Mastodawn

Nite 0wl Feb 24, 2023

internetarchive Feb 23, 2023

As most of you know, our library is being sued by 4 corporate publishers who want to stop the Internet Archive from lending books. The date for oral argument has just been set for March 20.

What's at stake? Lia Holland from @team elaborates: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2023-02-23-statement-major-decision-on-libraries-digital-rights-a-step-closer-on-march-20

Statement: Major Decision on Libraries’ Digital Rights A Step Closer on March 20

Judge John G. Koeltl of the Southern District of New York has set March 20, 2023 as the date for oral arguments in four major publishers’ lawsuit against the Internet Archive’s digital library. The following statement can be attributed to Lia Holland (they/she), Campaigns and Communications Director at Fight for the Future: We’re eagerly awaiting […]

Fight for the Future

Nite 0wl Jan 23, 2023

TProphet Jan 23, 2023

Totally shocking that when the economy is a casino, you can't plan your life and there is no guarantee you'll have healthcare coverage, nobody wants to have kids

Nite 0wl Jan 23, 2023

Lauren Weinstein Jan 23, 2023

CNET's AI-written articles aren't just riddled with errors. They also appear to be substantially plagiarized. - https://futurism.com/cnet-ai-plagiarism

CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism

CNET's AI-generated articles appear to show deep structural similarities, amounting to plagiarism, with previously published work elsewhere.

Futurism

Nite 0wl Jan 23, 2023

Matthew Keys Jan 23, 2023

There's one big detail about T-Mobile's latest security incident that everyone in the media is getting wrong:

The company wasn't hacked. Someone exploited T-Mobile's API and collected data on millions of customers that the company freely gave away.

People should be asking why they did this, but we won't get there if the company is seen as a victim of a "hack" that wasn't. https://thedesk.net/2023/01/t-mobile-compromise-api-was-not-hacked/

T-Mobile's latest customer data breach wasn't a "hack"

There's a pretty big part of the latest T-Mobile security breach that journalists are getting wrong.

The Desk

Nite 0wl Jan 23, 2023

Max Kennerly Jan 23, 2023

Seems we might have an answer for why, on the eve of the 2016 election, someone at the FBI lied to the NYTimes about the links the FBI saw between Trump and Russia.

Because the then-head of counterintelligence for FBI in NY was just indicted for money laundering and helping Russian oligarchs evade sanctions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/nyregion/fbi-money-laundering-charles-mcgonigal.html

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1563476/download

Former Top FBI Official in New York Charged in Money Laundering

Prosecutors say Charles McGonigal, who was chief of counterintelligence, worked secretly for Oleg Deripaska to investigate a Russian rival.

The New York Times

Nite 0wl Jan 23, 2023

George Hotelling Jan 23, 2023

This Discord could have been a Wiki

Nite 0wl Jan 23, 2023

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg Jan 23, 2023

RT @[email protected]

According to a plagiarism checker, the activism manual for this "anti groomer" activism group plagiarized about a third of its materials from an explicitly white supremacist organizing campaign manual. And half of that plagiarized material was a direct copy/paste job https://twitter.com/CAntifascists/status/1617262136098709507

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jaredlholt/status/1617564664119820288

Conejo Valley Antifascists on Twitter

“The following comparisons of the WLM activist manual 2.0, and the January 2023 Project 171 Anti Groomer Action manual show identical format, organization, and in many cases, cut and pasted text from one to the other. /5”

Twitter

Nite 0wl Jan 22, 2023

Violet Blue Jan 22, 2023

TFW you're the baby in the 100-degree car watching dad walk away through the rolled-up windows.

RT @[email protected]

BIDEN: “And I think we — I sometimes underestimate it because I stopped thinking about it, but I’m sure you don’t: We lost 1 — over 1 million people in several years to COVID.”

We lost almost 700,000 people to covid since Biden took office two years ago.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/01/21/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-u-s-conference-of-mayors-winter-meeting/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/wsbgnl/status/1616903589557043201

Remarks by President Biden at the U.S. Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting | The White House

East Room (January 20, 2023) 2:31 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You better sit down. You

The White House

Nite 0wl Jan 22, 2023

It took 3 years but COVID finally hit my household, of course it was the family member that has been lecturing me about "being paranoid" about COVID the whole time.

Nite 0wl Jan 17, 2023

Parker Molloy Jan 17, 2023

January 6 committee found that Twitter and other social media companies gave Republicans preferential treatment on social media out of fear of criticism/reprisal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/17/jan6-committee-report-social-media/

What the Jan. 6 probe found out about social media, but didn’t report

The Jan. 6 committee's 845-page report offered few details of social media's role in the Capitol riot. Transcripts and an unreleased memo shows the committee knew more.

The Washington Post