Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116503650485303910

Dear @_elena,

We are soooo super happy to have you as our opening keynote speaker on Monday!

For those of you, who want to join online, here is our website: https://2mr.social/en/home-english/

Expect lots of good examples of people, institutions, companies, foundations, universities, governments and public services that use und push democracy-strenghening #SocialMedia!

#Democracy #Media #communication

@rysiek @paco in Brasil we would quip: "How come he doesn't have a single friend to tell him to stop!"

Wow. Richard Dawkins off the deep end.
‘So my own position is: “If these machines are not conscious, what more could it possibly take to convince you that they are?”’

First he goes on and on about the Turing test like it is some kind of law handed down. Like, the fact that sequences of output tokens so closely resemble speech they might pass Turing’s test. He views a moving of the goalpost (Turing’s test apparently isn’t enough to distinguish consciousness) as unreasonable. Like Turing got it right and it’s wrong to say otherwise.

And then he has these risible conversations: ‘I then asked her whether, when she read my novel, she read the first word before the last word. No, she read the whole book simultaneously.’ Let’s not ignore the ‘she’. The thing has a name. ‘Claude.’ It implies a gender. But Richard Dawkins genders it and genders it female. I don’t think that’s a random thing.

We know how computers work. It absolutely does read the book byte-by-byte, in a sequential series of input tokens. It does not matter that the thing output some words that said otherwise. It is wrong. Why doesn’t it matter that the output is plainly incorrect? Where does the disconnection between the reality and the words come into the picture?

This is just drivel.

https://archive.is/6RdK9

“AI is taking your job” is exactly as untrue as “offshore workers are taking your job,” “immigrants are taking your job,” or “brown people are taking your job.”

Management! Management took your job! And blamed someone else, because they’re cowardly by nature.

AI is flooding the web -- one of the ways Big Tech is wiping out the open Internet as fast as it can. How can we collectively stop them?

https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/?utm%5C_source=flipboard&utm%5C_medium=activitypub%5D%28https%3A%2F%2Fwww.404media.co%2Fstudy-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated%2F%3Futm_source%3Dflipboard

@carnage4life Yes, layoff 30,000 and then hire 11,000 interns at 1/3 the pay.

Taco Bell is starting to replace its people with fucking generative AI. Shopping at Taco Bell is not recommended.

A local Food Not Bombs chapter needed a donations box for hygiene products, and put out a call that a friend passed on to me. After we worked out size and usage details, I (slowly, haltingly) built one, and delivered it today. They asked that its exterior paint be purple, and I was glad to make it so. #CommunityAction

Axios puts "Scoop" in its headlines in truly embarrassing ways. This nothingburger parroting of someone in the Pentagon is an example -- and it ignores the wider, vastly more relevant context.

“I'm the only president to take a cognitive test. It's a lion, a giraffe, a bear, and a shark. They say, which one is the bear? It's a very standard test, but very tough around those last 10 questions.” - Donald J Trump
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America went from a president that taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago to a guy who brags about being able to recognize a picture of a bear. SMH. 🤦🏾‍♂️

Don’t forget that every time you use AI tools, everything you send and receive is at least recorded, persisted, and potentially read by an employee of the company that owns the model.

If you’re using a tool with AI features, the company who makes that app can also see everything you send and receive through the app.

Every vibe-coding prompt (which includes the code you are working on) and detail is included in this.

There is no privacy in any AI tool. There is no copyright for the responses, but if you send a copyrighted work into AI you have violated copyright law and likely the TOS.

Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense, argues that the greatest enemy of the United States is not Russia, China, or Iran, but any elected representative who opposes Donald Trump.

“The biggest adversary we face at this point are the reckless, feckless and defeatist words of congressional Democrats and some Republicans.”

This is what fascism looks like.

Over half of the world’s countries now fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories for press freedom, according to RSF Index.

“The average score for all countries and territories worldwide has never been so low” in 25 years.

The U.S. ranks 64th out of 180 countries; the worst ever recorded.

https://rsf.org/en/2026-rsf-index-press-freedom-25-year-low?data_type=general&year=2026

It’s World Press Freedom Day this Sunday.

Traditionally, that’s when we call out foreign regimes for targeting journalists. But this year, the call is coming from inside our own (White) house instead.

https://freedom.press/issues/this-world-press-freedom-day-american-journalists-are-under-attack/

"The #NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its #OpenSource repositories." - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/ this is utterly insane; if you are in the UK, please write to your MP explaining why this is so stupid - https://www.writetothem.com/

#Germany’s climate U-turn is the worst possible response to the oil shock - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/01/germanys-climate-u-turn-is-the-worst-possible-response-to-the-oil-shock how europe's #green leader is fallen: now one of the worst...

Happy May Day!
-Your friends at PM Press
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM-Kw-LTtPsghzZDhUha9qgsuRpPumGGF

As workers around the country hit the streets for May Day, the question of power is hard to miss: Who gets to disrupt the economy, and for whose benefit?

Art by @mcfadden

We need a DBOM (Data Bill Of Materials) for all major LLMs used for government purposes. Everything from schools to the military, the public has a right to inspect all of the data undergirding decisions being made by these tools to which our elected representatives and public servants have delegated portions of state power.

Happy #InternationalWorkersDay! ✊

#MayDay #workers #WorkingClass #WorkersRights #WorkerSolidarity #labor