Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

AI mandates are bullshit.

Watch These Judges Rip Into Lawyers For Citing Cases That Don't Exist
https://www.404media.co/new-york-court-ai-citations-landberg-case/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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There’s a notable vibe shift when it comes to ROI of AI coding tools in recent weeks.

As expensive as Claude is getting now, it will only get worse after Anthropic IPOs and has to impress investors each quarter.

I don’t have a high opinion of software dev in general but I’d never have expected “breaking without warning a popular backup and deployment tool is bad actually” to be a controversial statement.

Truly a triumph. Congrats.

Note to all University and College faculty: if you are pushing AI, or telling your students how "it's the future," they all hate you. They may not be saying it in your classroom to your face, but rest assured they are absolutely clowning on you outside of class.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/harvard-graduation-ronny-chieng-ai-tirade

"...the U.S. disabused anyone of the idea that Venezuela was still sovereign by dispatching two military helicopters into Caracas, ostensibly to train for “emergencies” at the United States embassy, and the commander of the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) emerged as a passenger, just in case anyone needed proof of who is in charge."

https://www.blackagendareport.com/denial-not-river-egypt-or-venezuela

This week’s Tom the Dancing Bug is now up on Daily Kos
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The MAGAs, in “MALE FACTOR”
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/4/800049715/cartoon/tom-the-dancing-bugs-magas-swoon-over-the-manliest-man-theyve-ever-seen/

Penny Wong says she believes Israeli soldiers sexually assaulted and abused Australian women after #Gaza flotilla - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/04/gaza-flotilla-australian-women-assaulted-abused-israeli-detention-penny-wong-ntwnfb "Wong said the treatment of the Australian women was “unacceptable”, and the allegations they had subsequently made were “distressing”."

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@feoh/116687129039392818

Advice I was given in my youth:

Print your slide on a full piece of paper. Put the paper on the ground. Stand on a chair.

If you can’t easily read your slide, neither can the person at the back of the room.

It flummoxes me that 30 years into using computers to show slides, tiny fonts in slide is *still* widespread practice.

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away.

As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other.

We honor her memory and oppose the war.

#ElonMusk did it on a whim!
He didn't take the time to look at the evidence, the consequences, he just said fuck it and did it.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elon-musk-killed-hundreds-of-thousands-of-people

UN warns AI could use more water than all the people on Earth need to drink
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-water-land-un-report-b2989429.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Tech News @tech-news-Independent

within the past 24 hours I’ve watched two people claim there was nuance to the rsync story that made tridge right, and after not too much discussion they admitted they didn’t know rsync’s slop code only got noticed after a severe breakage occurred, or that people have evaluated the slop commits and found them to be of extraordinarily poor quality (including rendering rsync’s test suite ineffective by translating it from bash into broken python). the story they heard is that someone saw Claude in the commit log and freaked out and directed harassment towards tridge. they seemed to be under the false impression that rsync still worked fine.

how is it that the members of the supposed angry mob are doing deeper analysis than the people claiming nuance?

Rsync opens the slopgates, regressions and bugs ensue

Andrew Tridgell, developer of rsync, has published a blog post addressing the massive surge in "AI" code submissions and the string of regressions supposedly caused by them. He explains rsync was flooded with "AI"-generated security reports, and he couldn't handle the volumes anymore.

As this flood started to get mo

https://www.osnews.com/story/145198/rsync-opens-the-slopgates-regressions-and-bugs-ensue/

#GeneralDevelopment

@ludicity it was interesting to see this in my timeline along with https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/failing-grades-soar-as-professors-see-greater-ai-usage-dwindling-math-skills-in-uc-berkeley/article_16fad0bf-02cb-4b8c-8d88-888ffd9f8608.html .

The kids are slowly getting stupid, and they aren't even aware of it. How many alleged "grown-ups" had to have failed them to get to this point?

It was extremely obvious from some questions that they're learning absolutely nothing, the faculty have totally phoned it in (they've actually had NO teaching staff for two weeks -- the lecturer quit mid-semester with no replacement), and it's all just a fucking disaster.

On the bright side, I guess my work is safe indefinitely.

Holy moly, one of my cousins (8 weeks into undergraduate computer science) asked me for help on a university assignment. I was surprised because he's very switched on.

It's a group assignment and it was extremely obvious that every other student has logged into a parent's corporate LLM and written all the code via prompt with no understanding.

When I asked how they're getting away with it, he said that the lecturers have just given up on all policing. (University is RMIT in Melbourne.)

Good morning Fedi friends!

I'm excited to travel to Amsterdam later today for #PubConf2026.

I'll be on a panel tomorrow at 2pm alongside @bjoernsta @cubicgarden @michael and Sherif Elsayed-Ali of Eurosky on the topic "Strengthening European Democracy with a ‘Euro Social Stack’"

🔗 : https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/session/strength-through-diversity-1

Hope to see some of you there! ❤️

"The values described in Claude’s constitution sound very nice, but that hardly matters; it’s dishonest to suggest that Claude is capable of moral reasoning, because it’s not."

-Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/