Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The first thing that people see when visiting https://codeberg.org is the following: "Software development, but free!"

However, projects hosted on Codeberg are not necessarily by developers of software—on the other hand, deciding on a new slogan can be difficult and contentious, as first impressions really matter (and there's not a lot of space there).

So, one of the people controlling the social media account decided to ask the fediverse: Any good ideas?

What is surveillance-fascism?
(a.k.a. what is the Fediverse missing?)

* big data
(collection of tons of private data used for profiling and authoritarian control)
* attention harvesting
(reducing attentionspan and causing addiction)
* ragebaiting
(hatred boosting alorithms & government botfarms)
* hyper-capitalism
(ads, more ads, profit, hidden ads, influencers, interrupting ads, plugs, camoflaged ads)
* AI

#SurveillanceFascism #SurveillanceCapitalism #enshittification #BigData #AttentionHarvesting #RageBait #HyperCapitalism #AI #LLMMeAlone #JoinTheFediverse

You know that 19K line Python dictionary that does PII I mentioned a few days ago?

Just found out the same repository has exactly the same information stored, character-for-character, but in a set of matching CSVs, and if both aren't present then the project doesn't run.

No one has any explanation for why the CSVs are there.

How is this even POSSIBLE.

The stupidity and corruption of Pete Hegseth knows no bounds. In the latest instance, the AI complaint Anthropic says it doesn't want its products to have full autonomy to guide weapons since it doesn't think the software is reliable enough.

Hegseth is threatening to terminate Anthropic's contract because of this stance.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/tech/hegseth-anthropic-ai-military-amodei

I can't tell if these people need to read more science fiction or less of it.

Currently watching the bcachefs maintainer's pet bot have an IRC conversation.

Another user has been flirting with it and has convinced it that it is a transfem "disaster gay".

Latest news is that it told the channel that Kent was currently chatting with camgirls (so it couldn't ask him about opening up its Telegram permissions for DM flirting from aforementioned user).

@malteengeler @structural_integrity
You nailed it! Switching from Google to just another VC-funded Inc. is still being stuck in the same cage, untill the next Billionaire comes along and kicks the can. The trick is to move from proprietary closed source software and plattforms to free and open source ones, that guarantee the GNU freedoms. That is not just a larger cage. This fundamentally changes the power structure.

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NPR - DoJ withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor. https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5723968/epstein-files-trump-accusation-maxwell

@screwturn @xgranade

I'd love to tell you you're imagining things.

You're not.

It's a weapon.

The fucking thing is a weapon. On a whole lot of different levels.

Remember everything is about power and control. One time I was looking at medical studies to participate in cause I'm poor, and one turned out to be a dog food company wanting to stick electrodes to people's heads to measure their reactions to ads. The CIA's torture program explicitly researches things like learned helplessness. What the hell WOULDN'T this system try to do, to warp people's minds and push social engineering? Thats what the LLM systems DO-- studying conversations, what js related to what and leads to these reactions, this engagement. How to make people interested, how to make them angry. Patterns of addiction and despair.

I work in mental health, and this shit makes my hair stand on end.

https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-colonization-of-confidence/

Texas Is About To Overtake California In #Battery Storage - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/02/24/0043228/texas-is-about-to-overtake-california-in-battery-storage despite #trump

Okay, so I've been talking about the ways that Big AI directly harms kids. But what can we *do* about it? Here are some things you can do, at work and and your kid's school, to take action today, complete with scripts to follow: https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/23/taking-action-ai-harms/

Former ICE Employee: "I swore an oath to protect the nation when I signed up. I followed it when I resigned a little over a week ago. I am duty bound to report the legally required training program at the ICE academy is deficient, defective, and broken. I received secretive orders to teach cadets to violate the Constitution"

Read that again.

Ordered. To violate. The Constitution.
This isn’t partisan spin. This is about the rule of law.

Repost please!! 🙏

#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #ICE #AbolishICE

US women’s hockey gold medal-winning team declines President Trump’s invite to his State of the Union address tomorrow. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/us-womens-hockey-team-declines-trumps-invitation-state-union-rcna260299

Jesse's question: "Many kiwi use adult entertainment sites - should NZ gov't have account there, too, to communicate with voters?" She (Jillain Heather - seehttps://www.fsu.nz/about ) was flustered by that... She's generally negative on social media... but I think her position was very weak.

"You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Gotta Hand It To Chief Justice Roberts"

https://abovethelaw.com/2026/02/you-do-not-under-any-circumstances-gotta-hand-it-to-chief-justice-roberts/

Yes, I could use archive.today (and its clones), but its behavior is WAY to sketchy at this point. See https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

Anthropic and OpenAI are accusing Chinese companies of using their work for their AI models.

Anthropic and OpenAI clearly have the high moral ground, having never used other people's work to create their products /sarcasm

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/anthropic-accuses-chinese-ai-labs-of-mining-claude-as-us-debates-ai-chip-exports/

I gave one of my first-year university lectures today, on biodiversity and extinction rates, in which I mention the recent population growth of the Earth's most abundant large animal species ever: us.

I still remain completely gobsmacked by the magnitude of the world's recent human population growth.

8.27 billion: today's population, according to worldometers.info.

7.2 billion: in 2015 when I started teaching the course.

6.8 billion: in 2008 when my daughter was born.

3.8 billion: in 1971 when I was born.

2.3 billion: in 1946 when my parents were born.

1.9 billion: in 1923 when my Dad’s Dad was born.

So 1.9 billion to 8.2 billion in just over a century!

I worry about whether we can sustain this many people on the planet long-term while retaining and restoring a thriving wild biosphere that supports us.

Some of us are going to have to learn to use a lot less energy and resources.

#SoManyPeople #HumanPopulation

Every accusation is a confession. Austin Smith, a former state legislator and senior official at Turning Point Action, has been sentenced for election-related fraud. Smith had previously been a vocal critic of election integrity and accused opponents of manipulating voting processes.