Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

If someone is calling them "AI" at this point in time, it means they have fallen for them, even if they pretend otherwise. Do not waste your energy.

Doctor, my pump, it's pained. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/3/13/2372918/-Cartoon-Stickers-shock

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How come no evil PACs want to give me money to draw some evil shit I don't believe? If you see me do a cartoon that says, "Means Tests are GOOD now," know that I drew that on my brand new boat.

Dear America,

Donald Trump is exactly who you are.

Donald Trump is simply the #noFilter USA the rest of the world was forced to become intimately familiar with long ago; one dropped bomb and one lost family member at a time.

Until you fully grasp that, learn about, start accepting responsibility for, and atoning for how your country came to be and for your crimes throughout history both at home and abroad, this is what you will remain.

“This is not who we are.”

Bullshit.

This is exactly who you are and who you’ve always been.

You want to change?

Start by accepting that.

Latest comic on the ever-expanding meaning of the insult "PC"

#language #war #cartoon #comic #humanrights

@GeofCox @randahl

There's a psychological effect you get among people who are anxious about their status:

- This law binds the small people
- Higher status must have its rewards
- Therefore, if I am bound by this law, I am no better than one of the small people
- It would be intolerable to suggest that I am no better than one of the small people
- Therefore, I must not be bound by this law
- I should break this law to prove to myself that I am not bound by it

We see this everywhere. In covid-lockdown breaking behaviour, in the way people drive, in the way men treat women. Once people become anxious about their social status they very often start manifesting this sort of deliberate rule-breaking to reassure themselves.

Fascism, of course, is the very essence of a declining middle class anxious about its status.

@typeswitch People who I thought had this down, who were saying the right things, keeping away from llms/genai, suddenly now being so ok with claudecode, specifically, is doing me in.

Like - I've never really felt widespread, reciprocated class solidarity in my life, but this is the first time I've felt ACTIVE BETRAYAL by people I know are capable of knowing, doing, empathizing better.

So fucking tired.

Buzzfeed's shares go from $15 to 70 cents, now approaching bankruptcy, seemingly as a result of going all-in on 'AI' generated content.

This emerging pattern does not speak to a wicked problem. Rather, it should be no surprise that people don't want to read machine-generated content that outwardly pretends to come from a person. Because it is innately &intrinsically deceptive, which people do not like, so ending trust that will be very hard to win back. If at all

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/buzzfeed-disastrous-earnings-ai

#ai

2. If it is "nuts" to dismiss this experience, then it would be "nuts" to dismiss mine: I have seen many, many high profile people in tech, who I have respect for, take *absolutely unhinged* risks with LLM technology that they have never, in decades-long careers, taken with any other tool or technology. It reads like a kind of cognitive decline. It's scary. And many of these people are *leaders* who use their influence to steamroll objections to these tools because they're "obviously" so good

Stevia is a chemical weapon.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@poohlaga/116223334615431458

Amazing response from @OpenSourceCollective. They are dropping Persona now! Your voice has power! Community pushback works!
https://opencollective.com/opensource/updates/on-kyc-checks-and-persona

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PSA for anyone using "AI" coding agents.

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What we get upset about. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

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Today, the #MAGA cadre at #CNBC are suggesting to wealthy billionaires and "over taxed" millionaires that moving to Florida is the only option to avoid paying #tax because poor people get a tax holiday in Democratic Party proposals. Take a moment to understand that level of greed and resentment towards the poor and people in need of services due to disabilities.
#Comcast charlatans are in a sinking barrel.

Finally, LAUTI has it's own fediverse account! 👋 Up until now, we used @klasse_methode@chaos.social to post about LAUTI, but we think it deserves it's own account. And we hope you think so too. 😀

We're glad that our friends from @Bonfire provided us with an account on their server. And it makes total sense, as we work closely with them on different projects, one of them being the tight integration of LAUTI events into Bonfire.

For all who don't know LAUTI yet: LAUTI - Open Source Community Calendar provides communities with a sovereign platform to share their events. Fediverse integration is in the making. For more check lauti.org

Help spread the word if you like. 🤝

I feel like there is a real desire for better tech out there.

The reason I am saying this is that I would never have expected that this little side project that is https://technically-good.ca/ would draw this much engagement - and I don't mean the quick-hit types of engagement, like likes and boosts.

I mean *real people* writing in with questions, comments, concerns. Creatives saying how an article really resonated with them, folks asking how they can help their friend group migrate to a less shitty platform, many others.

And I'm just running a tiny blog that's been up for only a few months!

I am very encouraged by these responses. We have momentum right now and it feels like something is shifting.

If you have a blog, post content critical of AI and the established algorithmic platforms, or provide tips for using alternatives - KEEP IT UP. ✊🏼Even if you think you are just one small person. Change is happening!

#tech #fediverse #socialMedia

What I think about so called genAI: LLMs, stable diffusion, you name it, is what pretty much everyone on Fedi thinks:
- it doesn't work
- its outputs are tiresome, unreadable, unwatchable, unreviewable
- it is unethical

But, in fields where people are expected to be rational, like IT and academia, many if not most seem enamored with it.

So, who of us is in a bubble?