Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

It's so good to see this in the MIT Tech Review. Let's hope the message gets through. 🤞Big props to @timnitGebru & @emilymbender for putting such a fine point on things!

"Instead of OpenAI being prosecuted for creating malware that hacked another company, press releases, news outlets, media personalities, and lawmakers refer to “rogue models” as if they acted on their own. Instead of researchers being questioned about their companies’ habit of plagiarizing academics’ work or using customer data to train models without consent, the public’s imagination is redirected to fears about what the future might hold upon the arrival of fictional superintelligent machines."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1144867/dont-be-fooled-summer-ai-hype/

@rhelune That's why I look for what I need here first: https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html
The Starlight network is awesome. I've contributed to it also, I added Drop to the list.

RE: https://expressional.social/@Peter_Link/117313011772209343

how callous do you have to be to deny basic help to the very people you injured?

blogged: I said no and Apple said yes

https://dbushell.com/2026/09/22/apple-intelligence/

just more AI industrial complex bullshit 🫩

We were raised to treat spelling mistakes and bad grammar as a sign of a lack of intelligence but in 2026 the absolute worst, most thoughtless content is LLM-written posts with perfect grammar and spelling

it's official, Facebook wants you to buy a subscription to post or comment with more than two links in a month

https://www.facebook.com/help/1929252614431792

Trump Says Arch Must Be Built Because We Need Somewhere To Store Our Precious ‘Sniper Ammo’ - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/21/trump-says-arch-must-be-built-because-we-need-somewhere-to-store-our-precious-sniper-ammo/ "Satire is dead. But it’s been dead since the first Trump administration, back when people were “owning the libs” with a combination of horse dewormers and willfully contracting COVID."

@whvholst @suzi_1960 @altbot it also has been trained by stealing knowledge and curated by exploited people.

It's a thousandfold better writing our alt text by ourselves.

AI generated image of a herd of sheep in front of a glass door, in what seems to be great britain.

The sheep on the front has five feet.

On the glass door, a piece of paper which says the following : "Important notice about Barbara. This is Barbara. Barbara does not live here. Barbara lives on the farm across the road. Three weeks ago, a guest opened the door and gave Barbara a piece of toast. This was a mistake. Barbara returned the following morning with another sheep. The next morning there were four. By Friday there were eleven. Breakfast service was temporarily suspended. Please do not feed Barbara. Barbara is not hungry. Barbara is recruiting."

Behind the herd is a chalkboard which says, in a AI-loved font: "Good Food, Brighter Days".

What to do when your very union pivots to AI? It is not going protect you if you get fired for refusing to use LLMs! Found another union!

Radical Union Organizing Workshop in Copenhagen: https://dukop.dk/en/event/radical-union-organzing-workshop/10629/

#union #Copenhagen #Denmark #Danmark #noAI #AI #LLM #LLMs #København

Government records are part of the public record, but digital information can be difficult to preserve, find, and use.

The Internet Archive has received an IMLS grant to develop ATLAS, a national program supporting preservation and access to local and state government information. The project will train 100 government and partner institutions and build new resources for the field.

Learn more 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/10/atlasimls/

"We're not even the product anymore, which is why all these companies no longer give a solitary shit about whether their stuff is good or fun to use. We're the raw material that they mine."

https://matduggan.com/you-know-gdpr-is-good-based-on-who-hates-it/

Remember if you have the money. Pick an #opensource project you like / use / adore and donate some money to it so it can keep exiting!

LLMs are fascist technology.

Note that I didn't say "cloud-hosted LLMs" or "LLMs that aren't local-only" or some other qualifier. I did not, in fact, stutter.

So California AG Bonta and his colleagues from other states were engaging in antitrust theater. Their "settlement" with the soon-to-be media giant Paramount -- that is, Larry Ellison and his sock-puppet son (and three Arab-oil dictatorships) -- is a pathetic cave-in. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/critics-say-california-got-too-little-in-deal-to-let-paramount-buy-warner-bros/ar-AA2cHhTk

Huge anti-ICE pasteup memorial in Minneapolis for those killed by ICE in the past year.
The pasteup is in the Whittier neighborhood, on the same block as Alex Pretti's memorial.

This is most worrying: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/1520107/dolphin-found-dead-on-invercargill-beach-died-from-toxoplasmosis the idea that cat-dependent parasites can wash into coastal waters and infect our rarest, most precious taonga species is devastating. This is on us.

"Short nerds with high-pitched voices insist Conversation Simulator 2000 is going to turn into a living thing and wipe out humanity, and the only safe path forward is if they are granted full power to steward AI development. The world’s media hangs off their every word.

"Meanwhile, coverage of the actual life-threatening apocalypse only gets lower and lower every month. And the industry itself shows no sign of letting up in its plan to keep expanding the use of fossil fuels to feed data centre energy hunger. They’re fossil fuel cultists injecting methane gas directly into the heart of their machine god."

#AusPol #AI #ClimateChange

https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/anthropic-openai-artificial-intelligence-data-centres-climate-change-jacob-coxon/

Shout out to everyone protesting at the Kennedy Center tonight.

#KennedyCenter #fascism #uspol

remember: if you want to do something incredibly unpopular like use LLMs in your project, start a discussion thread and make sure to flood it with the most noxious pro-AI guys you can find. if some of them are racists, that’s perfect! then when the rest of the community reacts strongly to you wanting to do something horrid and the discussion thread about it being filled with horrid people, lock the thread because it’s “too heated”. then you can do whatever you want because the discussion has concluded!

isn’t that right, KDE?