Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Listening to the doctor talking up 'Heidi', the 'AI' scribe used by doctors to speed note taking... and struck by the irony of the call being interrupted by technical issues. It's crucial to realise this system only works if we've got working int'l connectivity, and are paying eye-watering amounts to the foreign service providers.

The report “Actions for environmental justice from autonomous and community-based technological infrastructures,” by APC members Sursiendo and May First Movement Technology, examines alternatives for environmental justice.

See this and other highlights in our #recap:

https://www.apc.org/en/news/accountability-and-resilience-what-our-2025-top-content-portends-year-ahead

Microsoft Locks Down Discord Server After People Wouldn’t Stop Making Fun Of #AI ‘#Microslop’ - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/16/microsoft-locks-down-discord-server-after-people-wouldnt-stop-making-fun-of-ai-microslop/

The Latest Front in the Battle Over Climate Lawsuits: Bills Wiping Out Liability - https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14032026/republican-legislation-shielding-polluters-from-climate-lawsuits/ shameful greed: walking away from the problems they create

Turns Out The DOGE Bros Who Killed Humanities Grants Are Kinda Sensitive About It - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/16/turns-out-the-doge-bros-who-killed-humanities-grants-are-kinda-sensitive-about-it/ "He said this while sitting in a deposition about his time holding multiple senior government positions for which he had no qualifications whatsoever. The lack of self-awareness is genuinely staggering."

So maybe the question isn’t just “how do I live longer?” but “how do I live more?”

More projects started. More people really talked to. More afternoons where something actually happened. More concerts, walks, dates, trips… more experiences.

Less content consumed. Less time spent in a feed that leaves no trace. Less of always the same days.

Difficult? Yes, sometimes… Worth it? Absolutely!

Both kinds of lifespan matter. But only one of them is almost entirely in your hands.

3/3

Answering the Thorstein Veblen question, via Naked Capitalism:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/economic-questions-the-thorstein-veblen-question.html

“OPENAI, through its AI chatbot program ChatGPT, provides legal advice, legal analysis, legal research and can draft legal documents and papers for submission to a Court. ChatGPT provides these legal services to any user who requests them. ChatGPT is not licensed to practice law in Illinois.”

They're asking for declaratory judgement that OpenAI has been practicing law without a license, a permanent injunction barring them from providing the disgruntled woman with any more legal assistance, $300,000 to reimburse their costs in responding to the bogus motions, and $10 million in punitive damages.

You didn't get a wall
You didn't get a drained swamp
You didn't get affordable health care
You didn't get an eliminated national debt
You didn't get new infrastructure
You didn't get Hillary Clinton locked up
You didn't get Epstein accountability
You didn't get a $5 k DOGE check
You didn't get a $2 k tariff stimulus check
You didn't get lower grocery prices
You didn't get help buying a home
You didn't get America First
You didn't get peace
You lost family, friends, respect and credibility.
Gas isn't $1.99, nor are Eggs

(may be attributed to Hart Cunningham)

#Pedophiles #Lies #Trump #GOP #USA

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-abuse-harassment-stalking

The Ken Burns documentary about this war is going to have a lot more Yakety Sax than the other ones.

In 2025, @The_Counterforce received over 70 demos for the second edition of DEMO FEST. A fundraiser for Solidarity Across Borders, a Montreal-based migrant justice network.

A way to encourage punks to finish new recordings in the fall, giving all of us the gift of fresh noise as we enter the darkest and coldest months of winter.

We listened to every demo and made our picks. We picked the earworms, mind-smashers, and gut-driven anthems.

Link: https://diyconspiracy.net/demo-fest-2025-picks/

Every crisis gets the gas pump stickers it deserves. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/03/16

#Via News Eye / newseye
5:01 AM · Mar 16, 2026

"UPDATE ON THE HORMUZ COALITION (Mon, March 16):

🇫🇷 France: REJECTED
🇬🇧 UK: REJECTED
🇮🇹 Italy: REJECTED
🇪🇸 Spain: REJECTED
🇯🇵 Japan: REJECTED
🇳🇴 Norway: REJECTED
🇨🇦 Canada: REJECTED
🇦🇺 Australia: REJECTED
🇩🇪 Germany: REJECTED
🇨🇳 China: NO RESPONSE
🇳🇱 Netherlands: NO RESPONSE
🇰🇷 South Korea: NO CONFIRMATION"

@davidgerard this one hit close to my heart because I’ve had two family members die in large part because their caretaker ignored medical advice and used awful alternative medicine information from the internet to try and treat them.

an LLM can’t do critique. as you’ve said, truth is not a data type in an LLM. all of these models suck in every form of medical crankery available on the internet, mix it with words from authentic medical sources, and present it all as credible.

- See the "a user you've blocked has contributed to this repo" banner.
- Search for "claude" to see how bad the damage is.
- GitHub asks me if I meant to launch Copilot instead.

I fucking assure you, I did not.

📝 New post 🚀

"Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse"

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/openness-transparency-and-reach-three-reasons-why-public-institutions-should-embrace-the-fediverse/

mentioning @europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission

#SocialMedia #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #SocialSovereignty #policy #BigTech #Fediverse #TheFutureIsFederated #RSS #SocialWeb

“Severe human rights crisis in #Georgia”: What the activation of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism means - https://jam-news.net/severe-human-rights-crisis-in-georgia-what-the-activation-of-the-osce-moscow-mechanism-means/ "systemic violations, the weakening of democratic institutions, and a growing trend toward the concentration of power."

It will surprise no one that American billionaires are having, ahem, second thoughts about the obviously empty promises they made to be serious philanthropists.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/