Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I love this comic. Unfortunately I don’t know who made it!

There are SO MANY people here in Silicon Valley who I *know* can afford to swap out their Tesla, yet they refuse to sell it and stick these stickers on instead. All of them are complicit.

#comics #art #humor #tesla

@ChrisMayLA6 @PeterLG @alex_p_roe I am sure we are going to render the planet uninhabitable to humans before we manufacture anything that could be called intelligent, sentient, or conscious.

@alex_p_roe

There is no AI yet.

There is pattern recognition, which science and medicine make great use of. There is LLM- style text and image generation, which ordinary folk like to play with, and there are programmed robots which carry out planned actions.

There are robots which can get between two points, chosen by a human, autonomously, sometimes while carrying a box if required to by a human.

The gulf between all of these is, as yet, unbridged. They rely on completely different versions of "AI".

The problem is humans giving an "AI" system an instruction and letting it work out the best process to carry it out—without humans being in the loop prior to execution. THAT is dangerous.

We're at least a human generation away—at the soonest—from anything resembling artificial sentience, which is what most people think of when Hollywood mentions "AI".

@ChrisMayLA6

And so it begins:

In Derbyshire a policeman has been discovered using AI * associated technologies to 'create evidential material in a number of cases'....

And you can bet across the UK's numerous police forces there are more cases of evidence manipulation & generation by AI that have gone un-noticed or been quietly ignored.

This may not be new (Police have fabricated evidence in the past) but AI makes it much easier & more difficult to detect!

#AI #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/12/police-officer-under-criminal-investigation-over-alleged-use-of-ai

dear the us government here are some other softwares that have similar critical national security risks, alongside fable and mythos which you have just blocked access too:

- atlassian jira
- microsoft teams
- oracle netsuite
- atlassian confluence
- salesforce in general
- atlassian bitbucket

please do as you need to save america

re: https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access

Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO will probably make him the richest person to ever walk the planet. And while his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/949259/the-worlds-first-trillionaire-is-a-killer

Uber drivers across the EU, supported by trade unions, are resisting the platform's growing enshittification, including dynamic pay set by opaque algorithms that depend on data allegedly sent unlawfully to the US in breach of the GDPR.

https://dynamicpay.org/

#uber #dynamicpricing #dynamicpay #gdpr #enshittificaton @pluralistic @EUCommission @euronews @europe

Stand back! I'm using `libcurl` in C!

Excellent piece in the Hollywood Reporter about a scheme -- funded by the 0.01% -- to discredit journalism they don't like: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/peter-thiel-tribunal-journalists-trial-1236617579/

The HR often does noteworthy reporting about our increasingly bizarre media culture, and this is an example.

Communities blocked or delayed 75 data centre projects worth $130 billion in Q1 2026 - the most on record. Opposition groups have doubled to 833 across 49 states, showing a structural shift in how locals are fighting AI infrastructure. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/130-billion-in-data-center-projects-blocked-by-protests-so-far-this-year/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIGovernance

A “news” site has quoted at least six non-existent EFF experts in the past two months. False quotations that misstate our positions damage the trust that the public and reputable media outlets have in us. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/news-site-keeps-hallucinating-eff-staffers

I note that Elon Musk's wealth now exceeds the annual GDP of Switzerland.

I think this makes him a state-level actor, and a *hostile* one.

I submit that we have tools for dealing with rogue states, and they should be applied to him until/unless he starts to behave. NB: said tools vary from polite talkings-to by diplomats all the way up to cruise missile strikes and invasions.

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15:00 - 16:00 (CET).

Feel free to come hang out, meet the team and chat about p2panda and broader peer-to-peer / local-first topics. As we've just released our high-level application developer API this is likely to be an the agenda.

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US Researchers Say Trump’s Attack On Science Has Resulted In Self-Censorship - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/11/us-researchers-say-trumps-attack-on-science-has-resulted-in-self-censorship/

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[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/