Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Cannot emphasize this enough: the single fact that made the software business as insanely profitable as it is is that the incremental cost of delivering software rounds to zero.

The entire provisioning model of AI as a business has broken that.

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THE REPUBLICAN CIRCUS: Little Donald's Odyssey
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"AMERICA: 2024”

From 1998, when Republicans screamed that Clinton must be impeached because lying about Monica Lewinsky was a crime that had to be punished with Clinton’s removal or all moral order will collapse.
https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2026/07/23

WTF!!! 😅

Bike Pedals designed for barefoot riding.

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#NoAI

Later today!

99th Day author and journalist @gerrymcgovern will likely discuss how we should recover from the aftermath of Gen AI from an environmental perspective.

Every "prompt" removes fresh water from the Earth, rapidly accelerates climate disaster, and psychologically tortures the poor people who live near datacentres and poor people in the developing world who are paid pennies to screen CSAM, etc.

There's absolutely zero excuse for a consultant to advise clients in using such an evil, destructive thing, that doesn't even output anything good.

Free-of-charge, no registration, just show up on the web app page linked to in this blog.

https://stopgenai.com/recovering-after-gen-ai-webinars/

Biohacking tips if you're not trying to live longer, better or whatever. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

If this press release is true, then if I was a hacker who made their money by pwning billion dollar shitshow startups, what I would know is
A) huggingface has no idea what they are doing and is a rich target
B) they cannot respond to threats, the best they can do is ask an LLM to fix it, and even multiple days later are still issuing truly pitiful patches that dance around the vuln
C) since they will just pre-rehearse all my prompt injections with GLM 5.2 until they stick, and then in my next attack litter the logs with injections and PWN THE WHOLE IR TEAM TOO

AI being eval'd by AI company hacks other AI company's AI written code which is then diagnosed and patched by AI and everyone concludes that what is needed in all this is more AI.

For the record, I am positively fuming over the new #AgeVerification laws being introduced in France.

How convenient that this way Big Tech behemoths like Meta, X and TikTok won't have to change a thing. (Don't get me started about Grok, which should have been banned MONTHS ago).

AGE isn't the problem. It's the TOXIC, PREDATORY, EXTRACTIVE nature of these platforms that is the real issue.

They are getting away scot-free. I hate it. All I can do is speak up with those around me 🫤

Indiana news org got banned from Facebook but public outrage forced the soulless social-media giant to reconsider. https://bloomingtonian.com/2026/07/20/facebook-restores-bloomingtonian-news-page-on-facebook/

(FB seems to have banned me, too, but I have no interest in going back.)

RE: https://mas.to/@grassrootsforeurope/116964168760008487

Example of a graphic that is almost indecipherable.

A proposed $9 billion quantum computing development could reshape Chicago’s South Side. Who gets to decide what “progress” looks like?

Join Damon A. Williams, Daniel Kisslinger and moderator Nashwa Bawab next week, 7/29, for a virtual panel on community power.

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Hey Fedi,

As things have changed with my current projects, I have the bandwidth (and need) for more work.

I'm a freelance software architect, engineer, and developer that's been working in tech for over two and a half decades now. I have experience designing and implementing small systems and large scale distributed ones. I've modernised old legacy systems to be more maintainable and manageable, and fully reverse engineered systems and rewrote them to make them more manageable.

I am very experienced with Linux based environments, containers, and Kubernetes, and like to manage my application from inception, to defining and deploying its environment. I have also written systems to manage large server farms.

I have extensive experience in multiple programming languages, but I have worked the most with Python, and Go, although the last year, I've developed a preference for Rust.

As I have done system administration next to my software creation activities, I also have an extensive homelab, and have developed a passion in reclaiming digital independence from big tech.

So if you, or your organisation needs someone to:

Help them modernise their stack.
Adapt their application so that it resiliently can run in a cloud or kubernetes.
Create a road map on how to move your data, and applications to Europe.
Design, and possibly implement, a distributed system.
Advice your organisation on how to get away from big tech.
Or just plain need some extra hands to work on your product.

I live in Berlin, Germany, and I am available for part time work both remote and in the Berlin area.

For more information, you can view my portfolio!

#FediHired #GetFediHired #GetFediHiredPartTime

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Hey, everyone, as I've mentioned a time or two, I'm in geo.coop. My big project is running our paper journal. The second edition will be coming out in the very near future. This time around, the topic is union worker co-ops. If you're interested in either unions or co-ops, and especially if you're interested in both, then I invite you to become a supporter: https://geo.coop/geo-journal

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@Matt_Noyes
@GuerillaOntologist
@geosocialcoop

It is harmful to use AI to talk directly to people. Be a person and use your own fucking words.

Thinking out loud for a bit:

The problem with tech, as others have pointed out, is that tech as a whole isn’t exactly a humane environment filled with thoughtful and charming people, and it’s in a multi year cycle of layoffs. So, if the job itself is losing what fun it had most other industries start to look appealing in comparison.

And if I manage to get out of the coding-for-money racket and end up missing bits of it, I could always take up coding as a hobby

“OpenAI said that the breakout was “an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities,” and that it was reinforcing its safeguards.”

This is an advertisement. This is intended to make their models seem so powerful as to be a scary threat in order to get more VC funding to pour in. No company would openly releases a security incident unless they are required to do so.

Facebook did the same thing years ago when they did a press release talking about how they had to do an emergency shutdown of their AI models because they had “developed their own language to communicate that the human observers didn’t understand” and it was portrayed as some incredibly frightening entity that might “escape the lab”. It was bullshit: the two LLMs were just babbling nonsensically at each other.