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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.
HuffPost
MAGA Personality Tells Girls To Go To College For A Really Retrograde Reason
Charlie Kirk had some advice for young women that was straight out of the 1950s.
 A teenage girl asked Charles Kirk, in one of his right-wing events, for advice for her for college for political journalism. He advised her to use college to find a husband. I've seen this described as "misogyny", but I think that is not exactly the right term. What he expressed on that occasion was not so much hatred of women as contempt and disrespect towards women.
Glossary
the Guardian
Why Britain’s climate and defence strategies need to be better integrated | Letter
Letter: Lt Gen (retd) Richard Nugee highlights the vital link between climate resilience and national security
 Every country's military planning needs to recognize global heating as a crucial aspect of national security.