Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Only 3% of current #Electricity demand is being provided by #FossilFuels in the #UK and #RenewableEnergy source are generating over 80%, with the price of generation actually being negative.

https://grid.iamkate.com/

geez. Senators want to lock up the law (again).

@carlmalamud spent years making sure the law (and standards included in the law) were publicly accessible for free. Even getting the Supreme Court to declare it so.

yeah, but...

"Congress Wants To Put The Law Behind A Paywall. Again."

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/06/congress-wants-to-put-the-law-behind-a-paywall-again/

U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.),
John Cornyn (R-Texas),
Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and
Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)

boo.

This one takes the cake.🤷

Seems like a new scam is AI companies making infringement claims against the musicians they scraped for sounding like themselves.

Turn out it works because the claims are adjudicated by AI agents.

https://rudevulture.com/ai-company-clones-musicians-voice-then-copyright-strikes-her-own-songs/

The UK avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 thanks to record electricity generation from wind and solar, reveals Carbon Brief analysis.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-record-wind-and-solar-saved-uk-from-gas-imports-worth-1bn-in-march-2026/
Wind generation hit a new record for the month of March on the island of Great Britain, up 38% year-on-year, while solar nearly matched the output of last year’s exceptionally sunny spring.

Brits are falling out of love with posting every thought online - https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/07/ofcom_social_media_use/ "Ofcom finds social media participation dropping as skepticism about digital life grows"

It's artificial but it's not intelligence. Let's call it machine learning.

Analytical machine learning is an excellent technology for identifying patterns in data.

Generative machine learning is a Venture Capital-fuelled dumpster fire that will crash as soon as people have to pay the actual non-subsidised price for it.

#machinelearning #aibubble #aicrash

Each city will have a published list of every citizen and the name of their house. This list shall be provided to each and every house, sometimes twice or even thrice in a calendar year! These lists will seem amazing at first but eventually they will be discarded and swell with rain water upon the changing of the seasons, left to rot in the sun and wind.

#BoringNostradamusProphecies
#HashTagGames

Families left in the dark: #UCSD, #USC quietly sell donors’ bodies to #Navy for #Israel military training

https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/04/06/families-left-in-the-dark-ucsd-usc-quietly-sell-donors-bodies-to-navy-for-israeli-military-training/

The U.S. Navy has taken the first steps to extend the program that relies on anatomical donations from USC and the UC system until 2029.

Luxembourg becomes second country worldwide to enshrine abortion rights in constitution | Luxembourg Times

https://www.luxtimes.lu/luxembourg/luxembourg-becomes-second-country-worldwide-to-enshrine-abortion-rights-in-constitution/138838058.html

My browser, and pretty much everybody's browser, has a unique digital fingerprint. Why on Earth do the same websites then need to repeatedly check that I am not a robot??? If I wasn't a robot yesterday, I am not one today either!

#surveillanceCapitalism #privacy #enshittification

I've had this open in a tab for some weeks and I do not remember if it was because of somebody's toot, I guess it might be related to the "AI" hype.

"Dereistic thinking represents a profound cognitive distortion characterized by the systematic failure to incorporate objective facts and external context into the decision-making process. Instead of engaging in rational assessment based on empirical evidence, individuals relying on this mode of thought prioritize internal assumptions, personal beliefs, and wish fulfillment. This detachment from reality fundamentally undermines critical thinking and is defined by the elevation of subjective, private logic over shared, verifiable truth. While mild forms of dereistic thinking may manifest in everyday biases, its more extreme expressions can lead to severely flawed judgments, posing significant risks, particularly when the individual occupies a position of authority or influence. "

https://encyclopedia.arabpsychology.com/dereistic-thinking/

#psychology #noAI #conspiracyTheories

Members of four #WorkerCoops in the creative industries talk about their co-ops at the 2026 BRIC Summit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GbiOAAvfXQ

Cultural Capital Doesn’t Pay the Rent: A Queer Memoir
A story about loss, economic survival & decades of organizing against the interlocking hellscapes of neoliberalism by Jessica Lawless. Check out rewards and back the Project on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/culturalcapital?ref=c4yqx9&token=bae2a045

House Democrats Have Moved to the Right Since 2018:

"For the first time, Democrats’ center-right caucus holds a majority in Congress. But their growing strength is out of step with where the base is headed — a huge opportunity for labor and the left."

https://www.left-notes.com/p/house-democrats-have-moved-to-the

It's the War Department, not the Good Ideas Department. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/04/06

this is much funnier when you know it's an AI pumper special pleading for the fedi to stop telling AI bros to fuck off, and who posted an AI-reprocessed Harry Potter trailer over on bsky

TIL (Today I learned) that writing websites with simple HTML and CSS is now called "post-framework". Well. I did "post-framework" even before frameworks existed and I never stopped writing that little bit of HTML and CSS needed for static pages myself. I guess I'm getting old :)

from our network:

👉 AI ABOLITION network & strategy meeting
📅 Saturday April 25 at 13:00 - 18:00
📍IT University of Copenhagen, EHK building
🎟️ Free entry, registration required

"There are many of us who object to the fascist logic of the machine, but we are fragmented and isolated. For this reason, we invite all AI critical and AI abolitionist groups/activists/individuals to come to a joint networking + strategy meeting in Copenhagen. Our aims for the meeting: get to know each other; establish a network; find points in common; and start the process of building an action together. Our aims beyond the meeting: conscientiously objecting, rejecting, resisting and dismantling AI. If you are reading this message, you're invited to come!

There will be drinks, snacks, and humans.

Please sign up here to help us organize the event: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/wuk3tQm0I5KOIXQmUG8sV4DM61oLV2oZEq3PLwI7GJM/ & if you have questions about the event, you can contact us at: abolish-ai@proton.me

Co-organized by: Emancipatory Futures Lab, Extinction Rebellion, Scientist Rebellion & more"

https://dukop.dk/en/event/9647/

#degrowth #abolition #ai #copenhagen #kobenhavn

Peter Thiel’s Antichrist lectures have been rejected by theologians and mocked by comedians,
but he still cannot stop talking about the Antichrist.

This week, the billionaire delivered his trademark four-part Antichrist lecture at a private venue within sight of the Vatican.

At the height of his power
—with his companies and allies embedded in Trump’s fascist regime and his protégé, JD Vance, a heartbeat from the presidency
—Thiel has launched a campaign to herald the Antichrist.

He is on an Antichrist world tour, having given his talks in Austin, San Francisco, England, Austria and, now, Rome.

The Vatican was in no mood to play games with the would-be prophet from Palantir.

Paolo Benanti, a priest who has advised Pope Francis and Pope Leo on AI and tech ethics, called out Thiel as a “political theologian operating at the very heart of the Silicon Valley ecosystem” and delivered a scathing rebuke of Thiel’s religious delusions:

"Thiel’s entire action can thus be read as a prolonged act of heresy against the liberal consensus:
a challenge to the very foundations of civil coexistence, which he now considers outdated."

Benanti hit Thiel where it hurts, zooming in on his persistent efforts to pervert religious ideas into justifications for greed, monopoly, and authoritarianism.

He exposes Thiel’s obsessive focus on achieving
“the pathological radicalization” of “competition, technology, the individual”
to argue against democratic society itself.

It’s clear that Benanti has done a deep study of Thiel and knows exactly what the billionaire is up to with all of this Antichrist talk.

The priest hits Thiel for weaponizing René Girard’s theory of mimetic desire
—the theory that people learn desire by imitating other people
—in a demented search for
the “perfect algorithmic implementation” of its destructive force.

Benanti points to Thiel’s early investment in Facebook as an effort to create “a device designed to amplify and monetize mimetic desire on a planetary scale.” 

He also calls out Thiel’s love for The Sovereign Individual,
a 1997 book that taught Thiel
“to view technology not only as an instrument of profit, but as a tool for managing the decline of liberal democratic institutions.”

Benanti further connects Thiel’s ideas to the TESCREAL movement
—“philosophies, championed notably by Elon Musk,
see technology as the instrument for transcending the biological and social limitations of humanity.”

TESCREAL ideologies like transhumanism and longtermism are Silicon Valley’s true religion.

Thiel’s Antichrist meditations attempt to put a Christian mask on these ideas, but Benanti argues that Thiel’s vision is structurally pagan

https://www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiels-antichrist-circus-smacked-down-in-rome/

And if you happen to live in the EU, know that you won't be saved from fascism by the EU either!

#GraduallyThenSuddenly #fascism #technofascism #EU #authoritarianism