Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

every ai guy says "u can't argue the quality; new models actually are genuinely good" and then u actually read the code and it's dogshit

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: CA’s AB 1856 Exempts #OpenSource But Expands Age-Gating - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/02/one-step-forward-two-steps-back-cas-ab-1856-exempts-open-source-but-expands-age-gating/

Trump regime takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network. Ships will be dispatched this month to remove the more than 900 deep-sea instruments that comprise the network, one of the world’s most trusted sources of climate and oceanic data. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administration-takes-aim-at-crucial-ocean-monitoring-network/

EFF advisor Rainey Reitman joined Taylor Lorenz to explore the terrifying reality of financial censorship as explained in her new book, “Transaction Denied” from Beacon Press. https://youtu.be/tyqEYDisiZA

Researchers found that writers using biased AI agents to auto-complete suggestions had their sociopolitical values shifted without their knowledge it was happening.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw5578

We worry about cognitive capture, what the LLMs of big tech are doing to our ability to identify and think through problems. We should be equally worried about them making a grab for our ethos, what we care about, and at population scales.

#ai #bigtech #ethics

The only Google Doodle I'll ever do. https://www.patreon.com/posts/is-google-cooked-159412151

Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches

International Mathematical Union endorses warning about tech industry influence.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/mathematicians-warn-of-ai-threats-to-profession-as-industry-encroaches/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into 404 Media @404-media-404media

I wrote on Boing Boing about cartoonist Jeff Smith, author of Bone, to be awarded a National Cartoonists Society Lifetime Achievement Award.
https://boingboing.net/2026/06/02/cartoonist-jeff-smith-author-of-bone-is-getting-comics-most-prestigious-honor.html

I wonder if we'll see any lawsuits by investors regarding profligate waste of company resources on LLMs (reducing profitability and stock value).

I am more and more actively looking to find a new career opportunity. I've been stuck classified as a senior engineer for most of my working life. Every employer promising career progression; never following through.

Current job very much feels like a sort of holding pattern thing. I do work, babysit LLM-users, get annoyed, feeling stuck.

Would love a gig where I can mentor and actually know that my words won't get fed directly into a chat interface.

Would oove to work with embedded systems in #RustLang (no pro exp yet). Though I am open to a wide variety of systems programming.

Over the years I've worked in Public Broadcasting, Game Development, Web Agencies, Education Technology, Museum Experience Design, Open Source Development

I have been remote first for almost a decade now. Basically a hipster-wfh. I do well with async practices and keeping people informed

Are there any places hiring for remote people in Australia Eastern Time zone?

#FediHire #GetFediBHired #NoAI #Rust #rustEmbedded

Jesus Christ - what the hell is going on with the Supreme Court in my country? First trans rights, now disability rights trashed.

In some ways I'm even more concerned about this than the trans rights - as I'm pretty sure dodgy EHRC guidance won't survive a trip to Strasbourg (and the worry is what happens in the interim, or after if right-wingers are in charge).

The effects of this are extreme, but I worry the ECHR may not see this as black and white.

https://www.mind.org.uk/news-campaigns/news/the-biggest-rollback-of-disability-rights-in-a-generation-charities-respond-to-supreme-court-ruling/

#UKPolitics

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Microsoft heads into Build with #AI everywhere and a paying-customer problem - https://thenextweb.com/news/microsoft-build-2026-ai-tools-copilot "Microsoft said it had 15 million paid seats of Microsoft 365 Copilot. That is a striking number until it is set against the 450 million commercial Microsoft 365 seats "

Jonathan Frakes charismatically looking into the camera while casually handling a Slackware CD: “is the tale of the operating system Linux a real example of a community coming together to challenge corporate dominance?

<the Frakes factor gets visibly larger for a split second as his eyes twinkle>

not this time. our writers made this one up!”

Guys, I've been thinking...why don't we just do a regular old ponzi scheme instead?

"Strategy is proposing to change its schedule so that investors get paid twice monthly. Money to fund the dividends comes from further capital raising, a model that has raised questions about its sustainability."

https://archive.is/cVooR#selection-1881.0-1881.211

#EVs are getting more affordable worldwide — except in the U.S.- https://restofworld.org/2026/iea-global-ev-outlook-us-sales-drop/ silly US....

A Standard in Name Only: What OOXML Transitional Tells Us About Format Sovereignty

When a public administration is told its documents are stored in “an ISO standard format,” the assumption is that an ISO standard ought to be a clean, implementable specification that any qualified software vendor can support.

OOXML — the format behind Microsoft’s docx, xlsx and pptx files — does not work this way.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/02/a-standard-in-name-only/

#odf #ooxml

I love that the U.S. government made up a new category to observe called “anti-tech extremism”. Goes hand in hand with “anti-war antisemitism” and soon “anti-billionaire racism”.

They will use the language of the oppressed to compare criticism of their privilege to.