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Trump's planned presidential library is "a shrine to the story that he wants to tell," not an archive of presidential records, FPF's Lauren Harper told the New York Times.

"I’m just going to call it the Trump Miami tower because it’s not a library."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/trump-library.html

The corporate takeover of American medicine is a disaster for health, and nowhere is this more evident than in the way primary-care doctors -- many of whom are quitting -- have been turned into assembly line workers. https://prospect.org/2026/06/01/corporations-and-crisis-of-care-primary-doctors-corporations/

Wait, Pipewire is full of slop commits "Co-authored by Claude Opus" now? This is bad... https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire

#noai #antiai #pipewire #slop

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116674283040110293

Paraphrasing again:

We’re in a power struggle between those using “AI” to centralise and consolidate their hold over the economy, education, media, and politics and are willing to sacrifice much of the environment and society to that end (i.e. "rule the ashes") and those who think that would be bad

Standing in the middle and going “actually, I think we could find productive uses for LLMs” is not a winning move and it won't protect you from the winning side of the power struggle.

Our May development summary is out! 👀

Catch up on Phosh's latest improvements, 🐛 fixes, and what else is 🍳: https://phosh.mobi/posts/development-news-2026-05/

#LinuxMobile #Phosh #BengalOS #gtk #linux #mobile

In the US, insurance company’s use AI to deny claims in just 1.2 seconds. No exaggeration. Cigna built an algorithm that reviewed and rejected 300,000 claims in 2 months. Each in an average of 1.2 seconds of “review.” That same system gets overturned on appeal 80% of the time. But the insurance company knows that less than 0.2% of people ever appeal. Not 20%. Not 2% but point 2% They’re not rejecting your claim because it’s wrong. They’re rejecting it because statistically, you’ll give up.

"Enshittification" is too long. Replace it with "Googling," since its old definition no longer applies. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/06/01

And I'm a relative hardliner on these matters! LLMs are shit for any serious work. But I've been directly turned down for interviews because I said that in public, and I'm in a very precarious economic situation, and like... we get punished a whole lot harder than cis people for compromising on LLMs, and yet the same people who do that have no answers when we ask how we're meant to keep living.

Or is it that we're meant to die beautifully to justify the compromises of others?

welp, I got laid off.

if anyone you know is looking for a slightly-used computational linguist -- remote or in #Syracuse, NY -- get in touch. I'm also open to "data science" positions if they're "languagey" #GetFediHired #NLProc #NLP

I have a very close friend in the U.S that is currently working a job where they are asked to do AI slop all day, every day, and they want out because it is depressing the hell out of them.

Super talented engineer, the kind of person that loves Clojure, 10/10 would recommend. If anyone knows of any open roles or would like to get in touch to commiserate, please shoot me a DM!

I've seen multiple houses with flags containing the actual word "Semiquincentennial." I know it stinks we missed the bicentennial and we aren't gonna make it to the tricentennial, but this seems forced.

Anyone looking for an embedded software engineer?

- 15 years experience (industrial and consumer electronics)
- Embedded security - 15mo for work, plus *years* as a hobby
- C, C++, Python and currently learning Rust
- ARM, MIPS, PIC, AVR experience plus x86
- Looking for UK remote or hybrid, or within commuting distance of Leeds via bike or public transport.

Boosts appreciated, CV available on request.

GH: https://www.github.com/philpem
WWW: https://philpem.me.uk

#GetFediHired

Who knows of cookbooks/guides for making meals for 50-100+ people? I'm thinking food not bombs type groups here - anyone have a source you use?

To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks.

https://musings.martyn.berlin/to-have-a-moral-stance-on-ai-is-to-be-an-outcast-and-it-sucks

I know the technology, I understand what it's doing and I know the impact, so I am vehemently anti-AI.

“In many cases, design choices strategically build on aspects of human psychology—such as reciprocity norms, people’s tendency to anthropomorphize, and emotional response to a sense of rapport."
https://www.404media.co/new-study-reveals-the-manipulative-dark-patterns-of-ai-chatbots/

Has there been a more divisive consumer product feature? DuckDuckGo installs rising because Google announced more AI features in Search is wild.

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/gemini/articles/duckduckgo-installs-30-users-reject-223256854.html

We’re guaranteed another January 6th situation if Trump loses the election.

He’s signaled very clearly that if you commit political violence in his name, not only will you be pardoned but you could become a millionaire.

Republican lawmakers remember that he turned the mob on them last time.

https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-loyalists-urge-him-drop-205045000.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGmqBJTAn_hJ3R4X4bH36tSBzKFiOh1mhPX4Stckt3yrQd2MkCYvqVMP93lqRUSliB2jOJx0iWYwt37bvNeEcuZX4aqcppcDXk9FaW0fJLF4uW_jcX7AwRK3bMnZSh3R9lFPuszrftiSUafga93kLKi-mgkCeotfCuQ5llZyJl3h

LG wanted to charge me £1200 for the repair of my 40” monitor, which considering I bought it new in 2022 for £1500, not worth it. We tried replacing the boards ourselves, that wasn’t the problem.

Put it on Freecycle for spares and repair.
The person who comes to collect says “I think it’s the backlight, if I can fix it do you want it back?”

It’s a good world!