Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Kind of on the nose for the Norwegian fans to fake a rowing motion when they're at the world cup and cheering their team because their ancestors, by definition, never went out on the ocean-crossing knarr and instead stayed at home 😝

Days of Dissent brims with defiance in recounting the rebellious history that has reshaped the United States and the world.
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Prebituary, oMITCHuary, whatever you want to call it, I got you covered. And there's a Lindsey Graham version over at https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-suno-ai-music-generator-scraped-youtube-deezer-and-genius/

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I love how all these open source projects are accepting LLM generated stuff, and when called out on it, they will quickly mention that "this is not the place to debate the ethics of AI".

So my question for everyone saying that is... if not now, when? When will we discuss if the source of the thing you're trying to ram through our throats is acceptable? When will we discuss if you normalising the damage the LLM companies are doing to create these tools is acceptable?

Or are we just going to ignore all the bullshit because it is (according to you) "useful"?

I bet people thought labour from kids sent to the mines was useful... Or the results from inhumane studies were also useful...

So, I ask of you again, when IS the time and place to discuss the ethical ramifications of you using these things? Because it never seems to be the time for it somehow, isn't that interesting?

This administration managed to take the joy out of diarrhea jokes. (I'll still make them; I have no other skills.)

A temporary pause after two deadly ICE traffic stops is not accountability. Neither is more training for an agency empowered to terrorize communities.

Representative Delia Ramirez says abolishing ICE is only the beginning: dismantle DHS.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/delia-ramirez-says-abolish-ice-dhs-must-go

‘More real than anything you’ll see scrolling’: the radical resurgence of UK fanzines, 50 years after punk
By Claire Biddles

Five decades years since punk bible Sniffin’ Glue, DIY magazines are in rude, rich health. Their creators talk fandom, community-building and resisting the algorithm

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/15/uk-fanzines-zine-radical-resurgence

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@manchicken @carnage4life https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/grok-build-uploads-entire-git.html

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116919986243362258

That's another way of saying: "Grok was stealing users code"

LLMs do not exist to make people happy but to harvest data and make money people

The continued bombing of Iran is not just a crisis. It is a violation of U.S. and international law.

Phyllis Bennis writes that when powerful states wage illegal war without accountability, the future becomes more dangerous for everyone.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/iran-war-united-states-israel-trump-illegal

It should have been obvious to everyone that the Turing Test was fatally flawed as soon as the ELIZA effect was discovered.

"A new book claims AI has been built on a flawed assumption dating back to Alan Turing's famous 1950 paper. Peter J. Denning argues that the most important parts of human intelligence, including common sense, intuition, culture, and practical know-how, cannot be encoded into computers. He believes this makes true human-level AI impossible, regardless of how large language models become."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260713084850.htm

@GuerillaOntologist @privacyint

I do completely agree. LLMs are trained to simulate human speech based on previous human speech. That is why I am so curious about why some people insist on adding the term "generative" to those programs.
There is no creation, just reproduction of the most probable (given certain context) words.

For me it is madness to delegate thinking to such programs. Well dressed, to be sure, but madness indeed.

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When officials say a jail is “crumbling,” the answer is almost always treated as obvious: build a newer, bigger cage.

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/116917803417921274

these people never learn that the more you give the right, the more they demand...