Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

It’s starting to feel like Threads isn’t integrating ActivtyPub in good faith. Besides no new fediverse features in many months, now they’re popping up this message up which will likely discourage many users from keeping it on. And if they’re influencing people to turn it off, they could then say the data suggests people aren’t interested in the feature.

I should be more clear about this, actually. I don't think that all or even most people who call themselves "libertarians", and who use the word "freedom" actually desire a Pinochet-like dictatorship. I do think that it's worth pointing out that von Hayek was just dandy with a violent dictator with a penchant for throwing his political opposition out of helicopters, and that his thought lead him to support that outcome should tell us something about 1/2

What libertarians mean when they talk about "freedom" (hint: it's a dictatorship).

https://archive.ph/R4cXB

I think Jerome is pretty on the money here. Wanna know who to blame a 2nd Trump administration? Every Dem who insisted that there not be a primary.

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau for June 30, 2024 - GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/06/30

The Internet Archive is hiring a Director of Platform Engineering. In my opinion, this is the most crucial and important position we have had open at the company in some time. The right person in this position is not just helpful, but a make or break key between success and merely acceptable levels of technological advance for the archive. It's a non-profit level of pay but the work is world changing.

https://app.trinethire.com/companies/32967-internet-archive/jobs/91807-director-of-platform-engineering

What’s the relationship between combating the far right and working for systemic change? Mark your calendars: "Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics & Antifascism" book launch Sunday 7/14 at 4pm at our bookstore in Ithaca NY, Autumn Leaves Books, featuring co-editor (and Ithaca native) Matthew N. Lyons!

#books #fascism #antifa #antifascism #politics

If you are not worried about AI's massive power consumption, you are in good company (for some definition of "good") 👇

‘Let’s not go overboard’ on worries about AI energy use, Bill Gates says
https://archive.ph/jwlUn

Whaddya think folks, are we about ready to get a good look at the brick wall? Or maybe we're already seeing it....

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CNN is flummoxed, foundering, and ruderless. They might has well have had Vanna White at the debate, pointing to the next question. The Times is broken. The Post is being invaded from within. Murdoch's empire has been successful at its insurrectionist mission. Sinclair is accessory to that crime. Hedge funds control most newspaper chains. News media are a dire disaster and, no, it's not a crisis of business. It is a crisis of mission.

Some self-soothe by reading powerless Supreme Court dissents. I do it by declaring noon as Beer O'Clock.

Daniel Dale is CNN's fact checker. He's fact-checking the debate in real time on his Twitter feed.

There are a couple things Biden's said that Dale says are not quite right, or need some context explained to be technically true.

Other than that, it's dozens and dozens of tweets pointing out Trump's bald-faced lies.

Some reason CNN isn't running this as a Chyron on the broadcast?

If you have not yet watched John Oliver’s presentation of the plans for Trump’s second term, I recommend you do.

Yes, it is a comedy show, but the facts presented are extremely important and eye opening.

Last Week Tonight is on Max, but if you are not a subscriber, there is a 30 minute version of the show here on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/gYwqpx6lp_s?si=sV2g9mQkSK9I2hJQ

When CNN decided to let Trump lie with zero fact checking, it gave Trump its biggest gift to date.

CNN has decided, based on its pre-debate "coverage", that the two major-party candidates are very much equivalent.

The network's correspondents surely know that they are pushing the worst kind of false balance, but it is what they do routinely.

Business as usual in Big Journalism will be seen by honest historians as one of the most effective enablers of fascism in America.

the allegory of the nazi bar

@agx @dos @kyle I work on this phone. you hit the nail on the head; it is our goal to share and upstream as many of our improvements as possible throughout our shared stack. you may have already seen me around GitLab now and again. :)

re: mainline, afraid it's not in our roadmap. getting the device in a halfway semi-usable state would be a decade-long project and the result would be ~the same to an end user. we prefer to focus our energy on improving the userspace (e.g. GTK perf, Firefox, etc)

I just recorded an episode of BetterOffline and, uh, I may have gone too hard.

I may have laughed openly at the CTO of OpenAI's PR statements.

I dimly recall saying that modern Agile has mutated so badly that "we're on Kamino but all the clones have eight heads" and accused GenAI waste of being measurable in dead dog tonnage looking at treatment costs in Fiji.

Just going to leave my Patreon link here before I get fired, thanks, remember me fondly, I would do it again: https://www.patreon.com/Ludic190

@davidgerard it’s finally gotten through to the LLM boosters that normal people fucking hate the idea of LLMs enshittifying creative work, and it’s very funny watching them throw shit at the wall trying to find a use case that isn’t universally hated

“uhhh we’ll have the LLMs replace lawyers and garbage people, surely you don’t hate that” and it turns out most people hate losing lawsuits and appreciate when their trash gets collected, which you’d think would be obvious, but