Notices by Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org), page 4

The #FDA says that it will indeed block most Americans from getting #COVID vaccines, thus severely restricting it to people over 65 or a person with "pre-existing conditions".

Welp, it begins to people dying at a rapid alarming rate. :(

https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-fda-kennedy-covid-shots-rfk-trump-bb4de15b6ff955d6cd0b406aaec3cdc5

I'm sure she's going to get fired for speaking out her mind, but I applaud her for calling them out by name.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/16/fcc-commissioner-gomez-calls-out-administrations-attack-on-free-speech-warns-she-may-get-fired/

#FCC #freespeech

This is a very good continuing source on what's happening to the US govenrment and why this effing matters.

The first three discussed are Trans Healthcare, Medicaid, and Equality in the Workplace with more topics to come.

https://unbreaking.org/

@greg @HunterZ This is a decades-long cumination of corruption and monopoliation of telecom that lead us to this point and a certain EM is going to greatly benefit from that.

@max @jwildeboer I'm sorry but that's bullshit.

All do respect to you but to me and a whole lot of folks that run and self-host their servers, this is clearly evil and you know it's just to further protect their investments.

I won't be surprised if/when IMAP and SMTP support goes away on anything Google for example.

It's sad that people still have to use DSL and mostly likely heading towards satellite internet to get online.

Expect that to inevitably spread instead of broadband. :(

#internet #DSL #broadband

I'm sure Gordon Freeman disapproves what the US are sliding towards.

@obrien_kat I saw your longer version and this is great.

I wish you the best of luck Kat in finding something awesome!

@obrien_kat I saw your longer version and this is great.

I wish you the best of luck Kat in finding something awesome!

https://katsstackofreadsandwriting.beehiiv.com/p/seeking-to-join-pro-democracy-efforts-full-time

@matera Companies just want you and me to subscribe to their services (e.g. ink and other software)...

@JessTheUnstill They also re-introduced KOSA today.

I'm so tired...

Don't take my word for it.

Here's @mmasnick on WTF the Dems are thinking helping this administration unleash a major censorship machine.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/14/why-the-fuck-are-democrats-helping-build-magas-censorship-machine-with-kosa/

#KOSA #freespeech #speech #censorship

US Senators have reintroduced #KOSA today and sadly I expect this to become law invevitably as it gained even more support (from Apple most notably) since it was stalled late last year.

Like I said, this would create more #censorship and chilling of #speech, especiially towards minorities and the marginalized.

https://www.theverge.com/news/666729/kids-online-safety-act-reintroduced

Please push back and reject Big Tech's and the government's plea to share your intimate details to AI chatbots, because it will be used aganst you in the very near future.

https://www.theverge.com/policy/665685/ai-therapy-meta-chatbot-surveillance-risks-trump

#privacy #surveillance #dystopia

Please push back and reject Big Tech's and the government's plea to share your intimate details to AI chatbots, because it will be used against you in the very near future.

https://www.theverge.com/policy/665685/ai-therapy-meta-chatbot-surveillance-risks-trump

#privacy #surveillance #dystopia

Another ploy to strip states of their rights to regulate.

https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/114502133305429718

@jalefkowit Related piece on what Carr really is:

https://www.theverge.com/tech/656653/brendan-carr-fcc-anti-consumer-harassment-dei-trump

The Library of Congress is dead, Jim.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-library-congress-todd-blanche-carla-hayden-cc2154fa8644a5c29d196e505e4faa51

#LibraryofCongress #library #libraries

Meanwhile, China called TFG's bluff alhough it'll still kill consumers and small businesses alike.

So much winning.

https://www.theverge.com/news/664811/us-china-pause-tariffs-90-days

#tariffs #economy

Yep, you should be very terrified by this increasingly likely prospect of having all of your personal infomration in one basket, opening the door to a lot of idenity theft and much more.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/doge-elon-musk-data-hackers

#privacy #security #cybersecurity #infosec #humanrights