Notices by smeg (smeg@assortedflotsam.com)

After a week away, returning to US news is so exhausting

Ride a bike

#boycott #fossilfuels #exxonmobil #cycling #BikeCommuting #transportation #boycottmaga

I guess we won't be growing food in this country in the near future

USDA fired the experts on invasive pests that can decimate crops
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/usda-fired-expert-invasive-pests-can-decimate-crops-rcna194913

Nothing is possible?

We know.

Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value
https://futurism.com/microsoft-ceo-ai-generating-no-value

#ai #llm #microsoft #copilot #chatgpt #openai #claude #anthropic #gemini #AIfraud #AIscams #hype #hypetrain

Meta torrented over 81.7TB of pirated books to train AI, authors say
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/

#ai #llm #piracy #libgen #libgenesis #copyright #books

Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-flags-linux-topics-as-cybersecurity-threats-posts-and-users-being-blocked

#linux #facebook #cybersecurity #censorship #foss #meta

Watch these companies lie through their teeth. And the employer, of course, later will be firing people if they get sick or cancer from breathing in all of the smoke.

Amid fires, a fine line between work and well-being

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-01-11/how-workplaces-are-dealing-with-los-angeles-fires

#lafires #palisadefire #palisadesfire #californiafires #labor #workersrights #workersafety #FireSafety

On a #Reddit news article discussing how American men have been turning to religion in growing numbers while women have been turning away from it, I made the comment:

"Men want to control women, and are adopting an ideology that morally justifies them doing just that."

And the amount of responses shouting some form of #NotAllMen and openly bigoted anti-trans nonsense has been really amazing. Men are not alright.

#antitrans #feminism #feminist #womensrights #ReligionInAmerica #Religion #men

@lowqualityfacts

Tourism leads the pack in growing carbon emissions, study shows
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-tourism-carbon-emissions.html
#carbonemissions #climatechange

Murdered Insurance CEO Had Deployed an AI to Automatically Deny Benefits for Sick People
https://futurism.com/neoscope/united-healthcare-claims-algorithm-murder
#insurance #InsuranceCEO #brianthompson #unitedhealthcareceo #unitedhealthcare #healthinsurance #denydefenddepose

Cloudflare says it lost 55% of logs pushed to customers for 3.5 hours
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-says-it-lost-55-percent-of-logs-pushed-to-customers-for-35-hours/
#cloudflare #infosec #tech

I'm already seeing EEE (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) user experiences from Threads/Bluesky on Mastodon. People are responding to content from there, linking to content there, but if you aren't on the other platform you don't see the content, the links don't work, you can't see what they're replying to, etc.

By embracing connectivity to these platforms, the Fediverse is choosing to be a second class citizen on corporate platforms.

Some Americans are coming to the same realization some Germans did… that 1/3 of us would kill 1/3 of us while the other 1/3 watches.

When biking infrastructure is only seen as "recreational", it leads to design choices that make it unreliable for practical transportation use.

#BikeCommuting #cycling #activetransportation #activetransit #infrastructure #bikeinfrastructure #urbanism #fayetteville #fayettevillear #arkansas #northwestarkansas #transportation #bicycle

I don't find it surprising that the people hawking essential oils and other bs are also very outwardly religious.

Whaaaaaaaat?

Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kaspersky-deletes-itself-installs-ultraav-antivirus-without-warning/

@GossiTheDog literally everything I see in every channel is scams. If you told me there was CP channels, I would believe it

@GossiTheDog who exactly was paying him? From Twitter clicks, for being an "influencer"?