Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This is such a great story! An employee at a rural electric co-op recognized a need for childcare among their membership, and so the electric co-op helped organize a cooperative solution!
#childcare #cooperatives

https://energycapitalcooperativechildcare.com/about/

it’s really weird to see people post about Apple not betting on AI as Apple rushes the release of the ear cameras that can only feed photos into an LLM, right after Apple started a fight with the EU over the API they designed that lets an LLM access all the data on your device

Switching from Flock to another ALPR provider or other police surveillance technology isn't a fix, EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told @NPR. "You're just replacing one color of camera for another. Those dangers you were concerned about are still going to be there." https://www.npr.org/2026/08/22/nx-s1-5931446/flock-fallout-competitors-see-opportunity

This is pretty much where I sit on AI today. Christopher Newfield always gets the context right IMO. https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/05/liner-note-53-ai-and-public-good.html

Despite what the state says, zines are not a crime. This month only get this limited tote bag and zine bundle which includes our Zines are Not a Crime tote plus seven informative (and apparently incendiary) zines for your personal edification.
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- Research and science has been dismantled or pushed abroad. This is going to tank innovation
- Education is increasingly outsourced to LLMs/ed tech as well

What's going to be left?

It's not entirely clear what the future US economy is supposed to be doing other than buy stuff with debt

2/2

In the late 90s/early 2000s the US deindustrialised by outsourcing manufacturing

The bargain was basically "you make the stuff, we provide design, research, services, software, and financial markets"

Now they seem to be "de-servicing" as well:

- US films and TV are being shot abroad
- Software dev and related are being outsourced to LLMs and the shift from US models to cheaper non-US ones seems certain
- Finance is all-in on "AI" while tariffs and trade wars destroy its fundamentals

1/2

How to live in the age of AI - Gautami Reddy

Full episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/episodes/19667703-rumors-of-a-singularity-have-been-grossly-exaggerated-2026-08-03

No need to worry about food poisoning when you're brain poisoned. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/08/24

The Declaration of Independence was written in a small room by a few property-owning white men.

A different vision of democracy is now taking shape in community spaces and on the streets, where working people are demanding a real share of governing power.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/cogovernance-american-democracy-250

"Ooh kudzu is soOoOoOOo scary!" is kinda like fearmongering about Burmese pythons in Florida.

Don't get me wrong, the pythons are definitely there & they're a problem.

But also, at the same time, most of them DO get eaten before reaching maturity. By the alligators that already live there.

RE: https://wandering.shop/@alexhaist/117146258450979191

It's a 3-way melee between Smilax (native with thorns), Wisteria, & honeysuckle

Honorable mentions to Virginia creeper (native), wild grape (native), & English ivy

Two days until Molly Crabapple's NYC pop-up art show & In These Times fundraiser.

Supporters who give $1,000 + or purchase a fundraiser ticket at that level will receive an exclusive signed Giclée print of her first wraparound cover as our Artist-at-Large.

Limited number available.

https://www.allyoufascistsboundtolose.com/calendar/protect-free-speech-support-independent-media

Joe Lonsdale co-founded Palantir, runs venture capital firm 8VC and helped lead a pro-Trump super PAC.

His Cicero Institute has also pushed laws criminalizing homelessness across the country.

Rebecca Burns reports on the billionaire behind the crackdown. https://inthesetimes.com/article/joe-lonsdale-cicero-war-on-homeless

#PearlsBeforeSwine by #StephanPastis for August 23, 2026 | GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2026/08/23

#Humour #Cartoon

#1 isn't real bc "AI" doesn't have a concept of what "everything" is bc it doesn't have concepts bc it's a fucking piece of garbage software. #2 isn't true because *it isn't fucking true*.

"AI" psychosis plus imperial provincialism is stripping people of their ability to form even the most basic of coherent mental models of how the world actually is.

Normally I engage in debate with people, but I'm really getting to the point where "AI" people get blocked first.

It's like talking to a cultist

To think "AI" is going to "destroy us all" you have to make a whole lotta assumptions about it that are simply not supported by evidence.

But you also have to have forgotten that until ~20 years ago, everything worked fine and the IoT *didn't exist*.

"AI" doomers think that 1) "AI" will take over everything through "online", and 2) the entire world relies on "online" to function.

Gold, money, power and a crowd trained not to look too closely. Kirk Anderson illustrates blind trust in action.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/trumps-blind-trust-republicans-comics-curated-by-matt-bors

“A Technology of Unlearning”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/a-technology-of-unlearning/

> Rather, this “unlearning” of “AI” involves cognitive surrender and cognitive atrophy. It involves dependence and perhaps even (if you accept this medical and moral framework) addiction. It involves the monopolistic control and, so damningly, the erasure of knowledges.