Mastodawn

Every 3D print in NY can be surveilled — from political speech to company prototypes — if these provisions make it into the state budget. We need to act NOW to stop it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/stop-new-yorks-attack-3d-printing #NewYork #3Dprinting

Stop New York's Attack on 3D Printing

New York's proposed 2026-2027 budget currently includes provisions that will require all 3D printers sold in the state to run print-blocking censorware—software that surveils every print for forbidden designs. This policy would also create felony charges for possessing or sharing certain design files. The vote on the state budget could happen as early as next week, so New Yorkers need to act fast and demand that their Assemblymembers and Senators strip this provision from the budget.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

MrAptronym 2h ago

internetarchive 6h ago

Entire chapters of internet culture grew up in Flash. When it was switched off, most of it should have disappeared forever. But it didn't, thanks to the efforts of the software preservation community and dedicated archivists.

Flash is just part of the story of VANISHING CULTURE, a new book exploring the fight to preserve our fragile digital history.

Join us at the book launch. 📖
📅 Thu, April 23
🕠 5:30 PM: Doors open & entertainment
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/vanishing-culture-book-launch/

MrAptronym 2h ago

Gerry McGovern 6h ago

"Since many AI centers are built in economically vulnerable rural areas—like Bessemer, Alabama, a predominantly Black city—already disadvantaged communities are disproportionately affected by the resulting pollution and water scarcity. It is a continuation of a long history of marginalized communities becoming sacrifice zones that shoulder the environmental costs of economic progress. This is environmental racism."

https://uscatholic.org/articles/202604/ais-environmental-costs-fall-most-heavily-on-the-marginalized/

AI’s environmental costs fall most heavily on the marginalized

Data centers harm vulnerable communities. Should we continue to expand AI if its footprint deepens inequality and threatens health?

U.S. Catholic

MrAptronym 6h ago

Tlapka🐾

10h ago

age verification but it's just a dialog box that asks "are you old" and the answers are "yes" and "maybe later"

MrAptronym 6h ago

Eniko Fox 11h ago

Imagine being a coder but thinking there's no artistry to writing code. What an empty existence

MrAptronym 6h ago

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