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Pluralistic: Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death (27 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
 Beware fast food stores that pressure you to place your order through an app, rather than with a human sales clerk. In addition to snooping on you and gouging you with a personalized price, they may be tricking you into signing away your legal rights through the fine print. If you have adopted the practice of always paying cash, as I have, you're safe from this trick. I've urged my state assembly member to make it illegal to impose
Greg Palast
I met Chávez and Maduro. I know drugs are not the reason Trump wants war with Venezuela
You must know three things about Venezuela to understand why Donald Trump has ordered a covert operation to overthrow their government.
Glossary
 Greg Palast writes of repeated US attempts to overthrow the government of Venezuela to steal its enormous oil reserves. He also compares Maduro, an election cheater like the corrupter, with Chavez, who win honestly.
The wrecker has ordered each state's National Guard to train 500 soldiers to become part of a "national, militarized police force". He might send it to majority-Democrat areas to disrupt elections.
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Stop Trump’s DOJ Payoff Scheme
Donald Trump is demanding that the Department of Justice pay him $230 million from public funds. He claims he was “wronged” by the very investi...
Glossary
 US citizens: call on Bondi to stop the corrupter's DOJ payoff scheme.
the Guardian
‘Sycophantic’ AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear, study shows
Scientists warn of ‘insidious risks’ of increasingly popular technology that affirms even harmful behaviour
 * Turning to "sycophantic" [bullshit-generator] chatbots for personal advice poses "insidious risks", according to a study showing the technology consistently affirms a user's actions and opinions even when harmful.*
the Guardian
Don’t use AI to tell you how to vote in election, says Dutch watchdog
Data protection authority says chatbots are ‘clearly biased’, as Netherlands prepares for national poll
 *[so-called] AI chatbots give "unreliable and biased" advice to voters, says Dutch watchdog.* If this were a special problem unique to the Netherlands, it would not be globally significant. But it is a consequence of the nature of bullshit generators. We can help reduce the impact of this problem by firmly refusing to call them any sort of "intelligence". Please join in!
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Ars Technica
Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google's hand.
How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
Free Software Is Even More Important Now - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
GNU Taler - Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Resources
A payment system that makes privacy-friendly online transactions fast and easy.
 Cloudflare is leading a campaign for websites to tell Google they do not permit using their pages to train a bullshit generator. This is to pressure Google Search (and other search engines) to stop displaying bullshit summaries instead of search
the Guardian
Brown University rejects Trump proposal to overhaul policies for preferential funding
University joins MIT in refusing invitation, saying that compact would ‘restrict academic freedom’
2025: July - October Political Notes
 MIT and Brown University have rejected the bully's corrupting "compact" whereby they would have given the US government direct control over what can be taught there, and other policies.
the Guardian
Queer and trans immigrants allege forced labor and sexual assault in Ice facility: ‘I was treated worse than an animal’
At the South Louisiana Ice Processing Center in Basile, detainees say they were forced into hard labor – and sexually assaulted and stalked by an...
 Queer prisoners in a deportation prison report forced hard labor, sexual abuse and denial of medical treatment.