Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

2016: never, ever run a script unless you know what it does
2026: let a statistical model run random commands for you

American president: fuck shit fuck die boom boom!

Mainstream media: The strategy behind the president’s unorthodox approach to international conflict and diplomacy appears to be…

American president: I go wee wee on your head!

Dementia Donnie

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 :)