Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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> Remember: The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by a LLM right now.

Some quick tips for fediverse creative newcomers!

* Make an introduction post and tag it # introduction. Include hashtags of your interests. It's a great way to start making connections.

* When you post your work, include some art hashtags (e.g. # MastoArt , Art, FediArt) and tags of the medium (e.g. # watercolour , writing , composing, photography). People follow hashtags of content they want to see.

* Include alt-text! Accessibility is valued here. Guide linked below!

Meta's latest consent-for-ads model still unlawful according to consumer groups’ analysis - https://www.beuc.eu/sites/default/files/publications/BEUC-X-2026-021_Analysis_of_Meta_2026_changes_to_its_consent-for-ads_mechanism_against_EU_law.pdf

Yesterday my VPS set off a warning, as it was hit by a huge spike in incoming traffic, peaking at 55GB at 2:15pm and lasting for an hour.

Upon investigating, it turns out it was my PeerTube instance that was targeted.

Where did the traffic come from?

meta-externalagent (aka Meta's web crawler which is used to grab content to train its AI system).

I feel a little bit violated thinking my Fediverse promo video was grabbed by it, sigh.

#AIcritic #NoAI

Writing this up again so I can pin it: AI is literally a fascist project. Friends don't let friends use it.

Before I go into this, there are two types of responses to this that I have taken seriously so far.

One I'll call HashTagNotAllAI, which yields the obligatory "sure", but has the same smell. I'll leave it at that.

The other is that an anti AI stance also throws some assistive technology under the bus, making such a stance intrinsically ableistic. The easy thing to do is to refer...

In the context of the @DigitalCoup and #AuthoritarianTech, can we find an answer in #DemocraticTech? Something that goes beyond mere free/libre open source software, and combines #cooperativism and #commoning. Communities who govern their shared resources, and commit to shared responsibility.

I wrote an article about it, tracing the intellectual origins of the term "democratic technology", connecting to various intersectional critiques of the currently dominant model of surveillance capitalism from feminist, ecosocial perspectives.

For plenty of #neudivergent folks, having to listen to music in an already painfully distracting open-floor plan office is pure hell.

If workers feel that “[t]his studio is so quiet, it's like a morgue sometimes,” just put your own headset on and listen to whatever you enjoy. But please be so considerate to not play anything over speakers.

If you're really lucky, maybe there could even be quiet and a “noisy” zone in an office, so folks can freely choose. 🤷‍♂️ https://mastodon.cloud/@designthinkingcomic/116238150599295122

it seems the ai boosters really dislike to be reminded that openai and anthropic are working very closely with the concentration camp administrators.

"For all the fine talk at Substack about how easy it is to leave, the reality leaves something to be desired."

https://funeralsandsnakes.net/p/say-hello-to-buttondown-and-a-new-chapter-for-funerals-snakes/

The United States is at war with Cuba, but our weapons are aimed at further impoverishing -- and starving -- the population. Destroying the electrical grid will have that effect. It's all blatantly illegal, not to mention immoral. Big Journalism has kind of, sort of noticed, but doesn't really care.

Am I the only one who finds the sombre, weighty talk of sportscasters talking about a sacked coach or a team failing to reach its potential weirdly incongruous coming immediately on the heels of similarly sombre media discussing current events where thousands are dying and world war three is emerging (i.e. actual, real stakes).

Listening to the doctor talking up 'Heidi', the 'AI' scribe used by doctors to speed note taking... and struck by the irony of the call being interrupted by technical issues. It's crucial to realise this system only works if we've got working int'l connectivity, and are paying eye-watering amounts to the foreign service providers.

The report “Actions for environmental justice from autonomous and community-based technological infrastructures,” by APC members Sursiendo and May First Movement Technology, examines alternatives for environmental justice.

See this and other highlights in our #recap:

https://www.apc.org/en/news/accountability-and-resilience-what-our-2025-top-content-portends-year-ahead

Microsoft Locks Down Discord Server After People Wouldn’t Stop Making Fun Of #AI ‘#Microslop’ - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/16/microsoft-locks-down-discord-server-after-people-wouldnt-stop-making-fun-of-ai-microslop/

The Latest Front in the Battle Over Climate Lawsuits: Bills Wiping Out Liability - https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14032026/republican-legislation-shielding-polluters-from-climate-lawsuits/ shameful greed: walking away from the problems they create