Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@ophiocephalic ahahaha incredible

these capitalist fuckers can’t help themselves. everything has to be a grift. they’ll sell Karl Marx NFTs and a Kropotkin metaverse moderated by slave labor if they think anyone’s buying

so many of the people who for years wrote about how the actual duty of a senior software developer is to remove code from the codebases and molding the junior coworkers into fully-fledged professionals is now enthusiastically writing about inducing confabulation machines to extrude enormous amounts of code-like product, and how glorious it is that the infinite lies machine made junior developers obsolete.

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/115579264442185020

Yesterday, my colleagues were flabbergasted when I said that I don't use any chatbots. Well, here's one of the major reasons why

A little belatedly sharing this piece that I published in The Chronicle of Higher Educations's Opinion Forum (sorry full text is paywalled)

https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-ai-is-changing-higher-education

Ugh, listening to RNZ right now - Kathryn Ryan talking to a US correspondent, who's just stated, with what sounds like a straight face, that US Republicans are saying that the reduced tax on wealthy people will 'trickle down' to poor people. And Kathryn didn't even question the legitimacy of that concept. Come on Kathryn, you need to call this stuff out.

But I think it's enough to want something to still be there. For everyone.

A classic 1962 Christmas comic/humor piece from the great Al Jaffee.
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https://boingboing.net/2025/12/13/al-jaffees-legendary-mad-christmas-toy-feature.html

https://kolektiva.media/w/4qyKcvcqy1SMyfe9UiaLYe

A subMedia tradition for 2025, hot off the GPU to your eye sockets.

A Moscow court has officially labelled Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot an 'extremist group'.

Founding member Nadya Tolokonnikova, now living in exile, is not phased however:

"When I was tried for the punk prayer, facing seven years in a labor camp, I told the judge and prosecutors that I was still freer than they would ever be," she said in comments sent to AFP. "In today's Russia, telling the truth is extremism. So be it – we're proud extremists, then."

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/12/15/russia-outlaws-feminist-protest-band-pussy-riot_6748524_4.html

Yes. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/581692/how-to-support-a-low-emissions-farming-future We just need to halve the herd. That simple. Yeah, farmers will fail. That's how 'the market' deals with unsustainable businesses. But they're not 'the backbone of NZ' - that's a comforting but misleading narrative. The only thing that trickles down in that industry is nitrogen.

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@AmplifierFilms/115724115395437637

Urgent support needed for Camp Sovereignty

Camp Sovereignty is holding the line through the winter. That takes real, ongoing resources. To give a very concrete sense of what that means: it costs around $600 a week in gasoline just to run the generators. That doesn’t include food, winter gear, repairs, or the countless other day-to-day needs of keeping a camp alive in freezing conditions. People are committed to being there all winter.

Anything you can give—$5, $20, $100—makes a difference. Sustained struggles aren’t powered by big institutions; they’re powered by lots of regular people stepping up however they can.

https://campsouverainete.org/

If you can’t donate money right now, there’s another solid way to help:

Organize a screening of Blockade.
Host it in your community, at a school, a union hall, a café, or in your living room. You can also invite land defenders to join by Zoom and speak directly about what’s happening on the ground. It’s a powerful way to raise funds and build real understanding and solidarity.

All the details on how to organize a screening and support the camp are here:
https://amplifierfilms.ca/blockade

Frontline camps like this exist because people refuse to look away. Thanks to everyone who keeps showing up, sharing, donating, and standing in solidarity.

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/115724132956499253

“tests from earlier this year found that AI agents failed to complete tasks up to 70% of the time, making them almost entirely redundant as a workforce replacement tool. At best, they're a way for skilled employees to be more productive and save time on low-level tasks, but those tasks were already being handed off to lower-level employees. Having an AI do it and fail half the time isn't exactly a winning alternative.”

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/115723674656240039

Happy 3rd birthday #Phanpy!!! And congratulations @cheeaun for this incredible milestone!!! 🥳

My favorite thing about Phanpy is definitely its Catch Up feature. The Fediverse already has a strong focus on genuine human connections... and Phanpy's Catch Up takes things to the next level. I love clicking on the profile photos of people I follow to see what they've been up to.

In my eyes Phanpy is the BEST social media client out there.

Thank you for Phanpy and keep up the incredible work!

My way of rebelling against techbros and autocrats:

December 2024: quit all Big Tech platforms and start #selfhosting essential services

December 2025: write guides for newbies about how to self-host

I'm also in discussion with a blogger I admire to start a podcast about tech... where we'll focus on solutions (instead of problems)... aiming to inspire others to join in...

It's been a really heavy year but these little acts of rebellion give me hope ✨

While you can configure the alarm clock sound in #Phosh the default isn't great atm (it's the fallback from the freedesktop.org sound theme).

If your into 🎵 music / sound design and want to provide us with a good morning wake up sound 😴 please join us on Matrix at https://matrix.to/#/#phosh:phosh.mobi .

The sounds we ship in sound-theme-phosh are usually also used by distributions like @postmarketOS, , @mobian and others so this would make a real difference for our daily driving users.

#LinuxMobile #Sound

Kristi Noem also caught lying about why she ran from that Congressional hearing - https://boingboing.net/2025/12/11/kristi-noem-also-caught-lying-about-why-she-ran-from-that-congressional-hearing.html "When she can't take the heat, puppy slayer Kristi Noem runs from the hearing." vile coward

If you want a rigorous analysis of why statistical #AI models collapse when continuously trained on their own data without external supervision and constraints, read this amazing paper from last year.

If you want to get a visual intuition of how model collapse looks like, look at this video.

When AI stares at its own reflection for too long, and its inference is purely rooted on statistics rather than reasoning, this becomes statistically inevitable.

Keep this in mind whenever you hear someone talking about “AI models learning from their own outputs” without addressing the statistical parrot issue.

Planting worker co-op seeds this morning. May they fall on fertile ground 🤞