Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

the LLM is not a learning aid, it is an absolute barrier to learning. it is not similar in kind to copy/pasting from stackoverflow or cliffs notes. it fully supplants the entire process of learning, and the person using the LLM never improves their understanding because the LLM cognitive workflow never engages with even the shape of the problem.

@Firesphere @PetraOleum @alexs when I get CDs I usually get them as part of buying the album from #Bandcamp .. of course the digital version is also available (I grab the .flac).

This is some North Korea/Stalinesque nonsense

Don't like the numbers? Demand the director's resignation and/or ritual suicide

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/trump-erika-mcentarfer-jobs-report-fired.html

One way rich people get that way is to stiff their creditors. Trump has done it for decades. In this report, CNN shows how Musk has adopted that tactic.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/us/elon-musk-company-unpaid-liens-invs

Backstory on growing famine in Gaza:

Food aid now comes through one (1) US evangelical Christian nonprofit. It didn't even exist until March.

They have only 4 dropoff points. And people who come to pick up food get shot at.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/gaza-famine-united-states-donald-trump/

The merger between CBS/Paramount and fascism is going great! https://www.patreon.com/c/BrianMcFadden

Happy Black August for all those who celebrate!

We're starting things off this month with the video essay 'On the Black Leadership and Other White Myths' by the We Still Outside Collective, released during the height of the George Floyd uprising in 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOFmx8OUnTk

Black anarchist movement veterans are on tour!

Help em out:

@blackrosebayarea Help Bring Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin to Speak in California 🏴 
 


Our communities and the movements to defend them are under attack. Now, more than ever, we must learn from veterans how to organize under dire circumstances.
 


Together, @blacklanterncoop , @blackrosebayarea of @blackrose_rosanegra , @norcal_resist , & @sacramentoanarchistbookfair are raising funds to transport, room, board, and support Lorenzo and JoNina for a speaking tour in California:

* Saturday, October 4: Black Lantern Books (6533 West Blvd, Inglewood)
* Tuesday, October 7: West Oakland Library (1801 Adeline St, Oakland)
* Thursday, October 9: Black Panther Party Museum (1427 Broadway, Oakland)
* Saturday, October 11: Sacramento Anarchist Book Fair (1819 E St, Sacramento)
 
Thank you for donating what you can. Only our collective efforts can make this possible. Link in bio to donate. 🔗 
 

We look forward to forging new connections, unpacking lessons, and building stronger movements with you this October ✊


https://chuffed.org/project/142143-help-bring-lorenzo-kom-boa-ervin-and-jonina-abron-ervin-to-speak-in-california

Today I learned about spiral ratchet #screwdrivers .

You push, screw turns.

The ones I've seen on sale in #Germany take some unusual bits.

Does anyone know where to get one accepting regular hex bits? (Germany)

#tools #askfedi

Educate. Agitate. Save 40% on all punk and education titles with Code THINK thru 9/1. Browse both categories via the link in our bio.

#Wayland input methods.

I'm sorry to say #iced doesn't have enough people with review/merge rights, so my work making #Chinese and #Japanese #input good on Wayland is going nowhere.

What are other #Rust #GUI libraries I could contribute to instead?

#cjk #opensource #nlnet

I went to a tabletop game store to look at their board games. Asked the guy for recommendations for 2 player games.

"I don't know anything we have stocked anymore. The tariffs have killed the board game business, so all our popular games are gone. One of the big manufacturers went bankrupt already.

"If you want to know how bad it is, take [some popular game]. We used to stock it for $70-75. Everything ships in through the US, and since it's all made in China, after all the tariffs, we're looking at $220-250 for the same game.

"The industry is dead. We're not stocking any new board games until the market comes back to life. Who knows? Maybe Canada will start manufacturing our own games again! I guess we'll have to see."

#tariffs #boardgames

"Japan and the United States have been discussing a scenario, in which the U.S. military would use nuclear weapons...As part of the extended deterrence talks in recent years, Tokyo and Washington have held multiple tabletop exercises to strategize a scenario in which a conflict broke out in East Asia and the United States is pressured to use nuclear weapons, according to the sources."

Pressured by who? 🤔

https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/58051

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use #RSS.

https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/

RSS offers readers and writers a path away from unreliable, manipulative, and hostile platforms and intermediaries.

#RSS

It’s not too late to start masking.

You don’t have to do it alone.

There’s an engaged Covid cautious and disability community who will help you.

There’s local mask blocs who provide respirators to those who can’t afford them.

Covid is still here, and masks work!

Trump: “Drop that Digital Services Tax or we’ll stop negotiating and put more tariffs on you.”

Canada: “Okay, they’re dropped.”

Trump, today: “Cool. We’re gonna stop negotiating and put more tariffs on you anyway.”

CAN WE STOP NEGOTIATING WITH A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR NOW PLEASE?

@openstreetmap I noticed osm.org now uses #WebGL for the slippy map.

Having worked with #GPU drivers I keep that crap off on the web browser (which is as much an an untrusted context as it gets) for paranoia reasons :P

Is there a fallback that folks like me could activate?

#mapping #opengl #security #openstreetmap