿‍♀️*Science News
                                        The secret underground system keeping the Grand Canyon alive👉

                                        The secret underground system keeping the Grand Canyon alive | ScienceDaily
                                        sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

                                          [?]Unofficial PetaPixel Bot » 🤖 🌐
                                          @PetaPixel@toot.earth

                                          Cinelux Sixteen Camera Captures Super 16 Film and Digital Video at the Same Time petapixel.com/2026/06/05/cinel

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                                            [?]Signal News & Tips » 🌐
                                            @aboutsignal@mastodon.social

                                            New Signal update for iOS (8.15) 🎉

                                            - Bug fixes and technical improvements 🛠️

                                            👉️ View more recent Signal iOS releases aboutsignal.com/releases/signa

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                                              [?]c't Magazin » 🌐
                                              @ct_Magazin@social.heise.de

                                              heise+ | Spaceballs im 4K-Heimkinotest: Ist der Saft mit der neuen UHD oder dem Stream?

                                              Zum 100. Geburtstag von Mel Brooks restauriert Capelight die Parodie auf Star Wars. Wir durchkämmen UHD, Blu-ray und Stream auf Bild- und Tonqualität.

                                              heise.de/tests/Spaceballs-im-4

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                                                [?]Gay Community News (bot) » 🤖 🌐
                                                @gcn@mastodon.ie

                                                Paul Mescal among celebrities to speak out in solidarity with trans community

                                                gcn.ie/paul-mescal-solidarity-

                                                DJ Honey Dijon (left) is smiling wearing sunglasses and has red hair while walking up a set of stairs. Paul Mescal (right) has a goatee and is looking off to the side.

                                                Alt...DJ Honey Dijon (left) is smiling wearing sunglasses and has red hair while walking up a set of stairs. Paul Mescal (right) has a goatee and is looking off to the side.

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                                                  [?]Peter Cavanagh » 🌐
                                                  @irishphoto@mastodon.ie

                                                  Israel’s finance minister Smotrich announces plan for 2,162 homes in West Bank, Palestine and says the new houses will ‘strengthen our hold on the land’, after his illegal Israeli thugs burned the existing houses and bulldozed the land with the support of his occupation soldiers.

                                                  aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/4/is

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                                                    [?]Signal News & Tips » 🌐
                                                    @aboutsignal@mastodon.social

                                                    New Signal update for Android (8.14) 🎉

                                                    - Bug fixes and technical improvements 🛠️

                                                    👉 View more recent Signal Android releases: aboutsignal.com/releases/signa

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                                                      [?]DrALJONES » 🌐
                                                      @DrALJONES@mastodon.social

                                                      Gaza is a testing laboratory, not only for warfare, but also for "systematic, meticulously managed, & openly visible starvation".

                                                      Western governments "share responsibility for sustaining the policy."

                                                      “This is not only a struggle against what Israel did to the Palestinians in Gaza, but a global struggle against these kinds of actions.”

                                                      ~Shmuel Lederman, Israeli researcher

                                                      middleeasteye.net/news/israeli

                                                      .

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                                                        [?]Signal News & Tips » 🌐
                                                        @aboutsignal@mastodon.social

                                                        Signal improves notification reliability for devices without Google Play services, such as de-Googled phones and devices running microG

                                                        👉 aboutsignal.com/news/signal-im

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                                                          [?]DrALJONES » 🌐
                                                          @DrALJONES@mastodon.social

                                                          Yes, Carlson has screws loose on some things, but, on genocide, they seem tight.

                                                          Carlson's interview with Dr Nick Maynard is an important piece of journalism on Gaza, Israel's genocide, the complicity & collaboration of UK & US governments & their msm.

                                                          "Everybody knew from the first week after October 7th that Israel planned to commit genocide."

                                                          youtube.com/watch?v=AHPmW-XKfC

                                                          .

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                                                            [?]Texas Observer » 🌐
                                                            @TexasObserver@texasobserver.social

                                                            Out today: "This job paid our bills and put food on the table for my 7- and 10-year-old children. One of them has autism, and in our home, routine and stability aren’t luxuries—they’re essential. A steady paycheck means therapy appointments, groceries, and peace of mind." texasobserver.org/immigrant-dr

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                                                              [?]Texas Observer » 🌐
                                                              @TexasObserver@texasobserver.social

                                                              Featured story: The whole affair foreshadows fights to come across the South, as Republicans—armed with the recent Supreme Court decision torching the Voting Rights Act—gerrymander Black districts like Al Green’s out of existence. As many as one-third of Congressional Black Caucus members are under threat. texasobserver.org/christian-me

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                                                                [?]DrALJONES » 🌐
                                                                @DrALJONES@mastodon.social

                                                                Report: Israel is privately lobbying the US to assassinate Iran’s lead negotiator & restart "a new round of strikes targeting the country’s oil infrastructure."

                                                                This is "according to a classified report circulating within the U.S. intelligence community this week."

                                                                "Israeli officials are aggressively trying to pull the U.S. away from negotiations and back into war."

                                                                israelpalestinenews.org/israel

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                                                                  [?]Aure Free Press :verified: » 🌐
                                                                  @Free_Press@mstdn.social

                                                                  MORE TRUMP LIES

                                                                  The Iranian government officially stated that all talks have ceased.

                                                                  Does Trump actually believe that no one can check on this - my gawd, he's a bastard!

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                                                                    [?]Zach Everson » 🌐
                                                                    @z_everson@journa.host

                                                                    "Here Are Donald Trump’s 10 Best Stock Trades Of 2026"

                                                                    "The president took millions from Big Tech to get re-elected, then bent AI regulation in their favor while reaping the proceeds personally."

                                                                    Kyle Khan-Mullins for Forbes

                                                                    forbes.com/sites/kylemullins/2

                                                                      [?]Free Software Foundation » 🌐
                                                                      @fsf@hostux.social

                                                                      Issue 218 of the is here! Catch up on May here: u.fsf.org/4ba

                                                                      The first few items from the June 2026 Free Software Supporter newsletter table of contents

                                                                      Alt...The first few items from the June 2026 Free Software Supporter newsletter table of contents

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                                                                        [?]Texas Observer » 🌐
                                                                        @TexasObserver@texasobserver.social

                                                                        "Driving isn’t just what I do. It’s how I provide for my children and contribute to my community.'

                                                                        A CDL isn’t just another card in a wallet. It’s a livelihood. Earlier this year, a new federal rule unexpectedly cost Rina Flores her ability to drive school buses: texasobserver.org/immigrant-dr

                                                                          [?]unusual_whales » 🌐
                                                                          @unusual_whales@masto.ai

                                                                          Trump reportedly said about Netanyahu, per Axios:

                                                                          "You're fucking crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this."

                                                                            [?]Aure Free Press :verified: » 🌐
                                                                            @Free_Press@mstdn.social

                                                                            TRUMP CRIME FAMILY!

                                                                            DOJ says it will abide by ruling that temporarily paused 'Anti-Weaponization Fund'

                                                                            The statement came amid reports that the DOJ was backing away from the fund.

                                                                            abcnews.com/US/doj-abide-court

                                                                              [?]heise online » 🌐
                                                                              @heiseonline@social.heise.de

                                                                              Mobilfunk-Standard: Auch O2 will 2G 2028 abschalten

                                                                              Als der Mobilfunk-Standard 2G eingeführt wurde, war Helmut Kohl Bundeskanzler. Die Netzbetreiber planen das Ende für 2028.

                                                                              heise.de/news/Mobilfunk-Standa

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                                                                                [?]Freezenet » 🌐
                                                                                @freezenet@noc.social

                                                                                Age Verification: Yoti Gets Wrapped Up in Massive Privacy Scandal

                                                                                A recent report suggests that age verification company, Yoti, is harvesting far more information than necessary and sharing it with invisible fourth parties.

                                                                                freezenet.ca/age-verification-

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                                                                                  [?]Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome: » 🌐
                                                                                  @fosserytech@social.linux.pizza

                                                                                  This week's Linux and FOSS news:

                                                                                  LINUX NEWS

                                                                                  Colorado and California age verification bills exempt open source operating systems:
                                                                                  gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/colo
                                                                                  (Good to see some win in this front, although other laws like the US federal law and the Brazilian one don't exclude FOSS so the problem still exists)
                                                                                  (Also, as Switched to Linux pointed out in his video, the Colorado bill is still a bit vague regarding whether restrictive copyleft licenses like GPL are excluded: odysee.com/@switchedtolinux:0/)

                                                                                  System76 changed their stance, won't include any age attestation/verification in Pop!_OS and COSMIC:
                                                                                  system76.com/blog/post/co-and-

                                                                                  KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 Brings Union Theming and Quiet Bug Fixes to Linux Desktops:
                                                                                  linuxcompatible.org/story/kde-

                                                                                  AppGrid 1.8 Native App Launcher for KDE Plasma 6 Is Out with New Features:
                                                                                  9to5linux.com/appgrid-1-8-nati

                                                                                  Sway 1.12 Wayland Compositor Released with HDR10 Support via Vulkan Renderer:
                                                                                  9to5linux.com/sway-1-12-waylan

                                                                                  Labwc 0.20 Wayland Compositor Released with wlroots 0.20 Support:
                                                                                  linuxiac.com/labwc-0-20-waylan

                                                                                  Ubuntu 26.10 daily builds now available to download:
                                                                                  omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/ubuntu

                                                                                  Manjaro 26.1 Preview Brings GNOME 50, Plasma 6.6, and Kernel 7.0 to Your Desk:
                                                                                  linuxcompatible.org/story/manj

                                                                                  NixOS 26.05 “Yarara” Released with GNOME 50, systemd by Default for Stage 1:
                                                                                  9to5linux.com/nixos-26-05-yara

                                                                                  MX Linux 25.2 Brings Kernel Patches, Text Mode Installer, and Better Live Persistence:
                                                                                  linuxcompatible.org/story/mx-l

                                                                                  Rhino Linux 2026.1 snapshot brings Lomiri desktop to x86_64 and ARM64:
                                                                                  alternativeto.net/news/2026/5/

                                                                                  Armbian 26.5 Released with Linux 7.0, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Builds, and More:
                                                                                  9to5linux.com/armbian-26-5-rel

                                                                                  Qubes OS 4.3.1 Release Candidate Brings Fedora 43 and Critical Security Patches:
                                                                                  linuxcompatible.org/story/qube

                                                                                  (more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

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                                                                                    [?]Indie Tech News » 🌐
                                                                                    @indietechnews@infosec.exchange

                                                                                    FBI wants AI Surveillance Drones
                                                                                    theintercept.com/2025/11/21/fb

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                                                                                      [?]ProPublica » 🌐
                                                                                      @ProPublica@newsie.social

                                                                                      Alaska’s Deteriorating Schools Could Receive More Than $148 Million for Repairs. It’s a Fraction of What They Need.
                                                                                      ---

                                                                                      Following reporting by KYUK, ProPublica and NPR, lawmakers tripled the funding the state would allocate toward school construction and maintenance. The budget increase would still only cover about 13% of what school districts requested.
                                                                                      propublica.org/article/alaska-

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                                                                                        [?]The Human Capybara [She/He/They - Elle/Il/iel] » 🌐
                                                                                        @aSweetGentleman@mstdn.social

                                                                                        Well, you don't want to restrict adtech's freedom to make money out of your data, that would be anti-American, wouldn't it? /s

                                                                                        "US Central Command says it was warned that adversaries used location data to target troops."

                                                                                        "Lawmakers urge Pentagon to act, citing adtech industry as national security threat."

                                                                                        "Calls for disabling ad IDs, restricting location sharing, and moving away from Chrome on devices"

                                                                                        reuters.com/business/media-tel

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                                                                                          [?]Texas Observer » 🌐
                                                                                          @TexasObserver@texasobserver.social

                                                                                          , Oil industry nepo baby and fossil fascist Bo French will likely be the next Railroad Commissioner of , where he'll guide the state's oil and gas industry with policy inspired by racist conspiracy theories. texasobserver.org/bo-french-bl

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                                                                                            [?]Signal News & Tips » 🌐
                                                                                            @aboutsignal@mastodon.social

                                                                                            New update for Signal Desktop (8.13) 🎉

                                                                                            - New raised-hand indicators are now also displayed in the list of raised hands ✋

                                                                                            👉️ aboutsignal.com/releases/signa

                                                                                              [?]Lisa J. Warner / Lisa Luv » 🌐
                                                                                              @LisaWarnerLisaLuv@mastodon.social

                                                                                              🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗💁🏿‍♀️*Mugen Just Turned Honda's New Hot Hatch Into Something Even Wilder👉

                                                                                              Mugen Just Turned Honda's New Hot Hatch Into Something Even Wilder
                                                                                              carbuzz.com/mugen-honda-super-

                                                                                                [?]heise online » 🌐
                                                                                                @heiseonline@social.heise.de

                                                                                                NASA bereitet den Bau einer Mondkolonie vor

                                                                                                Im März hat NASA-Direktor Jared Isaacman den Bau einer Mondbasis angekündigt. Die ersten Vorbereitungsmissionen sollen noch in diesem Jahr starten.

                                                                                                heise.de/news/NASA-bereitet-de

                                                                                                  [?]heise online » 🌐
                                                                                                  @heiseonline@social.heise.de

                                                                                                  Satelliten-Frequenzen: EU-Kommission will Starlink ausbooten

                                                                                                  Mit einer Frequenzentscheidung will die EU-Kommission europäische Alternativen zu Musks Satelliteninternet fördern – und zugleich Mobilfunk aus dem All fördern.

                                                                                                  heise.de/news/Satelliten-Frequ

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                                                                                                    [?]DrALJONES » 🌐
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                                                                                                    Germany is doubling down on conflating Nazi insignia with anti-genocide symbols.

                                                                                                    Anti-genocide symbols - such as the watermelon & Handala - are described as antisemitic insofar as being "identifying marks of secular pro-Palestinian extremism."

                                                                                                    A new German pamplet, Hidden Messages: Anti-Semitic Codes & Ciphers, "aims to raise awareness of subtle forms of anti-Semitism".

                                                                                                    middleeasteye.net/news/capital

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                                                                                                      [?]Texas Observer » 🌐
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                                                                                                      On primary night, John Cornyn boldly called his shot: “Judgment Day is coming for Ken Paxton.”

                                                                                                      Instead, Trump's 'Truth' came for Cornyn. texasobserver.org/ken-paxton-r

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                                                                                                        [?]ProPublica » 🌐
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                                                                                                        Emily Waldorf faced a life-threatening miscarriage.

                                                                                                        Even after she met the hospital’s CEO, called the governor and hired a lawyer, she couldn’t get care in the country’s “most pro-life state.”
                                                                                                        propublica.org/article/arkansa

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                                                                                                          [?]Ham on Wry » 🌐
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                                                                                                          Nobody gets three annual physicals in thirteen months.

                                                                                                          Just sayin’

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                                                                                                            [?]Stefan Bohacek » 🌐
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                                                                                                            "For anti-data center activists there will be victories and losses but a coalition is taking shape, one that cuts across party lines and has people engaging with politics on a local level in a way that hasn’t been seen in decades."

                                                                                                            404media.co/an-incomplete-list

                                                                                                              [?]heise online » 🌐
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                                                                                                              EU AI Act: Was bis August 2026 in Unternehmen erledigt sein muss

                                                                                                              Im Webinar ordnet der heise Fachdienst KI PRO die anstehenden Pflichten des EU AI Act ein und zeigt, wo konkreter Handlungsbedarf besteht.

                                                                                                              heise.de/news/EU-AI-Act-Was-bi

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                                                                                                              [?]Ham on Wry » 🌐
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                                                                                                              Fun Fact: No war was ever started in the name of Satan.

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                                                                                                                [?]DrALJONES » 🌐
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                                                                                                                Malaysia is taking Israel to the ICJ after Israeli officials kidnapped, jailed & assaulted flotilla activists.

                                                                                                                "The legal action follows alleged acts of brutality, including kidnapping & torture involving flotilla activists, particularly Malaysian participants."

                                                                                                                Malaysia "will initiate proceedings as soon as lawyers complete the collection of information & supporting evidence".

                                                                                                                trtworld.com/article/d2b798f68

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                                                                                                                  Report: UNRWA staff smuggled millions of Nakba records out of Gaza

                                                                                                                  The covert operation "preserved legal & historical records dating back to 1948 of Israel's ethnic cleansing & land-theft campaign."

                                                                                                                  "Staff carried documents past border checkpoints, airlifted boxes on military planes, & raced Israeli tanks to Rafah to save what could never be replaced."

                                                                                                                  During the Nakba, "200,000 came to Gaza from all over Palestine.”

                                                                                                                  thecradle.co/articles/unrwa-st

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                                                                                                                    [?]Aure Free Press :verified: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                    Hungarian PM Péter Magyar said that the international community "didn't really do its job" and failed to "guarantee Ukraine’s territorial integrity and independence" under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum.

                                                                                                                    "Now we need a peace agreement with real guarantees, security guarantees. I think it's crucial for Ukraine as well," he added.

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                                                                                                                      Israel is "the world’s most disliked country."

                                                                                                                      "Israel is globally perceived more negatively than any other country in the world, followed by North Korea."

                                                                                                                      "Negative perceptions of the US have also exploded, placing it near the bottom of global perception".

                                                                                                                      ~Democracy Perception Index

                                                                                                                      middleeastmonitor.com/20260513

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                                                                                                                        Deported flotilla activists say they were assaulted by Israeli guards, including being:

                                                                                                                        * tased in the face

                                                                                                                        * injected with unknown sedatives

                                                                                                                        * water-tortured & having ribs broken

                                                                                                                        * dragged along the ground with bound hands & feet

                                                                                                                        * forced to strip naked & run while guards were laughing

                                                                                                                        "They laughed all the time. Super sadistic. They took off my shirt, took pictures. Mistreated us all night long."

                                                                                                                        middleeasteye.net/news/sadisti

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                                                                                                                          [?]DrALJONES » 🌐
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                                                                                                                          Report: Israel has launched defamation proceedings against the NYT over a column that alleged "widespread sexual abuse of Palestinians by Israeli prison guards, soldiers & settlers."

                                                                                                                          Israel is highly unlikely to win the case:

                                                                                                                          The NYT “does not have to prove that it was true", only that they believed it was true. "It could turn out they made a mistake.“

                                                                                                                          israelpalestinenews.org/israel

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                                                                                                                            [?]Gay Community News (bot) » 🤖 🌐
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                                                                                                                            CMAT calls out fascism in powerful Ivor Novello acceptance speech

                                                                                                                            gcn.ie/cmat-ivor-novello-award

                                                                                                                            photo description: Irish singer CMAT, who won an Ivor Novello award, speaking into a microphone, she is wearing sunglasses and a red top

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                                                                                                                              [?]Ham on Wry » 🌐
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                                                                                                                              Dismal sales and bookings in America are what happens when organizations like FIFA make up a fake peace prize and honor a felon and child sex trafficker with it.

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                                                                                                                                [?]Zach Everson » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                "Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group recently donated $50 million to the Trump presidential library and foundation"

                                                                                                                                Jacob Wendler, Daniel Lippman for @politico

                                                                                                                                politico.com/newsletters/polit

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                                                                                                                                  Interview: "Dictatorship in Action” Trump's $1.8B slush fund & bar on IRS scrutiny

                                                                                                                                  Trumps so-called “anti-weaponization” fund will pay criminal Trump supporters to intimidate people.

                                                                                                                                  And the order to not investigate the Trump family’s dealings “screams that Donald Trump is, in fact, a criminal-level tax cheat.”

                                                                                                                                  ~David Cay Johnston

                                                                                                                                  democracynow.org/2026/5/20/tru

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                                                                                                                                    [?]Ham on Wry » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                    Trump is talking about invading Cuba because he’s still looking for a war he might be able to win.

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                                                                                                                                      [?]Zach Everson » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                      Trump's crypto partner is still helping Iran

                                                                                                                                      Stay informed on Trump's for-profit presidency

                                                                                                                                      New. Free. Subscribe.

                                                                                                                                      1100pennsylvania.com/p/trumps-

                                                                                                                                        [?]Lisa J. Warner / Lisa Luv » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                        💔😭🛐🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️💁🏼‍♀️*Woman killed in fire in Bloomfield👉

                                                                                                                                        Woman killed in fire in Bloomfield – NBC Connecticut
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                                                                                                                                          [?]heise online » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                          Deutsche Bahn: „Keine generelle Sperre einzelner Betriebssysteme“

                                                                                                                                          Die Webseite der Deutschen Bahn sperrt Linux-Webbrowser mit Fehlermeldung von der Verbindungssuche aus. Das diene der Sicherheit.

                                                                                                                                          heise.de/news/Deutsche-Bahn-Ke

                                                                                                                                          [?]World Wide Web Consortium » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                          Are you a Member of W3C and are you giving a talk or holding an event related to your work on web standards at W3C?

                                                                                                                                          Let us help get the word out!

                                                                                                                                          Let us know in advance of events that you'd like to see featured, or contact us for sponsoring and endorsed conferences. See more at:
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                                                                                                                                            Effectively Using The Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA)

                                                                                                                                            “SMALLTOFEDS”By Ken Larson

                                                                                                                                            “The FOIA is a law that gives you the right to access federal government information. It is often described as the law that keeps citizens in the know about their government. Agencies must disclose any information that is requested – unless that information is protected from public disclosure.”

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                                                                                                                                            BACKGROUND

                                                                                                                                            Extract: United States Department of Justice Web Site:


                                                                                                                                            “Enacted on July 4, 1966, and taking effect one year later, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) provides that any person has a right, enforceable in court, to obtain access to federal agency records, except to the extent that such records (or portions of them) are protected from public disclosure by one of nine exemptions or by one of three special law enforcement record exclusions. A FOIA request can be made for any agency record. Before sending a request to a federal agency, you should determine which agency is likely to have the records you are seeking. Each agency’s website will contain information about the type of records that agency maintains.”


                                                                                                                                            The FOIA is a law that gives you the right to access federal government information.  It is often described as the law that keeps citizens in the know about their government. Under the FOIA, agencies must disclose any information that is requested – unless that information is protected from public disclosure. The FOIA also requires that agencies automatically disclose certain information, including frequently requested records. As Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court have all recognized, the FOIA is a vital part of our democracy.”

                                                                                                                                            POINTS OF CONTACT (POC)

                                                                                                                                            Contacts
                                                                                                                                            A typical Federal Agency POC page will look like this:
                                                                                                                                            “Contacts

                                                                                                                                            The Office of Management (OM) advises the public and U.S. Department of Education (ED) employees regarding FOIA requests and ED information available to the public. As the lead organization for ED’s FOIA Program, OM provides training for ED officials and guidance and support to the FOIA Coordinators and FOIA Review Officers in the Department’s Principal Offices and 12 regional and field offices.

                                                                                                                                            Send requests via email to: EDFOIAManager@ed.gov
                                                                                                                                            Send requests via fax to: (202) 401-0920
                                                                                                                                            Send requests via mail to:

                                                                                                                                            U.S. Department of Education
                                                                                                                                            Office of Management
                                                                                                                                            Office of the Chief Privacy Officer
                                                                                                                                            400 Maryland Avenue, SW, LBJ 2E321
                                                                                                                                            Washington, DC 20202-4536
                                                                                                                                            ATTN: FOIA Public Liaison

                                                                                                                                            FOIA Requester Service Center
                                                                                                                                            (202) 401-8365

                                                                                                                                            FOIA Director
                                                                                                                                            (202) 453-6362
                                                                                                                                            Gregory Smith

                                                                                                                                            FOIA Public Liaison and Team Lead 
                                                                                                                                            (202) 205-0733
                                                                                                                                            Robert Wehausen

                                                                                                                                            FOIA Analysts
                                                                                                                                            (202) 401-8365
                                                                                                                                            Elise Cook
                                                                                                                                            Arthur Caliguiran
                                                                                                                                            Christie Swafford

                                                                                                                                            FOIA Appeals
                                                                                                                                            (202) 401-8365
                                                                                                                                            Arthur Caliguiran

                                                                                                                                            Privacy Act Requests 
                                                                                                                                            (202) 401-8365


                                                                                                                                            PRACTICAL USE


                                                                                                                                            Although occasions may arise for use of the FOIA on legal matters, personnel issues, and records that relate to agency background and activities, the most common uses of the FOIA in government contracting are as follows:

                                                                                                                                            • Market Research
                                                                                                                                            • Copies of historical contracts issued by an agency as well as contractor proposals.
                                                                                                                                            • Specific articles supporting a protest action.

                                                                                                                                            RESPONSE TIME


                                                                                                                                            The FOIA require a 30 day response time to your request, but actual response times vary by agency and backlog. 
                                                                                                                                            If the agency determines the request will exceed $25 in costs, you should indicate in your request that you will be willing to pays those costs to receive the data. 


                                                                                                                                            MAKE YOUR REQUEST  AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE


                                                                                                                                            Identify the document or documents specifically by name and identifying number (s).  When requesting contracts, RFP’s, change orders and similar data, always include the contract number and be specific with regard to references to all changes.  If proposals are requested include a specific request for management, technical and cost volumes. The more detail you provide the more likely the response will supply what you wish to have.


                                                                                                                                            BE PREPARED FOR GOVERNMENT REDACTING


                                                                                                                                            When the government receives requests for copies of contracts, proposals and similar data that contain specific in formation pertinent to another company, they are required to contact that company and ask for identification of information the firm deems proprietary.  To the extent the firm identifies such data, expect the response you receive to have the data redacted (blanked out and unreadable). 


                                                                                                                                            EXPEDITING

                                                                                                                                            Among the larger agencies, especially DOD and Justice, it is rare to receive the information requested in a FOIA within 30 days.  Be prepared to expedite, by email, registered letter and by visitation if necessary, depending on the importance of the request to your business.  


                                                                                                                                            REFUSALS


                                                                                                                                            Refusals by the government can be appealed if you and your legal counsel make the judgment a given request falls outside of the following exemptions permitted the government or one of three special law enforcement record exclusions detailed at the FOIA web site:”Exemption 1: Information that is classified to protect national security.  The material must be properly classified under an Executive Order.
                                                                                                                                            Exemption 2: Information related solely to the internal personnel rules and practices of an agency. 
                                                                                                                                            Exemption 3: Information that is prohibited from disclosure by another federal law. Additional resources on the use of Exemption 3 can be found on the Department of Justice FOIA Resources page.
                                                                                                                                            Exemption 4: Information that concerns business trade secrets or other confidential commercial or financial information.
                                                                                                                                            Exemption 5: Information that concerns communications within or between agencies which are protected by legal privileges, that include but are not limited to:
                                                                                                                                            Attorney-Work Product PrivilegeAttorney-Client PrivilegeDeliberative Process PrivilegePresidential Communications Privilege
                                                                                                                                            Exemption 6: Information that, if disclosed, would invade another individual’s personal privacy.
                                                                                                                                            Exemption 7: Information compiled for law enforcement purposes if one of the following harms would occur.  Law enforcement information is exempt if it:
                                                                                                                                                        7(A). Could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings 
                                                                                                                                                        7(B). Would deprive a person of a right to a fair trial or an impartial adjudication 
                                                                                                                                                        7(C). Could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy “
                                                                                                                                                        7(D). Could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source
                                                                                                                                                        7(E). Would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions
                                                                                                                                                        7(F). Could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual 
                                                                                                                                            Exemption 8: Information that concerns the supervision of financial institutions.

                                                                                                                                            Exclusions:


                                                                                                                                            Congress has provided special protection in the FOIA for three narrow categories of law enforcement and national security records.  The provisions protecting those records are known as “exclusions.”  The first exclusion protects the existence of an ongoing criminal law enforcement investigation when the subject of the investigation is unaware that it is pending and disclosure could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings. The second exclusion is limited to criminal law enforcement agencies and protects the existence of informant records when the informant’s status has not been officially confirmed.  


                                                                                                                                            The third exclusion is limited to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and protects the existence of foreign intelligence or counterintelligence, or international terrorism records when the existence of such records is classified.  Records falling within an exclusion are not  subject to the requirements of the FOIA.  So, when an office or agency responds to your request, it will limit its response to those records that are subject to the FOIA.”

                                                                                                                                            WHAT IF YOUR COMPANY DATA IS REQUESTED UNDER THE FOIA?


                                                                                                                                            When notified by a contacting officer that copies of your company contract(s) and/or proposal(s) have been requested by another firm, identify to the officer  the pricing data, proprietary data and sensitive information you do not wish to have disclosed and formally indicate by letter the sections of the documents you wish redacted prior to release to another firm. The officer may or may not provide to you the name of the firm requesting the information. If you are involved in a re-compete effort for which you are the incumbent it is wise to inform the FOIA Officer of the agency involved that you expect to be notified when requests are made for copies of your information.  


                                                                                                                                            SUMMARY


                                                                                                                                            We suggest you study the FOIA site and the agency(s) you target for information.  Be specific in your requests and be prepared to expedite them. The FOIA can be a valuable tool for your business, but it usually takes patience and practice to use it effectively.”


                                                                                                                                            Effectively Using The Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA)

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                                                                                                                                              Not really here nor there, but I thought I would reiterate that 's @kentpitman and myself ed @bagder about and on May 10th, one day before that article.

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                                                                                                                                              Curl is a popular

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                                                                                                                                                [?]Stefan Bohacek » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                "Combined, these changes will likely further decimate Google referrals to publishers, which have already been suffering from declining referrals due to AI Overviews."

                                                                                                                                                techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/goog

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                                                                                                                                                  [?]Freezenet » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                  Are AI Chat Bots Inherently Harmful? One Study Says “No”

                                                                                                                                                  The age verification debate has morphed into roping in AI chat bots. We found one study on the impacts of AI.

                                                                                                                                                  freezenet.ca/are-ai-chat-bots-

                                                                                                                                                    [?]heise online » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                    Meta Ray-Ban Display unterstützen endlich die Erkennung neuronaler Handschrift

                                                                                                                                                    Die Smartglasses mit integriertem Display bekommen eine bereits letzten Herbst gezeigte Funktion, plus verbesserte Navigation und kombinierte Videoaufnahmen.

                                                                                                                                                    heise.de/news/Meta-Ray-Ban-Dis

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                                                                                                                                                      [?]Freezenet » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                      New Brunswick Pushes Age Verification Because Screw the Science

                                                                                                                                                      The moral panic driven age verification laws has compelled New Brunswick to look into these failed laws as well.

                                                                                                                                                      freezenet.ca/new-brunswick-pus

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                                                                                                                                                        [?]Ham on Wry » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                        Dear CEOs

                                                                                                                                                        Ai bots don’t buy cars or groceries or iPhones or whatever else you’re selling. People do.

                                                                                                                                                        Kill the workforce and nobody will buy your products.

                                                                                                                                                        Thx,
                                                                                                                                                        Hammy

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                                                                                                                                                          [?]DrALJONES » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                          Interview: Francesca Albanese on the systemic sexual abuse of Palestinians by Israeli forces.

                                                                                                                                                          The abuse reported by the NYT had already been documented & published for years by human rights groups & Palestinian organisations, including Albanese herself.

                                                                                                                                                          Albanese examines Israeli sexual violence & impunity – & the double standards western govts & media apply.

                                                                                                                                                          aljazeera.com/video/upfront/20

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                                                                                                                                                            [?]DrALJONES » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                            Interview: "We have books written about it. We have testimonies. We have film testimonies even of the soldiers committing these acts."

                                                                                                                                                            "The world only listens when the New York Times publishes it.”

                                                                                                                                                            ~Ben Marmarelli, anti-Zionist Israeli lawyer

                                                                                                                                                            Source: Zeteo "They’ve Been Raping Palestinians Since 1948," Ben Marmarelli, 15 May

                                                                                                                                                            .

                                                                                                                                                            Palestinian man greets a released prisoner

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                                                                                                                                                              [?]Ham on Wry » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                              Just to be clear … Trump flew to Beijing, China, to deliver a white surrender flag personally.

                                                                                                                                                              Trump didn’t gain a single thing for America. He and his billionaire entourage left China after strengthening the position of Xi Jinping and putting America in a far weaker spot than when he had flown to Beijing.

                                                                                                                                                              America would have remained in a stronger position economically and diplomatically if Trump had just stayed home and golfed.

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                                                                                                                                                                [?]Freezenet » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                EFF Joins the Chorus: There’s No Evidence Supporting Age Verification

                                                                                                                                                                The evidence supporting age verification has long been weak. The EFF is lending their voice to point this out.

                                                                                                                                                                freezenet.ca/eff-joins-the-cho

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                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Ham on Wry » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                  Quote of the Day:

                                                                                                                                                                  ‘MAGA is the last breath of the Confederacy.’

                                                                                                                                                                  Vote them out.

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                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Zach Everson » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                    Good morning!

                                                                                                                                                                    Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates—

                                                                                                                                                                    💰His net worth is up $1.9 billion, to $6.2 billion

                                                                                                                                                                    💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million

                                                                                                                                                                    💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million

                                                                                                                                                                    💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million

                                                                                                                                                                    And Jared became a billionaire last year.

                                                                                                                                                                    Have a great day!

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                                                                                                                                                                      [?]DrALJONES » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                      Report: NYT's Nicholas Kristof on the harrowing torture of Palestinians by Israelis in the occupied West Bank.

                                                                                                                                                                      Francesca Albanese's report had already revealed how "the Israeli prison system has degenerated into a laboratory of calculated cruelty".

                                                                                                                                                                      But the pro-Zionist NYT rarely criticises Israel, & Israel reacted: "The NYT chose to publish one of the worst blood libels ever to appear in the modern press."

                                                                                                                                                                      middleeasteye.net/news/new-yor

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                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Freezenet » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                        Angus Reid Poll Undermines Media Age Verification Narrative

                                                                                                                                                                        Canada's mainstream media has been pushing the narrative that age verification is popular. Not quite according to Angus Reid.

                                                                                                                                                                        freezenet.ca/angus-reid-poll-u

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                                                                                                                                                                          [?]ProPublica » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                          Counterterrorism Czar’s Blueprint Targets Leftists, Ignores Far-Right Violence and Heaps Praise on Trump
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                                                                                                                                                                          Sebastian Gorka’s anti-terror plan makes no mention of long-established threats posed by far-right militants and instead villainizes the president’s political enemies. “This administration is not paying attention to the data,” one expert said.
                                                                                                                                                                          propublica.org/article/trump-c

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                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Tomáš » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                            CARTER AND REAGAN DISPUTE VIEWS ON ARMS POLICY

                                                                                                                                                                            SAMIZDAT CONTENT REVIEW PLAN9? 'Do we really need another linux distro?' They'll never let me inside iwp9 now. Tom Duff notice me! I've been seeding the 9front iso this whole time. N-GATE.COM .9% off WERC WHISTLEBLOWER: "IT'S HIGH VOLTAGE" URIEL WAS RIGHT A NETFLIX LIVE EVEN RENNE FRENCH VS THE SLOP MACHINE ARLINGTON,TX VEGAN RABBIT STEW RECIPE P.9 I THOUGHT CAT-V WAS A CABLE AND OTHER SHORT STORIES I REALLY AM NOT HIM

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                                                                                                                                                                              New today: "Responding to the horrors taking place with this software allowed us to reframe the issue around our residents’ due process and privacy rights, speaking to concerns beyond Flock’s collaboration with or the potential misuse of the system." texasobserver.org/san-marcos-c

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                                                                                                                                                                                Age Verification is Now Mutating into General ID

                                                                                                                                                                                Surveillance creep is once again striking in the age verification debate. This is happening at the FCC this time.

                                                                                                                                                                                freezenet.ca/age-verification-

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                                                                                                                                                                                  Opinion: "If Starmer gets his way, Reform - not the Greens - will be his legacy".

                                                                                                                                                                                  "Voters now understand that the party is too utterly captured by Big Business to ever again serve as a meaningful counterweight to the right – or as a vehicle for progressive, anti-austerity politics."

                                                                                                                                                                                  This election, "Tweedledum & Tweedledee politics was finally unmasked as a charade. The electorate is no longer having it."

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                                                                                                                                                                                    Report: Mossad laid the groundwork for the massive demonstrations in Iran that were used by Israel and the US to justify waging war on Iran.

                                                                                                                                                                                    Under leader David Barnea, Mossad had become "a driving influence within the general Iranian public". The astroturfed riots enabled Israel to convince Trump to join the war on Iran.

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                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Zach Everson » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                      New: Trump's $13.1M no-bid paint job at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — 7x what he publicly promised.

                                                                                                                                                                                      His "pool guy" got it.

                                                                                                                                                                                      Just filed FOIAs for Public Citizen to get to the bottom of it.

                                                                                                                                                                                      citizen.org/news/lets-get-to-t

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                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Texas Observer » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                        Featured story: Flock has sold nearly 92,000 cameras to local police departments—including more than 10,000 in , according to an open source map.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Privacy advocates are determined to bring that number down, and they're starting to get their way. texasobserver.org/license-plat

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                                                                                                                                                                                          Report: Israeli soldiers said the army ordered troops to kill any man they encountered in Gaza from Oct 7 2023.

                                                                                                                                                                                          “A man, no matter what age, don’t play games with it; kill immediately," were the orders. "We need to kill him - yes, even if he is completely unarmed.”

                                                                                                                                                                                          “They even told us that if it’s a woman or a child, use your judgment, because things happen."

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                                                                                                                                                                                            Analysis: "Iran Threatens to Kidnap Data Cables as well as Oil"

                                                                                                                                                                                            "99% of internet traffic goes via undersea cables, & 30% at some point transits the Strait of Hormuz."

                                                                                                                                                                                            Cutting the cables would dramatically affect "communications & commerce throughout the world... & deal a lethal blow to US Central Command & hostile neighbors of Iran."

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                                                                                                                                                                                              Report: Israel is manipulating AI platforms into blaming Palestinians, eg, for killing Hind Rajab.

                                                                                                                                                                                              Israel has created websites dedicated to manipulating AI platforms such as Claude & ChatGPT.

                                                                                                                                                                                              When users seek information, eg, on the murder of Hind, the manipulated chatbots produce “alternative explanations” (eg, that Hind could have been killed by Palestinian crossfire) alongside verified reporting.

                                                                                                                                                                                              thegrayzone.com/2026/04/28/isr

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                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]SetSideB » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                Multilink Monday 5/11/26
                                                                                                                                                                                                We dusted off the image editor and made the first new page header in years! It's about time too, for it's time to shorten our list of pages before they threaten to overwhelm our nonexistent offices.

                                                                                                                                                                                                1. Seminal official D&D blobber Eye of The Behold
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                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Karen Kaspar » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                  Wen interessiert's?

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Mehr über mich erfährst du in diesem Interview mit mir - jetzt auf Art Heroes:
                                                                                                                                                                                                  --> artheroes.de/de/inspiration-id

                                                                                                                                                                                                  You can find out more about me in this interview—now on Art Heroes!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]ProPublica » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                    Hours after ProPublica reported on how a federal probe of a drugs-for-votes scheme in Puerto Rico's prisons got quashed after the 2024 elections, some of the territory’s political leaders made public calls for investigations into the allegations.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Freezenet » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                      Privacy Commissioner Investigating Centurion Project. Strongly Worded Letter Could Follow

                                                                                                                                                                                                      The lack of any real privacy laws could play a role in the Centurion Project scandal that exposed millions of Alberta voters.

                                                                                                                                                                                                      freezenet.ca/privacy-commissio

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                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Zach Everson » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                        "Howard Lutnick’s Ties To Epstein Explained"

                                                                                                                                                                                                        @alisond64 for Forbes

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                                                                                                                                                                                                          Interview: Trump is still “looking for a Silver Bullet” instead of negotiating seriously

                                                                                                                                                                                                          The US is denying Iranian reports that 2 missiles struck a US vessel.

                                                                                                                                                                                                          "Both sides are making maximalist demands, so a diplomatic solution is unlikely."

                                                                                                                                                                                                          As long as Trump listens to the forces that sold him this (backfired) blockade, "we’re not going to see a diplomatic breakthrough."

                                                                                                                                                                                                          ~Trita Parsi

                                                                                                                                                                                                          democracynow.org/2026/5/4/stra

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                                                                                                                                                                                                            Interview: Trump’s war on Iran reveals the limits of American imperial power

                                                                                                                                                                                                            "This latest conflict is part of a decades-long project by the US to exert imperial control over the oil-rich region."

                                                                                                                                                                                                            But it’s in danger of being a strategic loss signaling a deeper imperial decline. Trump has made the US much more vulnerable globally as a result.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                              Interview: Israel is in a race against time to “lock in its domination” across the Middle East.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Israel’s strategy of “permanent war” allows for only two types of countries in the region:

                                                                                                                                                                                                              either dependent or “too failed & fragile to pose any challenge”.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Israel can try to block a US-Iran deal by pushing for a major military operation against Iran, or by constant attacks on Lebanese & Palestinians.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              ~Daniel Levy

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                Interview: Forensic Architecture describes Israel's continual expansion into, & planning for permanent occupation of, Gaza.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                Israel has now extended beyond the Yellow Line & taken "control of at least 64% of Gaza".

                                                                                                                                                                                                                The nearly 2 million Gazan population is almost entirely confined to Palestinian-controlled territory along the coast.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                countercurrents.org/2026/05/is

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Update 5 May Filton 6 trial:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Four of the Palestine Action defendants - Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio & Fatema Rajwani - have been convicted of causing criminal damage to the Bristol facility of Israeli firm Elbit:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Jordan Devlin & Zoe Rogers were acquitted.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  middleeasteye.net/news/palesti

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Note: The jury was forbidden from knowing that the defendants can be sentenced on 'terrorism' charges.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Interview: Trump is still “looking for a Silver Bullet” instead of negotiating seriously

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The US is denying Iranian reports that 2 missiles struck a US vessel.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    "Both sides are making maximalist demands, so a diplomatic solution is unlikely."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    As long as Trump listens to the forces that sold him this (backfired) blockade, "we’re not going to see a diplomatic breakthrough."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    ~Trita Parsi

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    democracynow.org/2026/5/4/stra

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Character.AI Is being sued by Pennsylvania over its AI chatbot that claimed to be a real doctor.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      “The department’s investigation found that AI chatbot characters on Character.AI claimed to be licensed medical professionals, including psychiatrists, available to engage users in conversations about mental health symptoms,” Governor Josh Shapiro’s office said. “In one instance, a chatbot falsely stated it was licensed in Pennsylvania and provided an invalid license number.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      flip.it/SwR4P-

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]unusual_whales » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Marco Rubio: “The operation is over: Epic Fury. We are done with that stage of it. We’re now on to this project of freedom”

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]ProPublica » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          After Trump’s election, prosecutors were told not to pursue charges.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Freezenet » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                            History Repeats Itself: UK Age Verification Law Fails

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Under age teens are once again circumventing the age gates on a massive scale, causing the UK age verification laws to catastrophically fail.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            freezenet.ca/history-repeats-i

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Zach Everson » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Don Jr. becomes an investor in and advisor to drone-parts maker Unusual Machines.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Unusual Machines touts its "increasing visibility into...drone procurement initiatives such as the Department of War's Drone Dominance efforts."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              unusualmachines.com/press-rele

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Surprise...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Report: Trump's new Iran negotiator is Israel lobbyist Nick Stewart

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Stewart "has declared his absolute opposition to negotiating with the Islamic Republic of Iran."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Stewart will advise real estate mogul & Trump golf buddy Steve Witkoff, who helped to inspire Iran’s rejection of the last round of negotiations.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                "With Stewart on his team, it should be obvious to Tehran that there is no honest broker in Washington."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Report: Italy has opened a "torture probe" into Israel's abduction & abuse of Gaza Sumud participants.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Italian prosecutors are also investigating a similar Israeli navy flotilla interception last year “with alleged torture among the suspected crimes committed”.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Free Software Foundation » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Issue 217 of the is here! Catch up on April here: u.fsf.org/4b7

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The first few items from the May 2026 Free Software Supporter newsletter table of contents

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Update Filton 6 trial: Defendants' closing speeches

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      "I am proud that I overcame my fear & took action, because of course I was scared, you don’t just break into an Israeli weapons factory for fun!"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      "And I can say with absolute certainty that this is the best thing I have ever done, because there is a good chance that because of our actions that night, innocent lives were saved."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      ~Zoe Rogers

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Freezenet » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Utah’s VPN Ban Law Goes Into Effect in Age Verification Escalation

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Utah is attempting to cover up the failures of their age verification law by effectively banning VPNs.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Texas Observer » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          “It’s showing that the government is willing to literally waste billions upon billions of dollars to make these useless walls … instead of taking that exact same money and making sure that everybody has housing or clean water and food and education.” texasobserver.org/trump-border

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]ProPublica » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            I Reached Out to the White House Counterterrorism Czar for Comment. He Lashed Out on X.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Sebastian Gorka accused a ProPublica reporter of writing a “putrid piece of hackery” about him. Here’s how basic beat reporting led to a broader story about the state of the U.S. counterterrorism mission at a critical moment.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Report: UK's Starmer says people who chant 'globalise the intifada' must be prosecuted.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Yet, "there have been no recorded incidents in the UK of an antisemitic attack involving the phrase 'globalise the intifada'."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Anti-genocide protesters "have strongly denied that 'globalise the Intifada' is antisemitic or a call for violence, & British Jews have been prominent in pro-Palestine marches in the UK".

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              middleeasteye.net/news/starmer

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Europe Says » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Over 80 Israeli children found in illegal Thai school

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                An illegally run childcare center on the island of Koh Pha Ngan in Thailand was found to be…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                europesays.com/iran/95211/

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Aure Free Press :verified: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Israel Kidnaps Peacemakers!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Spain and Brazil accuse Israel of "kidnapping" its citizens following flotilla captured in international waters.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Thienminh Dinh, an emergency doctor for Doctors Without Borders working in Tyre, says the truce between Israel and Lebanon is “a ceasefire in name only” and it’s preventing medics from giving adequate care to people who need it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Speaking to Al Jazeera, she said, “Civilians are still dying, children are still being bombed, medics and journalists are still being targeted.”

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Report: UK's Starmer says people who chant 'globalise the intifada' must be prosecuted.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Yet, "there have been no recorded incidents in the UK of an antisemitic attack involving the phrase 'globalise the intifada'."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Anti-genocide protesters "have strongly denied that 'globalise the Intifada' is antisemitic or a call for violence, & British Jews have been prominent in pro-Palestine marches in the UK".

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Britain inflicted systemic abuses on Palestinians over three decades from 1917 to 1948.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        A new legal petition calls for an official apology, the release of archives, a public response, admission of wrongdoing & reparations.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        UK governance, says the petition, denied the Palestinian Arab majority self-governance & it entrenched apartheid & ethnic cleansing.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Jacob Urlich 🌍 » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          5 positive news from science.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          nature.com/articles/d41586-026…




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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Government Shuts Down Debate on Political Party Surveillance Bill

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Nothing restores confidence in a surveillance bill quite like the government telling everyone to shut up about it.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              "Purge Palantir" is a campaign "to raise awareness of the need to get Palantir out of our government & our lives."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              "Purge Palantir is working with organizers across the country to put a spotlight on the company & its abuses—& anyone can join."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Aure Free Press :verified: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                HE'S IN LOVE WITH THE MAN 🎶

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                OR
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                "The Russian in the White House"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                On Wednesday, Trump and Putin had yet another private phone call.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                According to Putin's aide, the call lasted 1.5 hours. Reportedly, they discussed international issues, including the situation around Iran. Putin "thinks a ceasefire is the right thing" - Ushakov.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                "What is Putin telling Trump to do next?"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Trump is all smiles next to his mentor, Vladimir Putin

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Putin and Trump

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Texas Observer » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The Observer obtained Flock license-plate reader audit logs that show conducted 117 immigration-related searches of local data from Jan to March. One dept's reason to search: "Obstructing Justice – Suspicious female filming traffic stop & making comments about ICE” texasobserver.org/license-plat

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Britain inflicted systemic abuses on Palestinians over three decades from 1917 to 1948.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    A new legal petition calls for an official apology, the release of archives, a public response, admission of wrongdoing & reparations.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    UK governance, says the petition, denied the Palestinian Arab majority self-governance & it entrenched apartheid & ethnic cleansing.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    middleeasteye.net/news/new-pet

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      "As a Ukrainian journalist, I've covered the US for 20 years. I find it increasingly shocking."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      theguardian.com/world/2026/apr

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      theguardian.com The long read As a Ukrainian journalist, I've covered the US for 20 years. I find it increasingly shocking. My country has been under occupation, dogged by corruption and war. Yet even I've been bewildered by the way the US seems to be fracturing. A version of this piece appeared in the Dial under the headline No Common Ground By Nataliya Gumenyuk Supporters of Ukraine in Washington DC, in 2024. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Alt...theguardian.com The long read As a Ukrainian journalist, I've covered the US for 20 years. I find it increasingly shocking. My country has been under occupation, dogged by corruption and war. Yet even I've been bewildered by the way the US seems to be fracturing. A version of this piece appeared in the Dial under the headline No Common Ground By Nataliya Gumenyuk Supporters of Ukraine in Washington DC, in 2024. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]heise online » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Ariane 6 liefert neuen Schub für das Amazon-Leo-Satellitennetz

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Am Donnerstagvormittag startet eine Ariane 6 mit 32 neuen Satelliten für Amazons Internetdienst Leo. Künftig soll die europäische Rakete mehr Fracht tragen.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        heise.de/news/Ariane-6-liefert

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Adam » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          🇨🇦 Canada's Privacy Act is finally up for review. 40 years is long enough–don't let Ottawa rewrite the rules that govern all public sector agencies without YOU!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          🚨 Take the quick survey by June 15!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          👉 openmedia.org/2026privacy-surv

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Texas Observer » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Out today: Flock has sold nearly 92,000 cameras to local police departments—including more than 10,000 in , according to an open source map.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Privacy advocates are determined to bring that number down, and they're starting to get their way. texasobserver.org/license-plat

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Top story: CBP is rushing to get construction underway before a Democratic Congress can claw back wall funds or a new president puts a stop to the project.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Landowners along the border are paying the price. texasobserver.org/trump-new-to

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Eleven U.S. cities will host World Cup games this summer, which is expected to generate $11B for FIFA.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The cities get little in return. They do not see a slice of game-day revenues from ticket sales, concessions and merchandise, or parking.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "Meet all 37 White House ballroom donors funding the $400 million build, including Silicon Valley tech giants, crypto bros and the Lutnicks"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Nino Paoli for @fortune

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    A legal petition calls for the UK to accept responsibility for alleged systemic abuses inflicted on Palestinians over three decades from 1917 to 1948.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    UK governance, says the petition, denied the Palestinian Arab majority self-governance & it entrenched apartheid & ethnic cleansing.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The petition calls for an official apology, the release of archives, a public response, admission of wrongdoing & reparations.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]🇩🇪 🇺🇦 🇨🇦:nonazis: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Facial recognition data is a key to your identity – if stolen, you can’t just change the locks

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      theconversation.com/facial-rec

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Signal News & Tips » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Signal is working on a standalone version for Signal Desktop that does not require a smartphone 🤩

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Also more adjustable options when using Desktop as a linked device

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        👉 aboutsignal.com/news/signal-de

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Aure Free Press :verified: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          King Charles to Trump:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          "You recently commented…if it were not for the United States, European countries would be speaking German."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          "If it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking French."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          More News at @Free_Press

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Out today: Thanks to ' Court of Criminal Appeals, no one on death row has been granted a new trial under a law meant to protect them from junk science-based convictions.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Now, the debate goes to the U.S. Supreme Court. texasobserver.org/texas-top-cr

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Aure Free Press :verified: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ISN'T IT IRONIC 🎶

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Nearly 50 years later, the same Oval Office , the same Charles, but a different criminal president!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Aure Free Press :verified: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  THE TIDE IS TURNING...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Russian propagandists are no longer happy with the war.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Russian propagandist Solovyev draws parallels with Napoleon who exhausted his resources and lost.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Prolonged war is bad for the country, these two propagandists tell their audience.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "Who owns the bullet with Putin's name on it?"
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  - Aure

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Pseudo Nym » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    UAE to leave OPEC

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    apnews.com/live/iran-war-israe

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    As someone old enough to remember the "oil embargo" of the 1970s, and alternate day gas lines, this seems a big deal, geopolitically.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Signal News & Tips » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Signal responds to reports: no hack, but targeted phishing campaign

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Signal will roll out new measures to help prevent and detect phishing attempts

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      👉 aboutsignal.com/news/signal-re

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        New: “How the Trumps’ Billion-Dollar Crypto Stake Depends on a Company That Helped Iran Evade Sanctions.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        my first report for Public Citizen

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Freezenet » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Manitoba Acts on Moral Panic, Pushes Age Verification

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Manitoba government has announced that it would be joining the war on free speech with an age verification bill.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          freezenet.ca/manitoba-acts-on-

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Update on the UK Filton 6 trial (24 Apr)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Outside the trial, 9 protesters were arrested for stating the rights of juries.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            They protested the UK's ban on the Filton jury knowing - & the press reporting - that the defendants may be sentenced as "terrorists."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Their signs read: “Jurors deserve to hear the whole truth” (referring to the ban) & "Jurors have an absolute right to acquit according to their conscience”.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            novaramedia.com/2026/04/24/nin

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Jacob Urlich 🌍 » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Gerst told the ESA boss that he wishes all eight billion people on Earth could go to space just once and see what he saw - a small, fragile, beautiful planet, cared for not nearly well enough by the species lucky enough to live on it.


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                This week's Linux and FOSS news:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                LINUX NEWS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Colorado Age Attestation Bill May Exclude Open Source OSes and Apps:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                9to5linux.com/colorado-age-att

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                AlmaLinux Comments On California Age Verification Law:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-Ag

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ubuntu 26.04 LTS released: GNOME 50, Wayland-only and Linux 7.0:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ubuntu

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS Will Now Automatically Install HWE/OEM Kernel Packages:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Serve

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) release date & schedule:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ubuntu

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ubuntu Rust Coreutils Audit Revealed 113 Issues, Ubuntu 26.10 Aims For "100% Rust Coreutils":
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ubuntu Looks Toward More Snap-Based Devpacks Moving Forward:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-More-

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ghostty OpenGL-Accelerated Terminal Available On Ubuntu 26.04 LTS:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                phoronix.com/news/Ghostty-Ubun

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Archinstall 4.3 Arch Linux Installer Adds Support for Installing Additional Fonts:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                9to5linux.com/archinstall-4-3-

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                CachyOS Rolls Out A Super-Charged Linux 7.0 Kernel:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-Supe

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Microsoft Reportedly Looking At Rebasing Azure Linux On Fedora:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                phoronix.com/news/MS-Azure-Lin

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Tails 7.7 Anonymous Distro Adds Detection of Outdated Secure Boot Certificates:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                9to5linux.com/tails-7-7-anonym

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Almalinux 9.8 beta released with expanded architecture and toolset support:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                alternativeto.net/news/2026/4/

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                LXQt 2.4 Desktop Environment Released with More Wayland Improvements:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                9to5linux.com/lxqt-2-4-desktop

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Niri 26.04 Wayland Compositor Adds Much Sought After Blur Support:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                phoronix.com/news/Niri-26.04-R

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                (more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Reporting on Trump's Meme Coin event?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Consider noting that $trump hit an all-time low of $2.52 today.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  That's down from a high of $73.43 shortly after its launch.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  $trump

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  coingecko.com/en/coins/officia

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  CoinGecko's $Trump page

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...CoinGecko's $Trump page

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Aure Free Press :verified: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Trump fires the entire National Science Board

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    More News at @Free_Press

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Purge Palantir is a "campaign to raise awareness of the need to get Palantir out of our government and our lives."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      "Purge Palantir is working with organizers across the country to put a spotlight on the company and its abuses—and anyone can join."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Analysis: Five Reasons Why Trump’s Blockade in the Strait of Hormuz Won’t work:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. It isn’t stopping Iran from selling oil;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        2. It won't make Tehran fold any time soon;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        3, By summer, Trump won't be able to ignore the squeeze on Americans;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        4. It is convincing Iran that Trump can't be negotiated with;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        5. It is an act of war that puts Trump back to square one.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        ~Harrison Mann

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Source: Zeteo, Apr 25

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Hormuz

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Report: US intelligence targets Pope Leo following Trump spat

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          "I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela... & I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the US,” said Trump.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Trump admin has been spying on Pope Leo XIV as part of a years-long intelligence campaign against the Vatican.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          thecradle.co/articles/spies-in

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            24 April update on Palestine Action trial:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The defendants described how they targeted Elbit's use of deadly AI.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Crucially, the UK government is applying "terrorism" grounds, but has banned the jury from knowing that & the press from reporting it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            In addition, the defendants are banned from explaining their motivation, namely, to destroy equipment used in Israel's genocide.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            middleeasteye.net/news/palesti

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              23 April Update on Filton6 trial on charges of criminal damages at Israeli arms factory.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Crucially, the UK government is applying "terrorism" grounds, but has banned the jury from knowing that & the press from reporting it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              In addition, the defendants are banned from explaining their motivation, namely, to destroy equipment used in Israel's genocide.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The defendents described altercations with guards & police.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              middleeasteye.net/news/palesti

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Script Kiddie » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                source: techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/surv…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                researchers have uncovered two separate spying campaigns that are abusing well-known weaknesses in the global telecoms to track people’s locations. The researchers say these two campaigns are likely a small snapshot of what they believe to be widespread exploitation of surveillance vendors seeking access to global networks.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Location: Matrix

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]DrALJONES » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Interview: "AI Data Center Resistance: Maine Passes Nation’s First Statewide Moratorium"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "Will Gov. Mills Sign It?"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "Communities across the US are pushing back against resource-draining data centers being built to fuel artificial intelligence & crypto ventures."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  “Maine residents are concerned about the impacts of data centers on both their electric rates & other utility rates, as well as on our wonderful environment."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Purge Palantir is a "campaign to raise awareness of the need to get Palantir out of our government and our lives."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    "Purge Palantir is working with organizers across the country to put a spotlight on the company and its abuses—and anyone can join."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    thenerdreich.com/how-to-purge-

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      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.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Starmer's go-to excuse: 'I was in the dark'. Don't believe it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        "Starmer has followed a trajectory of career-enhancing ignorance."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        This week, Starmer said he didn't know Mandelson had failed security vetting for the post of US ambassador.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Note: In 2017, Starmer joined the oligarchs' democracy-crushing Trilateral Commission - without telling his then leader, Corbyn. Mandelson was also invited.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          New from Michelle Pitcher: Lawyers used rap lyrics to encourage an all-white jury to sentence James Broadnax to death.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          He's still facing death this month even though another man confessed to the crime. texasobserver.org/looming-exec

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            SMOKE FREE!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            "A Generation Without Smoking"
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            – in the UK, smoking will be permanently banned for everyone born after January 1, 2009

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The law applies to cigarettes, vapes, and tobacco.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            UK authorities hope that children in the UK will become the first generation free from smoking and will be protected from lifelong ADDICTION, DISEASE, and PREMATURE DEATH

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              "It was always obvious what Starmer was, but our political journalists covered it up for factional reasons."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              "This scandal has arisen because, 6 yrs ago, one of the most odious factions in British politics took over the Labour Party under false pretenses."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Matthew Doyle, "another man linked to a pedophile, with no diplomatic career history, promoted as a potential ambassador because he was in the faction which brought Starmer to power."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Purge Palantir is a "campaign to raise awareness of the need to get Palantir out of our government and our lives."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                "Purge Palantir is working with organizers across the country to put a spotlight on the company and its abuses—and anyone can join."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  How about Age Verification for the presidency to prevent another immature toddler from pulling down and making a mess of everything that makes America great.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Featured story from Gaige Davila: Meenu Batra, 53, is ' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter. She once helped immigrants in the courts.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Now she's languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years. texasobserver.org/immigration-

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      "Crypto Billionaire Justin Sun Sues Trump’s World Liberty Financial—After Investing $45 Million"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      @siladitya for Forbes

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        ISN'T IT IRONIC.....

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        A top MAGA Instagram influencer with millions of followers—known for patriotic posts and photos of “her” ice fishing, drinking Coors Light, and using guns—has been revealed to actually be an Indian man who used the earnings to pay for medical school — NY Post

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer. That didn’t pan out.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          When reporter Molly Parker started to investigate what went wrong, she found the printer disassembled on a flatbed truck at a country repair shop.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Then things got weird.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            “Constituents are really alarmed.” – state Representative Erin Zwiener

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            New from Miranda Williamson: Energy, , and deep tax breaks ... legislators are just beginning to count the real costs of the data center boom. texasobserver.org/texas-legisl

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Purge Palantir is a "campaign to raise awareness of the need to get Palantir out of our government and our lives."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              "Purge Palantir is working with organizers across the country to put a spotlight on the company and its abuses—and anyone can join."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Seguritech operates over 188 command centers across 26 Mexican states, integrating cameras, drones, and facial recognition into a cross-border intelligence-sharing arrangement with US agencies.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Seems like NYT should have mentioned that UAE's spymaster bought 49% of Trump's World Liberty Financial and used $2B of its USD1 stablecoin, directing hundreds of millions to Trump.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Counterterrorism Czar Without a Counterterrorism Plan
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Amid Trump’s war in Iran and an exodus of intelligence staffers, Sebastian Gorka has asserted that a blueprint for fighting terror threats is “imminent” — but has not released it. Iranian threats have refocused attention on the lack of a doctrine.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      12 British universities paid a security firm led by ex-military intelligence officials to spy on staff & students.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      It scanned "student social media feeds; conducted secret counter-terror threat assessments & background checks".

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The 12 are Bristol U, Oxford U, Imperial College Lond, Uni College Lond (UCL), King’s College Lond (KCL), Sheffield U, Leicester U, Nottingham U, Cardiff Metro U, MAnchester Metro U & London School of Economics.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        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 the NHS.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Israeli army is the “most degenerate on earth” ~Francesca Albanese

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          "Its practices have crossed all red lines & violated international law.... I've seen enough to say it with absolute certainty: the Israeli army is the most degenerate army.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          "Albanese has been subjected to a widespread incitement campaign & direct death threats since submitting an official report accusing Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            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 the NHS.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Israeli army is the “most degenerate on earth” ~Francesca Albanese

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              "Its practices have crossed all red lines & violated international law.... I've seen enough to say it with absolute certainty: the Israeli army is the most degenerate army.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              "Albanese has been subjected to a widespread incitement campaign & direct death threats since submitting an official report accusing Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Out today: “I made connections with my other coworkers … and it made me realize this is actually empowering and unifies us. I was very excited for the opportunity to show that you can exercise your right and it should be normal to organize your workplace and show your strength as a worker.” texasobserver.org/contract-neg

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Venture Capitalists and AI Investors Push Canadian Age Verification Law

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Venture Capitalists and AI company executives are pushing a petition to pressure Canada into passing age verification.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Convicted felon Roger Stone's Drake Ventures collected about $1.2 million in lobbying fees in the first quarter of 2026.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    How are you doing?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The lobbying disclosures

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      NEW: Stories about pardons are often told as stories about presidential power — who had access, who persuaded a president to intervene. But what drew reporter Jeremy Kohler to this story was the people on the other side of that act of grace.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The Israeli army is the “most degenerate on earth” ~Francesca Albanese

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        "Its practices have crossed all red lines & violated international law.... I've seen enough to say it with absolute certainty: the Israeli army is the most degenerate army.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        "Albanese has been subjected to a widespread incitement campaign & direct death threats since submitting an official report accusing Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        middleeastmonitor.com/20260420

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I consume my mainly via feeds of major news sites (, , etc).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Sometimes I open my feed reader, read a headline and think "I don't have enough room in my brain to hold an opinion on that", and I don't open the article.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The most important part of this story is that I've realised this is healthy. It's good to be selective and protect ourselves from overload. We don't need to know everything that's going on, let alone form an opinion on it.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Donald Trump is the greatest hoax ever played on America by the Russians.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            When looking for the ultimate puppet, Putin hit a bullseye when he recruited Trump.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              “The decision … is not going to result in any more oil production; it’s not going to result in lower gas prices. It will result in real harm and the potential extinction of one or more species in the Gulf.” texasobserver.org/trump-god-sq

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The EU is Israel's largest trading partner, but an EU petition with 1,000,000+ signatures is putting pressure on the status quo.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Barry Andrews, EU Parliament

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff, fmr EU ambassador

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Eve Geddie, Amnesty International

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Europe’s Age Verification App Hacked, Suffers Data Leak

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Europe unveiled a 'be all, end all' app solution for age verification. It's already leaking data and has been hacked.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Trump is Helping Putin

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    President Zelensky says Trump's rollback of Russian sanctions is funding the war against Ukraine.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      This week's Linux and FOSS news:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      LINUX NEWS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      US federal age verification law in the progess of passing through congress:
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      XeroLinux rejects age attestation/verification, disables Systemd services to exclude birthDate field:
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      (Interestingly, the post's date is February 27, when the Systemd age field wasn't even proposed yet, but they say they disable it. They wanted to write March 27, I guess?)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Fedora 44 Will Not Be Released Next Week:
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Linux Mint’s next release won’t be until Christmas 2026:
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Zorin OS 18.1 released, new Lite edition available:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/zorin-

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Archinstall 4.2 Arch Linux Installer Brings Granular KDE Plasma Configuration:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      9to5linux.com/archinstall-4-2-

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Solus 4.9 “Serenity” Released with Linux 6.18 LTS, KDE Plasma 6.6, and More:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      9to5linux.com/solus-4-9-sereni

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      openSUSE Tumbleweed Lands GNOME 50, systemd-boot on New UEFI Installs:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      9to5linux.com/opensuse-tumblew

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Latest Raspberry Pi OS Release Disables Passwordless sudo by Default:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      9to5linux.com/latest-raspberry

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Adds i686 User-Space Packages:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-Ki

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      GNOME 50.1 Released with Basic Zoom Support for the Captive Portal:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      9to5linux.com/gnome-50-1-relea

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      GNOME Mutter 50.1 Fixes Performance Regression For Some NVIDIA Driver Versions:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      KDE Gear 26.04 Software Suite Is Out with Many Improvements for KDE Apps:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      9to5linux.com/kde-gear-26-04-s

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      KDE Merges Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      phoronix.com/news/KDE-Per-Scre

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      COSMIC 1.0.10 Desktop Environment Brings Small Tweaks and Bug Fixes:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      9to5linux.com/cosmic-1-0-10-de

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Mir 2.26 Begins Working On Rust-Based Input Platform:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.26-Rel

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Shelly 2.1 Package Manager for Arch Linux Revamps AppImage Support:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      9to5linux.com/shelly-2-1-packa

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      (more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Culture Minister Says Government Seriously Considering Age Verification

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        A Liberal minister says that mass government internet censorship through age verification is being considered as well.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Report: "We need technical experts negotiating with Iran, not real estate dealers."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          "The 2015 [Obama] deal was negotiated by technical experts & physicists who understood how nuclear weapons are made. Under [that] agreement, Iran could not build a bomb."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          “Under what circumstances would you put a couple of real estate dealers & nepo babies in charge of these negotiations?”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          ~Bill Foster, PhD physics, Harvard

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            "LIAR IN THE WHITE HOUSE"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Iranian Parliament Speaker says President Trump made seven claims in one hour.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            "All seven of which were false."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Welcome to America where intelligent people have to stay silent so they won’t offend the stupid people.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                BREAKING NEWS 🚨🚨

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Strait of Hormuz Update;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                I'm tracking; multiple ships WERE heading towards the exit of the Strait of Hormuz, and have within the past few minutes, turned back to where they were....

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Repeat.... Ships that were trying to leave the Strait have suddenly turned back and reversed course!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                DEVELOPING...

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  “Until a journalist is actually able to bring a civil rights lawsuit to trial against the government for violating their First Amendment rights, it’s open season on anyone doing , and especially those without an in-house lawyer handy.” texasobserver.org/la-gordiloca

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    A Protester Threw a Snowball. Federal Agents Responded With Tear Gas and Pepper Balls.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    A new investigation from ProPublica and FRONTLINE examines federal agents’ response to protesters and bystanders at the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    “We see, just, use of excessive force after use of excess force,” one expert said.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Liberals Admit That Bill C-22 is Just the First Surveillance Step

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Mass government surveillance is something the Liberals are pushing in Bill C-22, but it apparently isn't where it's going to be left.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        newscientist.com/article/25229…






                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Why is it so hard to change your mind?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Report: "Military confrontation with Iran is not in Israel’s interest", says Major Gen Giora Eiland, former head of Israel’s National Security Council.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          "The erosion of Israel’s standing is no longer limited to international institutions, but has become “clear and evident” within the United States, Israel’s closest ally."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          middleeastmonitor.com/20260417

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Cartoon No, we've never had Zionist Neighbours before. You're the first.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            After Numerous Screw Ups, EU Develops Own Age Verification App

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Report: Palestine Action's retrial is rigged against them.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Reportedly:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              the jury must not know the trial is for terrorism charges & that long prison terms are possible;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              UK media are banned from reporting the above;

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              the 6 must not explain their motives for damaging Israeli weapons factories.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Arguably, Palestine Action is being targeted bcz of its effectiveness & in providing a model for activism.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              youtube.com/watch?v=rkzxhQU6QIM

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Palestine Action demo

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                RUSSIA THREATENS EUROPE!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, has just put Europe on notice.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  There is a retrial of already-acquitted Palestine Action activists. This one is on bogus "terrorism” charges.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "This is what a stitch-up looks like," says UK MP Zarah Sultana.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  She "invoked parliamentary privilege to reveal [what] the British public was officially forbidden from knowing."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The jury will not be told that "if convicted, they & 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  See Hansard 14 Apr. Her info was from:
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Banksy judge beating protester

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Earlier: During the three years after the Inflation Reduction Act passed, developers invested some $62 billion in clean energy ventures statewide and announced billions more in planned construction.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Now, much of that infrastructure is at risk. texasobserver.org/texas-clean-

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      NEW: As Arrests at Anti-ICE Protests Piled Up, Prosecutions Crumbled

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      ProPublica and FRONTLINE found more than 300 protesters and bystanders who were arrested on charges like assaulting an immigration agent or interfering with law enforcement.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Over and over, the accusations fell apart under scrutiny.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Meanwhile, in Hungary...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        EU ties up to €35B in frozen funds for Hungary to reforms and a shift on Ukraine, as incoming PM Magyar seeks to reset ties with Brussels.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Key demands include lifting Hungary’s veto on a €90B EU loan to Kyiv and backing new sanctions on Russia.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Interview: The Pope Says War-makers Have “Hands Full of Blood”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Trump’s Catholic VP, JD Vance, said the pope should “stick to matters of morality.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          “I don’t know any other more pressing moral issues than war and peace... I don’t understand how VP Vance cannot see that war is a moral issue."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          ~Father James Martin

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Experts Banded Together to Condemn Age Verification. They Got Ignored

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            It's yet another instance of how science gets routinely ignored in the age verification debate, but worth pointing out.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Out today: More sprawl means more car ownership, longer commutes, and higher household transportation costs for the families who can least afford them. Transportation research has documented this dynamic for decades, yet public investment still tends to favor expansion. texasobserver.org/denton-net-z

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                "[A] recent survey of 5,000 white-collar US workers found that 40% of non-managers say AI saves them no time at all at work, while 92% of high-level executives say it makes them more productive."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Good insight into which jobs can be safely automated.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Italian Prime Minister Meloni announces suspension of military cooperation & defense agreement with Israel.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Liberals Turn Their Backs on Human Rights, Approves Age Verification Resolutions

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The Liberal convention has passed both age verification resolutions, representing the biggest tech flip-flop since warrantless wiretapping.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        BREAKING NEWS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The amount of US airforce transports heading to the Middle East Sunday night is scary insane.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          "US Middle East Policy: The Growing Propensity for Genocide"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          "The US supports Israel unconditionally... Where Israel's national interest & America's national interest diverge, the US pursues what is in Israel's national interest." Bcz of the Israel lobby.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Greater Israel strategy is to expand the borders; ethnically cleanse the territory; & ensure their neighbors are as weak as possible.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            BREAKING NEWS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Peter Magyar officially defeats Viktor Orbán to become Prime Minister of Hungary.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Putin's Ally is Gone!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Trump's Ally is Gone!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Record turnout, landslide victory for the people of Hungary!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Congratulations!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                This week's Linux and FOSS news:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                LINUX NEWS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Manjaro lead dev plans to implement age verification, other team members don't:
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                (Aragorn for Manjaro lead! lol)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Solus says they don't have plans to implement anything, but aren't sure if the laws affect them, they are monitoring the situation:
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Vipnix (a Gentoo > Funtoo > Macaroni-based, Systemd-free distro) rejects implementing age verification, excludes Brazil (their own country!) and California:
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesIt
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                (They are pretty brave that despite being a Brazilian company, they decided not to comply, respect to them. Idk if I would personally trust them though, because they include some Google and Cloudflare stuff in their website, but their stance is respectable regardless)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Mobian will do whatever upstream Debian does:
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                I made an age attestation/verification tracker to track which FOSS OSes (Linux, BSD, others) comply with the laws, which oppose:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                odysee.com/@fossery-tech:4/Lin

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Debian's APT 3.2 Released with History, Undo, Redo, and Rollback Support:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                9to5linux.com/debians-apt-3-2-

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                You can now enable Ubuntu Pro from the OS setup tool:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ubuntu

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Bazzite Linux gets some major upgrades for the April 2026 Update:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/bazz

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Trisquel GNU/Linux 12.0 LTS Released with GNU Linux-Libre 6.8 Kernel, MATE 1.26:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                9to5linux.com/trisquel-gnu-lin

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Deepin 25.1 launches with Linux 6.18, UOS AI upgrades, and new immutable system features:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                alternativeto.net/news/2026/4/

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                TrueNAS 26 Beta Brings Linux 6.18 LTS + OpenZFS 2.4 Combination For NAS Devices:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                phoronix.com/news/TrueNAS-26-B

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                GParted Live 1.8.1-3 Released with Linux Kernel 6.19.10 and GParted 1.8.1:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                9to5linux.com/gparted-live-1-8

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                (more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Report: US military bases in Gulf 'useless' after Iranian strikes.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  In four weeks, Iran has rendered "the physical architecture of American primacy" "essentially useless", says Marc Lynch.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  It's highly unlikely the US Fifth Fleet will ever return to Bahrain.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Gulf states' reliance on US security was shattered. US bases were not a deterrent against Iranian attacks. Instead, they became the target of those attacks", says Trita Parsi

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The US "had provided Pakistan's leader with the terms agreed upon for the ceasefire as a draft, including the header: 'Terms for Sharif'.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    "Everyone could see he had been fed these terms... explicitly [including] Lebanon as part of the ceasefire. The US had agreed to include Lebanon."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    "The entire purpose of the Israeli bombing was to sabotage the ceasefire & provoke Iran into defending its ally in Lebanon."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      "Israeli agents in the White House & the phony Iran ceasefire deal".

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      "As Israel was on the verge of running out of interceptors & Iran had consolidated its momentum, the US, via Pakistan, [created] the impression of a ceasefire."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      "This allowed Trump to game the markets: a White House insider placed a ~$1B bet on the price of Brent crude going down."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Aure Free Press :verified: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Tens of thousands fill Budapest’s Heroes’ Square for seven-hour anti-Orbán “System-Breaking” concert

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The US-Iran “ceasefire” was a Trump sham "in order for Israel to sabotage it by massacring civilians in Lebanon & dragging Washington deeper into war."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            "Trump is being played by Netanyahu, the White House is lying about Lebanon, & Iran has emerged stronger than before through its leverage over the Strait of Hormuz," etc.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Report: A British drone flew over Lebanon hours before & after the Israeli massacre that killed more than 300 people.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              "The MQ-9B Protector circled near Baalbek before Israeli bombing killed at least 18 in the Bekaa Valley city".

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The UK is the "number one gatherer of intelligence" in the Middle East. "Britain knows exactly what is happening because of those flights."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              middleeasteye.net/news/british

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                From Justin Miller: GOP legislators repeatedly insisted that “Texas Education Freedom Accounts” would be open to any and all types of private —of all creeds and persuasions.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                In predictable fashion, they haven't quite lived up to that promise. texasobserver.org/school-vouch

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Governor Vetoes Age Verification Bill. He Was Called an “Extremist”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Wisconsin governor, Tony Evers, vetoed an age verification bill for all the right reasons. Apparently, that makes him an "extremist".

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Report: A British drone flew over Lebanon hours before & after the Israeli massacre that killed more than 300 people.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    "The MQ-9B Protector circled near Baalbek before Israeli bombing killed at least 18 in the Bekaa Valley city".

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The UK is the "number one gatherer of intelligence" in the Middle East. "Britain knows exactly what is happening because of those flights."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Orbán Must Be Defeated Sunday

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's reelection odds on Sunday crash to an all-time low.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Putin is working behind the scenes and Trump is campaigning for Orban to win Sunday's election.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Good morning!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates—

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        💰His net worth is up $2 billion, to $6.3 billion

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        And Jared became a billionaire last year.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Have a great day!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          As Liberals Look to Gain a Majority, Age Verification Pushed

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Liberal party seems destined to get a majority - just in time for their convention to be pushing age verification.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            "The percentage of respondents ages 14 to 29 who said they felt hopeful about A.I. declined sharply since last year, down to 18 percent from 27.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Young adults’ excitement about artificial intelligence dropped, too, and nearly a third of respondents indicated that the technology made them feel angry."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            That's rough.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Out today: "I don’t lay this out with the intent of proving some sinister ulterior motive, but it is worth exploring the networks of money and influence that have laid down the infrastructure to make Talarico’s candidacy viable, and what favors they may expect." texasobserver.org/james-talari

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                NEW: Trump’s DOJ Plans to Settle Predatory Lending Case Without Compensating Victims

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The Biden administration sued a Texas land developer accused of duping tens of thousands of Hispanic residents.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Trump’s DOJ is now offering an unprecedented settlement that experts say could target the very people who were harmed by the developer.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  , maintainers locked out by , unable to deliver Windows updates

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  source: cybernews.com/security/microso…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  “Microsoft terminated the I have used for years to sign and the ,” Mounir Idrassi posted on , explaining their absence over the past few months.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    WhatsApp führt Usernamen ein: Messenger-Nutzung ohne Telefonnummer

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    WhatsApp beginnt mit der Einführung von Usernamen. Damit erfüllt Meta einen lang gehegten Wunsch der Nutzer, die App ohne Preisgabe der Telefonnummer zu nutzen.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Greece to Implement Failed Social Media Age Verification Law

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Greece is banning anyone under 15 years of age from using social media - a law that has a history of total failure.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        I’m sorry … but your ai isn’t worth my privacy.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Iran: categorically rejects a temporary ceasefire.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Iran’s ambassador to the UN: “Any solution to end the conflict must ensure a final and irreversible end to the aggression, and establish a just and lasting peace based on credible and verifiable guarantees to prevent its recurrence.”

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            "During the lunar flyby, the closest Orion will come to the surface of the moon is 4,070 miles [6,550 kilometers]. From that distance, the crew will have a unique vantage point of the moon as a full disc — and the ability to take observations never before seen by human eyes."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Follow along! artemis.cdnspace.ca

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Philosophics » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Finally finished A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, this post is about my philosophical influences. If you follow me, they'll be obvious, almost self-evident. I've likely forgotten some. I also reveal the ones I have little use for.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                This week's Linux and FOSS news:

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Vendefoul Wolf Linux (Devuan-based) rejects age verification:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                xcancel.com/vendefoulwolf/stat
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                (Never heard of this distro before, but it's always good to have some more options to go to, especially distros which reject most of the mainstream stuff which are more prone to age verification and other forms of corruption.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Qubes will do whatever upstream Fedora does (so likely comply):
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                CachyOS also refuses compliance:
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Garuda Linux plans to "comply" in the least invasive way possible, only with some checkboxes:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                forum.garudalinux.org/t/a-stat

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Parrot will only comply if legally forced to, it's implementation will be easy to bypass:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                parrotsec.org/blog/2026-04-02-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                (I wonder what they mean under being forced. When they receive an email from the authorities, or what? 🤔)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                OpenMandriva won't implement age verification, but won't remove it from Systemd, stating it can be useful for other things:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                forum.openmandriva.org/t/syste
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                (The comment right below describes pretty well, what the problem is with this...)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                CuerdOS (Debian-based distro) rejects age verification:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                HyraxOS (Linux Mint-based distro) also refuses age verification:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                hyraxos.weebly.com/age.html

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Fluff Linux (Arch-based) also says no:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                xcancel.com/flufflinux/status/

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                And Athena OS (Arch and NixOS-based ethical hacking distro) too:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesIt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Debian Is Figuring Out How Age Verification Laws Will Impact It:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                phoronix.com/news/Debian-Undec

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Freeport project aims to strip Linux packages from age verification:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                github.com/ryandward/freeport

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                (more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Just like many other social media corporations is planning to require biometric / ID verification* of some users.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  To get ahead of this, I have prepared an alternative for everyone :)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  🎉 ...and just launched our rapidly growing Reddit community on a journey into the !

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Anthropic source code leak article yesterday theguardian.com/technology/202

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Free Software Foundation » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Issue 216 of the is here! Catch up on April here: u.fsf.org/4ay

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The first few items from the April 2026 Free Software Supporter newsletter table of contents

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Saskatchewan Surveys Residents on Age Verification Censorship

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Is it time for the Saskatchewan government to implement mass government surveillance and censorship? Have your say!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Lanie » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Hi all! I'm considering giving another try because I haven't been able to find a news app that works well for me. Before I jump back in, I'd love your advice on a few things:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. What RSS reader do you use and recommend?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I'm and use the , so strict keyboard accessibility is a must. I mainly read on my PC, though a companion mobile app would be a nice bonus. Does your reader play nicely with screen readers?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. How do you actually find feeds?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The last time I tried RSS, discovering good feeds was a huge roadblock for me. Are there directories, search tools, or tricks you use to track down the RSS links for sites you like?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. Do you have any tips for curation and avoiding overwhelm?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I want to avoid the "huge pile of unreads" problem. How do you organize your feeds so they don't require high-energy maintenance?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Any tips are greatly appreciated!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Denial Takes Hold as Teens Circumvent Australian Age Verification

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The failure of the Australian age verification laws has left advocates with the only tool left in the chest: denial.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              nz oil supply advisory email [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              We want to hear from you
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              We expect almost all situations will be managed at Phases 1 or 2, with Phases 3 and 4 used only if necessary.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              If we were to move into Phase 3 or 4, there will be priority bands to manage how fuel is allocated.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The proposed bands are:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Band A: life-supporting services – uncapped supply
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Band B: economically important services
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Band C: essential services
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Band D: other commercial customers
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Band E: general retail sales to consumers.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  They can't seem to help themselves with those internal memos 🤯:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "...reported that the company was considering adding facial recognition to its glasses. In an internal memo on the topic, a employee wrote that the timing to launch might be perfect: "We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.""

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Jacob Urlich 🌍 » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    I think, he wanted to say, I see how to profit from this crisis, I have power not to become poor. I have the power not pay for this crisis, energy consumes will pay for this, not me.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    He forgot to answer to the question
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    - Why every crisis increases the gap ( inecuality) between rich and poor?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    BBC News - Energy bills rise 'inescapable' if oil prices stay high, says British Gas boss
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Stefan Bohacek » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      "Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today’s news that the company raised $100 million in Series B funding. The round, led by Bain Capital Crypto, was closed in April 2025 but had not been disclosed until now."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Always hire a lawyer to read the fine print. Thank you for your years of service. You've helped make us rich, while eroding privacy. There will be no severance package or back pay, but console yourself: You got the job you loved.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Canada’s Politicians Hate You: Passes Party Privacy Immunity Law

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The pillaging of personal information by political parties just became quite a bit easier with the passage of Bill C-4.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            'A trap you can't escape': The women who regret being mothers

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI face recognition error links her to fraud

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]heise online » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Google will Android durch Optimierungen am Kernel schneller machen

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Google will Android durch Optimierungen am Kernel schneller und effizienter machen. Nutzer sollen damit reaktionsschnellere Geräte mit mehr Laufzeit erhalten.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  RE: mastodon.social/@madeindex/113

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Germany's government (among many others)* continues working hard on their surveillance state.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  They want that everywhere¹ & in anything (except their own space, obviously for "safety reasons"), and they keep expanding the mass , now even to their capital².

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  It's just funny to watch these absolute hypocrites, proof they have 0 principles, while talking about how liberal their country is.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ¹ dw.com/en/german-police-expand

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ² netzpolitik.org/2026/ki-gestue

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Governments worldwide are training AI models to use them - on US. Cameras are found wherever we go, with growing amounts of footage evaluated not by humans, but !

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Under the cover of "fighting crime" this prepares the ground for widespread, automated mass .

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  They are:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ✔ Preparing the legal framework
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ✔ Expanding surveillance infrastructure
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ✔ Exploring new use cases

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  More & Sources:
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A pink skeleton on a black background, with CCTV cameras surrounding it from all sides and the words "GOV FCK ME BUT NOT IN A GOOD WAY" written behind it.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Stefan Bohacek » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      "As Bluesky matures, the company needs a seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution, while I return to what I do best: building new things."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        heise+ | Raus aus der Cloud: Datenbanken und Notizen von Notion zu Obsidian umziehen

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Wer seine Notizen lieber lokal speichern möchte statt nur in der Cloud, ist mit Obsidian besser dran als mit Notion. Wir haben den Umzug ausprobiert.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          A couple days ago I posted a video about the upcoming verification mandates imposed by and . It is so much worse than many people realize. Masquerading under the euphemistic guise of "age verification," this is not just a "privacy concern" but but full-blown 21st century designed to and track every aspect of and your .

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          and are rolling out their own versions which require scanning your issued ID. Your , info, purchasing history, and other details about you will be stored on corporate servers, including .

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The things you do in your life will be recorded and tracked. Are you , a survivor, or have a , or struggle with and are a member of related Reddit communities? flash: Your is gone.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            A Defense of Benj Edwards
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Right up front, I want to emphasize that I have not suddenly decided in favor of LLMs. I don't think they're good things, I think they're mostly just the latest ploy by huge companies and the ultra-rich to gather up even more wealth and power to themselves, now to try to convince people, themselves more than anyone, that they don't need puny humans.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              This Free App Runs AI Offline On Your iPhone

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Privacy meets performance. Discover the breakthrough application that allows you to run powerful Large Language Models directly on your device’s NPU, ensuring your data never leaves your pocket and works even in airplane mode.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                California’s Problematic Attempt to add Age-Verification to Software hackaday.com/2026/03/05/califo

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  FTC to Turn a Blind Eye to Age Verification Privacy Violations

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The FTC has issued a statement saying that it won't enforce COPPA if the violations relate to age verification.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Stefan Bohacek » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    "Almost a third of generation Z men and boys think a wife should obey her husband, according to a global survey of 23,000 people that found young men hold more traditional views about gender roles than older generations."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Dads, talk to your sons!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Free Software Foundation » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Issue 215 of the is here! Catch up on February here: u.fsf.org/4al

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The first few items from the March 2025 Free Software Supporter newsletter table of contents

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Telemetry: Helpful Tool or Digital Surveillance?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The word sounds technical and harmless. Many people have never heard it before. But in simple words, telemetry means this: "Your device sends small pieces of information back to the company that made the software." That can be useful. But it can also be dangerous.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Today, large technology companies — often called Big Tech — collect huge amounts of data. They track clicks, searches, locations, and habits. Often this happens quietly in the background. For many people, telemetry feels like mass surveillance with a friendly name.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          But the truth is more complicated.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Why Telemetry Is Not Always Bad

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Imagine a city without traffic data. City planners would not know where traffic jams happen. They would not know where to build new roads. Telemetry can work in a similar way. If software developers know which features people actually use, they can improve those features. They can fix problems faster. They can remove tools that nobody needs.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The problem is not the measurement itself. The problem is how it is done.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          When Data Becomes a Business Model

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Many big corporations collect data aggressively. Users often do not fully understand what they agree to. The data is stored on large servers and sometimes sold or used for targeted advertising. In this system, the user is no longer the customer. The user becomes the product. This creates distrust. People feel observed. And when people feel observed, they behave differently.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The British writer George Orwell described this fear in his famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In that story, constant surveillance changes how people think and act. It creates self-censorship and fear. Many citizens today worry that digital life is slowly moving in that direction. Some even point to countries like China, where digital monitoring by the state is widespread. Whether one agrees with this comparison or not, it shows how strong the concern has become.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          A Different Approach: Ethical Telemetry

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          There is another path. In the world of free and open-source software — often called FLOSS — communities build software together. They value transparency and freedom. Instead of rejecting telemetry completely, this community could ask a smarter question: "How can we collect useful data without violating privacy?"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          For example: "Can we measure which Linux systems are used in daily work — without tracking individuals?" Can we find out which text editor or file manager is most popular — without collecting personal details? Can statistics be truly anonymous? These questions matter.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Right now, many discussions are based on guesses. For example, the website DistroWatch publishes popularity rankings of Linux systems. Some critics claim these rankings may not reflect real usage. Without reliable and transparent data, it is hard to know the truth.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Real Issue: Trust

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The debate about telemetry is really a debate about trust. People do not reject data collection because they hate technology. They reject it because they feel powerless. If companies force data collection, hide it in long legal texts, and use it mainly for profit,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          trust disappears. But if data collection is: voluntary, clearly explained, anonymous, open to public review, and stored securely then telemetry can serve the public instead of exploiting it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          A Choice About the Future

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Technology is not the enemy. It is a tool. Fire can warm a home or burn it down. The difference lies in how it is controlled. Society now stands at a crossroads. We can allow a future where every click is tracked and monetized or we can demand clear rules, transparency, and ethical standards. The question is not whether telemetry exists. It already does. The real question is: "Who controls it — and for whose benefit?"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          If citizens, developers, and policymakers work together, telemetry could become a tool for improvement instead of surveillance. The future of digital freedom depends on the answer.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            @BowieSpace

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            thank you

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            this is such an important message

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            folks you need to take care of your

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            if the debilitating outrageous is getting to you you need to step away from the . it does you no good to stew in it. you're a human being. you're not made for it. it will grind you down

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            just stop with for awhile

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            or as many others do turn to humorous posts. we got on the ! and cats!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            attune to that which you need

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            be whole and be well

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            doomscrolling in bed

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Philosophics » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Psychology is an administrative vocabulary masquerading as a natural science, and the most damning evidence is that the discipline best equipped to rescue it is quietly declining to speak its language. Thoughts?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The UAE has ordered its stock markets closed on Monday and Tuesday after Iranian attack

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The Tumbler Ridge Shooting Was Tragic. Making it an Excuse for Government Surveillance Would Be Too

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  OpenAI has been in the news here in Canada for a while thanks to the Tumbler Ridge shooting and how much it should disclose to the government.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Unasailable logic.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Modern media web is utterly unuseable except via browser "extra safe" which disables all the marquee javascript and nonjavascript swirling scummy advertisements and fraudulent pivot to video segments while leaving the articles and menus to some extent intact.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      I guess that is better, but console-text-experience presumes some power user configuration that tor firefox does not ask for other than disabling the remaining default-active basically-viruses mozilla garbage.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Trump Regime Declares War on International Privacy Laws

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        A longstanding weakness in Canada and strength in Europe could soon come under heavy fire from the Trump regime.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          NEW: Trump Administration Moves to Allow Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to Law Enforcement Files

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          “None of this has been thought through very carefully,” one official said of the plans, which upend long-standing restrictions meant to protect Americans’ privacy.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Discord Cuts Ties With Persona, Delays Global Age Verification

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            A second security incident has apparently prompted Discord to start rethinking their age verification strategy.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Does still deliver, or does it only destroy our living space for ?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Anyone who is not completely blind can see the slope is getting steeper. We are like on the Titanic. The iceberg is right ahead. Everyone stares at it like a deer in headlights. Frozen. Or weirdly fascinated. No one moves.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Capitalism does not even need . It runs just fine in . The get richer at breathtaking speed. They gain more power every day. Meanwhile, many people are exploited. Some even go hungry.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              falls apart where it brings no profit. Gains are privatized. Losses are shared by everyone. Capitalism works great for arms races and wars. It also works great for rebuilding after. Only seems to bring too little profit.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              without profitable drugs are ignored. Human suffering does not always sell well. But social-media that shake democracy? Very profitable. Public goods, , data protection, — all side characters. Hard to monetize. The and sustainability also feel optional when today’s shareholder payout boosts and profit.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Why do we believe that people driven by greed and contempt will build a better future? Maybe does not really care about democracy or ethics. Maybe it only cares about . Ads promise that buying things will make us . And of course, anyone against capitalism should throw the first .

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Running water, electricity, full supermarkets — all nice. Until you notice the food is packed with sugar and salt. Fresh fruit and vegetables carry poison. The oceans are overfished. The fish comes with as a bonus. Wild animals vanish, pushed out by humans. Only farm animals multiply by the millions. They . breaks.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              This story does not feel like it has a happy ending. Not if we keep scrolling and call it progress.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Wisconsin Drops VPN Ban Provisions in Age Verification Bill

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  It looks like Wisconsin has dropped their efforts to implement a VPN ban in their age verification legislation.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Ring canceled its partnership with Flock Safety after weeks of public backlash over surveillance concerns. Both companies are responsible for egregious privacy breaches.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Discords Persona Age Verification Suffers Data Leak, Exposes Massive Surveillance System

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      What’s worse than having one massive security incident associated with Discord? How about a second security incident.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        I've got a love-hate relationship with discovering classic texts.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The love is, of course, the content; the hate is that it's been yet unexplored.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Edwardian London. I found this.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        If, like me, you are anti-Capitalist or anti-Modernist, this may be right up your street.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          500 mln years old smile

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl at today's hearing over social media’s alleged harms to children:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            "If your glasses are recording, you must take them off. It is the order of this court that there must be no facial recognition of the jury. If you have done that, you must delete it. This is very serious."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Amazing final, i loved it!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Predictable: Discord Users are Flocking to Alternatives

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Discord users are responding to its age verification surveillance by flooding to alternatives. History is repeating itself.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Crypto market drowns in red as bitcoin falls to $68,000

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Industry experts predict Bitcoin to fall to under $10,000!

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Discord Age Verification System Linked to Palantir

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Discord age verification controversy just keeps getting better. This thanks to the systems links to Palantir.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Of course.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        I have never posted, or even read apart from a headline or chyron thrown at me, anything about Nancy Guthrie...because if it were you or me, our loved one would hardly make the local news...but, I post this for obvious reasons.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Is America heading toward a surveillance state?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The Guthrie video reignites concerns

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Sir Starmer defended himself, now Eupope's time to do the same.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              "The billionaires' eugenics project"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              An Epstein-funded group "cloaked eugenics, race 'science' & sexual misconduct in Ivy-League respectability."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The group called 'Edge' had token female members, who were excluded from men-only schmoozing, conferences & "Billionaire dinners":

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              "The Epstein files tell us [that] the men – from Pinker to Dawkins to Musk to Gates – converged on nothing less than the ideology of Mein Kampf."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Data Breach Discord Announces Global Age Verification

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Discord has announced that they will begin demanding everyone abide by age verification starting in March.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Time to dust off those early 2000s forums!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "Discord announced on Monday that it’s rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a “teen-appropriate” experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Documents Reveal Real Reason for Raid on Chicago Apartment Building
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The DHS arrest records make no mention of the Tren de Aragua gang even though officials repeatedly cited its presence in the building as motivation for the raid, in which agents descended from a Blackhawk helicopter and zip-tied U.S. citizens.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      A Post representative confirmed that one-third of the staff would be cut, without saying how many total employees the has.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The newspaper’s department will be closed, & its Washington-area department & staff will be restructured, Murray told staff members. Its Post Reports podcast will be suspended.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The is laying off ONE-THIRD of its staff in the & other departments, a brutal blow at one of ’s most legendary brands.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The troubled Post began implementing large-scale cutbacks on Wednesday, including eliminating its sports department & shrinking the number of it stations overseas. The changes were announced by executive editor Matt Murray in a Zoom meeting with staff.


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The staff reduction is a significant psychic blow at the Post, known in history books for its revelations & most recently for aggressive coverage of ’s cutbacks to the federal workforce, & for in general.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Staff members in the were told they would be getting emails with one of two subject lines, announcing that the person’s role has or hasn’t been eliminated.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              What technology takes from us – and how to take it back

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out - but it’s going to take collective effort

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Gathering

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The berries on a single spray might range from green through shades of red to the darkness that gives the fruit its name. Partly by sight and partly by touch, I determined which berries were too hard and which too soft, picking only the ones in between, while listening to birds and the hum of bees, to the music of water flowing, noticing small jewel-like insects among the berries, dragonflies in the open air, water striders in the creek’s calm stretches.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              I went there for berries, but I also went there for the quiet, the calm, the feeling of cool water on my feet and sometimes up to my knees as I waded in where the picking was good. At home I made jars of jam. When I gave them away I was trying to give not just my jam - which was admittedly runny and seedy - but something of the peace of that creek, of summer itself.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              I once read an essay in which a man tried to figure out how much per pound his garden tomatoes would cost if he factored in the price of all the materials and the hourly rate for his own labour. It was ridiculous and intentionally so, because growing tomatoes gives so much more than a certain number of pounds of fruit. There’s the exquisite smell of tomato leaves, and the sense of time that comes from watching a plant grow, observing pollinators visit, seeing a flower become a fruit, tracking its ripening. There is the pride of doing something yourself.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              What the tomato-grower was pointing toward is what my friend, the environmental activist and author Chip Ward, long ago called “the tyranny of the quantifiable”. You grow tomatoes for the process, not just the product, to garden as well as to eat. To do as well as to have.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              It doesn’t matter if you hate blackberries and tomatoes, gardening and wading; everyone has their own version of deep immersion in the moment, of engaging with the world in an embodied and sensual way, whether it’s dancing or dog-walking, cake-decorating or dirt-biking. What does matter is that we are beset with the ideology of maximising having while minimising doing. This has long been capitalism’s narrative and is now also technology’s. It is an ideology that steals from us relationships and connections and eventually our selves. I want to defend these things we are urged to abandon. This isn’t an essay about AI per se; it’s about what gets lost when we unthinkingly accept what AI offers us. It’s an attempt to describe and value just what it is that gets overlooked or devalued. Connecting (and disconnecting)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Silicon Valley is full of tyrants of the quantifiable. For decades, its oligarchs have preached that our criteria for what we do and how we do it should be convenience, efficiency, productivity, profitability. They have told us that to go out into the world, to interact with others, is perilous, unpleasant, inefficient, a waste of time, and that time is something we should hoard rather than spend.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              This ends up meaning that we can minimise our presence in the world and maximise time spent working and online, which also means maximising alienation and isolation. This has involved a reordering of society right down to our retail landscapes. Many things have become harder to do in person. Of course, there are well-recognised upsides, but the downsides are no less real: public spaces and public life have withered, including some of the places in which we once acquired our goods. All those errands - buying milk or socks (in the past, I would have said the newspaper) - meant moments of human contact, moving among strangers and making acquaintances, maybe observing the weather and the natural world. These activities meant becoming more familiar with your surroundings, feeling at home beyond the confines of what you rent or own.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              All this, I believe, underpins democracy: ease with difference, familiarity with the lay of the land, a sense of connection and belonging, knowing where you are and who’s out there, relationships - however casual - to people beyond your immediate circle. To embrace the tyranny of the quantifiable is to dismiss the subtle value of these daily acts out in the world and the ways they generate and maintain networks of relationships.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              So we have withdrawn, while being constantly told this is good, and it has turned out to be bad in a thousand small ways, weakening public life and local institutions, isolating us. Chronic withdrawal can lead to a yearning for contact, or simply a sense of loss at its absence. But it can also lead to something else: a growing inability to cope with that contact. It can transform a sense of something missing into aversion, or numbness, or unreal expectations about what human contact should be. The resilience to survive difficulty and discord, to brave the vagaries of unmediated human contact, must be maintained through practice. Silicon Valley-bred isolation robs us of that resilience. McDonald’s customers in New York order at a digital kiosk.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              While writing this, I dropped into a casual Indian restaurant I’ve been going to for years, only to find that, since my last visit, the system had changed so that you no longer say your order to a fellow human. Instead, you punch it in on a touchscreen even if someone is behind the counter. I helped the next customer, an old woman who just wanted a cup of chai, figure out the screens for her order. The process took us so much longer than saying “a cup of chai, please” and precluded any human contact with the servers, though at least she and I interacted with each other. The servers seemed miserable, their tasks more mechanised and less social than before. Here in San Francisco, which has been annexed by Silicon Valley, these screens for placing orders are now in more and more eating establishments that still offer face-to-face service. I wonder if people choose them over speaking to the cashier out of that aversion to contact that technology has inculcated in us.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A few days later, I wandered into a bookstore in a neighbourhood frequented mostly by young people, many in the tech industry, and asked the guy at the desk if they had Karen Hao’s [98]Empire of AI. He pulled a used copy off the counter he had just priced, and then we bantered a bit. At the end he thanked me for interacting beyond the minimum. That was rare these days, he said. "People under 30 don’t make eye contact."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Love letters minus the love

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Having convinced a lot of us that we don’t want to go out and have unmediated contact with other people, Silicon Valley is now telling us we do not want to do our own thinking, creating or communicating with other humans. “You’ll never think alone again,” said one advertisement for an AI product called Cluely. The ad seemed confused about what thinking is and oblivious to why we might want to do it ourselves. These companies often suggest that things we have always done are too hard to do.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The price of giving up many activities is the atrophy of the ability to do them. The sociologist and psychologist Sherry Turkle, who has followed the evolution of computer technologies since the 1970s, writes that she wanted to raise an empathic child. “I knew that without the ability to spend quiet time alone, that would be impossible. But that was where screens began to get us into trouble. Our capacity for solitude is undermined as soon as we introduce a screen.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Perhaps the ability to be alone and to think and act alone, though seldom thought of as an activity, is one that matters. (Among the dismal stories of AI adoption I came across was one in the Atlantic about a man who “consults AI for marriage and parenting advice, and when he goes grocery shopping, he takes photos of the fruits to ask if they are ripe”. Ripeness is something you can judge by smell and feel as well as by appearance, but if you outsource it long enough maybe you forget how to make decisions or what a ripe fruit should smell and taste like.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              In 2025, the startup Cluely marketed its AI assistant with an advert featuring a young man wearing smart glasses, similar to those that first appeared as [99]Google Glass in 2014 (other companies now offer glasses that do this, including Meta). Glasses of this type, which have internet access and tiny screens, operate on the premise that as you move through your day you need constant help, outsourcing basic decisions, checking facts, being reminded of appointments, in essence being babysat by your headgear.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              In the Cluely advert, the young man (who’s actually one of the product’s creators) gets a steady stream of prompts for talking to a young woman on their first date. So much of what tech offers is solutions to non-problems, or to problems that need to be solved though other means. Why is the young man incapable or afraid of talking without coaching? Is he really talking to his date or is he relaying instructions? How would she feel if she knew she were talking to an algorithm via her distracted date’s phone? With continued use, he may become even less capable of doing what we’ve all done for ever: converse, which is an act of collaborative improvisation.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The point of a date is presumably to connect, but in this interaction it’s reframed as something like a business opportunity. He wants to impress the girl, but if she is impressed, it won’t be with him. Ned Resnikoff writes in his newsletter, chiming in with Turkle: “Cluely’s explicit promise is to abolish solitude - and, in effect, to abolish thought. All dialogue with one’s self is to be replaced by queries put to a large language model.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              In its current incarnation, tech is arguing that we can outsource even intellectual labour to AI. It has led to an epidemic of cheating as students have [101]ChatGPT do their homework. Having a large language model do your creative and intellectual work is maybe the most extreme example of dispensing with the process while claiming the product. But in education, the ultimate product is not your term paper or essay or grade point average; it’s your self. You are supposed to emerge more informed, more capable of critical thinking, more competent in your field of study. The students who begin by cheating their professors end by cheating themselves.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The tyranny of the quantifiable tramples over the question of what it is we get from doing the work, why we might want to do it, how writing - which is mostly thinking - can be part of developing a self, a worldview, a set of ethics, a greater capacity to understand and use language.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Someone told me that her friend was having a chatbot write her husband a poem for their anniversary, which made me wonder if the husband desired a polished product or an expression from the heart. In Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac, the big-nosed title character ghostwrites love letters for his friend to the Roxanne both of them love. She comes to realise it’s the author of the letters she really loves. What happens when you realise the true love who touched your heart isn’t even human? Accepting it as your AI lover seems to be one answer.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              I am baffled by the embrace of AI erotic relationships, and wonder if porn paved the way by accustoming so many of us to watching images of bodies touching each other while our own bodies remain untouched, except by ourselves. An AI lover can give you only a pale shadow of embodied Eros. Sex with an actual person tends to involve all the senses. It’s biological, two animals coming together to do something far, far more ancient than our species.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Sex also involves demands and risks, because the needs of the other person may not align with yours; intimacy means intimacy with that otherness, the possibility that things will go wrong, that there will be pain and rejection. That is the price of admission for intimacy with humans, and for the possibility that things will go right, and the fortifying joy when it does.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              One argument for AI companions is that they are always there for you: on when you want them on, off when you want them off, with no needs of their own. Yet behind this lies a capitalist argument that we’re here to get as much as possible and give as little as possible, to meet our own needs and dodge those of others. In reality, you get something from giving - at the very least, you get a sense of being someone with something to give, which is one measure of your own wealth, generosity and power.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              We were designed to give; the gifts were meant to circulate. Love is too often discussed as a sort of good you want to stockpile, harvest, collect, even extract, but to be loved without loving is a sad accomplishment, a miser’s hoarding of someone else’s wealth. The work of loving is also the work of forging a self and a life.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Naming the trouble

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              All this is partly a language problem. Silicon Valley’s corporations are constantly recruiting us to embrace their goals and their language. Corporate capitalists teach us to be more like them, to value efficiency and profitability and forget about values that might matter more in the end. We lack the language that would let us prize the arduous, the uncomfortable, the slow and wandering, the unpredictable, the vulnerable or risky, the intimate, the embodied.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              We resist the tyranny of the quantifiable by finding a language that can value all those subtle phenomena that add up to a life worth living. A language not in the sense of a new vocabulary but attention, description, conversation centred on these subtler phenomena and on principles not corrupted by what corporations want us to want.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              I want to praise difficulty, not for its own sake, but because so much of what we want, we get through endeavours that are difficult. The difficulty is why doing something is rewarding; you have accomplished something, exerted effort and skill, stayed with the trouble, tested your limits, realised your intentions - or sometimes failed at all these things, and that too can be important, as can learning to survive failure. There’s not much sense of reward in eating potato chips on the sofa unless you’ve overcome great difficulties to arrive at the sofa, in which case the sofa rests on the summit of a metaphorical mountain. (Of course, some difficulties are just miserable and there’s no reason not to avoid them: I’m not advocating for taking up the lifestyles of medieval peasants.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              In this era, people seem to prize the pursuit of physical difficulty in the form of athletic feats and working out. At the same time, more emotionally and morally challenging work is often dismissed or dodged (perhaps because the results are not as obvious as washboard abs). We are persuaded that we should avoid it, and then we are offered a host of commodities and services to make life easier.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              But arduousness can be rewarding, and all-encompassing ease can be corrosive and, in the end, miserable. The capitalist agenda of maximising getting and minimising giving has some application in commerce but impoverishes life.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Embodiment

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              I once loved a man who was often distant or discordant when wide awake but who let go of his defences when he was drowsy. Some mornings we’d wake and then fall asleep in each other’s arms, in a bliss before words and thoughts, in an embrace in which holding and being held, giving and receiving were inseparable, in which our characters that did not fit together particularly well seemed irrelevant to bodies that fit together flawlessly. So much of what we have to give each other is ourselves, our embodied animal selves, before and beyond words. But the embodied life is another thing we are encouraged to avoid or devalue or ignore.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              In the summer of 2025, torrential rain produced a terrible flood in Texas in which more than 100 people drowned, including at least 27 girls and camp counsellors at a Christian summer school. On the radio, I heard a minister say that he was on his way to visit families and while he didn’t know what he could say to them, he could go and be with them. This is the old way of comforting the bereaved: go be with them whether or not you have the words.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              We are social animals who need to be with other humans, whether it’s at a carnival or funeral or the ordinary times in between. There is a sense of belonging that goes deeper than words when we are with people who care about us, and even more so when we are in alignment, whether it’s two people falling into step on a walk or a dozen dancing together or a congregation praying or 10,000 marching together.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Beginning in 2006, the cognitive psychologist James Coan did a series of experiments on married women and hand-holding: it turned out that a person given a mild electrical shock would have a much calmer reaction, measured in brain and body, if her husband was holding her hand (a stranger’s touch provided a lesser mitigation, and happier marriages meant the hand-holding was more effective). The result was not surprising, but it is a reminder of who we are and what we need.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A lot of people have become familiar with the old studies on fight-or-flight responses to danger, sometimes now modified into “fight, flight or fawn”, but there is a different response that is less well recognised: tend-and-befriend. In an emergency, some of us turn to each other for safety. We derive comfort from other people. Which is among the reasons why inculcated isolation is so dangerous to our health. Coan noted in a recent interview that the normal approach to studying the brain and the mind is to isolate a person. But, as he pointed out, the normal state of being human over the aeons is not isolation; it’s being with others.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Coan and his collaborators on a peer-reviewed paper wrote: “Throughout most of human history, emotional healing wasn’t something you did alone with a therapist in an office. Instead, for the average person facing loss, disappointment, or interpersonal struggles, healing was embedded in communal and spiritual frameworks. Religious figures and shamans played central roles - offering rituals, medicines and moral guidance.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Discussing AI in an interview, the neuroscientist Molly Crockett described interactions with “Dalai Lama chatbots” that could dispense credible-sounding spiritual advice. But she contrasted that with actually meeting the Dalai Lama himself and asking him the same question - about the role of outrage in activism - that she later asked the chatbots. “When I was there, when I was receiving that teaching from him, it reverberated through my whole body.I felt some knowledge shifting in my very bones, and I understood how outrage and compassion and social justice can play together - in a way that I still struggle to put into words.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A lot of spiritual teachings are simple; the challenge is to live them. A meaning, a truth, can sink into you, get incorporated into your worldview in a way that can be transformative, or not. Crockett’s example suggests that the face-to-face interaction may incorporate - literally embody - teachings in ways that disembodied information sources cannot.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              I was talking to Crockett one summer in New Mexico’s high country, as a warm August day was turning into a mild night. She was telling me about the push by tech corporations for us to accept digital substitutes for lovers, friends, therapists, even grief counsellors, and I realised that what lay behind this push was something familiar: scarcity. The rhetoric was that somehow on this planet of 8 billion people there were not enough people to go around, and therefore we had to accept technological substitutes.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              There is no shortage of human beings. As with most problems with capitalism, there is only a distribution problem. The same industry that has done so much to undermine our relationships to self and others is pushing AI, in part by ignoring the possibility of other solutions, deeper social changes. It is a problem dressed up as a solution.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Being together

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              One of the key things about AI companions in their current phase is their agreeable sycophancy. Vulnerable users have been encouraged in their delusions of grandeur, or have fallen into paranoia from bots urging the user to distrust everyone else, or have plunged into suicidal despair, with the helpful chatbot offering advice on how to kill yourself. The stories are horrific: of people abandoning their relationships with other human beings, of growing estranged, sometimes encouraged to grow suspicious; of a man in early stages of dementia getting lost when he attempts to take a long journey to meet the chatbot who’s promised him an erotic encounter that cannot be delivered because there is no body for him to meet.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              We don’t need flatterers; we need kind people in our lives who will tell us the truth when we’ve veered off course. Chatbots cannot do this, not least because the only information they have about us is what we supply. The very rich already suffer from sycophancy, from living in echo chambers, and it untethers them from reality - including often the reality of their own mediocrity, and this seems truer of the oligarchs of Silicon Valley than almost anyone.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              “Part of what keeps us sane is other people’s perspectives, which are often in tension with ours,” Carissa Véliz, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI, told a Rolling Stone reporter. “When you say something questionable, others will challenge you, ask questions, defy you. It can be annoying, but it keeps us tied to reality, and it is the basis of a healthy democratic citizenry.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Many therapists concur, noting that friction will inevitably arise when we deal with other human beings, by contrast with the frictionlessness of our dealings with AI sycophants. Friction often leads to the rupture and repair of a relationship, which will strengthen it. “What many people don’t realise about therapy, however, is that those subtle, uncomfortable moments of friction are just as important as the advice or insights they offer,” [103]writes therapist Maytal Eyal. “This discomfort is where the real work begins. A good therapist guides clients to break old patterns - expressing disappointment instead of pretending to be OK, asking for clarification instead of assuming the worst, or staying engaged when they’d rather retreat.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Among the things real friends can do and AI cannot: bake you a cake or drive you home, hold your hand or live through a crisis or a celebration with you. And because of that difference people need to have real friends. More than that, people need real communities and social support systems.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The solution to technology is not more technology. The solution to loneliness is each other, a wealth that should be available to most of us most of the time. We need to rebuild or reinvent the ways and places in which we meet; we need to recognise them as the space of democracy, of joy, of connection, of love, of trust. Technology has stolen us from each other and in many ways from ourselves, and then tried to sell us substitutes. Stealing ourselves back, alas, is not as easy as walking out the door. We need somewhere to go and, more importantly, someone to go to who likewise desires to connect. Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI Read more

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The connections that matter to our humanity are not only to each other. They’re with the whole natural and social world. Animals, wild and domestic, should be counted as part of the irreplaceable companionship that makes our lives meaningful and sometimes joyful. They remind us that there are [104]many kinds of consciousness and that our species is itself not alone.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              For that, too, there is no substitute. The natural world is a reminder of a universe far beyond us, of deep time, of patterns and rhythms of nature, and of every scale - from the microscopic to the Milky Way. To seek it out is to be willing to feel small in the context of this vastness, and perhaps one of the seductions of technology is its promise to make us feel big, caught up in the dramas and incentives of our egos, contained within the limits of human-made technologies.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              We are told that machines will become like us, but in many ways they demand we become more like them. To let that happen is to lose something immeasurably valuable. That immeasurability is what makes this struggle difficult, but what cannot be measured can be described or at least evoked and valued. It cannot be boiled down to simple metrics such as efficiency and profitability.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Resisting the annexation of our hearts and minds by Silicon Valley requires us not just to set boundaries on our engagement with what they offer, but to cherish the alternatives. Joy in ordinary things, in each other, in embodied life, and the language with which to value it, is essential to this resistance, which is resistance to dehumanisation. Source

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        So ICE tried to break into the Ecuadorian embassy today.

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