Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Back in the height of the crypto-craze, they had an acronym for this: WAGMI - we're all going to make it. The AI shark has been officially jumped.

'“We are in a phase of the build-out where the entire industry’s got to come together and everybody’s going to do super well,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told the Wall Street Journal...'

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/circular-deals-bay-area-tech-21089538.php

This probably sounds a little out there, but just hear me out: how about we don't ever again elect a political party that provides material and moral support for a genocide?

"The mass killing in Gaza with US weapons has pushed a growing number of Americans to oppose military aid and weapon sales to Israel. However, the growing opposition...did not lead President Joe Biden or Donald Trump to curtail the flow of arms to Israel."

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/10/07/the-us-spent-over-31-billion-aiding-israel-in-the-past-two-years/

Deloitte Australia retracts ChatGPT report, refunds government

vibe compliance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HJVXS_E6iU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251007-deloitte-australia-retracts-chatgpt-report-refunds-government - podcast

time: 3 min 28 sec

I liked the internet more when it was an optional fixture in society.

We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.)
As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community.
Read this blog post about our approach and let us know what you think!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/our-ideas-about-packs/

NewsGuard is becoming a serious problem in the way it rates websites. Example:

https://www.levernews.com/reporting-reality-thats-partisan-now/

Ted Cruz picks a fight with #Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/ted-cruz-picks-a-fight-with-wikipedia-accusing-platform-of-left-wing-bias/ bad luck, ted, facts have a left-wing bias....

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting agents outside a Chicago ICE facility ... The rejection of charges by a grand jury, once extremely unusual, is growing more common in cities targeted by Trump's ICE and military...

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-two-chicago-area-ice-protesters

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Folks, this is a serious offer, coming from a super guy.

If this is for you, DM Rob.

California consumer privacy complaints can spark investigations. It’s important for all of us to speak up, because it really does make a difference. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/how-file-privacy-complaint-california

@lightweight "and by jumping to the fun part you're denying yourself the process" <- there it is; the core of it. it is the struggle that defines us, but the tech bro never experiences any and so feeds on the borrowed sense of achievement of others like a vampire, until all our creations are reduced to a pale and shambling, undead corpse. that's the risk of AI - that it robs us of our inspiration to even try.

“OpenAI is very seriously underestimating people’s creativity when it comes to harassment,” EFF’s @evacide told the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/07/sora-cameo-deepfake-consent/

This is quite a thoughtful takedown of 'AI', especially in art. It helps characters/express something most of us feel but can't quite explain: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

And so are our gushing pro-space industry politicians - calling for Aotearoa to become part of the arms industry. They're souless shitmerchants. This woman needs a new job. One that doesn't involved making decisions. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/574893/government-unveils-strategy-for-the-defence-industry

As a plane & space buff with engineering qualifications and piloting experience, I'm a big fan, in theory, of aerospace stuff... but I fully support these protestors - https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/575302/arrests-as-protesters-target-christchurch-aerospace-summit - though there seem to be a few 'good eggs', there're way too many elements of NZ's aerospace industry (especially RocketLab) who have betrayed our social values and have sold-out to US military interests. Not acceptable. RocketLab is particularly dishonourable: https://northandsouth.co.nz/2021/03/14/rocket-lab-military/

📢 LAUTI Release 1.1.1

Today we have published the newest version of LAUTI - Open Source Community Calendar.

This one is a bugfix release of which are important:
🪳 Fix for password reset
🪳 gzip compression fix

Complete changelog and release:
https://codeberg.org/Klasse-Methode/lauti/releases/tag/v1.1.1

As always, the release comes with updated @coopcloud recipe:
https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/

#Google’s Requirement For All #Android Developers To Register And Be Verified Threatens To Close Down #OpenSource App Store #FDroid - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/07/googles-requirement-for-all-android-developers-to-register-and-be-verified-threatens-to-close-down-open-source-app-store-f-droid/ the latest from me, fwiw...

We filed a brief opposing the SEC "gag rule," which bars those who settle with the SEC from talking to reporters to protect the SEC's reputation.

We shouldn't need to say this, but the government doesn't get to censor its critics to make itself look good.

https://fox4kc.com/business/press-releases/globenewswire/9540803/prominent-organizations-join-call-for-en-banc-rehearing-in-ncla-suit-against-secs-illegal-gag-rule/

What could 10,000 ICE jackboots each cost to recruit, Michael? $3,000,000? Wait, that cannot possibly be right *checks math*

"The [ad] campaign... is part of ICE’s $30 billion initiative to hire 10,000 more deportation officers by the end of the year."

Oh wow oh fuck jesus christ what the shit

https://www.apnews.com/article/trump-mass-deportations-ice-immigration-ads-473a7ac193cff625476f1ee21f82facd

The Tyrant In The White House - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/06/the-tyrant-in-the-white-house/ "A Deputy White House Chief of Staff—one of the most powerful people in the executive branch—declared that judicial review of presidential power is rebellion against the United States government."