Mastodawn

By my count, since 2018, the year I started StopTheMadness, I’ve filed 90 WebKit bugs that haven’t been fixed yet.

This is pretty depressing.

In that time I filed about 40 WebKit bugs that have been fixed, but obviously the bugs are appearing faster than they disappear.

Thomas Claburn Jun 12

Simon Willison Jun 12

The biggest scandal in AI energy usage right now deserves to be the xAI data center running on 35 methane gas turbines that don't need air permits because they are "temporary" and don't have catalytic reduction pollution controls installed because... they just didn't bother?
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/12/xai-data-center/

‘How come I can’t breathe?’: Musk’s data company draws a backlash in Memphis

The biggest environmental scandal in AI right now should be the xAI data center in Memphis, which has been running for nearly a year on 35 methane gas turbines under …

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Thomas Claburn Jun 12

If you're in the Bay Area on Friday...
https://www.meyhousejazz.com/event-details/andrea-claburn-8pm

Andrea Claburn (8PM) | Meyhouse Jazz

Powerhouse storyteller, charismatic performer, and renowned Bay Area jazz vocalist Andrea Claburn returns to the Meyhouse stage for another night of stellar music.

Meyhouse Jazz

Thomas Claburn Jun 5

Sy Taffel Jun 4

'An app is just a website that we've wrapped in the correct DRM that makes it a felony to protect your privacy while you use it'

@pluralistic keynote speech at PyCon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVmzg_SJLw

Keynote Speaker - Cory Doctorow

YouTube

Thomas Claburn May 21

Mark Nottingham May 21

So, Google just launched a major new AI demo that requires people to relax their browser security settings. Wow.

Thomas Claburn May 19

Jeff Johnson May 19

Apple is not blocking Epic Games from updating Fortnite in the European Union

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/5/5.html

Apple is not blocking Epic Games from updating Fortnite in the European Union

Thomas Claburn Apr 29

kottke.org Apr 29

The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025. “The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650.” https://www.epi.org/blog/the-federal-minimum-wage-is-officially-a-poverty-wage-in-2025/

The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025

In 2025, the federal minimum wage is officially a “poverty wage.” The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650 (established by the Department of Health and Human Services guidelines). The limitations of how the federal government calculates poverty understate how far…

Economic Policy Institute

Thomas Claburn Apr 26

Jon S. von Tetzchner Apr 25

This is the kind of thing that should be banned. It is time to realize that indiscriminate data collection and profiling is harming our society.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-browser-will-track-everything-users-do-online-to-sell-hyper-personalized-ads/

#Vivaldi #Browser #Spyware #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #AI #Windows #Macos #Linux

Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch

Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.

TechCrunch

Thomas Claburn Apr 25

jimray Apr 24

“Facebook doesn't really care about countries other than America. Though Wynn-Williams chalks this up to plain old provincial chauvinism (which FB's top eschelon possess in copious quantities), there's something else at work. The USA is the only country in the world that a) is rich, b) is populous, and c) has no meaningful privacy protections. If you make money selling access to dossiers on rich people to advertisers, America is the most important market in the world.”
https://boskovice.social/@zoul/114393315746768874

Tomáš Znamenáček (@zoul@boskovice.social)

Great review of Careless People (of Facebook fame) by @pluralistic@mamot.fr. Works nicely as a quick summary if you don’t want to read hundreds of pages about Facebook. https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand

Boskovice sociální

Thomas Claburn Apr 23

Neil Brown Apr 23

When I buy a phone or computer, I should be able to install what software I want, from whatever sources I want, on it. My device, my risk.

I don't think that that should be a contentious policy position.