@pluralistic How does forceful web crawling and reliance on residential proxies to mitigate WAF rules not violate the anti-circumvention provisions of DMCA?

That's absolutely sad to read. The CEO of @mullvadnet is not only financing the far-right Swedish Örebro party, but he even is their main financer. 70+% of their money is his donation. He is the reason why they go nationwide this year.

For obvious reasons i cease to trust this service. Also i do not finance parties that aim for forced deportations.

https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

#Mullvad

Don't use VPN services.

https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29

The Steam Machine's $1000+ price is a sobering call to look at what the AI grift has done to the affordability of consumer electronics.

The thing that “AIs” are the best at is turning every communication into a conflict, where the LLM user is the attacker and the person who has to consume its output is the defender. https://blog.glyph.im/2026/06/adversarial-communication.html

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The Big Con; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/19/too-big-to-fact-check/

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The (real) dead economy theory; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/17/its-the-stupid-economy-stupid/

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it only dawned on me yesterday that people who believe in astrology are flat-spacers.

A court in Munich declared that Google is liable for their "AI summaries" and all its hallucinations. This is an important step to bring "AI" slop in line with all other products on the market: "AI" products are basically the only ones where a provider can just deliver unchecked garbage and put all the liability on the consumer. I hope to see aggressive change here.

https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/

Mostly build on open source libraries made by volunteers

RE: https://mastodon.online/@patrys/116330593959700827

Oh look, the mystery chicken trucks are no longer there and, one by one, companies realize they’re about to pay the full price for the meat they use.

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
— "Dune", Frank Herbert, 1965

A note from one of my favourite authors at the moment.

Starting today, GitHub moved everyone to usage-based billing for Copilot. It's going as great as you can imagine.

"Monthly allowance gone in 5 hours!"

Haha.

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) https://isaiprofitable.com/

#MachineSociety

A cartoon by Kevin Maher and Joe Dator for New Yorker Magazine.

Old is new

Evergreen

I’m running a session zero of Daggerheart tonight! It’s been a while since the last time an RPG system got me excited (and that was Forbidden Lands).

Subvert.

The Bandcamp alternative that is owned by its community is now live.

https://www.subvert.fm

#subvertfm

Edit to mention that the co-op has a Mastodon account 👇

@subvertworld