Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I think this is in earnest. I wonder how many will show up. I hope they at least get paid well 😅

https://marchforbillionaires.org/

English is not my first language, I am not good with prepositions, I mess up the sequence of tenses because it is different in my first language, I mix up words with similar meanings (freedom =/= liberty, should be synonyms, one Germanic, the other Romance, but there are always subtle differences between those in English), I do not know when to leave out the definite/indefinite articles...

Anyway, I do not have a dryer, my drying rack fits 2 loads. I hanged one load. The next day I hanged another load and thought "the first load will be dry soon, I shall harvest it tomorrow". I am harvesting laundry 🙃

I do not think in my first language, it is mostly English with some words for other languages, so I mess up what I say in Croatian as well. The word "save" has many translations to my first language. So when I discussed which wardrobe my mother should buy, I translated the word "save" as "protect". "Sliding doors protect space". Then I apologised and explained different meanings in English (she only knew "save the file") and said I had to translate it in my head. She replied "Nije tebi lako" which translates to "You don't have it easy", but is used as a polite way to say "You're not normal" in Balkan languages 😅

#languages

Sometimes I get a really good quote in.

“Pointing out that AI is prone to giving ICE bad information is missing the entire point of ICE,” EFF’s Eva Galperin told Rolling Stone. “They don’t care if the information they have is good.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/ice-ai-mistakes-1235507183/

Can someone remind me who the customers are once we’re all unemployed?

I just want to make sure I get this right as the layoffs (including the illegal ones targeting unions in status quo) continue; it’d be super embarrassing to get that wrong.

Motherhood costs Danish women an average of $120,000 in earnings over two decades, according to a sociologist who researches family and economics. Generous government benefits like paid leave, childcare and child allowances recovered about $100,000 of that loss. https://buff.ly/pAtuCS0

It's not #VibeCoding, it's #SlopWare.

RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116003578726385760

"The world sucks too much for me to concentrate right now."

We are all in the survival mode! Look after yourselves.

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Folks in Minneapolis are setting up 'block party' style traffic blockades in order to prevent ICE for brutalizing and murdering people.

Check out their account on BlueSky (does not require log-in). Look here: https://bsky.app/profile/minneapolis-spring.bsky.social

"Twin Cities rapid responders have set up a "filter blockade" at 34th and Cedar and are calling for volunteers and donations. This is a new tactic developing over the last week: community is allowed to pass, but ICE agents are stopped/slowed before they can terrorize our neighbors.

These blockades are a beautiful experiment in improvised community defense. They are easy to start with just a couple friends, and whatever you have lying around.

Let's make the Twin Cities impassible to ICE and all supporting forces."

DIY Anti-ICE Devices: https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/02/02

@glynmoody
Good resource & informative., thanks for sharing.
As an open-source advocate I did find it a bit lacking in recommendations from the Fediverse despite his acknowledgment of having his own Mastodon account & touching on Peertube. There are so many more, such as Lemmy, Owncast, Loops, Pixelfed, Hubzilla, etc, etc.

His Proton-centric recommendations do not mention Protons somewhat refusal to allow paid subscribers to opt-out of ‘automatic renewal’ & they also don’t send reminders

Housing, Healthcare, Education etc....This should not be controversial.

@iwein @imbl You mean, we absolutely, definitely should not generate tons of "AI" pages and slap this identifier on them?
Because it could cause some AIbros to ingest the generated content and train on that?
Oh, that would be sad...

Please do not use background music in your videos. It is often a jump scare. It prevents us from understanding what you are saying. And we cannot stand at least 50% of genres. Please!

"AI" is not actually a technology, in the way people would commonly understand that term.

If you're feeling extremely generous, you could say that AI is a marketing term for a loose and shifting bundle of technologies that have specific useful applications.

I am not feeling so generous.

AI is a technocratic political project for the purpose of industrializing knowledge work. The details of how it works are a distant secondary concern to the effect it has, which is to enclose and capture all knowledge work and make it dependent on capital.

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

Read and share it.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@990000/115993630141888644

It's not that computers aren't smart, it's that they aren't even stupid. Computers are operating on an orthogonal axis.

Now people, they can be stupid.

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau on GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2026/02/01

#Humour #Cartoon