Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Friend just lost their job, right after buying a new house, and because they're on a visa they have 90 days to find another job or get deported.

If anyone has any leads on software product/partner/customer management jobs in London, please send them my way.

This week’s comic now up on Daily Kos
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Justice Roberts’s Shadow Docket steps OUT of the shadows, revealing their true purpose!
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/21/800041951/cartoon/tom-the-dancing-bug-reveals-the-shadow-dockets-true-identity/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/116611995470298305

indeed, this shows the scientists were right when they said renewables et al. could reduce extreme risk.

#trump, as usual, is wilfully wrong, or maybe just stupidly wrong

Scientists Tweaked the #GlobalWarming Outlook. So Trump Weighed In.
#RenewableEnergy has helped make the worst-case scenario a bit less bad. The president said, falsely, it shows that #climate #scientists were wrong all along.
Hothouse scenario assumed highest #greenhousegas #emissions. Predicting temps rise 5C or 9F. Climate experts said likelier range would be warming of 2.5-3 Celsius by the end of the century, based on current #emissions trends
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/climate/trump-global-warming-truth-social.html
https://archive.is/20260519011715/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/climate/trump-global-warming-truth-social.html

The feeling when you use crazy complex abstractions you designed but already forgot how they work, and... they are easily used!

Torn between proud of my smart self from 2 weeks ago and sorry for my clueless today self.

That would not have ben possible without #rust 's type system.

#programming #rustlang

If anyone wants to recruit a senior R&D code monkey with multiple degrees for a job that will involve neither "AI" bullshit nor "blockchain" bullshit nor "HFT" bullshit nor killing people nor destroying the planet just for the heck of it ... I get cheaper and cheaper by the minute as things descend deeper and deeper into nutty "More cloud and more AI will fix it!!" chaos around me. Located in Germany. Will only work remote as we're tied to this place due to aging parental units. Strong preference for something related to actual green technology such as solar. #FediHire #FediHired #Systems #Storage #ProgrammingLanguages #Compilers #GreenTech #Solar #Linux #BSD #Academia #Teaching #noAI #BoostsWelcome

#resist #ai

https://airesistlist.org/

Many times I sent various ministers warnings that their financial projections for the LNG terminal were complete bollocks, then it came out that I was right, and then the news came out that the Government hadn't even bothered to do any financial projections.

Vibes-based governing.

AI will be the same, but worse.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment_climate/593016/government-s-plans-for-lng-terminal-didn-t-model-international-price-spike

@Niall @phil_stevens #NZpol

We are extraordinarily pleased to show off a new poster design for Baltimore ASKAPUNK by MeatBag (who is not on social media).

https://baltimore.askapunk.net/

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Does anyone remember specification-based programming? Back in my OS/2 days I met a few people who were big proponents of it. Vibe coding reminds me of a copy of a copy of that, sort of like "specification based programming, only you're drunk and the computer's drunk and you lost your glasses so everything's blurry"

Totally agree. Everybody thinks they personally are immune (just as so many people on Xitter or watching Fox News think they're immune to the cognitive impact of continually floating in the sea propaganda and disinfo) ... but I was really struck by the comment from a researcher in the study about AI autocorrect suggestions swaying people's attitudes:

"In every experiment, the researchers found that participants’ views shifted in the direction of the AI bias. The biggest surprise, Naaman said, was that mitigation measures did not work.

“We told people before, and after, to be careful, that the AI is going to be (or was) biased, and nothing helped,” Naaman said. “Their attitudes about the issues still shifted.”"

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-assistants-can-sway-writers-attitudes-even-when-theyre-watching-bias

@mcc
@ireneista

Sometimes I see people frustration-post screenshots of Google searches marred by Gemini AI banners.

And that sucks! I'm sorry. But I have to ask: If Google frustrates you… maybe switch away? There *are* no-AI alternatives!:

- https://noai.duckduckgo.com

- Kagi is an AI-infected search engine, but they offer a "custom CSS" feature (see next post) you can use to remove the AI.

And *this* is the time to get out. Before Google takes the search you're used to away completely: https://aftermath.site/google-search-ai-changes/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@ChrisShort/116606591908387955

If you want on to Microsoft's internal network, CORPNET, publish or own an existing a VSCode extension.

The Visual Studio Code Marketplace, which Microsoft own, is completely uncontrolled.

Anybody can publish an extension, it provides code execution on endpoints, extensions auto update by default, "verified" blue tick extensions just need any domain registration, and there's no endpoint security controls at all around what users can install.

VSCode is an absolute security shittip as a result.

“Let’s be clear: The threat of fascism, the erosion of the rule of law and the end of democratic governance are ultimately on the line.”

Rep. Delia Ramirez says Illinois needs an independent prosecutor to investigate alleged crimes by federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/ramirez-delia-ice-special-prosecutor-midway-blitz

Look! Up in the air! It's the dumbest shit you've ever seen (until this week)! https://www.patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Hackers Used a VS Code Extension to Reach GitHub’s Internal Repositories. The Pattern Should Worry Developers.

https://firethering.com/github-breach-vs-code-extension-attack/

#github #technews #news #vscode #hack #hackers #trending #developers

It's the tech industry is now going to become surviving wave after wave of layoffs until it's just you and the CEO left then you both can knife fight over who gets to prompt Claude to run the company.

I think this will be the last I'll post on industry-wide layoffs for a bit. It's like posting about the sky being blue at this point.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/intuit-to-lay-off-over-3000-employees-to-refocus-on-ai/

When security agencies harm rights in the name of "protection," they become the threat. Civil society, legal community, activists, oversight bodies: we must ramp up the fight against normalized surveillance abuses. EFF’s new guide is here to help. Join us. https://eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/we-must-not-normalize-digital-surveillance-abuses-effs-new-guide-underlines