RE: https://mstdn.social/@markhburton/116934369011608792

“And then there is Oracle, busy carving out a legacy of bankruptcy:

-35% return on investment

debt 5x its equity

…and plans to lay off staff in batches of 10,000, ostensibly in the name of a massive AI-driven productivity leap but in fact a desperate measure to restore cash flow and stave off default.

Oracle’s collapse would be the kind of event seen in every major financial crisis: the moment when the spell is suddenly broken, and a belief comes crashing down.”

RE: https://openbiblio.social/@anotherfami/116934393820656121

Tails to the rescue: https://tails.net/

Doch, in China gibt es Protest. Sogar ziemlich spektakulären.

Nur sieht er eben anders aus als eine Massendemo am Brandenburger Tor.

Wir müssen genauer hinschauen, um ihn zu sehen. Spannender Text (🎁 12h): https://krautreporter.de/politik-und-macht/6462-proteste-in-china-sehen-anders-aus-als-du-denkst?shared=a1d0e7ec-0c28-47d4-95b6-a8279c13d757&utm_campaign=share-url&utm_medium=editorial&utm_source=typefully.com

@catsalad My void demands treats

@randahl

The burn bag nonsense was hilarious. The 2016 guy somehow cheated for 2020, which was discovered in 2026 after sitting in a burn bag for a decade. 🤷

Now that the CEO of Flock has called deflock.me a terrorist organization, I'd hate for other people to know about these other flock watchdog groups.

Please don't go on these websites, I beg you.

https://Alpr.wtf - Every U.S. jurisdiction using ALPR, plus how to file info requests.

https://EyesOnFlock.com - Crowdsourced map of Flock cameras and city contracts.

https://Deflock.me - Nationwide ALPR map tracking Flock deployments, removals, and resistance.

https://HaveIBeenFlocked.com — Quick check to see if Flock is watching your neighborhood.

https://DontGetFlocked.com — Plots your route, counts ALPR/Flock cameras, and suggests surveillance-free alternatives.

#flock #surveillance #uspol #police #politics #ai #noai #facialrecognition

@markhburton what a great article, thank you.

And it doesn’t even get into pending shortages of semiconductors

@temptoetiam première fois que j'entends parler (en dehors de Docteur Folamour...) de l'usage de cobalt comme arme de destruction massive, faudrait creuser... En particulier, il dit qu'il était prêt à le faire, ça veut dire que les US avaient un stock de ce genre d'arme sous le coude à l’époque? Où ça se fabrique très facilement/rapidement à partir d'un arsenal nucléaire "classique"? (une question pour r/AskHistorians...)

@giorgiograppa més encara perquè el TJUE ha avalat la llei d’amnistia, Puigdemont és lliure de moure’s per on vulgui.

RE: https://kind.social/@Texan_Reverend/112432142624648275

In light of current major wildfires, I'm reboosting my pinned thread on DIY air cleaners: how to build them, where to source parts, quiet PC fan-based alternatives, etc.

The 225-issue Nikkei stock average temporarily plunged over 4,100 points on Friday afternoon due to the selling of issues related to semiconductors and AI following overnight falls in their U.S. counterparts. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/17/markets/nikkei-index-drop-july/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #japaneseeconomy #nikkei #stocks #ai #tse

If you are interested in your NZ Asian family history - please join us. We need your support to build this group - which is part of the NZSG (NZ Society of Genealogists.) Looking for interested Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, Cambodian, Japanese , Singaporean, Malaysian, Thai , Laotian , Sri Lankan and all other Asian Ethnicities

@everton137 @vaurora @ccc @vgrass @freifunk @digiges @cbase @freifunk_berlin
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The spam campaign attacking Writefreely instances is out of control. Can you contact the admins you know?

@fediverse

Yesterday I received this message from my friend @elettrona:

Are you the one running the "writefreely blogs" bot, aka writefreely@poliverso.org? Because there are tons of English accounts full of links that post nonstop.

And indeed, that account republishing posts from some Italian instances had a staggering amount of spam.

This is due to a very serious vulnerability that hasn't yet been patched by the developers, but which has (obviously) started to be exploited on a large scale.

I've notified all the Italian administrators of @writefreely instances, but I'm having some difficulty contacting the foreign ones.

These are the ones with the most users:

https://write.otter.homes/read
https://infosec.press/read
https://blog.liberta.vip/read
https://write.tedomum.net/read
https://val-vgms.gay/read
https://bolha.blog/read

But there are many others.

Is there anyone among you who can try this or at least spread the word?

Note: As I mentioned, the vulnerability has been known for a long time and is currently being exploited on a large scale.

https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/issues/1649

@mastodonmigration it didn't go massive fireball, boring

La guerre atomique totale que voulait MacArthur et le "cerveau électronique" qui l'en a dissuadé.
https://bsky.app/profile/maitre-poulard.bsky.social/post/3mqomu6vqqe2i

Context:

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/united-flight-offensive-t-shirt-atlanta-newark/

https://liveandletsfly.com/united-airlines-bombing-kids-shirt/

https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-calls-on-united-airlines-to-apologize-after-forcing-passenger-to-remove-t-shirt-that-read-bombing-children-is-not-self-defense/

A T-shirt that says that dropping bombs on children is wrong is only stating the obvious.

If someone is so offended by it that it treats it as a piece of terrorist propaganda, then it’s the individual who finds such statement offensive the one that should be removed - not only from a flight, but from civilized society as a whole.

This is the level of normalization of genocide the West has reached because of decades of aggressive Zionazi propaganda.

You don’t get to such levels of apology of genocide overnight

RE: https://todon.eu/@faab64/116930421545558816

@Edent it’s funny, that text still feels very LLM generated to me. I wonder if it’s a person passing their response through one.