Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Help us, big, beautiful stroke, you're our only hope.

AI-"enhanced" tools are making surgeons worse. Part of me thinks this is all part of the plan, given the Silicon Valley billionaire freaks legit seem to want most of us to die.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/02/reuters-finds-ai-using-surgery-devices-harmed-patients-nature-magazine-and-reuters-find-medical-chatbots-not-beating-patients-own-internet-sleuthing.html

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."

No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are included. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful.

So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western view. Everything in that statement is wrong.

It's shockingly cheap to dismantle surveillance systems. You can poison them in your free time.
https://youtu.be/AJf4SNuDnoI?si=2_qOUwL2QjQMwTks

Some of my favorite international political cartoons from @cartoonmovement this week, by Matthew Fuller, Deb Milbrath, Gatis Sluka and Franco Juri.

More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/

#PoliticalCartoons #PoliticalSatire #EditorialCartoons #CartoonMovement

The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace #AI the most - https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/the-first-signs-of-burnout-are-coming-from-the-people-who-embrace-ai-the-most/

Via mandatoryrollercoaster.com

If you have a Ring (Amazon) camera, you are -- or will become -- a tool of the surveillance state. Is that really what you want to be?

https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution_id=698b47cbe724d10001786209&attribution_type=post

@atax1a can I, like, make an advance directive that if I'm incapacitated and require surgery that no AI-assisted instruments can be used

like a DNR, but DNAI

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-arise-botched-surgeries-misidentified-body-2026-02-09/

Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads during operations.

I AM FUCKING SCREAMING I AM FUCKING SCREAMING I AM FUCKING SCREAMING

I think imma just keep reposting this every day, as nothing expresses my rage about this farce better:

#Epstein #EpsteinClass

You know what I haven't got time for? People in videos saying positive things about 'AI'.

Ring has announced a new “Search Party” feature that could eventually bring mass biometric surveillance to our streets. It’s on by default. Shut it off.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/no-one-including-our-furry-friends-will-be-safer-rings-surveillance-nightmare-0

Why does everybody want their applications to live in a web browser?

Tim Bray (@timbray) is coming to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop March 2 and says:

My position paper will be based on this blog piece: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/03/Time-to-Migrate

California must revoke permits allowing federal agencies such as CBP and the DEA to put automated license plate readers along border highways, a coalition of 38 groups led by EFF and the Imperial Valley Equity & Justice Coalition demanded today of Governor Gavin Newsom and the CA Dept of Transportation. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/coalition-urges-california-revoke-permits-federal-license-plate-reader-surveillance

Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is arguably the most blatant press freedom violation of this century.

The admin didn't even bother to present a pretext — it jailed her and sought to expel her for expressing views about one of the most important issues of our time.

https://freedom.press/issues/fpf-statement-on-dismissal-of-r%C3%BCmeysa-%C3%B6zt%C3%BCrks-deportation-case/

Some of my old comics have aged well!
#discord

https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/115022420121912435

It's cool and neat that most available writer/illustrator jobs are babysitting A.I. output to train them to replace you.