Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Anthropomorphizing language can be cute when applied to your favorite car, but it helps to muddy the discourse when applied to tech sold as "AI", especially given all the boosters and AGI-cult members peddling their nonsense about imminent artificial minds. New from me & Nanna Inie on Tech Policy Press -- how to spot & revise away from anthropomorphizing language applied to "AI":

https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/

I've been reading about what really helped people who had problems with "AI Psychosis" and one tip jumped out at me:

Open a second window and tell it exactly the opposite of each thing you say.

This helps to expose the sycophancy and shatters the illusion of sincerity and humanity.

Thought it was worth sharing. And frankly, it's exactly such an exercise that made me disgusted with the tech. "It just says ANYTHING is wonderful and genius. I'm not special."

This is the document, Trump does not want you to see.

In 1916, under President Woodrow Wilson, the United States signed the purchase of the Virgin Islands from Denmark, in a convention in which the United States recognised Denmark's right to the whole of Greenland.

Danish MP's of The Defence Committee will convene in the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility at 18:00 to discuss the defence of Greenland.

Full text: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-39/pdf/STATUTE-39-Pg1706.pdf#page=1

@dvdhaven *First nations / indigenous people have entered the chat*

BREAKING: Denmark announces historical claim to North America 🇩🇰

Our Vikings were there in 1021 CE.
755 years before USA existed.

If we’re doing territorial grabs based on ”who was there first”... we’ll see ourselves in.

Vinland (Wineland, red. Han) remembers (original name we gave this piece of land in the Norse Sagas).🍷⚔️
#USPol
#Politics

It is absolutely *wild* to me that media organizations still do not put RSS/Atom feed info front-and-center on their websites.

One needs to dive into HTML code or use external tools to discover their feeds.

It is wild because this is one of the easiest, least-effort ways to reach their audience. Encouraging RSS/Atom use is a phenomenal way of becoming less reliant on gatekeepers like huge social media platforms.

Come on!

Dr Oz just announced that the regime will withhold Medicaid funding to the entire state of Minnesota.

This decision will kill people.

They’re going to force the most vulnerable to suffer to score political points.

There are other ways to address alleged fraud that don’t involve leaving the disabled, poor and marginalized without healthcare.

#uspol #fascism #medicaid #eugenics #ableism #healthcare #DrOz #minnesota

The solar PV story is pretty incredible. China's long term strategic plan (with all the negative things that went with it) is bearing amazing fruit that's changing the economic proposition around the world, especially in the poorer (colonised) global South: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8JFCJP70rg

How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought.

https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html

#github #floss

Indigenous resistance is not a one-time event. It continually asks: What proliferates in the absence of empire? - Nick Estes
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Tony Dookiepill's at the CBS anchor desk, while this genius is on the 60 Minutes stooges' stool. https://www.patreon.com/posts/bari-minutes-147010265

Still time to make "Final Destination: House Majority" and get it out for winter movie garbage time.

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at a Venezuela invasion
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Brought to you by the proud and mighty Inner Hive, including longtime member G.L. Waters and new member Laura Testa-Reyes.
( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

Digital independence will be critical. It was always critical, but dumbasses refused to see it. Now, that democracy is being lost in chunks at the digital front, they might wake the fuck up and see it for what it is.

Countries will either go for digital independence, or forfeit their sovereignty. If a non-US government is still using #MicroSoft for their OS and productivity suite, if they are still using #Amazon or #Google for hosting their services, they are fucked.

#FOSS saves.

FPF and @404mediaco got access through a FOIA lawsuit to the agreement giving ICE access to Medicaid patients’ data.

On Tuesday, ICE will be allowed to continue using Medicaid data in deportation cases.

Read the agreement here:

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/heres-the-document-giving-ice-80-million-medicaid-patients-data/

We’re hiring for a position in our Binghamton, NY warehouse! Check out the job description and apply here: https://tinyurl.com/pmwarehousejob

Be wary, be wary, on Sixth January,
for nooses, and zip-ties, and rage;
I see no reason why red-hatted treason
should ever be given a stage.

‘A silent majority’: MPs underestimate support for green policies, study reveals - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/05/mps-underestimate-support-green-policies-study "From solar subsidies to meat taxes, minority rightwing voices appear to drown out the consensus" the rest of us must shout more #climatecrisis

The actual reason for kidnapping Maduro:

US refiners mull switch to alternative lighter crudes amid Trump tariff fears

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-refiners-mull-switch-alternative-lighter-crudes-amid-trump-tariff-fears-2025-02-20/

I wish we had spent the last 26 years teaching people that the reason the 2000 bug didn't destroy a significant amount of our infrastructure is because *we caught it* and *spent thousands of hours fixing it* BEFORE the year 2000

Because within that little perplexion - people thinking the problem was a hoax because it was fixed before it destroyed shit - is an encapsulation of the current era of Western politics, including COVID mitigation, lesser evil politics, fascism, and crime rate hyperbole