Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Part of the movement to reclaim social media? Here are some ways to limit your liability risk under U.S. copyright law. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/copyright-and-dmca-best-practices-fediverse-operators

Will Bunch:

"This is the E-Trade presidency. In an era when the everyday American is increasingly addicted to sports gambling, or loading up on crypto, or betting on the next drone strike, Trump has emerged as our gambler-in-chief.

Why don’t Trump’s high crimes and misdemeanors — “A Watergate everyday,” as the writer Garrett M. Graff described them — ever gain public traction in the way that Nixon’s scandals or Bill Clinton’s extramarital affair once did?"

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-stock-trades-palantir-nvidia-20260517.html
#UsPol
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Chinese #EVs are arriving in Canada. Nearly 400 dealers are already fighting to sell them. - https://thenextweb.com/news/chinese-evs-canada-dealers-byd-chery-geely BYD, Geely, and Chery

Nobody wants a CEO to give a commencement speech. Put a Muppet up there. Those grads earned some fun.

rust leadership keeps on winning streak with “shut the FUCK up about ethics, we already decided we DON’T care because some people disagree so it’s impossible to know if they’re good or bad”

Fucking-AI-ass posts from Cloudflare and GitLab 🤮

Thoughtful and elegant solutions to problems will always be more valuable than simple, quick, and easy ones.

Effort yields results.

New columns from the lastest issue up on this site (including the newest from @THINK ☺️ )

https://the-counterforce.org/think-column-3/
https://the-counterforce.org/i-will-do-my-worst-4/
https://the-counterforce.org/questions-statements-2/

I've released more substantial UFO files than any administration in history. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/15/800038526/cartoon/more-identified-aerial-phenomena/

You ever start browsing the internet and think, "Yeah, I'd love if I had to upload my ID to check out this cool new site." We didn't think so. EFF is fighting back against bogus age verification laws across the globe. You can support our fight today: https://eff.org/spring

Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors - https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/05/16/europe-built-sovereign-clouds-to-escape-us-control-then-forgot-about-the-processors/5237735 "Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies"

German leader Merz says he ‘would not advise my children to go’ to US - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/15/friedrich-merz-germany-children-study-work-us-politics "Chancellor says he no longer views US as land of opportunity amid ‘deeply polarising’ social climate" #richtig

"The result of the Hormuz shock—now cascading through fertilizer, food, and critical industrial inputs like sulfur and helium—will be #demanddestruction for #fossilfuel energy." - https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/dawn-of-the-electric-world-order/ #renewables

Big batteries took a bite out of gas generators’ evening peak party, then they ate the whole dinner - https://reneweconomy.com.au/big-batteries-took-a-bite-out-of-gas-generators-evening-peak-party-then-they-ate-the-whole-dinner/ nom nom #renewables

I genuinely love how stupid this LLM-generated phishing email is.

@tuban_muzuru @inthehands
The data sourcing problem isn't as simple as copyright.

What AI companies are doing is:

1. taking from a public resource (public websites, source code of FOSS projects, knowledge-sharing forums, etc)

2. destroying the public resource in the process (overloading the websites, flooding FOSS projects with slop PRs, disrubting the social dynamic required for forums to work)

3. renting you access to a worse version of the public resource they have destroyed

@inthehands It seems most people just don't want to think about these things at all? I have close friends — lovely, caring people, who just don't want to discuss these topics. They'll use Uber, AirBnB and a whole host of LLMs because they're so convenient, and any mention of ethics gets a "yeah, I know" and then they continue buying tiny bottles of tap water to drink.

I want to somehow shake them awake without losing them as friends, and I have no idea how. Show them it doesn't have to be this way.

The em-dash in this toot was put there entirely by human hands.

@inthehands my husband reminds me that companies don't give away anything for Free. There is always the cost, our cognitive abilities. And if it is free, a gift, do we trust the hands giving it to us? I trust musk/Thiel/altman/etc to destroy humanity, so no, I don't want this gift. Or this free extention. Or to outsource my intelligence. It's not free if it's stealing water and land rights.

I’m kind of speculating here. I get off the LLM coding bus at several earlier stops:

⁃ The energy and water usage are an environmental disaster (so I mostly avoid it for the same reasons I try to reduce my driving).

⁃ The data sourcing is an ethical disaster (so I prefer to avoid it for the same reasons I try to buy fair trade products).

⁃ The people who profit from it at the top are largely horrible (so I’m about as interesting in debating its pros and cons at length as am I debating the work capacity of a Cybertruck).

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When governments use the benign expression "lawful access" instead of an accurate one -- "backdoor required" -- you know that surveillance statism is the goal.

It's Canada's turn to stomp on real security in the name of total surveillance.

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/05/the-lawful-access-two-headed-surveillance-monster-how-bill-c-22-went-off-the-rails/