Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

“We are not working on building an AI agent. We are working to protect Signal from the invasion of AI agents that threaten privacy and that are being implemented in irresponsible ways”

This, and it doesn't work.

Now, it is possible to address the harms of mass engagement-driven platforms. But doing so requires pushing back on the core biz models of the platforms, not tinkering on the edges w surveillant 'solutions' that increase surveillance w/o addressing the root cause.

AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds Popular chatbots serve as poor replacements for human therapists, but study authors call for nuance.

but it's just so convenient

Trump’s DOJ wants states to turn over voter lists, election info • Rhode Island Current At least nine states have received requests for information over the past three months, according to letters from the U.S. Department of Justice obtained by Stateline. Other states, including Rhode Is...

Rhode Island's secretary of state has yet to respond to request to participate in a call with the feds to discuss a possible ‘information-sharing agreement’ rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/07/16/t...

Using Signal groups for activism Things are heating up. Millions of people are taking to the streets against Trump's rising authoritarianism. Communities around the US are organizing to defend against ICE raids, to protest Israeli ge...

Signal for Activism: micahflee.com/using-signal...

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.

When conversing with ChatGPT about topics like "mysticism, conspiracy, or theories about reality, it often seems to lead them down an increasingly isolated and unbalanced rabbit hole that makes them feel special and powerful, and which can easily end in disaster." futurism.com/commitment-j...

Privacy-Focused GrapheneOS Warns Google Is Locking Down Android GrapheneOS warns that Google’s Android 16 release introduces changes that make porting privacy-focused OSes dramatically more difficult.

Murky waters ahead for 3rd Party AOSP developers and the people who love them…
cyberinsider.com/privacy-focu...

Our kids are under surveillance: Why you can’t trust Ed Tech | Proton Roughly 90% of Ed Tech apps and websites were found to have trackers. We explain how you can protect your child’s privacy from this surveillance.

Proton has summed up the glaring problem with ed tech…

proton.me/blog/ed-tech...

RISC-V for all, RISC-V now!

Funny, I've long since moved on to LibreOffice but thought it polite to mention the original project. Thanks for the reminder.

Europeans seek 'digital sovereignty' as US tech firms embrace Trump At a market stall in Berlin run by charity Topio, volunteers help people who want to purge their phones of the influence of U.S. tech firms. Since Donald Trump's inauguration, the queue for their services has grown.

US based or not, open-SRC, open-HW, right2repair can hold bad companies at bay…
Linux
Ubuntu
Mint
Duckduckgo
GrapheneOS
LineageOS
F-Droid
LibreOffice
GIMP
Krita
Audacity
Mozilla
Proton
Mullvad
Moodle
Sakai
Home Assistant
Pfsense
DD-WRT
TrueNAS
Jellyfin… who/what else?
www.reuters.com/business/med...

Live Updates: Iran Fires Missiles at U.S. Base in Qatar, Iranian Officials Say

If you have doubts about whether folks are still pissed and resentful towards you, it's always helpful to paint a few extra targets on your back.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...?

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

My spellin amd gammuh is a litle werse since spell-chek, wy wound't my thinkn get werse if I use ai to do it 4 me?
time.com/7295195/ai-c...

Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats New research on simulated blackmail, industrial espionage, and other misaligned behaviors in LLMs

When faced with being shut off, AI will resort to blackmail www.anthropic.com/research/age...

Source: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.

We're in a climate crisis, Energy Star ratings help us choose more efficient appliances, mpg ratings help us choose better modes of transportation.
www.wired.com/story/ai-car...

me too!

News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools Chatbots are replacing Google’s traditional search, devastating traffic for some publishers.

Folks need to start using old school RSS clients again.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

Adobe Deletes Bluesky Posts After Furious Backlash 'I assume you'll be charging us monthly to read your posts.'

You folks ran Adobe outta here 😀https://petapixel.com/2025/04/10/adobe-deletes-bluesky-posts-after-furious-backlash

How to delete genetic data from 23andMe • Log into your 23andMe account. • Go to your Profile, then tap Settings. • Scroll to the "23andMe Data" section at the bottom of the page and click View. • If you want to download your data, select what you want. • Scroll to the "Delete Data" section and click Permanently Delete Data. • Confirm your request: You'll receive an email from 23andMe, and click the link in the email to confirm.

23andMe declared bankruptcy and the company is gonna be sold off for parts. That includes your DNA information and the only amount of control you have is to delete your info immediately. It’s very simple to do.

Gift link: wapo.st/4kUsBEF

Brown Medicine doctor deported despite federal court order. What we know. A court order that would have delayed the deportation of Dr. Rasha Alawieh was issued while her plane was on the tarmac, but it took off anyway.

without explanation…
www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained Originally from Germany, Fabian Schmidt was stopped on his way home from Luxembourg, questioned, and held in Rhode Island.

"Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair."
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Kim Deal embarks on solo career after decades in The Pixies and The Breeders Kim Deal, a founding member of The Pixies and legendary bassist, has had many chapters in her career. She was also known as the frontwoman of The Breeders and now becoming a solo artist at the age of ...

You know you've arrived at a different stage of life when the musicians you follow are featured on PBS News Hour. But I admire Kim Deal even more now that I know about her giving up a big portion of her career to help care for her mom.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Schools use AI to monitor kids, hoping to prevent violence. Our investigation found security risks Schools are turning to AI-powered surveillance technology to monitor students on school-issued devices like laptops and tablets.

This is such a difficult battle to push back against for some parents. Districts are employing crazy amounts of surveillance on kids and staff, all to lower their liability.
apnews.com/article/ai-s...

Move fast and break things was never good for us and our rapid and unquestioning embrace of AI is reckless. Meredith Whittaker on Agenic AI…

Volkswagen to Bring Back Physical Buttons to All Vehicles The German car giant’s lead designer called the move away from physical buttons in favor of touch screens 'a mistake.'

Nothing dumber than an input method that demands your full attention when your eyes need to be on the road. www.pcmag.com/news/volkswa...

SherpaTTS | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository Text-to-Speech engine based on Next-gen Kaldi

Open-source and privacy conscious folks, Sherpa is a newish text to speech engine for android that functions entirely offline. I've been trying it out for about a week. So far color me impressed.
f-droid.org/en/packages/...

and the EPA has fallen. The tone of this post is straight out of 1984. I think they received 'How to Write Like a Cartoon Villain!' under their tree last Christmas.