Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

OpenAI is now using legal threats to harass its critics, on the claim they're funded by billionaires to attack OpenAI

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/dlw78

HRDAG stands firmly with the human rights community in insisting that encryption is not optional — it is fundamental to the defense of truth.

Any attempt to ban or backdoor encryption technology is a threat to the human rights community.

https://hrdag.org/without-encryption-my-work-wouldnt-be-possible/

Boiling milk before use was just what you did. They had dedicated cookware for it. (Specially shaped to contain boil-overs, which milk is really prone to.)

Household hygiene had SERIOUSLY high stakes back before hot running water & pasteurization.

That's… like… why they taught home economics.

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"

That's... usually not the case!

In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.

We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
https://youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

PSA: Caregiving is NOT unskilled labor.

I run two small businesses while being the primary caregiver to an elder with significant support needs that are likely to increase over time.

I just had an affluent white man question why I didn't solve all of my problems by finding "anyone in the neighborhood, preferably a SAHM whose kids are at school", to stop by on occasion for 30 minutes for pennies to magically solve all of my challenges with this. His explicit example of this being unskilled:

hyped to share these two events this month @ @varia 🎇

come meet @f who is passing by for an evening! we will have a show & tell and some dinner: https://varia.zone/en/community-technology-from-below.html

we're finally doing a self-organised tech school thing 🤓 i'm aiming to dive into the nuts & bolts of @coopcloud along the way: https://varia.zone/en/vakbond-precaire-netwerken.html

#Permacomputing #CoopCloud #Rotterdam

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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SUPER-FUN-PAK COMIX, feat. A.I. High, Secret-Origin Man, How to Draw Doug, and MORE
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https://boingboing.net/2025/09/03/tom-the-dancing-bugs-super-fun-pak-comix-feat-shane-the-hurricane-a-i-high-and-more.html

Social murder, American style:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/09/social-murder-as-a-necropolitical-governance-technology.html

Hello everyone! I am Joy, a Palestinian writer and poet, I have just migrated from Blue Sky platform, after they deleted my accounts after I received a lot of interest, followers and fans for my writings and poems that I published on my personal page. Blue Sky platform decided that they will fight all Palestinian writers, and the only accusation is their nationality and their voice that they chose to silence and bury alive, but I am here now to complete my journey 💗

No one can eviscerate economists like another economist.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/09/james-galbraith-crash-in-top-economist-hiring-contradicts-elite-favoring-skill-biased-technical-change-theory.html

In the case of 404 Media, I guess I could stay on the free plan and use their Tip Jar? That's significantly more work for me to track and manage.

On groups.io, I instead have to upgrade to a paid plan for a month out of each year in order to pay them the amount of money I would like to pay them. It's very silly.

It kinda drives me nuts how companies choose their subscription tiers.

Just to pick on 404 Media for a moment, the lowest tier is $100/year. That's more than I want to pay, but I'd be fine with $50/year and a much reduced feature set, maybe even *no* features that a free user wouldn't get. (Basically, just a patronage tier.)

In these situations, I end up as a free user, even though I'd happily *donate*. They just make it surprisingly hard to do so.

The federal judge let Google off the hook in the antitrust case that the company supposedly lost. He said no to any serious remedy. And he indirectly killed Mozilla (Firefox and Thunderbird).

A good day for Google, and a terrible day for what's left of the open web.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/google-wont-have-to-sell-chrome-judge-rules/

"Amazon argued, that the class was too large to be manageable"

This is my favorite defense to a class action suit.

"We cheated so many people, we can't possibly be expected to make it up to everyone"

From: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/amazon-must-face-us-nationwide-class-action-over-third-party-sales-2025-09-02/

"If police are going to be using drones, we need much stronger limits on how they do that, including treating the flying of the drone as a search that requires a warrant,” EFF’s @Adam_D_Schwartz told the Columbus Dispatch. https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2025/09/02/central-ohio-police-adding-drones-sparking-civil-liberties-concerns/85634475007/

Risk terrain modeling “is a mathematical way of justifying a type of policing in certain people and neighborhoods that police have already wanted to surveil,” EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told @Kansasdotcom. https://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article311854329.html

The saga continues! Today's episode: "Today's version of farm slavery isn't even cheap, farmers are getting TURBO screwed."

https://youtube.com/shorts/e5R539XZj28

1: "Well ChatGPT says otherwise. It contradicts what you said about security."
0: "ChatGPT is consuming popular material from 10 years ago. The threat landscape has changed."

1: "Well the language is clear it's saying the exact opposite of you."
0: "It has made a statement. But what is it's reasoning. What is the logical argument behind its suggestion?"

1: "I just feel more comfortable going with what it say."
0: "After we've worked together for five years? After you've seen the results of my work? You realize this isnt your field of expertise? You arent able to explain its reasoning. Why it said it. The history and context behind it."

Well this is going to be fun.

Being a leader in your field and releasing new research that is different from the current consensus now has to fight AI and LLMs.

AI / LLMs is bias at scale. Now it's entrenched status quo.

AI cannot innovate. AI can only average out. And when that average is bad. Or dangerous. And speaks with authority. Folks will double down and be hurt.

Academia.edu, WTAF is this? Get rid of it! NOW!

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