Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I do not wish death upon Zuckerberg, Altman, Amodei, whatever the MS guy is called, Slopya Something, Karp, Thiel... What I wish upon them is to not be able to die, because they are suffering their own company, and from themselves they cannot run away. I wish them to be stuck with themselves for eternity.

@ErikJonker @olivia I feel like if the argument is just "we should support them in it because they're going to do it anyway" then that's equally true of *everything* students do despite being asked not to, so by that logic universities should have supportive policies about how best to use essay mills to increase learning, and the most responsible forms of plagiarism. What makes AI special?

Apps for carrying deutschland ticket without google play enabled and without tracking.

Asking for myself.

KOSA. The SCREEN Act. The CHATBOT Act. The Youth AI Privacy Act. Four different bills, with the same flawed approach: more surveillance, more data collection, and less privacy online. Tell the Senate to reject all four. https://www.acteff.org/campaign/167270/

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/117041512465545105

By using Reddit as a trusted source for AI search answers (the default experience), Google has effectively outsourced itself to unpaid Reddit moderators.

Also worth point out - anybody can become a mod on Reddit and open a subreddit. If you wanna influence opinion like a nation state, Reddit's the door now.

i am sort of stuck on this. you have to remember that whenever these totally off the planet AI guys describe their workflow i have to stop and do the math for what that would mean in my life. so with 12+1 $200/month claude subscriptions and the one $200/month chatGPT subscription, that's $2,800 a month. He says that's the equivalent of $87,000 a month of token usage.

$2,800/month is more than my rent and utilities, and $87,000 is more than i make in a year. This guys addiction costs more than my annual salary per month for nothing. this is the future of software development where you have to be ridiculously rich to play - where he is also actively pulling the ladder up and saying "don't develop shared libraries" - no more "if you have a laptop and a keyboard you can program," not even a fig leaf to "AI enables nonprogrammers to program."

the vision of the future of programming that's being presented here is literally just "if you have more money than 99.9999% of people on this earth, then you can totally lose your mind"

He also sharted in Archie Bunker's chair. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Hadn't occurred to me that now we have to worry about people starting huge fires in order to win bets in the prediction markets.

https://www.scrippsnews.com/science-and-tech/natural-disasters/people-are-making-wildfire-bets-on-prediction-markets-experts-say-it-could-lead-to-disaster

Libre software is splendid in just about every way. Managed to upgrade a peertube and a piefed today - many thanks to their developers @Framasoft and local Ōtautahi developer @rimu respectively!

The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear

https://theonion.com/about-us/

Former ICC Prosecutor Says He and His Family Faced Threats Over Israel Investigation

Former International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan said he and his family have faced threats and sanctions linked to the court's investigations, including its case concerning Palestine.

Speaking publicly, Khan said he had been warned that opposing Israel could result in reprisals against his family, adding that he received a letter from U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Senator Mitch McConnell.

Khan said that U.S. sanctions imposed over the Palestine investigation led to the freezing of his bank accounts, the disabling of his email, travel restrictions, and visa measures affecting his children.

He also said members of his family had been targeted despite sanctions normally applying only to designated individuals.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

Reminder: if you are inside the green or dark green area of this map, watch the ~10 o'clock position of the moon tonight at 2:35am EDT/11:35pm PDT. More info here: https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?day=28&month=07&year=2026&view=view

You probably won't see anything. But maybe you'll see a little poof of dust within a few minutes as something the size of a bus crashes into the moon at more than 8,000 km/hr

The chart keeps rising: airline profits on one axis, human suffering on the other.

Jen Sorensen illustrates the truth about modern-day air travel: for the executives flying private, everything is working exactly as intended.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/airline-ceos-are-profiting-and-flying-private-jets-comic-jen-sorensen

#Barclays spots a chance to profit from extreme weather crisis - https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-07-28/barclays-spots-a-chance-to-profit-from-extreme-weather-crisis pure evil

What 20 Million Bans Reveal About The Stress On #Wikipedia’s Volunteers - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/30/what-20-million-bans-reveal-about-the-stress-on-wikipedias-volunteers/

The internet shouldn’t become an ID checkpoint. https://www.acteff.org/campaign/167270/

@rsbivand I know this is now the recommended way, but the problem is precisely that it takes "a little digging" to find the EPSG code for "the standard projection used" in the region we want to map, if it exists at all (which it doesn't necessarily for all regions). So, to me it's much more practical to use PROJ notation for quick but (reasonably) accurate maps of anywhere, as long as the caveats are taken into account.

AI data centers could raise electric rates in Northern Virginia by 25% by 2030. Nationwide, data centers are already helping push power bills up faster than the cost of living.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/artificial-intelligence-ai-data-centers-climate-change