Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

(Legal backstory: county GOP leadership has filed a complaint that Irene broke a technicality, & thus needs to be fired.

Irene did not, in fact, do any of that.

The only reason this has worked so far is the NC state board of elections is GOP-dominated. So partisan attacks get a pass there.

So she's bringing the legal battle to court. That will force the local GOP to bring their case into the open & that the accusations are bogus.)

US readers- I've been talking a lot lately about how "Yes, the GOP will try & take your votes. And YES, THEY CAN BE STOPPED"?

There's a great example here in North Carolina right now!

Our area is one of the GOP's testing grounds for new ways to steal votes.

Stop them here, you stop them everywhere. Help us help you!

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#Bisexuality #BisexualAwarenessWeek #Bisexual

Software's the only industry that thinks like this:

"You know what would be good for business? Higher operational costs. The upfront capital investment with engineering is too high."

Palestine is the world.
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@manchicken Well stick around we have episodes all the time lmao

You may also like our OH MY WORD, FUCK YOU series, which recently reatured the Michigan Department of Corrections.

https://petapixel.com/2026/09/14/ex-inmate-sues-after-cops-digitally-altered-his-prison-photo-to-show-him-in-native-american-clothing/

“Tobias Lütke, Shopify: when the AI slop is bad enough the AI CEO notices – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/21/tobias-lutke-shopify-when-the-ai-slop-is-bad-enough-the-ai-ceo-notices/

> But if you listen to the podcast — which I don’t advise, it’s a neutron bomb of inanity — he’s not walking back a thing. This is not a redemption story, it’s a doubling down story.

It's so good to see this in the MIT Tech Review. Let's hope the message gets through. 🤞Big props to @timnitGebru & @emilymbender for putting such a fine point on things!

"Instead of OpenAI being prosecuted for creating malware that hacked another company, press releases, news outlets, media personalities, and lawmakers refer to “rogue models” as if they acted on their own. Instead of researchers being questioned about their companies’ habit of plagiarizing academics’ work or using customer data to train models without consent, the public’s imagination is redirected to fears about what the future might hold upon the arrival of fictional superintelligent machines."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1144867/dont-be-fooled-summer-ai-hype/

@rhelune That's why I look for what I need here first: https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html
The Starlight network is awesome. I've contributed to it also, I added Drop to the list.

RE: https://expressional.social/@Peter_Link/117313011772209343

how callous do you have to be to deny basic help to the very people you injured?

blogged: I said no and Apple said yes

https://dbushell.com/2026/09/22/apple-intelligence/

just more AI industrial complex bullshit 🫩

We were raised to treat spelling mistakes and bad grammar as a sign of a lack of intelligence but in 2026 the absolute worst, most thoughtless content is LLM-written posts with perfect grammar and spelling

it's official, Facebook wants you to buy a subscription to post or comment with more than two links in a month

https://www.facebook.com/help/1929252614431792

Trump Says Arch Must Be Built Because We Need Somewhere To Store Our Precious ‘Sniper Ammo’ - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/21/trump-says-arch-must-be-built-because-we-need-somewhere-to-store-our-precious-sniper-ammo/ "Satire is dead. But it’s been dead since the first Trump administration, back when people were “owning the libs” with a combination of horse dewormers and willfully contracting COVID."

@whvholst @suzi_1960 @altbot it also has been trained by stealing knowledge and curated by exploited people.

It's a thousandfold better writing our alt text by ourselves.

AI generated image of a herd of sheep in front of a glass door, in what seems to be great britain.

The sheep on the front has five feet.

On the glass door, a piece of paper which says the following : "Important notice about Barbara. This is Barbara. Barbara does not live here. Barbara lives on the farm across the road. Three weeks ago, a guest opened the door and gave Barbara a piece of toast. This was a mistake. Barbara returned the following morning with another sheep. The next morning there were four. By Friday there were eleven. Breakfast service was temporarily suspended. Please do not feed Barbara. Barbara is not hungry. Barbara is recruiting."

Behind the herd is a chalkboard which says, in a AI-loved font: "Good Food, Brighter Days".

What to do when your very union pivots to AI? It is not going protect you if you get fired for refusing to use LLMs! Found another union!

Radical Union Organizing Workshop in Copenhagen: https://dukop.dk/en/event/radical-union-organzing-workshop/10629/

#union #Copenhagen #Denmark #Danmark #noAI #AI #LLM #LLMs #København

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"We're not even the product anymore, which is why all these companies no longer give a solitary shit about whether their stuff is good or fun to use. We're the raw material that they mine."

https://matduggan.com/you-know-gdpr-is-good-based-on-who-hates-it/

Remember if you have the money. Pick an #opensource project you like / use / adore and donate some money to it so it can keep exiting!