Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Well, look here.

So, the word technofascism is being used more often these days, ever since that Palantir published a literally fascist manifesto.

All the tech billionaires at Trump's second inauguration are a direct sign on technofascism happening.

Gen AI is inherently fascist, and I'm not the first to say it. Surveillance, trying to get people to delegate their thinking to the bot controlled by fascists, eliminating human ingenuity and creativity...

Thank you for having me on, @davidgerard

Here's where you can Late Pledge approximately $10 for an eBook now before it's published in June. I need it for rent money. Thank you: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide/

#NoAI #tech

https://youtu.be/KheeSCTysTo?si=Q2bCT7IZZNY4qHOP

These regretful Trump voter safaris are so unnecessary, you can just make up the quotes. No one cares! https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/05/04

VANISHING CULTURE is out now!

From Internet Archive, this book looks at what is disappearing online.
🌐 Websites vanish
🗞️ News archives go offline
🎮 Games become unplayable
📼 Personal media breaks & becomes unreadable

It asks what it means when the record of ourselves starts to disappear 🕳️

📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new

#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #Bookstodon

@MikeDunnAuthor

Any Labour PM who somehow manages to make Margaret Thatcher look good by comparison, on anything, but especially on humanitarian issues, is the worst Labour PM in history. What a disaster. What a disgrace.

Yesterday at the hackerspace, a friend had forgotten the password to their (demo / showcase) computer.

Luckily, the convenient new sysadmin tool “copy.fail” saved the day! With one line, we could get a root shell and set a new password 😂

Way easier than rebooting into init=/bin/bash. So convenient! 2026 is truly the year of Linux on the desktop :P

Seriously, I should have done more strength training. My arms are on fire. 🏋️

How to digitally liberate your #Community

Step 1: Join a tech #collective or #cooperative
Step 2: Organize a #DigitalIndependanceDay
Step 3: Work on community hosting using @coopcloud and other democratic tech projects

Note: If no tech collective exists in your area you may want to start with step 2 and find some like minded people to start one

We are a little bit late to the party, but on the 1. May we celebrated #lauti's first anniversary 🥳.
This year was crazy, we got in touch with so many amazing people a long the way. We did our first talk at the #39c3 self organized session of @techfrombelow@chaos.social.
We visited #fosdem with our friends from @Bonfire where they announced our collaboration working on #events in the #fediverse.
We are just getting started, SSO is around the corner and we are working on #activitypub at the moment.
For more updates take a look at our last blog post
lauti.org/blog/lauti-updates...

Without fail, every time an age verification law goes into effect, VPN usage surges. Instead of realizing that mass surveillance and age gates aren't exactly crowd favorites, Utah lawmakers have decided VPNs themselves are the real issue. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/utahs-new-law-regulating-vpns-goes-effect-next-week

#Codeberg may not be perfect, but it's better than the big players and it hosts my stuff.

So I donated to it.

https://donate.codeberg.org/

#coding #opensource #hosting

When I read a story about AI predicting horse races (in this case incorrectly), my thoughts immediately go to the Big Store confidence game "The Wire" and how a con man could probably update that con with AI.

Instead of an insider who gets the race results ahead of time and sends them to the mark before wiring them to the store, they would have access to a magical AI that they claim can predict races correctly, a few minutes ahead of time.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/horseracing/2026/05/01/kentucky-derby-predictions-ai-picks-2026-winner-results/89887043007/

On Press Freedom Day, let's remind everyone that journalists need protection, also online. 📰 🌐

Share this & Spread the word!

#PressFreedomDay26

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116510569333559021

No one.

But that's not the point now, is it? The point is to further undermine the bargaining position of actual musicians.

That's the point. That's always been the point, that's always been the goal.

It's not that AI-generated "music" is good, or that people want it, or that it's even music. The point has been to use AI, however bad or broken it is, as an excuse to undermine the financial position of artists.

As is typical for actually existing AI, its purpose is to undermine labor.

The class solidarity argument has been a part of “AI” discourse in many fields for a while now. It doesn’t settle the debate but it’s a rationale many will acknowledge even if they disagree

Except in coding. Mention it to software devs and most will look at you as if you just spoke in tongues

Everybody in a UBI study could spend it all on drugs & I would still support UBI.

Stop asking virtue of the poor which you don’t of the rich.

How tolerant are we?

Roskilde city council member for The Social Liberals Jeppe Trolle decided to test the tolerance by wearing a dress to a city council meeting.

Predictable like a clock, Conservative member of the council Rasmus Jarlov immediately responded by sharing a photo of him on Facebook, and stating that Trolle appears “unserious”.

The good news: At that meeting, the left wing majority adopted a new #LGBT strategy which ensures all restrooms in Roskilde will now be gender neutral.

@anon_opin

He used to just be a bad software engineer. Then he started using LLMs and his productivity really took off.

No, you *used* to be a software engineer. Now you're just a prompter. The funny thing is, the longer you slop prompt, the less likely you could go back to being an engineer even if you wanted to. Deskilling yourself is not something you all should be bragging about.

@janneke This is a difficult question to answer. First of all, I only really know the #Librem5. Furthermore, you can be tracked via the browser, via connection to telephone antenna's, Wifi and Bluetooth and probably more.

The Librem 5 has kill switches to physically switch of wifi, gsm, camera, and microphone.

https://puri.sm/learn/hardware-kill-switches/

My employer, like so many others, has been forcing the use of hallucination machines. During a meeting recently we were talking about using it, and I referred to it as "it".

Obviously, it is proper English to do so. But, one coworker was shocked by this and asked me why I used that word. I calmly explained that it is a large very flawed statistical model and nothing more, so "it" is the appropriate word.

I think that blew their mind. Their reaction was just silence.

I miss actual intelligence