Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Whatever you thought the new internal process at NSF was to decide which huge parts of US science to kill, reality is worse.

A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is No...

San Diego has already spent millions on Flock's network of AI-driven ALPR cameras. Local TRUST coalition is calling on the city to reject this oppressive surveillance system and instead invest in essential services. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/san-diegans-push-back-flock-alpr-surveillance

Join us at Austin City Hall tomorrow for a press conference and on Thursday at the city council meeting to urge council members to REJECT our ALPR program, Item #67 (Against). These tools of mass surveillance can be stopped if YOU speak up. https://services.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=452767

“Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal rights. People who break immigration laws don't cause harm or even potential harm (unlike, for example, drunk driving, which creates the potential for harm even if no accident occurs). Rather, people who break immigration laws do things that are perfectly legal for others, but denied to them--like crossing a border or, even more commonly, simply exist.”

― Aviva Chomsky, "They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths about Immigration

@mattblaze @fabio I am not sure that your point applies merely to academia. I worked for Pixar, which through the 1990s was actually interested in pushing the boundaries of what was possible, both in technology and in art. But increasingly as it became part of Disney, profitability became the driving force, increasingly at the expense of the people who bought into the creative vision. By the time I left, it was clear that they had ceased to value individuals and their contributions.

"It can transform homes into digital jails, inadvertently surveil others, impose financial burdens, and punish every misstep—no matter how minor or understandable:" The Defense Attorney’s Arsenal In Challenging Electronic Monitoring https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/defense-attorneys-arsenal-challenging-electronic-monitoring

@fabio I think I was in the last generation where it was possible to have a career like this, and it gave me a huge advantage. There's no job I've held since then that has been as nurturing and protective of my time and energy.

Have you seen this new application? It's written in N. It literally uses Cerium. It's on Squernix with Wine. It's literally written with Zark. You can probably install it with Woo. Dude it's built on Birdnest. It's a Garkle exclusive. It's for Borp. You can run it on Borp. You can boot up Borp and run it. Log onto Borp right now. Switch to Borp. Dive into Borp. You can Borp it. It runs on Borp. Borp runs it for you. Borp runs it for you.

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/headline-to-come/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Any computer can be a server if it is insufficiently secure.

Circumcision is the most common gender-affirming surgery. It's performed *almost* exclusively on cishet minors, and it's also *irreversible*.

Followed by breast augmentation surgeries and botox procedures (for cishet adults).

But you know which irreversible gender-affirming surgeries trans minors get? None. Zero. Zilch.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/circumcision-by-country

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/plastic-surgery-by-country

#GenderAffirmingCare #ProtectTransKids

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/