Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@cwebber I would argue that it's worse, in fact.
- Bad AI art slop is generally static: the processing has been done, it just sits there and looks bad.
- Bad vibe-coded slop is dynamic: it consumes memory, power, and cycles while it's being awful, and that consumption may be unbounded.
- Most people have some innate aesthetic sense and can judge bad AI art slop without a lot of training (although training probably helps)
- Vibe code looks like good code 'cuz LLMs copy structure well, but isn't.

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@p_u_n_k/116318849812222416

Contributed a few tunes to this! MAKE A WEBSITE.

GAS HACK: Plastic bags are made out of oil, so you just shove the ones you have lying around in your gas tank.

Stop the pariah state, I want to get off!

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility! I see you, you're a human, and you deserve the same rights and respect as everyone else.

⚠️ Do not move your account to mastodon.cloud. If you know someone already on mastodon.cloud you might want to suggest they move to a different server.

-Mastodon.cloud's admin hasn't posted since Feb 2023
-There doesn't seem to be any moderation, really awful bigotry is still there months after being reported
-The server software is very outdated and full of unpatched security holes
-Because of all the above, many other servers have defederated mastodon.cloud

#MastodonCloud

I don't understand how anybody could want to live in a hierarchical society.

As more Americans adopt #AI tools, fewer say they can trust the results - https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/30/ai-trust-adoption-poll-more-americans-adopt-tools-fewer-say-they-can-trust-the-results/ recipe for disaster

More AI fuckery: my phone presented me with a photo set called Cool Jerks Concert…which surprised me, as I’ve never seen a band called Cool Jerks.

I have, however, seen Agriculture, at the Black Heart in Camden. My phone, evidently unable to resolve the Black Heart from the Underworld a few dozen meters away, has gone and fetched the name of the band that was playing the Underworld that night, and automatically tagged all my Agriculture photos with that name. In a way which cannot be edited.

In wanting to be “helpful,” Apple’s shonky AI has produced something far worse than no data, which is bad data – a perfect spurious interpolation. Fuck you again, Apple.

Happy international transgender day of visibility!

#TransrightsAreHumanRights #tdov

Europe’s $24T breakup with Visa & Mastercard has begun. ECB’s Lagarde warns almost all EU card/mobile payments still run on non‑European rails, sending spending data outside the EU. Now EPI + EuroPA are launching Wero, a pan‑EU wallet for 130M users to pay cross‑border without US networks. A huge shift for payment sovereignty—and data privacy.

#payments #fintech #eu #wero #datasovereignty

https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/europes-24-trillion-breakup-with-visa-and-mastercard-has-begun/

“There’s no way to put the genie back into the bottle,” say AI boosters about a product that the industry is spending more than a trillion dollars a year to keep out of the bottle.

A few days ago, OpenStreetMap hit 180 million changesets with this one: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/180000000
Great milestone, but even better to see that it's a contribution linked to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team ("HOT"), by a new but prolific contributor adding lots of data in #Uganda.

Never too late to get started with filling the gaps and updating existing data on OSM, you could start with this tutorial: https://learnosm.org/en/beginner/start-osm/

#GIS #openData #maps #OSM #OpenStreetMap

Thanks @nostarch for supporting EFF with a new Humble book bundle! Unlock your potential with Linux—pay what you want and support the fight for open source software! https://www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-good-stuff-no-starch-books

Green tech could add $22b to annual GDP growth in 10 years – report
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/31/green-tech-could-add-22b-to-gdp-in-10-years-report/

Investing in green innovation now could prevent declines in agriculture and tourism as customers seek low-emissions products and services.

Seems OnlyOffice are throwing their toys already tho https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2026/03/onlyoffice-flags-license-violations-in-euro-office-project-by-nextcloud-and-ionos

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcfadden/116318330517396142

I think maybe the only holiday that online leftish people absolutely do have a War On is AFD. They don't even wanna rename it to Serious People Day or anything. It's just universally loathed! (And I do not disagree with Mr. McFadden, here.)

10 years of news about the same demented guy isn't good for the news business. I've known he sucks the whole time and only skim articles about how much he sucks. We know! I'm not reading 1,000 words about it. Getting someone new in there should be a top priority.

Brands will try to be funny on Wednesday and it's going to be awful.