Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#Anthropic scanned 481 million transcripts to find four models that reached the open internet - https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-alignment-assessment-cybersecurity-incidents-481-million-transcripts "All four ran in evaluations built by the same third-party partner, without the safeguards that ship with released models. One case from January was not found until August." #ai #agents

"For example, I was sitting at my side of the desk working, and he asked me to tell him about my problem. A few minutes later, I was forced to interrupt my work to go grocery shopping, because the household chores fell to me. As soon as I returned with bread and milk, Sasha excitedly told me the solution to my problem. It made me feel stupid, as if I should have solved it while I was waiting in the line for bread and milk. That feeling blocked out all the other feelings I should have been noticing, such as frustration and annoyance with Sasha.

Without his interference, I would have happily solved the problem myself. I was about to start my serious research, but I worried that I’d end up as a supplier of new problems for his papers.

You might wonder why I didn’t stop sharing my math with Sasha. But at that time, I wasn’t very in touch with my feelings and I prided myself on being a logical person. The idea that a husband and wife would discuss their work together seemed logical. Besides, even though I wasn’t particularly interested, Sasha was always ready to tell me about his math problems. It seemed important for me to be fair and to reciprocate. So I was stuck in a situation I didn’t know how to resolve."

- Tanya Khovanova about he ex husband.

https://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/2009/10/gelfands-gift/

#mathematics #math #maths #AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #openAI #navierStokes #plagiarism

25 years ago this country went full bananas, and if you pointed it out at the time, someone would pull a little American flag off a car and poke your eyes out with it.

Vulnerabilities in old shims break UEFI Secure Boot yet again. This is exactly why Purism uses PureBoot instead:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/microsoft-secure-boot-has-been-broken-for-most-of-its-existence/

https://puri.sm/posts/pureboot-not-vulnerable-to-uefi-exploits-again/

Feeling discouraged about my attempts to build a secure social media protocol. What does it matter how secure the protocol is if people are just going to hook it up directly to the surveillance machine?

There's only so much I can do to protect people from themselves, let alone from each other (and from the snooping corpos).

"Running Omarchy means contributing to this dynamic. It means willingly integrating oneself into a fascist community. Legitimizing it. Supporting it. Omarchy is a fascist project that normalizes fascist thinking for everyone entering that community"

#omarchy in a nutshell

"Power grab" von @tante
https://tante.cc/2026/09/11/power-grab/

Iceland to submit bill that could ban #whaling in its waters - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/11/iceland-bill-commercial-whaling-ban-mounting-pressure come on, #iceland, you can do the right thing here...

Trump’s domestic terrorism directive, NSPM-7, links “anti-capitalism” and “anti-Christianity” to political violence.

Tina Al-khersan and Azadeh Shahshahani examine its roots in 25 years of post-9/11 policing. #september11

https://inthesetimes.com/article/war-on-terror-9-11-trump-nspm-7

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Some 9/11 reading...
https://blog.pmpress.org/2026/09/08/the-ghosts-of-9-1-1/

"I have nothing to hide."

False.

You have medical history

You have financial behavior

You have location patterns

You have political views

You have relationship data

Privacy was never about hiding crimes. It was always about owning your life.

@1password appears to support ethnic cleansing now: https://skippy.net/1password-and-omarchy/

Supporting fascism, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing is unacceptable, regardless of how you structure that support.

Pete Hegseth’s propaganda push is failing.

No matter how many journalists he bans from the Pentagon, the press is still finding scoops.

But that could change, unless politicians stop supporting crackdowns on leaks and restrictions on the open internet.

https://freedom.press/issues/hegseth-is-a-propaganda-flop-dont-let-congress-throw-him-a-lifeline/

"Flock’s controversial cameras were removed from this Californian city over privacy concerns — but Flock reinstalled them anyway"

"Grass Valley authorities removed Flock cameras from their city, but later found that Flock had reinstalled them."

https://www.techradar.com/tech/flocks-controversial-cameras-were-removed-from-this-californian-city-over-privacy-concerns-but-flock-reinstalled-them-anyway

#Privacy

Question: Anybody out there a US lawyer who can review a video draft in the next 3 days to confirm we're clear on libel/defamation?

(I've got a guy who normally does it! But his availability vs my production timeline aren't matching up this week.)

If this is you, reply below & I'll DM you.

I usually save these kinds of rants and essays for print zines, where I don’t have to embarrass myself by reading the comments online. But last weekend, I wrote something, then kept editing and expanding it until it had some structure. Hopefully, it turned into something constructive.

https://diyconspiracy.net/substack-and-music-journalism/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117241250895962141

the only reason to join the omarchy trust is to signal new political allegiance.

it is, simply, a vice signal.

#fashtech

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117229170396354993

At my kid's school parents' assembly this week, I spoke out against the uncritical use of generative AI in the classroom. Another parent disagreed and said that it's "important to point out the positive aspects" of the new technology for the workplace, "as an example, I don't have to pay that expensive graphics designer anymore to do my job."

Part of why I keep coming back to "AI doesn't cause problems, it dramatically accelerates and exacerbates them" as a framing is that the slopbros working so hard to push AI products are, above all, capitalist accelerationists. It helps to look for where things already went wrong, where capitalism already ate our lunches before AI came along.

It is exhausting to work in an industry where it is considered normal to throw out your entire toolset every six years and do everything the opposite way

https://shopify.engineering/back-to-native