Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"Papers, we never said 'please.'" doesn't work when the goon army can't/won't read and will toss your documents in the trash. Unless you eat your passport, that's not going with you to the warehouse gulag. https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2026/02/09/absolute-hell-irish-man-with-valid-us-work-permit-held-by-ice-since-september/

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
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ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Family #USPolitics #Law

When you have all the answers.

#Fascism #FunWithWords #POTUS

SpaceX Gives $1 Million Prize to Literal Nazi Who Has Bragged About His Profound Racism
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/spacex-awards-prize-nazi?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Futurism @futurism-Futurism

@vie
Programmers have always been inventing themselves out of work. COBOL was "automatic programming": you wouldn't need programmers anymore because any manager could just describe the program they needed in pseudo-English. Then there was "The Last One" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software). And Haskell, which I also enjoy, is highly declarative and requires much less code. But programmers are as necessary as ever.

LLMs, *if* they live up to their promise, will be the same.

I've had a theory for a few years that most software engineers don't actually like software engineering. Had there not been money in it they would have followed a different career path instead of getting a CS degree from a 4-year college (or boot camps).

LLMs align with this theory. The people who are excited that something else is doing their job for them are the same people who picked the job for the salary, not the joy.

In all honesty, I didn’t know that I needed the message of solidarity and love that Bad Bunny shared with us in stage tonight. I know that may sound hyperbolic, but I mean it with every fiber of my being.

I cried. I’m still crying. I really needed that. We need each other.

It’s no wonder #Trump hates #Europe so much. It’s a case of prosperity envy, political envy, and a deep resentment of those better off than us in the USA. #EU #prosperity #politics

"The commodification of knowledge and the commercialisation of the higher education sector hinder attempts to reduce inequity. The higher education system needs to transform to be more open and responsive to societal needs, offering the opportunity to increase knowledge equity."

Dr #AdrianGonzalez, Professor Emeritus #RichardHeller, 2026

https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/25/calling-for-a-bold-new-vision-for-higher-education/

#commodification #commercialisation

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau on GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury2026/02/08

#Humour #Cartoon

Tomorrow (Tues 10 Feb, 20:00 NZDT) is our next monthly #Libre / #FOSS / #OpenSource meeting. All welcome! Find us at https://meeting.iridescent.nz - we talk about whatever interests those in attendance! No questions/topics too basic or too hard. We'll also discuss developments in digital sovereignty & democracy. Great place to learn why you might want to ditch Windows (or MacOS) and liberate your digital life! I'm gather even the gamers are doing it these days!

@jonmsterling Even on elementary school playgrounds “That’s #AI “ means that something is a lie.

The kids are alright.

They say they need to ban encryption because CSAM, yet the Epstein-class was free to operate for literally decades while coordinating via unencrypted email in the age of echelon and the "we kill people based on metadata" NSA.

It was never about "protecting the children".

RE: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116034944078221097

- If you're locked in to Amazon with previous media purchases commit to no additional purchases. No more.
- Otherwise, delete your Amazon account. You can get their stuff elsewhere.
- Stop using Google's browser, search, services. Delete your account if possible.
- Stop using Microsoft's services services. Delete your account if possible.

Commit to getting out of these services. Stop using them, stop giving them your money.

#Genocide #BOYCOTT #Google #Microsoft #Amazon #Technology #Tech

Washington imposes 'terrorist-grade sanctions' on Francesca Albanese, ICC judges

https://thecradle.co/articles/washington-imposes-terrorist-grade-sanctions-on-francesca-albanese-icc-judges

US tech companies requested that Washington impose sanctions after the UN rights official sent 'threatening letters' warning them of complicity in the genocide in Gaza

Friendly reminder:

NO ONE needs AI slop and more AI data centres

EVERYBODY needs clean water, affordable energy, and a habitable planet

Mozilla director of engineering:

https://mastodon.social/@stevemarshall/115740621035086166

> Are we building AI features? Yes, because lots of users are asking for them.

WHICH FUCKING USERS STEVE

SHOW ANY OF US THESE USERS

NOBODY ELSE AT MOZILLA SEEMS TO BE ABLE TO PRODUCE THEM

AND WE'VE BEEN ASKING A LOT

Today in bad tech journalism: "AI agents" generating a C compiler.

They didn't though. They created a piece of it that didn't work properly (because LLMs are trained on a lot of C compiler code).

(Original title: Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler)

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/sixteen-claude-ai-agents-working-together-created-a-new-c-compiler/

The duality of every vibe-coded project you see and every LLM-generated pull request you review being dangerous insecure messes and then turning around and hearing every respected figure in the web dev community saying these tools are now better than human developers

If I hadn’t live through several brain-cooking bubbles (Iceland has had a few more than the rest) I’d be shocked at the dissonance