Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Newsflash: We're NOT updating how Codeberg uses data to improve AI-powered coding assistants. (We don't.)

📢 BREAKING 📢
We're suing to get answers about Medicare's AI experiment that could affect millions of seniors' care. Read more about our FOIA lawsuit: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-answers-about-medicares-ai-experiment

A developer's observations on the increasing mess that is software generated by artificial intelligence.

https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-03-25-thoughts-on-slowing-the-fuck-down/

'There's a much more important difference between clanker and human. A human is a bottleneck. A human cannot shit out 20,000 lines of code in a few hours. Even if the human creates such booboos at high frequency, there's only so many booboos the human can introduce in a codebase per day. The booboos will compound at a very slow rate. Usually, if the booboo pain gets too big, the human, who hates pain, will spend some time fixing up the booboos. Or the human gets fired and someone else fixes up the booboos. So the pain goes away.

With an orchestrated army of agents, there is no bottleneck, no human pain. These tiny little harmless booboos suddenly compound at a rate that's unsustainable. You have removed yourself from the loop, so you don't even know that all the innocent booboos have formed a monster of a codebase. You only feel the pain when it's too late.'

⚠️ Important info for US Mutual Aid groups!

We Asked Tax Experts Everything About Mutual Aid
#MutualAid #Taxes

https://racketmn.com/we-asked-tax-experts-everything-about-mutual-aid

🔴 Brand new Tom the Dancing Bug now up on Boing Boing
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it’s… SUPER-FUN-PAK COMIX!!
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https://boingboing.net/2026/03/25/tom-the-dancing-bug-super-fun-pak-comix-feat-actually-man-dandy-muckles-and-more.html

Building a democratic economy is hard work! Sometimes it's good to recharge with some uplifting art.

Join GEO for an evening of sharing poetry with our #Cooperative and #SolidarityEconomy comrades!

May 4th, 6 pm Eastern

https://GEOPoetrySlam.eventbrite.com

https://geo.coop/articles/get-ready-grassroots-poetry-slam

Use our action center to tell Congress to drop the deportation case against Nashville journalist Estefany Rodríguez.

https://freedom.press/action/free-estefany-rodriguez-from-ice/

Lol.

Dayjob is at a standstill globally because Claude is down and we're supposed to do all our work through it now.

Fuck, I need a better job.

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If he sits through his daily 2min Presidential Video Briefing, he gets to play some games. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

every fedi instance deserves a ​:no_ai:​ emoji

if there is none, contact your admin today

Reed says #crypto political donations ban coming into force today will cover even very small gifts - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/mar/25/rycroft-review-foreign-financial-interference-keir-starmer-kemi-badenoch-pmqs-latest-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-69c3ddc38f08643366b171db#block-69c3ddc38f08643366b171db looks good, but we'll see how it works in practice #uk

So there's this guy who made a tool where someone punches in their bluesky or mastodon credentials to his website, and it auto-crawls their feeds and produces an LLM summary of everyone it finds posting there. He was asked what people should do if we don't want to be mulched as content for his summary feeds. He said we should block him. I replied, I can do that, but that only stops *you* from running the tool on me, how do I prevent *your other users* from running your tool on me? He blocked me.

oh I’m sorry are my takes regarding liquid glass and age verification not nuanced* enough for you?

good. get the fuck off my feed. bad things are bad, pretending they’re good doesn’t make you a fucking adult. it just makes you wrong.

I don’t need to pretend I didn’t watch Apple capitulate to fascists. I don’t need to pretend I didn’t watch Poettering do the same in a way that fucks over the rest of the FOSS ecosystem. this isn’t hard. don’t choose advocacy over truth.

* centrist

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-the-new-york-times-to-stop-being-heartless-and-let-rich-quan-work-at-home?source=direct_link&

All of DOGE’s work could be undone as lawsuit against Musk proceeds - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/all-of-doges-work-could-be-undone-as-lawsuit-against-musk-proceeds/ " Musk’s X posts bragging about DOGE may trigger reversals of its biggest wins. " that would be nice

Dying inside as I update the firmware on my bike’s derailleur. #cycling #gravelbike #shimano

#PSA: posting photos and videos of your kids online ensures they'll never be able to meaningfully opt out of privacy invasion.

80% of children have an online presence by age two, with parents sharing an average of 1,500 images before their fifth birthday. —2017, Northumbria University

By the age of 13, children have had an average of 1,300 photos and videos of themselves posted to social media by their parents. —2018, UK Children's Commissioner

#Privacy #DataPrivacy

Once again, a truly astonishing amount of stuff has been happening with Co-op Cloud since our last blog post in October. Read about it here!

https://coopcloud.tech/blog/march-2025-equinox

– 3wordchant

#CoopCloud #LibreSoftware #DemocraticTech #OpenSource

Paul Krugman:

"When officers of a company or people close to them exploit confidential information for personal financial gain, that’s (illegal) insider trading. But we have another word for situations in which people with access to confidential info regarding national security exploit that info for profit. That word is “treason.”

There’s a broader lesson here: You can’t trust a corrupt govt to protect national security. And our govt is now utterly corrupt."

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in-the-futures-markets?r=4bv4c
#UsPol