Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

RE: https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/117400785095613107

"If you work in software, start figuring your way to get out of it."

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #vibeCoding #agenticCoding

Oh hey Portland! Some rad collectives are screening our first InterRebellium film. Get hyped because the 2nd film of the series is approaching completion!

From the organizers:

"Ⓐ Film & Convergence

A series of educational and connective events organized in coalition by anarchiststudies onlywewillfreeus and @sgc

Next:
Saturday, October 10th
turnturnturnpdx
2:00 PM Doors / 3:00 PM Film
All Ages
Donation (notaflof)

All proceeds benefit defense and commissary funds for MN15 and Prairieland comrades. There will be QR codes to donate directly to them at the door.

Film:
InterRebellium Part 1: The Estallido Social
By @sub.media

In October 2019, protests against a transit fare hike in Santiago erupted into a nation-wide insurrection against the Chilean state. For six months, the streets were transformed into vibrant laboratories of self-organization, creativity and resistance, before ultimately being cleared by the promise of a new constitution and the spread of a global pandemic.

Tabling:
anarchiststudies
onlywewillfreeus
@CrimethInc
@sgc "

A forensic extraction device used by law enforcement and some authoritarian regimes may be able to bypass your iPhone’s automatic reboot feature.

Read more about the potential risks from Magnet Forensics’ Graykey in our digital security newsletter — and subscribe.

https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/police-forensic-tools-may-bypass-key-phone-security-feature/

Different modes of thinking

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/modes-of-thinking/

Hearing lots of discourse about "stochastic parrots" recently? Here's a discussion of the backstory, both of the phrase itself and what's going on now.

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-two-words-the-ai-industry-hates

73,928
This is the number of Palestinian deaths since 10/7/2023 according to the Gaza Ministry of Health's most recent report on 9/24/2026.
This is what 73,928 looks like.
We will not forget.

Take a look at these, uhm, holiday decorations, and tell me if the problem is me:
https://sostrenegrene.com/de/produkte/kreativitaet/dekorative-holzformen-p-ebc9aef7

Do I know any Germans who care about labor law?

What's the state of labor law in Germany? If I work for a company doing tech infra work, can my company put in my contract that I can't work for another tech infra company after working for them for a year? Wouldn't that make it so I would be forcefully unemployed for a year? If that's the case, how is that even legal?

In any other profession, that sounds illegal

Also interested in the state of "noncompete" clauses there? Can they stop me from taking other jobs? Is that legal?

#germany #labor #union

If you hate AI, I'd cancel your Tuta email service. A vibecoded email app isn't worth burning down the planet.

Evidence: https://github.com/tutao/tutanota/commit/e2787487819131f48aa04c0e4898b725ddbb82cb

Claude code was used to bomb the elementary girl's school in Iran. I don't know how anyone can use it after that.

What's everyone's favorite No AI email service these days?

#tuta #noai #email

@_elena @oscl @paolo we have lots of cool talks at our track, but I'm also really excited to for our "Institutions on the Fediverse" panel.

This panel brings together experts who have brought prestigious cultural and public institutions on the Fediverse. 👏

We have the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK), the French Ministry of Culture, and @manfredzielinski is going to talk about social.overheid.nl, the Dutch gov Mastodon instance.

#oscl #oscl26 #opensource #digitalsovereignty

As I warned about months ago now, I can confirm that Google Chrome's #AI API is now actively being used for device fingerprinting and tracking purposes.

Out of 100 of the top global english language content sites - around 30% are actively using the API for fingerprinting, Google Advertising (profiling) or both) without the legally required consent (EU law).

#Privacy

I did an actual marketing thing! @piffio, a highly experienced CTO and generally very intelligent person has very kindly let me write a guest post on his newsletter, both because I am a capable writer and because it will help build awareness of the existence of Arca:

https://makemeacto.cc/the-liberal-arts-of-tech/

Sergio writes well and is very clever, and you should all go follow him on the Fediverse and sign up to his newsletter.

Anyway, please send me paper recommendations showing the measurably ill effects of the use of LLMs in academic use. Every angle you can think of:

- deskilling effects
- plagiarism and copyright
- is the generated code actually licensable?
- measurable vs. perceived productivity
- technical debt
- code quality / readability
…

You want a #seminar on #slop – okay (#malicious_compliance activated).

Please #boost

Spotify opens new front in war on fair use https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/10/spotify-opens-new-front-in-war-on-fair-use/

“Racletture Redux | blarg”

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2026/06/12/racletture-redux/

NEW: Historic Trees Demolished, Land Defenders Arrested and New Treesit at US-Mexico Border

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/historic-trees-demolished-land-defenders-arrested-and-new-treesit-at-us-mexico-border/

We can let disabled people who have issues getting around without a car, have access to cars, but still reduce car usage drastically for people that can manage without.

We can let plastic straws be a tool for those that really need it, while banning it for everything else.

There are many such examples where we can cut out the use that most people have, but keep it for those that need it.

#AI is not one of them.

We _cannot_ segment out #GenAI /#LLM as a tool for disabled people. It doesn't work that way. The cost is so enormous, it cannot even find a functioning business model without limitations.

However "helpful" AI can appear to assist blind people, how conically ill people feel it can make their day easier, this will depend on continuous usage for all sorta bad shit as well.

The companies behind these tools are ruining our world, and whatever gain they have is _NOT_ going to be beneficial for disabled people, or most anyone for that matter.

Pro AI isn't #disability activism .

it's the opposite.

I appreciated this chance to go on Bloomberg Tech, though it's always a bit odd to have a conversation with a reporter who is really interested in what's effectively a fictional story.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-10-06/bender-ai-s-existential-risk-is-fake-video