Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#NeverForget the Chilean September 11th.

It was the start of the neoliberal takeover of every bit of our society, including our imaginations.

As usual, it was sponsored by the US, who wouldn't tolerate any alternative to its economic model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

#allende #chile #anticapitalism

A pre-debate fundraising text made it through the filter already. Guess I'm putting my phone in the microwave early tonight.

Actually, now that I've reread the bulletin, I think Microsoft is saying that a bug caused previously installed patches to roll back. These rollbacks have already occurred, Microsoft seems to be saying, and that opens up customers to vulnerabilities that were already under active exploitation. Does this make sense, or am I crazy (or both)?

Google's AI tooling for deciding unemployment cases is a RAG that hooks into a knowledge base that includes personal history and Nevada law: https://gizmodo.com/googles-ai-will-help-decide-whether-unemployed-workers-get-benefits-2000496215

This is exactly the kind of hybrid LLM-KG model that I wrote #SurveillanceGraphs about. The threat was never just the LLMs alone, but their integration into the broader logic of surveillance capitalism. The fact that humans will review recommendations from the model is not a safeguard, but a means of generating opaque discretionary decisions under the guise of objectivity. The fact that the tools don't work is irrelevant - they respond to the needs of efficiency and plausible deniability of agency, the brokenness of the models is a feature not a bug

https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/#nsf-open-knowledge-network
https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/#play-this-pattern-out-across-algorithmic-governance-predictive-p

🤣 https://consequence.net/2024/09/spinal-tap-donald-trump-sex-farm/

"But you can't make local infra as resilient as the cloud!"

Pfft, I think we have a decade of proof that statement is false. Local's also faster, and cheaper, if you invest anywhere near the same resources and don't just have a revolving door of contractors.
https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/113114055690172677

New comics section at In These Times for Midwest issue.

Kirk Anderson on "Milwaukee's Sewer Socialists" and Nate Powell on maintaining community in bleak times.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/sewer-socialists-comics-midwest

The House may again advance legislation that includes this awful bill as soon as tomorrow.

Tell your representative to oppose HR 9495 as long as it includes Section 4.

https://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/H.R.-9495-Bill-Text.pdf

Busy week for America's wettest, special boy. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/09/06/trump-campaign-events/

Whenever I'm confronted by a Microsoftie who doesn't like me denigrating their employer... I simply point them at this: https://web.archive.org/web/20051013062449/http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html It's a comprehensive catalogue of (merely) their first decade of ethical and technical failures, superbly written. I salute F.W van Wensveen, whoever that is, and the ire which inspired them. Documenting their subsequent failures is let as an exercise for a team of suitably enraged younger technologies with a flair for making routine failure literary.

@SteveSyfuhs @GossiTheDog With all due respect, you can make no guarantees that override company policy or physical access to an admin profile on a device, so you’re entirely wrong. Allowing the existence of such a database in the first place is a morally vile decision, and if your only defense is “you’re being emotional” then it might be time to shut the fuck up. The facts are against you, no matter how much you try to twist them, and it’s certainly not akin to a car on an assembly line.

The fact that *anyone* besides the richest assholes in the US (who want a somewhat malleable idiot as POTUS) actually support Trump demonstrates that the US' era is over. The Idiocracy is now - it's a nation (possibly) dominated by embarrassingly ignorant fools. It's heartbreaking and humiliating to admit that it's my homeland.

“When the AI provided an incorrect result, researchers found inexperienced and moderately experienced radiologists dropped their cancer-detecting accuracy from around 80% to about 22%. Very experienced radiologists’ accuracy dropped from nearly 80% to 45%.”

https://www.brainfacts.org/neuroscience-in-society/tech-and-the-brain/2024/why-ai-can-push-you-to-make-the-wrong-decision-at-work-090324

Who might be open to taking the lead on forming a living Legal Working Group? The commitment might look like quarterly meetings plus being responsive to questions from other working groups.

People who have in the past expressed interest include: @beckett @mako @dazinism @sam @Matt_Noyes @Eliot_L @dmokreis @GiacomoSansoni
@coopartisans @FreeScholar @toddxy @JosephAndriano @BillySmith

Can you help? Maybe start by organizing an initial meeting?

Thank you!

@lwriemen
No signs of social stratification at Gobekli Tepe...after that though, it's been all downhill 🤷‍♂️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHsSyhl_9VI

TFW I have to decide whether to immediately block someone simply because they are crowing about their DAO and posting AI art. Maybe it's mean, maybe it's judgemental, maybe they will post something interesting...

Yeah, no. We blockin' 'em. If you are that lost in the tech cult sauce, I probably don't need to be exposing myself to your brainworms, ya know?

I legit think civilization was probably a mistake (the industrial variety for sure, but probably all types, honestly). I'm having a hard time coming up with much in the way of benefits that aren't more than off-set by massive amounts of destruction and misery. Bill Hicks famously referred to humanity as "a virus with shoes." I don't think we're a virus, but I do think modern civilization is like one of these parasitic fungi that infect ants and make them engage in self-destructive behavior.

Billions lost from small retailers in tax evasion, says watchdog - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/09/billions-lost-from-small-retailers-in-tax-evasion-says-watchdog "National Audit Office says trail of tax debts left by small UK retailers is widespread and increasing every year" tackling this should be priority - easy way to boost funding

@dynamic most of that seems correct. Though, you say "Fedi protocols" and when I use the term Fedi, it's short for Fediverse and that is specifically the nickname for ActivityPub. If a protocol doesn't connect to ActivityPub directly, it's not the Fediverse. Those protocols do connect, but that's because they had to change to do so when AP became more popular. BlueSky isn't and probably won't be Fediverse, just bridged to the Fediverse.

Also, BlueSky isn't all one big instance. Here's a detailed explanation of bluesky that I wrote earlier today. It's long, but very detailed.

https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware/113101470288348371

Nothing like some good old free speech and democracy, amiright? So glad the enlightened West isn't run by people like that nasty old Putin. I hear they don't have any human rights at all over there. That must be awful...

"Armed counter-terrorism police wearing balaclavas were used against a peaceful, female journalist. She was manhandled and physically hurt. The ashes in her mother’s funerary urn were desecrated in a ‘search’. "

https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/sarah-wilkinson-in-her-own-words/