Texas police say they used Flock to search for a woman they believed had had a self-administered abortion for her "safety." I call bullshit.

https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/

If you use Telegram, now’s probably a good time to stop.

Musk has just signed a one-year partnership with Telegram to integrate his AI Grok into the message app.

xAI will invest $300 million, cash and equity, and share 50% of Grok subscription revenue.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250528-telegram-to-get-300-mn-in-partnership-with-musk-s-xai

#AI #Telegram

I'm starting a car rental business. I take cars that are parked on the street and rent them out.

Asking for consent would kill my business.

#aiLogic

I couldn't find an existing list of Canadian alternatives to American Internet services, so I've started one:

https://codeberg.org/Taffer/canadian-alternatives

Please spread far and wide, and let me know if you have any updates for the page!

#canada #cira #internet #cloud #alberta #british_columbia #bc #manitoba #new_brunswick #newfoundland #labrador #newfoundlandlabrador #northwest_territories #nwt #nova_scotia #nunavut #ontario #prince_edward_island #pei #quebec #saskatchewan #yukon

@Taffer Excellent list! Thank you for putting this together. Here's a similar list by @Linux that has some great options too:

https://mk.absturztau.be/notes/a6grte71zuda028f

Worsening #allergies aren’t your imagination. A forestry professor explains #climatechange is extending pollen seasons by an average of 20 days and increasing pollen concentrations by 21% across North America: https://buff.ly/H3kmkdV

@itgrrl Here's a good collection of Digital Service Providers outside the US. See the Web Hosting section in the link here: https://mk.absturztau.be/notes/a6grte71zuda028f

Trump told Springsteen to shut up. He didn’t.
His new album includes his Manchester, UK intro to “My City in Ruins,” telling the audience that in the United States the authorities were “persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent.” He said that the nation was cutting aid to the poor, abandoning allies, rolling back civil rights protections, defunding universities and deporting people without due process. #Springsteen #resist #music https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/arts/music/bruce-springsteen-e-street-band-ep-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

A list of Digital Service Providers outside the jurisdiction of the United States of America.

https://codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/Outside_Us_Jurisdiction

This is a group project, so feel free to reach out if you have any suggestions, or learn any new information.

#Vpn #Email #Dns #Domain #Messenger #WebHosting #PasswordManager #WebSearch #SearchEngine #OperatingSystem #PaymentProcessing #UsJurisdiction #Project2025 #UnitedStates #Privacy #Security

@Hierarchy @gruff Seems like they do now but I haven't compared them. Here is a list a fellow Mastodonion put together that includes email providers: https://mk.absturztau.be/notes/a6grte71zuda028f

Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour

"This report arrives at a time in which people are using generative AI for absolutely everything. Google announced at its annual I/O event that it's leaning into AI with fervor. Google Search, Gmail, Docs, and Meet are all seeing AI integrations. People are using AI to lead job interviews, create deepfakes of OnlyFans models, and cheat in college."

https://mashable.com/article/energy-ai-worse-than-we-thought

AOL 3.0 Channels, thanks to the P30L project!

#RetroTech #90sComputing #DigitalNostalgia #OldSchoolTech #TechThrowback #1990sTech #AOL #AmericaOnline

@retro_techie That's a big decision. I loved these as it mostly counted the number of visits I made to my site to check on the counter.

@Hierarchy @gruff The Netherlands: https://www.startmail.com/

@gruff Startmail is still safe

We the People™ have 3 days, starting May 20, 2025, to write a public comment to the FDA about why #COVID-19 boosters should be available to everyone and also free of charge, as a public service benefiting public health.

Select "Individual consumer" as the most likely category.

https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FDA-2025-N-1146-0001

#VaccinesSaveLives

I think we should tell Gen Z that Head Cleaner's "Play Both Sides" was the 🔥 album of 1986

NASA celebrated this employee's story of resilience, then tried to scrub it from the internet. Then fired her.

"It feels like everything that I worked for has been taken down little by little."

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/nasa-celebrated-this-employees-story-of-resilience-then-tried-to-scrub-it-from-the-internet-then-fired-her

#NASA #doge #dei #SCIENCENEWS #ScienceAlert #spacenews #space @NASA #roseferreira #astronomy #science

@TheBreadmonkey For those not able to read the article, this link worked for me: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/nasa-celebrated-this-employees-story-of-resilience-then-tried-to-scrub-it-from-the-internet-then-fired-her