Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The AI companies are basically bragging -- "Oops, whoops!" -- about their LLMs hacking and damaging other companies' IT infrastructure. These are federal felonies when committed by humans. LLMs are created and programmed by humans. Why no prosecutions? Because the AI guys own Trump?

At both my current company and the company I worked for before this one, I've been on teams which heavily used LLMs to generate code. And as a result, a growing portion of my own work is carefully reading and then rewriting LLM-generated code to resolve issues with it, and being tagged as a reviewer on a pull request where an LLM was prompted to generate a fix for something the same LLM got wrong on a previous pull request.

Right now I'm slowly working my way through a pile of web endpoints and finding all the typical LLM code issues. Last week I replaced five endpoints' backend implementations with a single function, because the LLM had written out the same query, with only minor variations, over and over again.

#BMW is displaying in-car commercials and calling it a "treat." Proprietary software always abuses you - it's not "if," it's "when."

https://www.theautopian.com/bmw-is-showing-commercials-on-their-cars-dash-screens-and-they-want-you-to-think-its-a-treat/

Join us with the Chicago Teachers Union as we honor the extraordinary life and legacy of labor organizer, educator, and activist Beatrice Lumpkin.

Sunday, August 9, 2026
1:00 PM
Chicago Teachers Union Center
1901 W. Carroll Ave.

https://www.allyoufascistsboundtolose.com/calendar/a-celebration-of-the-extraordinary-life-of-beatrice-lumpkin

Few things drive home the fact that I probably don't belong in tech any more is the fact that whenever some of the smartest people (like, actually smart) chat online I basically end up disagreeing with everything from the underlying premise up to the high-level observations

The First Circuit got this exactly right.

Lawmakers considering similar legislation need to think not only about their own intentions but the intentions of bad actors who may occupy their seats in the future.

https://freepress.net/news/civil-liberties-and-press-freedom-groups-applaud-first-circuit-ruling-puerto-rico-law

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Democratic socialists want to “stack the deck” toward working people: make unions easier to organize, protect workers during economic transitions and give labor more power over the conditions under which people work.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/democratic-socialism-economy-sanders-mamdani-aoc

I do not wish death upon Zuckerberg, Altman, Amodei, whatever the MS guy is called, Slopya Something, Karp, Thiel... What I wish upon them is to not be able to die, because they are suffering their own company, and from themselves they cannot run away. I wish them to be stuck with themselves for eternity.

@ErikJonker @olivia I feel like if the argument is just "we should support them in it because they're going to do it anyway" then that's equally true of *everything* students do despite being asked not to, so by that logic universities should have supportive policies about how best to use essay mills to increase learning, and the most responsible forms of plagiarism. What makes AI special?

Apps for carrying deutschland ticket without google play enabled and without tracking.

Asking for myself.

KOSA. The SCREEN Act. The CHATBOT Act. The Youth AI Privacy Act. Four different bills, with the same flawed approach: more surveillance, more data collection, and less privacy online. Tell the Senate to reject all four. https://www.acteff.org/campaign/167270/

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/117041512465545105

By using Reddit as a trusted source for AI search answers (the default experience), Google has effectively outsourced itself to unpaid Reddit moderators.

Also worth point out - anybody can become a mod on Reddit and open a subreddit. If you wanna influence opinion like a nation state, Reddit's the door now.

i am sort of stuck on this. you have to remember that whenever these totally off the planet AI guys describe their workflow i have to stop and do the math for what that would mean in my life. so with 12+1 $200/month claude subscriptions and the one $200/month chatGPT subscription, that's $2,800 a month. He says that's the equivalent of $87,000 a month of token usage.

$2,800/month is more than my rent and utilities, and $87,000 is more than i make in a year. This guys addiction costs more than my annual salary per month for nothing. this is the future of software development where you have to be ridiculously rich to play - where he is also actively pulling the ladder up and saying "don't develop shared libraries" - no more "if you have a laptop and a keyboard you can program," not even a fig leaf to "AI enables nonprogrammers to program."

the vision of the future of programming that's being presented here is literally just "if you have more money than 99.9999% of people on this earth, then you can totally lose your mind"

He also sharted in Archie Bunker's chair. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Hadn't occurred to me that now we have to worry about people starting huge fires in order to win bets in the prediction markets.

https://www.scrippsnews.com/science-and-tech/natural-disasters/people-are-making-wildfire-bets-on-prediction-markets-experts-say-it-could-lead-to-disaster

Libre software is splendid in just about every way. Managed to upgrade a peertube and a piefed today - many thanks to their developers @Framasoft and local Ōtautahi developer @rimu respectively!

The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear

https://theonion.com/about-us/