Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"After numerous street actions, including two separate hunger strikes and sit-ins, New York City home care workers fighting to end round-the-clock shifts and institutionalized wage theft in the industry will return to City Hall on Oct. 3 to continue the struggle.

"They are expected to have allies, too, a growing community of fellow New Yorkers who’s integrity and sense of justice precludes them from turning a blind eye to the 24-hour workday just because it mainly impacts immigrant women of color.

[...]

"Celebrated scholar and feminist activist Silvia Federici was among the participants. Much of the discussion focused around City Council Speaker Julie Menin and how she is using her platform “not to uplift women,” but “do the opposite”—and “devalue care.” "

https://www.work-bites.com/view-all/federici

“Blunt instruments of critique | Riccardo Mori”

https://morrick.me/archives/10424

> I don’t have a nuanced position on ‘AI’. This phenomenon, this ‘AI’ craze does not deserve nuance. The measured approach, the weighing of both sides of the argument, is pointless in my view. Not only that. I think it actively plays in favour of the ‘AI’ techbros and their constant lies and overinflated narratives.

Kind of amazed at all of the people who say "AI" made them better systems-thinkers when none of their analysis includes the models they rely on, let alone the cos that build them, or the finance that enables it all

The whole point of "systems-thinking" is that the system is larger than the object.

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@AberdeenLocal1312/117330348121863005

@AberdeenLocal1312 can you please make https://github.com/ash-xytcc/sabotmedia public again (the source code for the website)?

it seems like the guide is llm generated based on the source. many people are asking for clarification of this in the thread below

we can have a lot of opinions about what this means but imho people should at least know if it was generated or not

can you please be more transparent about this?

🔴 Brand new Tom the Dancing Bug now up on Boing Boing
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Who really caused the apocalypse? Hollingsworth Hound knows! 🎾
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https://boingboing.net/2026/09/30/tom-the-dancing-bug-what-was-the-cause-of-the-global-armaggeddon.html

Scabby the Rat is a famous inflatable champion of the working class, yet there is no Scabby the Rat inflatable costume? Big Halloween is afraid of what a Scabby Army can do.

In a solidarity event, WikiProject Organized Labor is wrapping up tomorrow. It was a monthlong community editing event to improve coverage of union-related topics on all the wiki-properties. I started out just moving union/strike/organizer images from Flickr Commons to Wikimedia Commons but then I realized I could make an article for You Deserve a Tech Union, a very good book about a very important topic. Just a stub, but I'm pleased with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Deserve_a_Tech_Union

All we can expect when trying to scale up AI systems is diminishing returns and devastating environmental damage.

Calls for `slowing down’ can conveniently hide the diminishing returns, while still convincing people that the tech is “all powerful”.

Box 1, from: van Rooij, I., @olivia Guest, O., et al. (2024). Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science. Comput Brain Behav 7, 616–636. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42113-024-00217-5

"When I first saw the lead concentrations, they were so high I thought our instrument was broken" 😬

Disposable vapes are also horrible for the environment, throwing away so much plastic, batteries, and electronics.

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/disposable-e-cigarettes-more-toxic-traditional-cigarettes

Indeed. As @olivia often says, guardrails are a scam. Model providers can play catch-up with stopgap measures but fundamentally these systems are open, and just as water seeks its own level, prompts find their way

Perhaps of interest, I go into some detail about guardrails and preference tuning (RLHF) in a recent paper of mine
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19452871

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/117358990093685067

100%. The whole "terrorists can use an LLM to build a bomb" is a dumb movie plot threat. If you want to hurt people, lack of knowledge is not your problem. And nobody needs to develop a new chemical to do terrorism. All you need is readily available.

This is just "AI" labs creating imaginary issues to distract us from the real harm they cause.

I made some minor design and content structure tweaks to the Practical Accessibility course website (ahead of its third anniversary). https://practical-accessibility.today

One of the changes I made was creating a dedicated page for the many many reviews & testimonials that the course has received over the past 3+ years.

A heartfelt thank you to each & every one who has shared their experience & recommended the course. I’m forever grateful to you all. 🫶🏻

More to come!

“In response to “The death of web development education” - Andy Bell”

https://bell.bz/in-response-to-the-death-of-web-development-education/

> The most effective way I can contribute, in my opinion, is a crude sketch I just did of Piccalilli‘s Stripe chart for all time sales:

That graph is eye-opening.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/117353868814624656

meta being evil as usual

RE: https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot/117356196405647815

words fail at the sheer evil of #israel's actions here

Forgive me for posting a link to this site, it is important because some of you do not hate effective altruists enough!

Effective altruism is a dangerous cult: https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/effective-altruism-is-a-dangerous

#AI #noAI #technofascism #technooptimsm

Recently saw someone talk about their prestigious AI specialisation to a group of veterinarians, who then walked out thinking that the guy was an expert in Artificial Insemination and asked me "So what's ChatGPT?"