Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

If you are cooler than your moist surroundings you may be entitled to condensation.

Being aware of any potential privacy risks is an important part of the decision to use any software, and that includes AI tools. https://ssd.eff.org/module/privacy-considerations-with-ai-tools

This week's comic on the folly of triangulating with oligarchs

#comic #cartoon #voting #uspol #oligarchy #democrats #elections #authoritarianism #corruption

The year is 2027, I am sitting in a high-security prison because I made art.

Maybe folks will stop asking me why I don’t shop at Target anymore?

https://people.com/target-pulls-clown-halloween-costume-after-backlash-says-we-got-this-wrong-in-apology-note-12067080

"Friggin Go Away Nazi Freaks"
Covering up fash propaganda in Penrith, NSW

These are all jokes, but so are the Democrats running against Hasan Piker instead of actual fascist Republicans. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/8/28/800090062/cartoon/democrats-midterm-messaging/

A crawler wanted to know who talks to whom on our server

https://www.martinmuc.de/blog/crawler-who-follows-whom/

it sure is weird how having anyone associated with Palantir or Anduril or any of the companies whose purpose is making software that kills (“are you ok with your software being used to kill people” is a standard Palantir interview question, no I’m not kidding) in an open source project always leads to control over key parts of the project being yielded to untalented right-wing stooges, an exodus of core maintainers due directly to the actions of the Palantir/whoever plants, and a barely functioning project overall

there’s lots and lots and lots of nontechnical reasons to not allow fascists who write software for murder in your project, but uhhh the technical end ain’t looking good

if you don’t believe me you can look at Rust, NixOS, and neovim

no I won’t just tell you what happened to these projects. what happened was public and loud, and you weren’t paying attention. it’s time for you to learn what a fascist takeover looks like and what happens when it works.

@mirabilos @ska @lanodan Wow.

As I read this (please correct me if I'm wrong) the Debian project secretary Kurt Roeckx is an AI pusher, accepted late slop-generated options to the ballot, and accepted slop code into the voting software. All during a vote on whether to accept slop.

Bonkers level of corruption/conflict-of-interest.

“Six Problems With Talking About the “Ethical” or “Responsible” Use of “AI” • Buttondown”

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/six-problems-with-talking-about-the-ethical-or/

> Part of what makes that middle ground untenable and uncomfortable is that it requires carrying water for these clearly bad actors.

RE: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/115870600113381144

Re-boosting this now that xAI is being taken to court by victims whose images have been used for training and they've got proof they're keeping them in their training set.

This isn't just Grok, it's just the worst of them because they decided it was OK to have pedophiles for customers.

This is all image generators. No wonder they don't disclose what's in their training sets. They don't care how many times they're going to re-victimize a survivor as long as they can profit from it.

Zohran Mamdani won the democratic nomination & centrist Dems endorsed Cuomo anyway.

Angie Nixon won the democratic nomination & centrist Dems are saying they would’ve spent millions on Vindman, but won’t on her.

Abdul El Sayed won the democratic nomination & centrist Dems are refusing to endorse and threatening to leave the party.

The anti-Black, anti-Arab, & anti-Muslim hate from the centrist “vote blue no matter who” Dems rivals that of MAGA fascists. We need to call it out for what it is.

Just published on FOSS Force: LibreOffice 26.8 Again Proves Open Source Is About More Than Code https://fossforce.com/2026/08/libreoffice-26-8-again-proves-open-source-is-about-more-than-code/

Old (and interesting) #books about #cooperatives

The history of the Rochdale Pioneers, 1844-1892
https://archive.org/details/historyofrochdal00holyuoft

A manual for co-operators, prepared at the request of the co-operative congress, held at Gloucester, in April, 1879
https://archive.org/details/manualforcoopera00hughuoft/

Add them to your digital #library #librariesRule

I strongly recommend instance admins to block the IP range 192.42.116.x

It seems this one is used with a lot of sub nets for AI Agents

What connects AI data centers, toxic spills and industrial disasters? Organizers tell @@maximillian_alvarez that confronting “vulture capitalism” means finding the links between these fights—and bringing affected communities together.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/how-communities-poisoned-by-data-centers-and-toxic-spills-can-stand-together

The house always wins—even when it calls itself a prediction market. Today’s federal appeals court ruling clears the way for states to regulate the industry as gambling.

Hadas Thier reports on the economy that made betting on everything a business model.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/prediction-markets-kalshi-polymarket-inflation-silicon-valley-capitalism

*Kolektiva Statement in Solidarity with Autistici / Inventati*

In the face of the US Treasury and State Department's recent designation of the Autistici / Inventati collective as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity, Kolektiva declares our full, unequivocal support to our Italian comrades, and to all those who seek to protect our movements from the clutches of states, surveillance capitalists, and other agents of social control.

Today, as we bear witness to the rise of authoritarian and fascist regimes all around the world, supporting independent and autonomous digital infrastructure has become more important than ever. Anarchist, anti-authoritarian and autonomous movements have centuries of experience fighting and resisting state repression, whatever scope, shape or tactic it has assumed. Today is just another of those moments.

Yet despite the many ways that the State's attacks have adapted and evolved over the years, one thing remains the same: the most effective resistance has always been rooted in collective and international solidarity! Our networks are deep and wide. We're always two or three people away from being in contact with any collective anywhere in the world. And that's where our strength lies.

This is a call for material and practical solidarity with the fantastic people from Autistici / Inventati, but it is also a broader call for political groups and collectives to redouble our efforts to build resilient networks of autonomous infrastructure, and to properly maintain and support them over time.

We need to be creative. Even if we don't all have the specific technical skills to code or maintain network infrastructure, the time to volunteer as a moderator, or the money to help cover operating costs, we probably have the skills to throw a party, a music festival, or a community BBQ to raise money and build support for an autonomous tech project that we rely on.

Each of us must take care to avoid the pitfalls of disillusionment and complacency. We must remember that even where there's a calm between storms, we remain at war with the life-destroying logic of capitalism and the states that uphold it. And as long as we resist exploitation, oppression, and the destruction of the world that gives us life, those states will seek to crush us. So we need to be prepared.

We strongly encourage all those who see the value in building and maintaining autonomous tech infrastructure to provide whatever material support you can to those collectives who find themselves in the State's crosshairs today - such as Autistici / Inventati - or those other tech collectives who may be in their crosshairs tomorrow.

As we wait to learn the best ways to help Austici / Inventati in their fight against the Trump regime's efforts to isolate them and cut them off from networks of financial and material support, we would hope that comrades around the world take this opportunity as a reminder to support the other tech collectives that exert so much (often voluntary) effort to help keep our movements safe.

AnarchyPlanet
https://anarchyplanet.org/donate.html

Disroot
https://disroot.org/donate

ESPIV.NET
https://espiv.net/

Kolektiva
https://kolektiva.info/donate

P.U.S.C.I.I
https://www.puscii.nl

Riseup
https://riseup.net/en/donate

Sindominio
https://sindominio.net/apoyo/

Systemli
https://www.systemli.org/en/support-us/

Found a new worker co-op game dev studio 🥳 ...but they use AI 😕 ...but not for "creative" work 🤔 ...just for coding 😠 ...and a real human checks it out 😩 ...{sigh}