Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

How not to write an essay.

I think I'm going to stop boosting all Bluesky bridged accounts.

The authors want the audience of the fediverse but don't want to engage. That seems disrespectful to me.

I get that we all have only so much time, however. Still, a Bluesky-bridged account imo is a zombie account in my opinion.

Due to a misreading of the entire movie, they're digging for the medbed that cured the President and made him a better person that was featured in the motion picture "Dave."

“The extensive data collection in the Atlas browser could be a privacy nightmare for users,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/22/chatgpt-atlas-browser/

A DHS warrant seeking ChatGPT user prompts “means it’s more important than ever for OpenAI and other AI companies to think about how to limit the amount of data they collect on their users,” EFF’s Jennifer Lynch told Forbes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/10/20/openai-ordered-to-unmask-writer-of-prompts/

ICE isn’t the secret police, and the private detention centers it contracts with to hold tens of thousands of people — including journalists it arrests — shouldn’t be off-limits to FOIA requests.

Use our action center to tell your member of Congress: FOIA should apply to private facilities.

https://freedom.press/issues/safeguard-incarcerated-journalists/#:~:text=journalists%20covering%20them.-,Fight%20ICE%20secrecy,-Help%20make%20private

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The Smythe family of Chagrin Falls, USA, gets Trumped on by the president...
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Please don't muddle the winning message that "these guys are weird Nazis, we're not." https://www.patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

huh. I wonder what was different about 2021-2024

Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/

No major #banks have yet committed to stop funding new #oil, #gas and #coal, research finds | Fossil fuel divestment | The Guardian

#FoosilFuels still receive huge subsidies from governments.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/22/no-major-banks-have-yet-committed-to-stop-funding-new-oil-gas-and-coal-research-finds

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Banking #Finance

Global use of #coal hit record high in 2024 | Coal | The Guardian

Still a long way to go…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/22/global-use-of-coal-hit-record-high-in-2024

#Environment #FoosilFuels #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Energy #Industry

Yesterday, Apple took the EU to court, to argue that it's "really mean" and "totally, like, not fair" to expect it to allow "stinky competitors" to access APIs on iOS. @fsfe intervened on behalf of "users" to argue why 6(7) does apply even to FruitCo. Their hearing is at https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251021-01.en.html

#AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds - https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/21/ai_eats_leisure_time/ where is my surprised face...?

I'd really prefer if countries invest in HI (Human Intelligence) through education instead of giving taxpayers money to a few (foreign) companies for AI.

Local man realizes he's the only one getting his podcast appearances marked with the explicit tag

Here's one Democrat who's not afraid of his own shadow -- calling out America's Gestapo (aka Ice) for its attacks, which are going to escalate massively, on our nation:

Most Democrats -- and basically ALL of Big Media -- are too cowardly to yell about what is happening.

https://bsky.app/profile/senchrislarson.bsky.social/post/3m3pl3257322m

I voted at my county's Vote Center last week. Check your county's website for info. Everyone's also supposed to be getting mail ballots.

This is a crucial vote for America's future, if we are going to avoid dictatorship.

When anyone says "LLMs as normal technology" see if it's actually any better than "blockchains as normal technology" or "NFTs as normal technology"

this is the excuse crew trying to calm the increasingly pissed off crowd