Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

[Small] Is Not Nothing

Your garden is not nothing.

Your repaired jacket is not nothing.

Your conversation with a neighbor about starting a seed library is not nothing.

Small, consistent, local action is what change has always been made of.

Every #sustainable choice helps.

#gardner #agriculture #farmers #MakeADifference

Dear Fedi friends, I need your help.

If by any chance any of you have saved the video of #WSocial CEO Anna Zeiter's presentation at the Monaco AI conference (uploaded to YouTube on May 21) I would be ETERNALLY grateful.

OG URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bZlgVfRr5A

The 35 minute video included priceless quotes like: "Yes we have a business model, it's not a philanthropy, we are not a B corp, we actually want to make money."

Following the publication of my exposé, the video has been removed from YouTube!

⚠️ More shocking news! 🚨

Christine Lagarde and the European Central Bank have just migrated to #WSocial too!!!

(For context, see the beginning of this thread).

I'm at a loss for words today. Truly.

What a world.

If you missed my exposés on this controversial, problematic company, here they are:

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

"One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms" (H.L. Mencken)

This is more than a few horse-laughs (and a very large AWS bill) pointed in the direction of the most fervent agentic AI enthusiasts.

https://lantian.pub/en/article/fun/ai-agent-bankrupted-their-operator-scan-dn42lantian.lantian/

"BREAKING! GEEF TEGENGAS IS BLOCKING THE CONSTRUCTION OF A MICROSOFT DATA CENTER

While people can’t find proper housing and the climate crisis is escalating, Microsoft is building an enormous data centre in Amsterdam. Stop the data center that’s complicit in violence and oppression! This war machine doesn’t belong in our backyards.

As long as they keep building the data center, we will come back!"

Source: Geef Tegengas.

#Amsterdam #Datacenter #Microsoft #IDF #IOF #ICE

I'm sorry, Anthropic, given your shit record on security I'm gonna go ahead and believe the hacker. Add some API scopes, FFS, that shit is embarrassing.

https://www.securityweek.com/anthropic-disputes-fable-5-ai-jailbreak/

File under: #WSocial shenanigans

I was alerted by @usti that the video of the Monaco AI conference presentation by W Social CEO Anna Zeiter was removed from their YouTube channel. You know, the video that I referenced in my second exposé about W Social, quoted extensively (because some of her statements were truly shocking).

This is the only video that was removed from their channel. I thought I had downloaded a copy to my computer... but hey, proof from the Wayback Machine of its existence

It is really getting annoying. Even approval of registrations is not bot-proof anymore.

We ask during signup future users to describe themselves briefly. These texts are often really heartwarming. And until recently they were quite helpful to weed out bots. Not so easy anymore, it seems:

On June 1st, @Dikor requested an account:
"Interested in joining to connect with others and follow discussions. Known for a messenger bag aesthetic and work in Kuwait as Hotel Manager"

ok, not the most meaningful text, but also not immediately worthy of a reject. The request was granted.

ok, the email domain "@pulse25k.io.vn" is not the most common one, but not few of our users prefer remaining anonymous, which is understandable.

@Dikor was programmed to post during 10 days rather innocuous gibberish.

And then, yesterday, they started posting anti-Ukrainian propaganda in Spanish (Spain and Greece are particularly frequently targeted, it seems. The people behind the bots might have made an analysis about susceptibility of their propaganda).

I have frozen the account to leave it for a few days as an example for all of us to spot patterns. We'll suspend it soon.

It is interesting that, until now, the only large-scale bot campaigns trying to influence public opinion were or Russia- or Israel-adjacent.

The people from @iftas are doing some important structural support to tackle this bot campaign and helped us to spot several bots (important to note that there were also false positives, so each suggestion needs to be carefully revised). Anyway, thank you folks!

Disclaimer: it is important to note that not everybody who criticizes Ukraine is a bot or a pro-Russian troll. There is a lot of valid criticism about the actions of the Ukrainian government and NATO geopolitics are not to create peace but to project power. And not everything is as we are told our media. But we don't want cheap talking points shoved into our faces by coordinated bot campaigns. It's a bit of a bummer, really.

#Fediblock #FediAdmin #RussianSpambot #RussianBot #DisinformationCampaign #Disinformation

Good morning, friends. Let's be silly today.

I suppose technically, it is Be More Paranoid Day, but I'm already rather paranoid. I'll put in the effort, though. R'amen.

McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

Anyway, I can always recommend the work of Dr. Emily Bender (@emilymbender), Dr. Alex Hanna (@alex) Dr. Timnit Gebru (@timnitGebru), and the DAIR Institute as a whole

https://dair-institute.org/
https://thecon.ai/

David Gerard's Pivot to AI makes you laugh at all the nonsense as well, which is preferable to the alternative

https://pivot-to-ai.com/

Plenty of stuff out there you can follow that doesn't involve PR flacks or "AGI" apostates.

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