Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Every ICE agent with their thumb up their butt airport is playing a unique role. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/3/27/2375012/-ICE-s-airport-agents

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The rank stupidity of soooo much of our society is really killing me. I feel like there are a lot of techies who need to stand trial for crimes against humanity for purposefully trying to stupidify the world.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/study-do-what-chatgpt-tells-us

Got told again that my 30 years of computing and electronics experience is grossly incompetent compared to the infallible omniscience of #ChatGPT.

#idiocracy #brainrot #techilliteracy #AIdiots

“As a Jewish Australian who spent considerable time in Israel, I noticed, decades ago, something unsettling: a hardening of emotional life and a gradual erosion of empathy toward anyone outside the Zionist frame.

This presents itself clearly, especially among the young: a bluntness in moral language, a comfort with power and a way of speaking about others that feels stripped of hesitation. This is not hidden. It is not marginal. It is part of Israeli culture as it is actually lived. You hear it in ordinary conversations, in how people describe daily encounters, in the absence of pause where you might expect reflection. It is not performed for outsiders. It is internal, habitual and widely shared across Israeli society.

People sometimes call it ‘psychopathy’. That’s not quite right. It’s something more systemic than that — and more confronting for precisely that reason, because it is produced openly, not accidentally. The instinct to pathologise it comes from discomfort, from the sense that something is off. But the more accurate way to understand it is not as deviation, but as outcome — the outcome of a specific social and ideological structure.
What is taking shape is a set of conditions that reshape how young people in Israel see others, how they use power and what they come to experience as normal. These conditions are not hidden. They are visible, repeatable and embedded in everyday Israeli life.”

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/the-hardening-of-youth-in-israels-nationalist-enclave,20863

#israel #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #genocide

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#healthcare #science #health #medicine #healthinsurance #EconomicInequality #SocialMedia #influencers

The platform "Doughnut Economics Action Lab" is aiming to turn Kate Raworth's concept of Doughnut Economics into practice. It provides a hub for local groups, organisations and local government to organise and exchange resources to implement doughnut economics - inspired policies. You can find related events as well as tools and teaching materials.
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https://www.justsecurity.org/135103/questions-congress-should-ask-before-renewing-section-702/

#USPol #surveillance

Superb. https://theonion.com/all-i-ever-wanted-is-to-be-a-musician-and-for-music-to-be-easy/ I see quite a few folks these days who seem to have fully embraced this approach.

🤔 #NoKings

I went to my first Dropkick Murphys show in 20 years. Lotsa great energy at today's #NoKings rally. Especially the dude who was accurately heckling Gov. Healey.

@davidgerard

As I understand it, the state of copyright for LLM-generated output is:

The person who promoted the LLM cannot assert copyright on the output (US copyright office ruling, confirmed in court).
People whose copyrighted materials were used as the training data may be able to assert copyright on the output as a derived work (inconclusive case law).

So accepting LLM-generated code seems very high risk. Especially for something like ext4, where it’s likely that there is exactly one implementation in the training set.

it's honestly fun to wear my red fedora everywhere. i'm starting to lean into it.

red hat has made a shrewd marketing move giving all associates a nice hat.

many people stop me to compliment the hat, then we start talking about open source software.

i'm not happy about being a corporate stooge, but i will take every opportunity to espouse the benefits of open source philosophy.

How new fishing tech can reduce #bycatch of turtles and other creatures - https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/how-new-fishing-tech-can-reduce-bycatch-of-turtles-and-other-creatures/ " Specially equipped nets can help save some species, while allowing fisherman to still catch others. "

Just as I predicted, the aunt with the most inflated ego is smitten with "AI" calling her by her name and wishing her good morning. Not that I talk to her. My mother informed me.

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs

My Feb 2026 Katz Lecture for UW's Simpson Center for the Humanities is now available on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Lc6QNxolQ

Unfortunately, the recording doesn't include the Q&A. Two things I remember from that:

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Did you know your distro carries a computer #art gallery?
It's called Xscreensaver. 30 years old and still getting updates.

A nerdy mix of simulations, interactivity and scene demos. All brilliant art.

Thank you @jwz for delighting this hacker again!

I came for the galaxy simulator, and stayed for Substrate. As always, for my 2 decades of Linux. I'll have to turn Substrate into a poster.

#demoscene #generativeart #algorithmicart

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