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Inside: Jailbreaking isn't theft; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/25/thieve-different/

#Pluralistic

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[Blog] Appropriate speed for the conditions, deliberately
https://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2026/06/appropriate-speed-for-conditions.html
Appropriate speed for the conditions, deliberately

Ideas and experiences on software testing, software development, conference speaking and organizing.

Get your shots damnit! Every single possible vax.

I've seen way way too much dementia/Alzheimer's in my life, it is such a cruel and vile disease

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/eight-vaccines-linked-lower-risk-dementia

Eight vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia

A growing body of research is beginning to reveal the impact that regular routine vaccines could be having on the likelihood of conditions like dementia. Here are the jabs with the strongest evidence so far.

It was just pointed out to me that the entire printing industry and much of the media production industry are structurally dependent on Adobe, meaning that by deploying content-sensitive tooling restrictions - like the one Ashley demonstrates - Adobe has effectively announced that they have the right to a unilateral, systemic veto on what images can or cannot be published at all.

https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116800893402025472

Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht is tot en met vrijdag gratis open voor iedereen die oververhit raakt in het centrum van Utrecht. Of die gewoon graag naar een goed museum wil.

This is extremely, extremely alarming.

Look, if you show up for a protest and you slash car tires and break a security camera, you do that understanding that there may be personal consequences — and for vandalizing gov property, as the price of civil disobedience, maybe you accept your 9-month sentence + probation.

You do not accept a 50- or 70- or 100-year sentence. Many murderers get less time than that. If they murdered Alex Pretti or Renee Good, they apparently get no time at all.

This isn’t justice. It’s suppression. It’s authoritarianism.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-protesters-texas-sentenced

Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison

Activists accused of being part of antifa get long prison terms in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent

The Guardian

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116743752769351195

psst, @grimalkina's book is available for pre-order

you should pre-order it, become a POSTer

...and this one is live as well, about value based #coupling: https://www.qwan.eu/2026/06/17/connascence-value.html #connascence
Connascence: Value (part 8)

In the previous posts, we introduced the Connascence model as a model of coupling and elaborated connascence by name, type, meaning, position, algorithm, exe...

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The next post in our series on #connascence is live, on timing based #coupling https://www.qwan.eu/2026/06/12/connascence-timing.html
Connascence: Timing (part 7)

In the previous posts, we introduced the Connascence model as a model of coupling and elaborated connascence by name, type, meaning, position, algorithm, and...

QWAN - Quality Without a Name
EFF’s @pluralistic explains his concerns about the $1.4 trillion AI bubble to Salon: “Our instinctive response to every bubble, at least for the last 25 years, has been austerity. And austerity drives normal working people into the arms of fascists.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/22/ai-doomerism-is-misplaced-heres-what-it-will-take-to-pop-the-bubble/
AI doomerism is misplaced. Here's what it will take to pop the bubble - Salon.com

Cory Doctorow argues AI dominance is not inevitable. How we fight back matters

Salon.com