Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

A Bronx high school student was abducted by ICE at his immigration court date and has since been disappeared across four states in five days in order to evade contact with his lawyer. The US is now undeniably a rogue state. www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

“If I supply you with a tool to remove DRM (like some versions of Calibre), then I commit a felony and Amazon can have me sent to prison for five years for giving you a tool to move my book from the Kindle app to a rival app like Kobo. ... [E]ven though copyright law says you can format shift your books, music, videos, games, [etc.], DMCA 1201 (a ‘paracopyright law’) makes this an imprisonable felony if you have to break DRM first.” – @pluralistic

https://lifehacker.com/tech/you-can-remove-drm-from-your-digital-books-but-its-probably-illegal

Trump threatens new 'Dark Age' with policy of 'deliberate destruction': analysis https://twp.ai/E67Qiq

Need A Pardon? Just Have Your Mom Attend A $1 Million Mar-a-Lago Dinner https://twp.ai/E67Rcn

Amazon warehouse workers are injured at three times national average. Amazon AIs scan social media for disgruntled workers talking about unions, and Amazon has another AI tool that predicts which shops and departments are most likely to want to unionize.

Scheiber's piece describes what it's like to be an Amazon tech worker who's getting the reverse-centaur treatment that has heretofore been reserved for warehouse workers and drivers.

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Ah yes, Habeas Corpus. Latin for, "Deport first, Google later."

Oh my god. I just had the terrible realization that AI coding agents take the Mythical Man Month and make it last forever. They're new to the project and they'll never learn anything, so they're always new to the project.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my_new_hobby_watching_ai_slowly_drive_microsoft/

American policies have unintentionally fueled China’s rise https://twp.ai/1ZAgMI

In my head transhumanism is this cool idea where I’d get to have a zoom function in my eye

But of course none of that could exist in our capitalist hellscape because of just all the reasons the ruling class would use it to opress the working class.

And then you find out what transhumanists actually advocate for and it’s just eugenics. Like without even a tiny bit of plausible deniability. They’re proud it’s eugenics.

Quote Origin: The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/

I assure you ... good people are doing a lot! Evil will *not* triumph!

BREAKING NEWS 🚨

If you needed more proof that Trump is a Russian Asset...

"The head of Trump's Pentagon ordered US Cyber ​​Command to stop all activities against Russia, including offensive cyber operations,"
- The publication Record
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews

Trump's KGB codename:

NYT reader comment on Trump & Vance Putin-inspired bullying of Zelensky: “Never has a political party shown cowardice as the Republicans have….Democrats need to get over their post-election shock, take off their gloves, and call 75 million voters to the streets. The difference in the popular vote was 1.5%. It’s time to start hosing down the dark grime that’s covered our country in a short but agonizing four weeks.” #RESIST #Ukraine https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/45mle6?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=commentShare

Security experts warned Friday about a widespread zero day vulnerability, tentatively dubbed "CVE-2025-TRUMP," that threatens to let Russia backdoor....well, everything.

Honestly, I don't know how Zelenksy didn't punch the cheetoh that whole time. That man has remarkable restraint.

I have never been so embarrassed for our country. What a thug. "World War III," he says over and over, echoing Putin's sabre rattling throughout his invasion. Even sitting in the White House, Trump is echoing the Kremlin line.

What's even more despicable is that the spineless, gutless GOP will say nothing about this indefensible show of gutlessness and cowardice by their leader. Imagine that: Being afraid of cowards makes you one.

I'm Joining The Economic Blackout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcR_HJHgJzE&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

My birth state emailed me and confirmed that my new birth certificate will entirely replace my previous birth certificate. It will not say altered, amended, or corrected. If queried, the state will affirm that it represents the record at birth, and anything else is wrong.

I don't think the administration will care, but it's very validating. States are fighting back, And that's something.