Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io can’t afford to hire people to launch weather balloons
Can’t afford the meteorologists who tell you when a tornado is about to end your town
No money for cancer or Alzheimer’s research, nor any money for vaccines and public health
But man oh man we’ve got money to burn to send the marines into a peaceful protest
Money to burn to roll tanks through DC
Money to burn for bombing Palestine

If a seven-year-old can’t walk to the store the fault lies not with the parents but with the community.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oo5c7ttf4pwp7p5dxpzd3bcs/post/3lqwv6uucrc2f

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3lqx5b7w2wt2h

The fact that both a magistrate judge and a district judge denied the government a search warrant for an Instagram account run by student protesters at Columbia University speaks to the lack of probable cause, EFF’s Mario Trujillo told @theintercept. https://theintercept.com/2025/06/04/fbi-columbia-gaza-warrant-instagram/

The thing to remember is that it is not up to you whether or not you are criminal: it is up to those in power how they label you. So the #civilrights of criminals are the civil rights you have - or don't have. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-mass-deporation-stephen-miller-rcna210396

Sacramento County Sheriff jailing people for as long as 4 days for "illegal camping" or for sleeping outdoors because they are #homeless. https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/homeless/article307003236.html

Columbia University did the cowardly thing and caved in to the Trump regime. Now it's learning that bullies don't stop once they've found a pliant victim.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-education-department-says-columbia-university-violated-federal-anti-2025-06-04/

Johnson County, TX sheriff searched 680 license plate reader networks and 83,000 cameras across multiple states in search of a woman who was "having an abortion" using the Flock system. States that permit #abortion access couldn't stop it from happening. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-texas-cop-used-83000-cameras-track-her-down

Among the many dangerous things the Trump administration is doing ...

... this one's a doozy:

the executive order giving his political appointees the power to determine what are "correct" scientific findings, and "the power to 'discipline' anyone who violates the way the administration views science"

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/climate/executive-order-gold-standard-science.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MU8.OyDj.Zg9c1rftvl0c&smid=url-share

“We live in a country without a comprehensive federal privacy law, so your personal data has been freely harvested and sold for a long time,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told Norfolk's WAVY NBC10. https://www.wavy.com/news/disturbing-data-personal-information-being-bought-and-sold-how-you-can-stop-it/

So now I have:

Subversion as my RCS. Git is overwhelmingly the most popular these days, to point there's people unaware anything else exists.

I never found a compelling reason to stop using Subversion. I like it.

am reposting this meme @MalcolmNance posted without #AltTxt ―of the neonazi group #ProudBoys and #ICE― because it makes the point i made several days ago

❝ Don't be afraid to call things by what they are. #MAGA is a terrorist organization, ICE is a secret police force conducting Ethnic Cleansing, Elon Musk is an oligarch, and Trump is a foreign backed coup d'état figurehead. This is not an administration, this is a regime, and your country is occupied.

previously:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/114603612760706133

Israeli Officer Promoted After He Ordered Killing of White Flag Holders in Gaza https://twp.ai/E67jpj

Automated license plate readers don't prevent crime, they chill speech and put marginalized people at risk. Fortunately organizers in San Diego are pushing back. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/san-diegans-push-back-flock-alpr-surveillance

Washington Post editorial page is transforming itself into the early Huffington Post, only this one will be full of right-wingers.

Bezos is working overtime to destroy the Post brand by spitting on its tradition.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/business/media/washington-post-opinion-ripple.html?smid=tw-share

My doctor’s office just asked me if I consented to an AI scribe taking session notes. (Obviously I said absolutely not and over my dead body).

I am physically incapable of minding my own business so I asked for details. They confirmed that means the rooms are capable of recording now, but assured me that it is “completely deleted” in a “timely fashion”.

I’m with One Medical. So that means the steward of that data is AMAZON.

I am utterly horrified.

#tech #dystopia

"If automakers end up shifting some production to China, it would amount to a remarkable outcome from a trade war initiated by President Trump"

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/car-companies-production-rare-earth-shortage-aaf87ad2

Darren Beattie, a Trump official who dismantled a counter-disinformation office in the United States government has links to the kremlin

His wife – yulia kirillova – is the niece of sergei chernikov, a former russian official who reportedly helped putin in the election campaign which first brought him to power in 2000

https://kyivindependent.com/trump-official-who-shut-down-counter-disinformation-bureau-has-links-to-russia-telegraph-reports/

It's hard to imagine academic papers like "Large Language Models Often Know When They Are Being Evaluated" being published in any area of science. The abstract actively contradicts the title. ("can accurately classify transcripts based on whether they originate from evaluations or real-world deployment, a capability we call evaluation awareness")

In my next paper, "#LLMs perform actual miracles, hallelujah!!" I will redefine "actual miracles" to mean "things that I think would surprise a medieval peasant." 🤯

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23836

Old school Plex users, it looks like they're turning on the sell-your-data spigot. Opt out here:

https://www.plex.tv/vendors-us/