Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Here's the COVID Vaccine Paper the CDC Censored

"...The censored paper presents data on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines during the 2025-2026 season. The results suggest that, in the first few months after vaccination (September-December 2025), this year's vaccines were 53-55% effective against hospitalizations among the study's population of adults without immune compromise."

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faustfiles/121016?

The paper in question:
https://insidemedicine.substack.com/api/v1/file/ab3d90bd-5bb8-4b2a-bf5e-0eccb93e0230.pdf

"In a social media response to The Lever editor-in-chief David Sirota on April 17, Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) posted that a five-year extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — a War on Terror-era measure that has allowed federal law enforcement to unofficially spy on Americans’ communications — was “not acceptable.”

"But emails reviewed by The Lever show Himes, the top Democratic lawmaker on the House Intelligence Committee, ittee, urged his colleagues just hours before he posted the response to support a Trump administration-backed bill that would have extended the spying powers for another five years."

https://www.levernews.com/top-democrat-opposed-surveillance-bill-then-whipped-votes-for-it/

It Was Spelled In Seashells By The Seashore. The DOJ Now Pretends It’s A Felony. - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/29/comey-spelled-it-in-seashells-by-the-seashore-the-doj-now-pretends-its-a-felony/

Dear #gitlab a Work Item is not something I want to be concerned with in #FreeSoftware stuff I do in my free time. Can't we have names that are more motivating like "Puzzles to solve"?

Best #coding happens away from the computer.

#programming

Usually, when I get interviewed for a piece on something like "AI consciousness" I am relegated to the skeptics box --- some short paragraph near the end. So it is a nice change to see this piece by Holly Baxter

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-news-humanize-chatbot-conscious-b2963788.html

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New: President Trump's memecoin project is preparing to launch a membership club promising "elite and extraordinary experiences". This is the latest attempt to prop up a token down 97% from peak.

https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-coin-club/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

MIT's Technology Review takes a comprehensive dive into the energy/climate consequences of AI, and the news is terrible for everyone but the corporate bosses and billionaires in charge of it all. Grim, grim stuff here:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

Starlink continues to have been designed to sell a small number of users lower-latency links at a steep premium.

And it remains way past time to stop letting corporations make a mess of the sky.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91532281/spacex-starlink-fcc-complaints

The corrupt Roberts Court just wiped out what was left of the Voting Rights Act. It was a purely partisan/ideological ruling, and will reverberate for decades to come as it frees the Republican Party to keep racism at the core of its beliefs, and operations.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the-scotus-vra-decision-could-impact-the-midterms-and-beyond

After internal protests from Google employees after the company signed a contract with the Pentagon for military uses of AI, the company told employees it “proudly” works with the U.S. military.

Long gone are the days of bowing to employee backlash in big tech.

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Could folks stop referring to what these AI tools are doing as “thinking”? It’s stretching definition of the term and contributing to the intentional misinformation in the marketing from the vendors.

It’s not thinking, it’s computing. Those aren’t the same thing.

#Forgejo 15.0.1, 14.0.5 and 11.0.13 were just released! They are security releases.

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

blogged: Github is sinking
https://dbushell.com/2026/04/29/github-is-sinking/

— the people do not yearn for Microsoft products

They're putting a chip in the passports that play Lee Greenwood when you open it.

The best description of LLM outputs, by @dbushell "words that take forever to say nothing".

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #slop

@munin How did we get to the point of _asking_ the computer? You don't ask a computer, you tell it. You give it a command and it either succeeds or it fails or or it is broken. It's a complicated box of sand. There's no awareness, no spark, just an odd arrangement of doped silicon and metal. Believing there's more than that is deeply deeply delusional, like believing socks are sentient because you made a sock puppet once.