Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

It's telling when invisible human workers whose job it is to proof 'AI' output, place no trust in it themselves.

One worker for Google was tasked to find the limits of the LLM software's historical breadth:

“I asked it about the history of the Palestinian people, and it wouldn’t give me an answer no matter how I rephrased the question"

And yet the same query for Israel was profuse with detail.

"We reported it, but nobody seemed to care at Google.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/22/ai-workers-tell-family-stay-away

Even if you already assume that Trump is Putin’s toady, doing his bidding at every turn, the details of their so-called “peace plan” must shock you. It sells out not only Ukraine but all of Europe. And it is crafted to shift billions of dollars into the pockets of shady oligarchs.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/trumps-war-peace/685024/?gift=UDCAY75CzHyGUPSsXwkpWhjActye6JKOklBHVEsYxxM

[Thread] #ItsGoingDown announcement (includes valuable resources, linked in thread)

Oct 18, 25
IGD: 2015 – 2025

Filed under: Featured, IGD — It's Going Down

"About a year ago, we announced a hiatus on this project. Due to an outpouring of support, we pushed ourselves to continue, and over the last year, we’re proud of the interviews and roundups we’ve been able to produce.

"But as events in the United States have continued to escalate and conditions have grown more dire, it’s clear that IGD does not have the capacity to meet the moment as a hub for grassroots reporting and journalism. In the face of this reality, we feel its important to be clear about our inability to continue, in the hopes that more people can push themselves to build and grow media projects and platforms.

"We should all have a sober and clear-eyed view of what is happening. The current administration is attempting to consolidate extreme authoritarian power. People are being silenced and working-class people are being attacked. A police state is being constructed. Conditions are worsening. Inflation and prices are exploding and the entire country feels like it is slipping into dictatorship and economic collapse, as most people struggle to put food on the table.

"While this reality is bleak, we are excited about the flood of new media projects taking off and reporting from the ground level and covering evolving social movements. We want to take a moment to shout out some of these projects and encourage you to support and follow them... [Links in thread]

"As corporations and the State consolidate news into fewer hands and the far-Right pushes to silence those who speak out, the need for dynamic and vibrant grassroots media that amplifies working-class voices and gives a platform to social movements is needed now more than ever. We hope those that enjoyed IGD over the years can help in constructing new infrastructure that can help meet our present moment."

Source:
https://itsgoingdown.org/igd-2015-2025/

#Antifa #Antifascism #GrassrootsMedia #FarRight #USPol #WorldPol #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/115595771285058740

Sad to hear about the end of IGD. Grateful to make the list of resources!

okay fine if we're spilling tea, the thing that really pissed me off was when they finally got a bit of NLNET funding, they paid me a really quite small amount that is nowhere near even being minimum wage for the time put in.

they organised it through some french charity or other who did not talk to me and did not help me establish legals. so i had my taxes up in the air for 3 fucking years because the dickhead who couldn't not shit all over master refused to talk to me after he dropped me in the shit.

Latest comic: Climate Silence

#climate #climatechange #cop30 #media #journalism #uspol #oligarchy #climatecrisis

4,700 of the 14,000 people laid off by Amazon were in WARN states which allows us to get a more detailed breakdown of the eliminated roles.

500 of the 4700 were PMs while 1,800 were engineers - the largest discipline impacted. SDE II roles were most cut, contradicting the narrative this was about eliminating management layers.

This continues the trend of big tech eliminating junior roles due to “AI efficiency gains.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/amazon-cut-thousands-of-engineers-in-its-record-layoffs-filings-show.html

Our babies were taken after 'biased' parenting test
L: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wlw2qj113o
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016074
posted on 2025.11.22 at 11:49:15 (c=1, p=7)

#Transistors. How do they work?

I need to make a switch which has LOTS of resistance when off, but *little* when on. How can I thread that needle?

MOSFETs have great on resistance, but they leak a bit much current. I need <1µA.

Bipolars don't leak a lot, but they also don't conduct enough.

Both parameters eat into the same property of my circuit from different directions.

HELP!

#electronics #askfedi #mosfet

I blogged about the fediverse. A short (hopefully non-technical) overview to send to my non-fedi friends and colleagues:

https://blog.sturmsucht.de/fediverse-a-new-open-and-social-web/

A resident of Washington State has died from H5N5, a variant of bird flu never before seen in humans.

First known case, first death.

Wear a mask, ideally a well fitted respirator like an N95.

RFK Jr has gutted the CDC.

There’s no plan to deal with another pandemic.

No one is coming to save you.

Masking is an act of resistance and radical community care.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/health/washington-bird-flu-death

#birdflu #h5n5 #publichealth #rfkjr #wearamask #uspol #disabilty #chronicillness

Another immigrant has gone missing from ICE custody after suffering a medical emergency and losing consciousness.

ICE enforcement is a mass disabling event

If you have a medical emergency in ICE custody, there’s a chance you will simply “disappear”

Or you could end up like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel who was deported to Costa Rica in a persistent vegetative state.

He died soon after

#ice #abolishice #disabilty #ableism #immigration #uspol

Post: Still We Rise @_stillwerise

AOC: “MTG is carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office. She is saying a lot but her ACTIONS have
not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she's STILL voting with them to gut healthcare and advance self-dealing corruption schemes.”

#MarjorieTaylorGreene

2/

Everyone gets to pay for AI even if they don't want to, Coercive Capitalism on steroids.

https://www.techpolicy.press/how-your-utility-bills-are-subsidizing-power-hungry-ai/

https://www.businessinsider.com/data-centers-driving-up-electricity-demand-and-blackout-risks-report-2025-11

https://www.commondreams.org/news/utility-bills-data-centers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-21/meta-enters-power-trading-to-support-ai-data-centers

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-boom-bubble-power-utilities-forecasting-demand-2025-11

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/opinion/letters/2025/11/21/ai-data-centers-should-pay-their-own-way-letters/87394652007/

https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/columns/pro-con-dont-let-data-centers-stick-us-with-expensive-bills

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/report-growing-public-resistance-data-centers-ai-power-bills-water-land-use/

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-data-centers-threaten-global-water-security

Pro tip: on Black Friday, all of your favorite Linux distributions will be FREE to download.

I made a tally of the total planned AI data centre capacity in Scotland and I am a bit shocked: it amounts to 7.3 GW, which is as much as the entire energy consumption of Scotland, electricity + gas in 2023.

To spend as much energy on "AI" as the entire need of a country is madness. And I have no doubt that this picture would scale if I did it for the entire UK etc.

#FrugalComputing #AI

If any San Francisco Bay Area folks in my feed find themselves in the North Bay this weekend, on Saturday I’m going to be giving a live, hands-on, interactive weaving demonstration at Fiber Circle Studio in Petaluma. Drop by and I’ll show you how to make fabric by hand! #weaving

Yup, cats, and their wandering predatory ways, are a huge problem, and getting much bigger: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/579669/why-are-there-so-few-rules-for-the-millions-of-cats-that-damage-our-biodiversity they need to be desexed, restricted to the owners property, and kept inside at night.

All books on our website are half-off with code "GIFT" .

https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=187

VICTORY! EFF’s clients just ended a dragnet government surveillance program that spied on Sacramento residents’ electricity data. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/victory-court-end-dragnet-electricity-surveillance-program-sacramento