Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

If 23andMe tries to sell your genetic data along with its business, many of you have the right to say “no.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/sale-23andmes-data-would-be-bad-privacy-heres-what-customers-can-do

1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia

2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff

https://www.404media.co/the-editors-protecting-wikipedia-from-ai-hoaxes/

Great news everyone! I saw code so terrible yesterday that I quit my job on the spot, for realsies. Enjoy what should be the last post about me gazing directly into corporate-hell:

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/get-me-out-of-data-hell/

Future posts will be about the dystopian hellscape that I conjure into being at my own business.

Just saw a website that's an 'open educational resource' project database... it's built on a proprietary tool, CraftCMS. On the CMS website: "We use (and contribute to) some of the best open source tools out there, allowing us to focus on the parts that make Craft, Craft."

So the CMS, built on #libre is not libre. Not an approach I consider worthy of admiration. They're citing their open source dependencies (virtue signalling) but celebrating their lack of open sourceness. Not cool.

Here's why proprietary is not admirable: https://davelane.nz/proprietary

Online is full of monsters! https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/10/03/monster-influencers/

THE TOXIC AVENGER # 1 is out today!

It's been such a pleasure to revive this character with artist Fred Harper—we have a new take on Toxie that we think you'll love.

All done with the blessing of Troma and everyone at Ahoy. Pick it up at your local comic shop!

I can't find the video (apparently from the Turkish government) that this interview starts off with, but it should be being broadcast everywhere, imho. I think this will hit harder for a lot of people than whatever news coverage they are getting (especially for the NPR crowd in the US, or equivalent in other places). CW for brutal realism about Palestine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN1wIzFzcfc

Fucking seriously?

#AI #books #writing

#China to head green #energy boom with 60% of new projects in next six years | #RenewableEnergy | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/09/china-to-head-green-energy-boom-with-60-of-new-projects-in-next-six-years

#Environment #Renewables

If a party says they'll do something shitty, and you vote for them because you hope your vote will make them be less shitty, what sort of chump is this called? Like, the technical term.

The “tragedy of the commons” is an idea that has so thoroughly seeped into culture and law that it seems normal for people and corporations to own land, water, and even whole ecosystems. But there’s a BIG problem: the “tragedy” part of it has been debunked – it really should be the triumph of the commons. Learn the origin story of privatization and explore the true meaning of commons and how to manage them for sustainability and equity.

https://geo.coop/articles/lord-swans-tragedy-enclosure-commons

Hey, here's a wild idea:

Let’s Stop Pretending That We Can Escape from Climate Change

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/10/lets-stop-pretending-that-we-can-escape-from-climate-change.html

I've been thinking for awhile now that if anyone were serious about climate change, we would be limiting air travel and transport to only absolute necessities. But no. The libs say they care about climate change, but goddess forbid it interfere with their American middle-class lifestyles.😒

I just looked at code so bad that I decided to resign today instead of December.

I feel like Satan just reached through my eyeballs and punched me in my frontal cortex.

The pattern of 'free' (gratis) proprietary services (even if their 'apps' are open source) which use 'free' to get people to sign up and commit data to those services... will always *always* end up screwing the user with creeping reductions in the 'free' aspects of the service + added hassles aiming to convert them into paying customers or driving them away, painfully. Why do smart people *repeatedly* fall for it? More context: https://davelane.nz/why-free-proprietary-software-will-always-end-tears

This from Ursula LeGuin would of course be included as well, precisely because it's so difficult to actually follow. I made a poster of it even so I could literally tap the sign.

“For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”

Free Palestine

"In These Times interviewed 18 Jewish professionals with 16 different Jewish organizations across the country, all of whom describe being fired, quitting under pressure, or seeing their roles disappear since October 7 for issues surrounding criticism of Israel or support for a permanent cease-fire. These stories are just a snapshot of what appears to be a growing trend across the Jewish professional world..."

https://inthesetimes.com/article/anti-zionist-israel-gaza-jewish-institutions