#why2025

holy shit "The Business Court in Brussels, Belgium, has issued an unprecedentedly broad site-blocking order that aims to restrict access to shadow libraries including Anna's Archive, Libgen, OceanofPDF, Z-Library, and the Internet Archive's Open Library. In addition to ISP blocks, the order also directs search engines, DNS resolvers, advertisers, domain name services, CDNs and hosting companies to take action. " #lawfedi

Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order (Update) * TorrentFreak

A Belgian court ordered intermediaries to block access to major shadow libraries, including the Internet Archive's Open Library.

abusive tech companies ("🤠") are drooling ("🤤") for generative AI and agentic AI ("👻") because: 1. 🤠 have decades of data about you already, 👻 is continued ROI 2. your attention and engagement via conversation with 👻 extracts new data types, even more data about you, and even more data about the people you talk about 3. engagement on behalf of 🤠 via 👻 is with impunity 4. your dependence on 👻 will mean unlimited, persistent access into your life and mind no different than the dependency you have on your cell phone being in your pocket and within arm's reach 24/7 5. 👻 will replace your friends in different ways. you will trust 👻 more and more as the tech improves 6. 👻 will learn how you work in way more nuanced detail than most people ever will. It will know how to most effectively talk to you, inform you, and control you 7. when 👻 becomes "on-device" in order to sway more users into trusting it, updates from the cloud will continue to allow 🤠 to collect data about your life and interact with you in ways that you trust and will most effectively sway your judgement 8. 👻 is trained to be extremely confident which makes them exceptional social engineers. 🤠 don't have to hire people to do this anymore

I want to thank @npub14vu6...9wlz and some other recent @npub13slx...t3va donors who donated a total of $780, enough to cover the cost of a new SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V dev board that we will use exclusively as a unfiltered Tor exit relay for hardware and OS diversity Arrow.com, the only seller of the SiFive HiFive, is charging a $196 tariff + sales tax even though the boards they have in stock have already been in stock for months, raising the cost of the board substantially I also want to thank @npub13xmr...232t who's not only donated a chassis for the SiFive HiFive, but is racking and stacking our gear we've moved from Seattle to San Francisco ^_^