Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“Why office workers are turning against AI”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/why-office-workers-are-turning-against

> It’s also because bosses are much less accountable for their AI use. They may use it to write emails and company memos or to experiment with task automation, but they’re not going to be disciplined or fired if there are errors or inconsistencies in that stuff.

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this piece of shit is trying to get his sister to submit to a mental exam during the case https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69520118/altman-v-altman/

Same playbook as when his AI convinces a teenager to kill himself, pull out the old "It's such a shame some people have mental problems 😔" card

Christ what a fucking monster

The International Trade Union Confederation has placed the United States on its workers’ rights Watchlist, citing the loss of collective bargaining rights for more than 1 million federal workers, a disabled NLRB and the use of immigration enforcement to suppress speech and organizing.

The world is taking notice.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/workers-rights-union-labor-report

#AI opens exciting opportunities for those NOT offering it! 🤯

Imagine a travel agency that just offers a phone number that immediately gives you a real human on the line to help you enjoy your well-earned vacation. And that you no longer have some Booking.com #LLM hellhole to wade through.

Imagine real human connection at the customer service of an online webshop, when you want to return something or have questions on a product.

Imagine government agencies having emphatic people available who care about your problems, and help you get on your way.

Imagine developer tools that just do what is on the tin and nothing more. Like they used to do before becoming AI-first.

What a delight all that will be. And you know what is most delicious? It is ALL readily available to us! 🚀

Human to human services. They rock! We can bring them to a #fediverse near you..

Enter the #ProsocialWeb.

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/117206162883515647

✊🏽 Providing safe, secure and independent internet infrastructure is not a crime. EDRi stands in full solidarity with Autistici/Inventati after the US government designated the Italian non-profit organisation as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist."

This targeting of A/I is also an attack on fundamental rights, safe and secure communications, anti-authoritarian organising and the democratic integrity of the EU.

Our full statement ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-solidarity-statement-autistici-inventati/

@jackeric @da_667 @cR0w It sucks a lot that my favorite OS is stuck in this doom loop that makes it difficult to get new users, or run on newer hardware, yet

Some random fascists dot-files instantly raises millions of dollars in funding

Earlier this week I unsubscribed from #1Password and moved to #Bitwarden... due to their donation of 300k to DHH's #Omarchy.

I made sure to let them know about the reason, so that hopefully the company would notice those kind of decisions have an impact.

Day one I got messages from their AI system.

But today I got a response by a real human at 1Password (or so it appears).

If you are curious about the company's official response to the backlash, check out the screenshot (and/or #AltText)

fellas, I'm gonna level with you. I'm starting to feel like computing in general is a series of trade-offs on how far you're willing to compromise on your morals.

Software selection checklist:

- does it do the thing?
- is it secure?
- is it user friendly and accessible?
- is the project secretly hiring a violent serial abuser or openly employing a creep?
- do they have fascists on the payroll?
- do they funnel money to or from fascists?

seriously people, fill out that “about us” page and if your team is anonymous, abide by a contributor covenant/code of conduct and say so!

Announcing https://keepitfree.ai

Many things happened since August 26, 2026, when the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) at the US Department of the Treasury included us in their list of “Specially Designated Global Terrorists” (SDGT). This is just the beginning.

We have now created a dedicated space to document what has been unfolding since August 26, to empower our unpredictable, chaotic and magnificent solidarity network by keeping it up to date with the consequences of the US government designation and our responses.

Read the full announcement on https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/announcing-https/keepitfree.ai/

#KeepItFree #AutisticiInventati

"The community must be the author of its own world."

In the latest from our speculative essay series, Adio envisions a future in which a Zimbabwean community rejects an AI surveillance program and instead designs a cattle-tracking system, drawing upon the relational data governance it has practiced for generations.

https://dair-institute.org/blog/whose-categories-whose-ai/

The thing to remember about Proton repeatedly making terrible choices is that it has been entirely unforced; they could have just quietly accumulated users, focused on building a sustainable business, and so forth.

But no, Andy Yen had to have more, and here we are, with them sponsoring far-right YouTubers.

Please stop giving them new business, and reconsider your own usage.

https://chaos.social/@slothrop/116704333247257385

See also this thread;

https://ngmx.com/@sindarina/116180933465739491

And this post;

https://ngmx.com/@sindarina/115195928506761246

There's plenty of evidence for them being a terrible choice, at this point. Stop recommending them as a viable alternative.

RE: https://ngmx.com/@sindarina/116709031951218795

Since the Proton fanbois are out in force again after 1Password's latest problematic decision, a reminder that they have an even longer documented history of bad decisions.

Find something that isn't Proton, when looking for alternatives, and skip that Medium post the apologists like to link to.

#1Password #Drop1Password

The path to a murderous eugenicist in charge of your health department starts, very often, with innocuous-seeming posts about scary "chemicals" and preferring "natural" and therefore inherently "healthy" ingredients in food and medicine.

It inevitably ends with ceding the definition of "natural" to someone who will twist it to explain that certain people don't deserve to live or thrive since they can only do so with "artificial" or "chemical" help. This is what RFK, Jr. is doing in the US right now, and EU friends, if this is what one of your official accounts is posting, you are in urgent danger of it happening to you, too.

Brian Krebs found his own driver's license for sale on a Russian crime forum this week. The timestamp on the scan matched the day he rented a car to attend a family funeral. His mom's license was there too, scanned a few seconds after his.

The service is called Nexus. It claims over 153 million driver's licenses from the US and Canada, and the count grew by nearly 400,000 in a single day. Krebs traced the scans back to an identity verification vendor that checks IDs for rental car companies, big retailers, and over 1,000 marijuana dispensaries. The FBI opened an investigation on Tuesday.

Most of the people in that database never dealt with the vendor. They handed a license to a clerk at a counter. The clerk ran it through a scanner. Nobody mentioned that the scanner belonged to a different company, or that a copy might stick around long enough to get stolen. If your company scans customer IDs, you own the risk of how your vendor uses those images, whether the contract says so or not.

Two things worth thinking about:

- Every new "show us your ID" rule, including the ones sold as protecting kids online, pushes more license scans into more vendors. Each one is another place to lose them.

- A driver's license is still what banks use to open credit. A scan with the photo, front and back, in infrared and ultraviolet, is close to a master key.

I would love to see ID scans deleted the moment a check is done. Until then, ask whether your license will be scanned or just looked at before you hand it over. And freeze your credit at all three bureaus. It's free. It takes about ten minutes.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/

#Cybersecurity #Privacy #IdentityTheft #security #privacy #cloud #infosec

I lost my Mom to pancreatic cancer.

It’s insidious, painful and almost always diagnosed far too late.

This new drug offers much needed hope to patients and families… but almost no one can afford a half million dollar price tag

Shameful.

Survival shouldn’t be for the rich only

https://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/banking/article/fda-approves-breakthrough-pancreatic-cancer-pill-daraxonrasib-what-will-it-cost-141353695.html

#uspol #capitalism #cancer #disability #pancreaticcancer

awful.systems, the anti-AI lemmy instance I help administrate, now has a slop-free jobs board: https://awful.systems/c/jobs

there aren’t any jobs yet and the instance keeps going down due to today’s attack from aggressive scrapers, but come submit some jobs (see the rules thread) and we’ll post ‘em!

There’s a certain … cassandra-esque irony in people getting frustrated with LLMs not “doing what they tell them”, and are now, undestanding-by-fire why domain-specific formal languages were developed in the first place.

If you want to skip straight to the part where the computer does (mostly) exactly what you tell it to do, might I recommend a programming language.