Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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Iceland is tiny, so a company letting 40 employees go makes national news. The company in question, Rapyd Europe, of course claimed "AI" as the reason for the layoffs.

So, I called them out on their bullshit – in my first piece for the Reykjavík Grapevine:
https://grapevine.is/mag/feature/2026/06/20/rapyd-layoffs-attributed-to-ai-hint-at-something-else/

#Iceland #AI #Labor

Elon bought Cursor. Folks should stop using it, as Elon does not care about the harms caused by the products his company sells.

before this SFC guy seemed ok? didn't annoy me.

but he's not talking merely like an AI addict, he's talking like a corporate shill.

(and like it's his first time. not even *good* at evasion.)

who for?? who's pumping bucks into SFC for this performance?

“Midwinter | deadSimpleTech”

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/midwinter

> Giving up on major or totalising inventions in general is, I think, the single most beneficial thing that we could do for the industry at the moment.

“How to breathe air when we’re drowning in big tech’s slop – Ketan Joshi”

https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/06/21/how-to-breathe-air-when-were-drowning-in-big-techs-slop/

> Thanks to the failure of these institutions to reject a software system that produces powerfully convincing fabrications, journalism as an industry is seeing the consequences play out. And those consequences will erode trust

RE: https://mastodon.world/@davidho/116792317254713144

tax them into the ground...

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@sophieschmieg/116770216628493703

Great piece on hybrid classical/quantum *signatures*—why they're harder than you'd think to get right, and also less useful than you'd think.

Not much cryptography background required.

(This is distinct from hybrid *encryption*, which has a much stronger story.)

Dammit, I just realized that this card game is based on a clever math or information theory observation, and now I need to reverse engineer it to figure out how it works.

("What if you just played the g--" NO. Gotta understand it.)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/116787984382131525

An uncommonly educated and practical member of Congress, @SeanCasten, is posting some of the most useful threads you will read in the fediverse. An example:

Another supply chain attack... this one at Okendo Reviews, a product review widget used on more than 18k online stores

A threat actor known as SmartApeSG added malicious JS code to prompt users with a ClickFix window

https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/smartapesg-launches-okendo-reviews-supply-chain-attack

Color of the year...

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Happy Sommeranfang oder so. Kommt gut durch die nächste Zeit, passt auf euch und eure Mitmenschen auf (auch auf die Tiere, wenn ihr die Möglichkeit habt, stellt Wasser raus ❤️).
Falls ihr das Wetter gerade liebt: ich gönn es euch von ganzem Herzen, aber viele haben bei den Temperaturen Probleme, ob mit oder ohne Behinderung/chronische Erkrankung 💜.

@davidgerard it’s curious that “nuanced” is often thrown, sorry, flung like a steaming wet turd, at people who have arrived at a strong “NoAI” position after considering the many risk, environmental, and societal problems with AI, and any (if any) “benefits” (or, more specifically, if the outputs are “beneficial” to *any* degree).

In what way is that consideration and arrival at an anti-AI position *not* nuanced, or reasonable, or thorough.

It’s almost as if their handwaving “it’s good for certain uses”, or “but you just have to review the output”, or “it has gotten to know my needs in my field” is meant to hypnotise us into submission and make us say one of two things:

• “Oh, I never thought of it that way! Wow, how insightful!” or
• “Yes, I do acknowledge there is a spectrum of suitability, and I accept your use, or the use you posit, is an acceptable use for AI.”

It’s not a dialog. To be considered “nuanced” your view *has to* allow AI acceptable use carve outs.

And that introduces AI’s own version of “the ineffective centrist”, and AI’s own version of the Overton Window.

Huh, now why do they seem such appropriate parallels…?

Marcia Howard of the Minneapolis Federation of Educators says trade unionists, including educators, are among those detained in Minnesota’s federal anti-ICE indictments.

“I find it telling that they are going after unionists.”

https://inthesetimes.com/article/sweeping-federal-indictments-of-ice-observers-net-minnesota-unionists

RE: https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/116784883875340095

I'm so fucking tired of hearing these murderous bastards say that the people they killed 'were not targets', as if that is a coherent statement.

When you drop bombs, you've targeted. Period. You are responsible for what you destroy. Period.

I’d be very wary of restructuring all of education programming, and media around a technology whose economic viability beyond a few months to a year is highly dubious and whose long term sustainability is contingent on figuring out a way to rearchitect it from scratch on a shoestring budget

But what do I know?

🤷🏻‍♂️

The future we got

The World Cup needs more than yellow and red cards. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/19/800057432/cartoon/new-cards-for-2026/