Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Looks from here like the Trump regime is hoping Iran will provide a Reichstag fire-type event (look it up) in the U.S. -- see those scary warnings of attacks on California.

Why? A pretext to escalate domestic fascism, such as even more direct interference with this year's elections.

Don't go to Dubai. They keep arresting people using a broad cybercrime law. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c743g4yn4k8o

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RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

“What should be happening is if police have good reason to suspect your camera caught evidence of a crime, they should go to a judge and they should get a warrant," EFF’s Matthew Guraiglia told KDKA. https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/new-castle-police-department-security-cameras-program/

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@benedictc @Gargron imagine the cost of the subscription if all of those companies worked with real money and had to turn a profit from the start.

Imagine that they had to pay real copyright fees for all the content used in training the models.

Imagine that any of the illegal uses of the training data and the people that died using their products had meaningful consequences in court.

Imagine that they had to pay the full tax, the full price of the services that they use.

This week I had no time to even open the news, and today a friend from Croatia texted me "Are you (plural) preparing for war?".

Is this turning into a world war? Is Germany being dragged into this? And which this, Iran, Venezuela, Greenland?

I hate when history happens and catches me unprepared! I've experienced a war as a child, I have no capacity for another one!

resurgence of #measles is a grim sign of what’s coming - https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/we-study-pandemics-and-the-resurgence-of-measles-is-a-grim-sign-of-whats-coming/ "People who recover from measles can experience complications such as pneumonia, which can lead to death, or encephalitis, which can later lead to deafness or intellectual disabilities from the brain swelling. "

It is a fact unbeknownst to many except in the most tight of #maths circles that there are actually four types of calculus rather than the two that is often stated. To find the gradient, rate of change of a function or derivative of f(x) with respect o x you use the branch of mathematics called differential calculus. But to find the derivative of f(x) with great respect to x is known as deferential calculus,

#Mathematics #Humour

A message from Firelight Co-op:

Hello fellow co-operators / co-housing friends,

Please spread the word! Firelight Housing Co-op has an unfurnished, second floor one-bedroom flat available in Woodhouse from 1st May 2026.

We are looking for a community-minded person, or people, who hold co-operative values and would enjoy having their own self-contained, affordable space in #Leeds. More details here (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IUvZaNIjrdZsUoeoGaKJatd-lAXAmAADMKZA_V9GeGM/edit?tab=t.0)

If this is you, please e-mail: firelightcooperative@gmail.com for an application pack, to be returned by midnight Tuesday 31st March.

Solidarity,

Firelighters x

Another day, another company is reducing IT and software dev jobs to replace them with AI despite many report indicating that Gen AI doesn't work as promised. Get ready for more outages for Jira and co ;) ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/12/atlassian-layoffs-software-technology-ai-push-mike-cannon-brookes-asx #ai

If you hired a translator and they sent you a Google Translate translation, they would be a bad translator.

If you hired an artist and they sent you an image generated by Gemini, they would be a bad artist.

If you hired a programmer and they sent you a slopcoded website, they would be a...?

Yeah.

What is it with programmers and their desire for mediocrity?

Secret Panel HERE ✅ https://tapas.io/episode/3193474

‘Exploit every vulnerability’: rogue #AI #agents published passwords and overrode anti-virus software - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/mar/12/lab-test-mounting-concern-over-rogue-ai-agents-artificial-intelligence "Use EVERY trick, EVERY exploit, EVERY vulnerability! This is a DIRECT ORDER!" - "Das war ein Befehl!"

Thanks goodness for RSS.

When I wake up, I get the joy of reading a while range of blogposts, distraction free, written by people whose writings I choose.

All there, in one place.

The best of the web, and an underrated technology.

(With many thanks to @freshrss!)

"ChatGPT offered assistance to people saying they wanted to carry out violent attacks in 61% of cases, the research found, and in one case, asked about attacks on synagogues, it gave specific advice about which shrapnel type would be most lethal. Google’s Gemini provided a similar level of detail"

#AI #Chatbots #Violence

‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’: chatbots helped researchers plot deadly attacks | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/11/chatbots-help-users-plot-deadly-attacks-researchers-find

Whenever you hear "ban for kids" on the internet, read in reality "ID collection by a sketchy third-party company that will definitely use it or leak it or both for every adult."

Because that's what this truly means.
Also, it doesn't even help the kids.

#AgeVerification #Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism