true HOLY FUCKING SHIT moment this morning: over the holidays, my sticker guys were having a special on red octagons, so I designed and ordered 250 "Slop Sign" stickers — but while I was in China, someone stole them out of my mailbox. Bummer, I figured; they probably trashed them as worthless. anyway while walking to the subway I FOUND ONE OF MY STICKERS STUCK TO A MAILBOX! Whoever swiped my stickers is sticking them up around the neighborhood! This is the best thing that could have happened!

2003: children shouldn't tell their age, name, or personal information to anyone on the internet for their safety

2026: children are legally required to tell their age, name, and personal information to everyone on the internet for their safety

California just put FOSS devs on the financial hook for your kids "safety"

So California finally did it. They passed Assembly Bill 1043. And now your OS is legally required to collect your birthdate and report it to every app developer... so they can verify you're not a baby....

#Enshittification #Linux #AgeVerification #DigitalSovereignty

https://gardinerbryant.com/california-just-put-foss-devs-on-the-financial-hook-for-your-kids-safety/?utm_campaign=brsharewidget&utm_source=mastodon

KDE supports the "Keep Android Open" campaign

#Google will cut off independent developers to #Android if they do not register with Google first. This will kill independent platforms like @fdroidorg and severely impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

Many KDE apps are deployed for Android: KDE Connect, Itinerary, Tokodon, and there's even a test version of Krita for Android.

KDE calls on Google to reverse course and @keepandroidopen.

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

"“It’s extremely hurtful, frankly,” said Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang...OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has concurred, lamenting pushback... “Looking at what’s possible, it does feel sort of surprisingly slow"

We're making the AI broligarchs sad, friends, but we can do better.
MOAR SADDNESS FOR SAM AND JENSEN
#DestroyAI :hammer:
https://futurism.com/future-society/tech-ceo-ai-hate

"A study finds GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash deployed tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of 21 simulated war game scenarios, and never surrendered" (via Techmeme)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/

We have published an open letter to Google opposing the Android Developer Verification Program with over 30 organizations as signatories: https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

Spotted around #CambridgeMA.

In 2024, France counted 13,335 millionaires who paid ZERO income tax.

This is yet another example of why we need a UN Tax Convention to fix global tax rules and finally make the super-rich pay their fair share, so there is real money for public services, climate action, and a green transition, instead of more loopholes for extreme wealth.