Artist fighting Temu to reclaim her mosaic design
By Jenae Madden
A South Australian artist is fighting drop-ship company Temu over its selling of her mosaic design on rugs. But how did the artwork get there in the first place?
#Art #CopyrightInfringement #OnlineShopping #ContemporaryArt #AIEthics #AI #JenaeMadden
I'm "paranoid" and "alarmist" for things like refusing to sign in to windows with a Microsoft account over privacy and control concerns, but then when this kind of shit happens my critics always conveniently forget that I told them so: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/10/you-cant-fully-disable-microsofts-gdid-windows-11-tracker-but-these-settings-limit-what-it-captures/
Elon Musk’s family foundation took Tommy Robinson to russia, says Musk’s father
Errol Musk says far-right activist is ‘a fine young man’ and held meetings with russian business figures
🖊 Ben Quinn, Political correspondent
Wisconsin already has its own version of the Save Act written down. This investigation just proves the President couldn't give two shits about waste, fraud and abuse.
Oh great. #ICE not only murdered someone, it wasn't even the guy they meant to go after. It's like the Three Stooges but with a body count. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/09/houston-man-killed-ice-agents
CNN: An outbreak of diarrhea caused by a parasite has hit at least 1,400 people. Here’s how to stay safe
"...The good news is that cyclosporiasis doesn’t pass directly from person to person. You get it by eating or drinking something that’s been contaminated several weeks prior, usually fresh produce or water from a swimming pool. ..."
https://lite.cnn.com/2026/07/09/health/prevent-parasite-cyclospora
Boo-hoo Oracle, Wisconsin says, "Show me the money!"
https://www.cleanwisconsin.org/state-rejects-petition-to-reopen-ai-data-center-tariff-case/
As if healthcare isn't expensive enough, now we have to pay a surcharge to every asshole that can't make their own living unless it means sucking the equity out of others making theirs.
Can we opt out of "intelligence layer" fees when visiting the doctor?
What a douche.
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK NOOOOO
Trump says he won't sign bipartisan housing affordability bill
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-he-wont-sign-bipartisan-housing-affordability-bill?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Nation @nation-PBSNewsHour
Fucking "app culture" drives me crazy. I got asked to install a mobile app just to look at the itinerary and accommodation information for a trip I'm going on.
Why isn't it just a web page?
So obviously I said "fuck that noise, hold my beer", reverse-engineered the app, and re-implemented it as a web page generator. It does all the same things as the "app" except now there's no tracking, no ads, and you get all the Web's features "for free" (deep links, copy-pasting, search-in-page, printing, works on anything, etc.).
Here's the full story:
🔗 https://danq.me/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage
#appCulture #app #android #web #webPage #openStandards #reverseEngineering
Vance, what a complete jerk.
"I will say it was a little he doth protest too much because I came here to talk about financial fraud. I came here to talk about the fraud against our prenatal program for our young moms, and some guy sends me a letter."
"We have ought to have a governor who takes fraud as seriously as the president of the United States, who is trying to save your money as much as we are in Washington," Vance said. "Tom Tiffany is who we need to elect the next governor."
The guy that sends billions of tax payer dollars out the door for vanity projects, vendetta investigations and warmongering, is taking fraud seriously? Please. Get bent.
No, a Trump yes man election denier is exactly who we do NOT need in Wisconsin.
Apologize to the Mayor asshole.
RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@taoish/116884161402249680
One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides "what is taking up all my cloud storage??) is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don't want it. I'm going to make a handout that explains how to do some of the basic AI-removal or AI-avoidance things.
Would appreciate links which give simple steps to do this for the most-used (Siri, Alexa, Gemini, Copilot, Firefox's AI nonsense &c.) so I can collate and synthesize. Thanks!
Librarians removing AI from phones and teaching people they have a choice. Not political. Just information literacy, same as fighting book bans. The real work was always about helping people think critically.
Wisconsin Supreme Court refuses to release voter records sought by conservative activist
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-refuses-to-release-voter-records-sought-by-conservative-activist?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-PBSNewsHour
Zuckerberg’s biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4 trillion
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/mark-zuckerberg-meta-fine-trillion-b3010281.html
Meta Platforms said in a court filing on Monday that four states were seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties over accusations that the company designed its Facebook and Instagram platforms to addict young users.
Bring it on!!!
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@djlink/116873204924016304
Oh, so they're doing like crime-crime.
That didn't take long. If the noise is, “not only excessive, but consistent and pervasive,” annoying the hell out of humans and lowering their quality of life, imagine the effects on wildlife!
“Although some of the Data Center’s operations generate significant dBA levels from the backup generators, much of the ‘low hum’ noise is low-frequency infrasound that is not detected and reflected in dBA measurements,”