Andrew Leonard continues to write amazing things. He weaves together so many interesting things that you would not normally connect. Phillip K. Dick, Leibniz, tech, politics, Schezwan cooking, spices, journalism, internet, raising kids, Chinese history and so much more

"The Internet has become as useless as the Book of Changes because it will affirm or deny whatever we desire. And I cannot help but connect this unmooring of online truth, this cacophony of digital nonsense, to the state of politics in the United States today.

President Trump spews out insanity on a daily basis and his henchmen routinely say and do the vilest of things and Elon Musk tweets something factually incorrect almost as often as he takes a breath and it all means nothing because nothing means anything.

A quarter of the way through the 21st century, one of humanity’s supreme technical achievements is a network that facilitates the sharing of lies so efficiently that it broke democracy. Would we have elected Donald Trump president a second time, much less a first, if we still had gatekeepers keeping a lid on all the madness?"

#PhilipKDick #IChing #Internet #USPolitics #ScienceandTechnology

https://andrewleonard.substack.com/p/how-the-internet-became-the-book

Euro-Stack

#European Industrial Policy bringing together tech, governance & funding for #Europe-focused investment to build & adopt suite of #digital #infrastructures

The vision is to sustain European entrepreneurship and competitiveness (a diverse ecosystem of businesses, SMEs, startups), create resilience, protect our autonomy and sovereignty in a volatile world, and empower the people and businesses of Europe.

https://euro-stackletter.eu/

Kirjoitin nettiläsnäolon alasajosta ja luopumisesta.

"Luurittomuus nosti esiin myös levottomuuden. En voinut enää paeta rauhallisuutta. Tunnetta voi verrata minkä tahansa uuden asian aloittamiseen, innostutaan, suunnitellaan, tehdään hankintoja ja säädetään varusteet kuntoon. Ollaan ihan täpinöissä. Vihdoinkin jotain uutta, mitä vielä, jotain, ihan mitä tahansa. Kunnes kaikki on valmista ja jäljellä on enää vain aloittaminen ja tekeminen. Uudet tavat kaatuvat usein siihen, toiston vaikeuteen. Kärsivällisyyden puutteeseen. Rauhattomuuteen. Digitaalisessa luopumisessa tekeminen ja toisto tarkoittaa sitä, että ei tehdä mitään. Mitä nyt, kun perusluuri, kamera ja bussikortti on hankittu? Ei mitään. Elät kuten ennenkin. Ei enää mitään uutta jokaisella sormen sipaisulla, vain rauha. Kännyköillä paetaan rauhaa, ajatuksia, painetta paeta rauhaa, ei mitään."

Lue Geminissä:

gemini://sampsa.smol.pub/digiasketismi

Ein prorussisches Netzwerk zielt darauf ab, möglichst viel russlandfreundliche Falschinformationen in die Trainingsdaten von KI-Modellen zu bekommen.

https://www.heise.de/news/Trainingdaten-vergiften-Russische-Propaganda-fuer-KI-Modelle-10317280.html

"nine of the top ten #online shows are right-leaning...

right-leaning online shows have amassed nearly 481 million #followers across platforms — almost five times more than the 104 million followers for left-leaning shows...

the result of a deliberate, well-funded #strategy to colonize the digital #media landscape with #conservative voices...

right-wing personalities are frequently backed by #billionaire money"
https://www.readtpa.com/p/media-matters-report-on-conservative

Duck, Duck, Go does a really good job at scrubbing the web. I entered my human's name in a search engine and went eight pages without seeing any entries related to her. I imagine I could have searched further but that's good enough for me. #internet #infosec #Privacy

Whats the status of uBlock origin and Vivaldi with the V3 manifest?

Is Vivaldis built-in adblocker on pair with uBlock origin?

@Vivaldi

Projekte für #Internetfreiheit bedroht: Globale Initiativen für ein freies #Internet stehen vor dem Aus. Grund sind drastische US-Mittelstreichungen unter #Trump. Das gefährdet digitale #Freiheitsrechte weltweit.

Outgoing Broadband Chief Issues Stark Warning Against Elon Musk

> He has so far used his immense (and unelected) power to tear down regulators that oversee his business interests and force the government to contract with his companies, including ordering Federal Aviation Administration staff to find tens of millions of dollars to fund a deal with #Starlink
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/outgoing-broadband-chief-warning-elon-musk-1235297425/ #broadband #internet #ElonMusk #DOGE

I did a search for something, found no definitive answer, so I wrote up a blog post that has the definitive answer (well, it worked for me) so that in the future others do not need to suffer as I have suffered...

https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/03/16/warning-att-u-verse-tv-stop-working/

If you have a Yahoo account you consent to your emails being accessed by Yahoo's AI and third party AI. #Yahoo #TOS #email #internet #privacy #infosec

At 20:15 local time (00:15 UTC), a failure at the Diezmero substation caused a significant loss of power in the west of #Cuba.

The power outage resulted in a ~60% drop in #Internet traffic from Cuba.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/cu?dateRange=1d

https://x.com/EnergiaMinasCub/status/1900714003623506167

"Privacy policies are more aptly referred to as *surveillance policies*, and that is what I suggest we call them."

—Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism