Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“Contentful spent 13 years as a trusted European vendor, and one board meeting is enough to put it under US law.

That is where Open Source matters.”

https://dri.es/contentful-and-the-limits-of-buy-european

Feds Begin Targeting ‘Anti-Technology Extremists’ Which Is Going To Make Everything So Much Worse - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/01/feds-begin-targeting-anti-technology-extremists-which-is-going-to-make-everything-so-much-worse/

#Texas Adds Another Huge Solar Farm As ERCOT Grid Demand Soars - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/06/02/0452232/texas-adds-another-huge-solar-farm-as-ercot-grid-demand-soars #renewables

"OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies have actively conspired to mislead the world about the true costs of AI, and it was working great right up until they decided to try charging what it actually cost. Less than a quarter into the shift to token-based billing, enterprises are freaking the fuck out, with Walmart setting token limits on its internal “Code Puppy” AI coding tool, with a spokesperson saying that it “wanted employees to apply AI in ways that create value” mere days after Amazon SVP Dave Treadwell told employees to “not use AI just for the sake of using AI.”"

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/

A general rule I am currently following: if I discover gen "AI" elements to something you're working on, I will not voluntarily share it or talk about it at all. Not in a good way and not in a bad way. The only exception is if I think other people should be warned about a situation.

I doubt I am alone in this, but silence is hard to measure.

The Philly cops are keeping tabs on everybody who's says mean things about data centers...and labeling them terrorists.

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/01/ai-data-center-protest-police-surveillance/

Mythos is not great btw. Running it over a bunch of code, it’s similar findings to tools from a few years ago. It’s marketing, essentially. Viral marketing as people doing the marketing are companies and governments.

It’s really good at finding vulns in vibe coded stuff from Claude.. because apparently AI must be both the cause and solution to all life’s problems, like beer.

Masto feature request: When you subscribe to a hashtag, filter out any matching posts that have more than (say) 10 hashtags. Because those are probably junk.

“1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug – Ammar's Blog”

https://blog.ammaraskar.com/github-token-stealing/

VS Code is insecure as designed.

@jpm pandoc becoming slopdoc

lol, wife says a friend of hers tried the Meta AI Instagram account hack today (with permission of the victim, live, as a demo) and it still works

my arse they fixed it, if the bot is still hooked to the admin controls

too bad for the people who spent the last few months developing ai workflows that are now completely unworkable with no alternatives

coulda just listened to the moral and ethical arguments against though

or if that doesn't work the people who looked at the underlying economics and accurately predicted massive price hikes

or the fact that you're willingly deskilling yourself by buying in

or the fact that it just doesn't work very well at all

not too much sympathy here actually

every ai guy says "u can't argue the quality; new models actually are genuinely good" and then u actually read the code and it's dogshit

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: CA’s AB 1856 Exempts #OpenSource But Expands Age-Gating - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/02/one-step-forward-two-steps-back-cas-ab-1856-exempts-open-source-but-expands-age-gating/

Trump regime takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network. Ships will be dispatched this month to remove the more than 900 deep-sea instruments that comprise the network, one of the world’s most trusted sources of climate and oceanic data. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administration-takes-aim-at-crucial-ocean-monitoring-network/

EFF advisor Rainey Reitman joined Taylor Lorenz to explore the terrifying reality of financial censorship as explained in her new book, “Transaction Denied” from Beacon Press. https://youtu.be/tyqEYDisiZA

Researchers found that writers using biased AI agents to auto-complete suggestions had their sociopolitical values shifted without their knowledge it was happening.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw5578

We worry about cognitive capture, what the LLMs of big tech are doing to our ability to identify and think through problems. We should be equally worried about them making a grab for our ethos, what we care about, and at population scales.

#ai #bigtech #ethics

The only Google Doodle I'll ever do. https://www.patreon.com/posts/is-google-cooked-159412151