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“If I have to leave my bike unattended, I don’t care how many locks I carry, I’m not going to do it,” said Mike Vogl, a south Minneapolis resident and cyclist who recently chronicled the retrieval of his neighbor’s stolen e-bike on local transportation news site Streets.mn. “Either I keep my eye on it the whole time, it stays next to me the whole time, or I leave it at home.”
startribune.com/secure-bike-pa

www.startribune.com · The Twin Cities have hundreds of miles of bike lanes, but cyclists say one key thing is missingEven committed Twin Cities cyclists say they don’t bike places if there aren’t secure places to park them to prevent theft.
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@BernieDoesIt @Catvalente similarly, people need to explore and use #Patreon alternatives.

Pretty shure platforms allowing and endorsing #NSFW also accept SFW content…

Worst-case y'all gotta learn how to use #Monero for once and get paid that way. There are payment providers like nowpayments.io that remove all the uncertainties and instant-convert to #fiat so you don't need to fiddle around with it or any #shitcoin|s!

Feel free to hate and block me if you must, but the reality sometimes is that simple and won't change just because it's inconvenient to admit the #Enshittification happens!

  • #Apple rent-seeking 30% would get me to press charges against Apple and Patreon for #theft, but I've got neither a Patreon nor a Patrons on it!
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Ella Creamer: ‘Meta has stolen #books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’

Writers will gather at the #Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the #LibGen database to train its #AI models

#crime #UK #theft
theguardian.com/books/2025/apr

The Guardian · ‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’By Ella Creamer

In case anyne had any doubt about Blair and his 'institute' (subsidised by us all with generous contributions from commercial partners).

'In a report published on Wednesday, TBI said it backed government proposals to let AI firms train their models on copyright-protected material without permission, unless creatives have signalled they want to opt out of the process.'

theguardian.com/technology/202

Guess he and the kids are not creating anything at all.

The Guardian · UK needs to relax AI laws or risk transatlantic ties, thinktank warnsBy Dan Milmo

Protesters TORCH Elon Musk-Trump's Devastating Cuts: "Money Grab, Stealing From Us!"

youtube.com/watch?v=QIUQEDSRDq

Jon Farina covered a massive protest and march against President Trump and Republicans' cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, and many more critical programs working people and the vulnerable depend on.

#USA#Protests#Trump

Yellowknife dad says support after theft of beloved truck in Alberta gives him hope
Myles Cane and his three kids had driven down to Edmonton for a hockey tournament over the weekend. They reached their hotel around 8 p.m. Friday and 20 minutes later – the family's beloved 2005 Ford Excursion was gone.
#theft #truck #family #hockey #Yellowknife #Alberta
cbc.ca/news/canada/north/ford-

' To state this plainly: DOGE forced out the directors and staff of a nonexecutive agency, installed one of its own GSA staffers as president, and that person is now attempting to hand the institute’s $500 million headquarters over to the agency he came from, at zero cost. '

#Trump #Musk #DOGE #USInstituteForPeace #confiscation #theft

wired.com/story/doge-takes-con

WIRED · DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings ShowBy Brian Barrett
Site of the free court in Assinghausen (in use from latest 1297 to 1808)

Free courts (vehmic courts) have existed since Germanic times, especially in Westphalia.
The free court always met at a specific location. Under the chairmanship of the free earl, the aldermen administered justice in the presence of all the freemen.
The court dealt with murder, theft, arson, fornication, treason and heresy, among other things.
Originally, only the death penalty was known, which was carried out by the bailiff or the aldermen, but later other punishments were also used.

Assinghausen – Revision eines Todesurteils am Freistuhl
https://privatarchiv.rzgierskopp.de/1990/07/assinghausen-revision-eines-todesurteils-am-freistuhl/

#Olsberg #assinghausen #Freigericht #freecourt #vehmiccourt #Femegericht #Germanen #germans #Westfalen #Westphalia #Freigraf #freeearl #freecount #freemen #Freie #Schöffen #aldermen #Mord #Diebstahl #Brandstiftung #Notzucht #Verrat #Ketzerei #murder #theft #arson #fornication #treason #heresy #Fronbote #bailiff #Todesstrafe #deathpenalty #Jurisprudence #Rechtssprechung #Geschichte #history #Sauerland #Hochsauerland #SilentSunday #photography #Fotografie