Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

KPMG issued a report citing all the transformational ways GenAi has transformed industry, it’s been widely cited.

One minor problem: it turns they used AI to write the report, and it made up all of the evidence. https://www.ft.com/content/b3828e92-4961-4b39-84f0-c42f33be3c3f

Going to work on "Money's fake, let's make this one asshole a trillionaire on paper and tie the global economy to his exploding rockets" Day is torture.

“The AI Engineering Report 2026: The AI Acceleration Whiplash - Ten Takeaways”

https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways?utm_source=fnf

> In our 2025 AI engineering report on the AI Productivity Paradox, bugs per developer were up 9% as AI adoption grew. In this dataset, that figure has risen to 54%. The relationship between AI adoption and defect rate is not flattening as organizations mature their AI programs; it’s steepening.

This shit is not going to end well.

“Public Offering, Public Sacrifice”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/public-offering-public-sacrifice/

> Really healthy environment we've created for young people, eh? Everyone is shamed, everyone suspicious of one another. Good work everyone.

“Apple deepfakes – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)”

https://dbushell.com/2026/06/12/apple-deepfakes/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116735947449480607

A warning from Elena on W Social & @EUCommission.

Why would an institute like the European Commission ever want to 'rent' a social media account instead of owning their own server is beyond me.
If you're not the owner you do not control your messaging. We cannot verify the validity & authenticity of your message, which is quite important for political institutions I'd say. It can be done correctly, e.g. the Dutch government's social.overheid.nl server.

#Politics #EU #WSocial #SocialMedia

Dear Fedi friends,

Apologies for another toot about #WSocial but I am genuinely shaking right now.

The @EUCommission and its president Ursula von der Leyen have recently migrated their ATproto (Bluesky) accounts to W Social.

I cannot fathom why they would pick a private enterprise whose leaders didn't even have ATproto accounts 3 months ago... and who are so open to having their users' data mined to train European AI models.

My articles on them:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/

Wow. Just wow.

Have you read my friend Rania’s book? It’s really great and I think you’ll enjoy it.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-jinn-daughter-rania-hanna/395cbda157dbdcae

Dogs are a constant reminder that it's possible for one to be noble without being dignified.

The House just passed a bill that would make the Register of Copyrights a presidential appointee. That’s a recipe for making the Copyright Office ultra-political. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/congress-just-rushed-through-disastrous-copyright-office-overhaul

They'd get better ratings than Tony Dookiepill. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

I wrote on Boing Boing about advances in decoding whale language, and what that might mean about their legal rights.
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https://boingboing.net/2026/06/11/decoding-whale-language-could-unlock-new-legal-rights-for-them.html

Today is the International Day of Solidarity with Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners. For every act of resistance that put them there, we owe them camaraderie. Support them. Write to them. Say their names. Refuse to forget them. Solidarity without end.

This is fine.

https://apnews.com/article/visa-chatgpt-openai-shopping-mastercard-d769dec86344cb4977c98789e8ec492f

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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THEY WALK AMONG US
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Brought to you through the generosity and awesomeness of the Inner Hive, including long-time member kenstir and new member Myan Hawaiian.
patreon.com/rubenbolling/membership
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

Why does Amazon, a company valued at two and a half trillion dollars, need to borrow 17.5b from banks for Ai? I saw a quote yesterday - "The entire US economy right now is just 7 companies sending a trillion fake dollars back and forth to each other."

Fresh off bond sale, Amazon borrows $17.5B from banks as Ai spending continues

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/fresh-off-bond-sale-amazon-borrows-17-5-billion-from-banks-as-ai-spending-continues/

Leave it to a security state Dem to veto bipartisan pro-labor legislation. This is why we need to get rid of politicians wholesale and replace them with actual representatives, legally obligated to enact the wishes of their constituents (as expressed through some kind of Loomio-type system).

So long as we keep up the dumbass strategy of "elect a Dem and hope they don't stab us in the back," we will keep having outcomes like this. We need a real, small-d democratic alternative to the "vote and pray" model we've grown so accustomed to.

https://paydayreport.com/why-va-labor-movement-missed-the-warning-signs-on-governor-spanberger/

Tried to film a parody vid about "World Cup Tourists Discover American Culture!" content about our camps, but the ICE agents broke my funny bone.

At least 106 data centers are being proposed on or near Native land, according to Honor the Earth.

Indigenous organizers are resisting an AI buildout that threatens water, land, wildlife and sovereignty.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/data-centers-resistance-labor-trump

What has been the result of the attrition against unions in the last half century?

Well, one clear answer seems to be that wages have declined as a share of GDP, which is the background to the ongoing cost-of-living crisis across many countries' workforce(s).

Some might argue the decline of unionisation is a correlation, not a cause, but if so they need to identify other major structural shifts to explain the reduction.

#workers #unions #economics

h/t Ian Hutcheon/LinkedIn (for chart)