Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It - https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/ai-intensifies-work/ "This captures an effect I've been observing in my own work with #LLMs: the productivity boost these things can provide is exhausting."

did my civic duty today:
went to a local donut shop
noticed they had a new ring camera up.
i ask the nice hispanic girl behind the counter "hey you know ice can see through that ring camera, right?"
she goes UHHHH NO WTF I HAVE ONE AT HOME
"tear it out of the wall. yank the power. ring gives ice free access to those"

Hm, did something happen over at Discord?

My favourite IT magazine is contracting far fewer illustrators than it did in the past and now uses an in-house generative AI instead. The editor explains in a podcast how the graphics department team is doing "lovingly crafted prompting" to get "really beautiful" results.

Meanwhile, my favourite graphic novel artist is posting on social media about depression and imminent poverty and is currently begging readers to buy their used LEGO sets and other stuff to make ends meet.

But who's to say if generative AI has bad consequences or not?

Trump has so thoroughly brought Big Journalism to heel that NBC makes a transparently hollow denial that it covered up the Olympic audience's booing of JD Vance. The denial is a pathetic but telling lie. It tells us a lot about the network's disintegrating integrity.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/09/nbc-hid-the-boos-for-jd-vance-wheres-trumps-unfair-editing-lawsuit/

Report Back: The 2025 Union Co-op Symposium

"Much of the information provided on the matter of the union contract came from one of the sponsors of the event, the United Steelworkers (USW). While advocating for an atypical collective bargaining agreement, where worker owners are distinguished from an often elected management of some kind, the main reason for sourcing these contracts with unions like USW came down to 2 main reasons."

https://industrialworker.org/report-back-the-2025-union-co-op-symposium/

Seize the Means: A Leftist Television Collective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuLlDewv3bk

Does anybody know someone hiring Perl devs?

Not that it will be really big, but in Gtk 4.22, moving the cursor using routing keys of a braille display will finally work.

RE: https://social.coop/@coopcloud/115975854104280463

Final call: help us figure out some new time-slots for Co-op Cloud Kite-flying, our informal weekly(-ish) drop-in call 🪁

Poll closing this Wednesday (in 2 days) 🗳️

­– 3wordchant

I tried @slint again. For real.
Hey, I can finally write #GUI apps in #Rust ! It's like QML, just without C++ to Rust conversion difficulties. All right!

No tearing my hair out!

...unless I want to modify data in a table. Just not possible in a generic way.
Sadly, most GUI apps I write because I need a comfy custom table. #Slint, you were so close!

I'm back on the search for the One Perfect Rust GUI Library.

(Unless a Slint dev wants to handhold me through fixing tables upstream.)

"Papers, we never said 'please.'" doesn't work when the goon army can't/won't read and will toss your documents in the trash. Unless you eat your passport, that's not going with you to the warehouse gulag. https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2026/02/09/absolute-hell-irish-man-with-valid-us-work-permit-held-by-ice-since-september/

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
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ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

When you have all the answers.

#Fascism #FunWithWords #POTUS

SpaceX Gives $1 Million Prize to Literal Nazi Who Has Bragged About His Profound Racism
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/spacex-awards-prize-nazi?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Futurism @futurism-Futurism

@vie
Programmers have always been inventing themselves out of work. COBOL was "automatic programming": you wouldn't need programmers anymore because any manager could just describe the program they needed in pseudo-English. Then there was "The Last One" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software). And Haskell, which I also enjoy, is highly declarative and requires much less code. But programmers are as necessary as ever.

LLMs, *if* they live up to their promise, will be the same.

I've had a theory for a few years that most software engineers don't actually like software engineering. Had there not been money in it they would have followed a different career path instead of getting a CS degree from a 4-year college (or boot camps).

LLMs align with this theory. The people who are excited that something else is doing their job for them are the same people who picked the job for the salary, not the joy.

In all honesty, I didn’t know that I needed the message of solidarity and love that Bad Bunny shared with us in stage tonight. I know that may sound hyperbolic, but I mean it with every fiber of my being.

I cried. I’m still crying. I really needed that. We need each other.

It’s no wonder #Trump hates #Europe so much. It’s a case of prosperity envy, political envy, and a deep resentment of those better off than us in the USA. #EU #prosperity #politics