Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are incapable of fulfilling [their responsibility to protect and improve the lives of their citizens] use the smokescreen of war to hide their failure and, in the process, line the pockets of a select few – the same ones as always; the only ones who profit when the world stops building hospitals and starts building missiles.” .. Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/04/pedro-sanchez-donald-trump-threat-cut-off-trade-spain?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Submedia_PT/116170814629220394

Members of subMedia are screening It's Revolution or Death in multiple cities in the territories occupied by the state of Brazil. Tomorrow vamos à Divinópolis

Michael de Adder

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is heading for a loss of 14 billion dollars this year. Its market share is plummeting, and CEO Sam Altman recently admitted that they have “screwed up” their product. All it takes now to accelerate that decline is ten seconds of your time:

Cancel your ChatGPT subscription.

#QuitGPT

I get asked to show up to book clubs, online and offline. Here is why from now on the answer is always "no." If you think this might have something to do with "AI" ruining yet another thing for everyone, you're absolutely 100% correct.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/03/03/indefinite-book-club-hiatus/

Call to action to cis people: be assholes anytime you get asked for your sex assigned at birth. Write letters, complain to staff, refuse to answer. Make it impossible to collect sex assigned at birth. Be really offended that anyone would ask you. Make enough noise that if trans people want to quietly not answer or give whatever answer feels correct to them, no one will notice.

#Boost #CallToAction

"On average, developers anyway create mediocre code" is not an argument justifying generating more of it at, at least, a magnitude higher rate.

"Async PR reviews often end up with just LGTM-stamping anyway" is not an argument justifying doing even less of code reviews by going from at least one person per PR understanding the implementation to zero.

Writing HTML and CSS is not so complicated. What *is* complicated is everything that tries to do it for you.

https://manchicken.com/2026/03/03/refinishing-tumblers/

And if you haven't seen "An expat in Dubai" by Stephen Collins, please drop everything and go read it right now, as it is hilarious:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/picture/2026/mar/03/expat-dubai-startling-revelation-the-stephen-collins-cartoon

Consuming spice and looking past today's snow and I can see the Golden Path to the extended forecast showing temps in the high 60°sF/20°sC.

When someone is in crisis, they don't need a referral to a referral to a referral to a referral to a referral to a referral to a referral (I'm not kidding--this goes 7 layers deep), with each step requiring hours devoted to some combo of emails, texts, phone calls, forms to fill out, and home visits, all transmitting the same info, only to find out that the next step is yet another intake process.

I'm not sure I've got the stamina to jump through enough hoops to find out if services actually exist or if it's just recursive intake forever. I've encountered some kind and empathetic people along the way, but all they've done is add to my workload.

There's gotta be a better way.

I think people who are relying on LLMs etc being erroneous in various ways to save us from takeover by the AI techbros need to read "Worse is Better".

The history of tech is inferior but cheaper or faster solutions beating otherwise superior ones. Yeah it won't do our jobs as well as we can, but the ostensible savings will justify it. Not least because the cost of mistakes won't show up in a way that can be attributed to the clankers.

Perhaps what might save us is when the huge subsidies are removed. But people have been waiting for Uber to fall over from running out of VC cash for a long time too.

We keep hearing that only 'AI', whose profound ability to grasp complex systems, could solve a problem as wicked, entangled and multi-dimensional as global warming.*

This report details not only why that has no basis in reality, but that this fairytale is part of an industry campaign to make BigAI look like it's part of a habitable future, covering the tracks for genAI's massive footprint.

https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/big-tech-greenwashing-report/

* Turns out the trick is not spewing CO2 & CH4 into the air

#ai #climate #genai

@orrickle Meanwhile, writers who take on rural labor usually focus on strikes done by miners & textile mills.

Writers who talk about sharecropping & tenant farming tend to put it as a racial justice problem rather than an economic problem. (It absolutely WAS a racial justice problem. Folks just seem to have trouble understanding that racial justice problems do in fact impact the wider economy & aren't "just a Black folks' problem." Aaaaaaaaa)

Good News! 🚨👀

I am delighted to finally announce today what I've been working on in the past few weeks:

Privacy Guides' new Activism section!
https://privacyguides.org/activism/

The Activism section offers a new way to empower the digital rights community. It will progressively grow with more tools to support the community in its privacy activism effort, both for individuals and organizations 💛

As Privacy Guides' new Activism & Outreach Lead, I will be working hard on developing this section even further in the coming weeks, adding many more tools to support our community.

I hope this can be a helpful resource for anyone who is ready to fight for privacy rights ✊🔒

#PrivacyGuides #Activism #Privacy #DigitalRights #HumanRights