Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Having no documentation for a thing is better than incorrect documentation presenting itself as authoritative.

This is a post about AI.

the AI was a grandmaster chess player until it being horrible at chess became a meme

the AI is an incredible mathematician in countless breathless papers but every time you ask it a basic math question it fucks it up badly

the AI is just a tool until you refuse to use it, then it’s a revolution and we can’t afford to be left behind and using it is required

the AI is an incredible boon to open source, as it fractures communities and generates unsalvageably bad code in quantities so massive it can’t realistically be cleaned up

the AI will set you free, but your access to it is gated by a gigantic corporation that’s losing money at every realistic price point they can charge for the thing

the AI is loved by most people until you look at literally any of the polls we’ve done asking people what they think of AI

“The age-gating of history – Hi, I'm Heather Burns”

https://heatherburns.tech/2026/09/05/the-age-gating-of-history/

> Enter the pearl-clutching brigade, who have deemed real history to be “age inappropriate” content so shocking that it requires age and identity verification to view.

So, take a look around you right? Take a look at what AI is and does. Take a look at billionaire nazis from one family buying up 3/4 of the media in your society. Take a look at the marriage between tech bro fascists in a literal cult, and fundamentalist Christian nationalist in American life and politics.

This is not "idiots are running amok."

They are breaking shit on purpose because it's part of a plan - for city states and emperors, for a boot stamping a face forever.

Are you fucking kidding me

Thank you AI

Any guesses as to why this isn't prime time international news with over 200+ articles per minutes and abuse on social media and think pieces and such?

What could possibly be the reason? 🤔 I can't possibly imagine.

This is what real academic fraud looks like.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke-university-professor-dan-ariely-accused-of-additional-research-fraud-fabrication-tampering-epstein-data-colada-replication-20260902

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The Trump-infected US Postal Service isn't just threatening to wreck mail-in voting. It's under way.

So we have to take our ballots to a dropbox or cast them in person.

In other words, the regime's election fuckery has worked, while the press ho-hummed as usual.

https://www.thurstoncountywa.gov/news/we-are-still-getting-ballots-should-have-counted-primary

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- Patch ChiPass (no-AI fork of KeePassXC) to support VaultWarden syncing protocol

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"The idea that surveillance makes us safer keeps being used as an excuse," EFF’s Rindala Alajaji told @BBCNews, as tech is "used to criminalise people for being bystanders, with stories of innocent people being pulled over and having guns drawn on them because a licence plate reader read a letter wrong.” https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260902-how-to-watch-the-cameras-that-watch-you

An Oklahoma city can't charge a records requester an obscene fee of more than $17K thanks to a recent ruling from the state attorney general.

Good for the AG for knowing the law — far too often state officials refuse to respect the public's right to access government records.

https://www.404media.co/oklahoma-tells-city-it-cant-charge-17-125-44-for-a-records-request-related-to-data-center-arrest/?ref=weekly-roundup-newsletter

The odious surveillance company Flock has been teaching police how to spy on Americans who are exercising their First Amendment rights. https://www.404media.co/r/beaca1b1?m=ea6b4c29-f97b-4025-aaeb-1d01a70b3b30

#UN votes to adopt new #WorldMap that shows #Africa’s true scale | Africa | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa

#Cartography #MapProjections #Metcator #EckertIV #Gall-Peters #Geography #Politics

Oh, if humanoid robots really do function, why not make them better than humans? Give them 6 arms for example, so that they can work thrice as fast! But where would they find six-armed humans to operate them remotely? #nobot

“Vibe Coding and the Next Silent Cyber Risk”

https://digital.casact.org/issue/september-october-2026/vibe-coding-cyber-insurance/

> For casualty insurers, this loss of visibility turns a software defect into a provenance problem.

Insurers are increasingly not big fans of "AI"

Wireless Routers as Motion Detectors - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/wireless-routers-as-motion-detectors.html "Comcast may disclose information generated by your WiFi Motion to third parties without further notice to you in connection with any law enforcement investigation or proceeding" #privacy #surveillance

Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/04/revealed-how-companies-secretly-use-billions-of-litres-of-public-water-in-drought-hit-england "many companies are not required to report, let alone cut, use of public supply" outrageous, needs fixing as priority

At my organisation, Copilot for MS Teams transcription (or whatever it’s called) is now disabled org-wide because there was a scare based on the fact that Copilot “hallucinated” something that was not said at this meeting, which was then actioned by a non-attendee as a real point.

Thankfully, whatever this was, was caught before it was fulfilled/implemented by someone who does governance checks, but hahah it’s really darkly comic to think that we could have done something that nobody asked for and nobody wanted because Microsoft’s shitbot inserted it in a transcript

“UK AI medical transcription is dangerous and doesn’t work – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/03/uk-ai-medical-transcription-is-dangerous-and-doesnt-work/

> The vendors always claim that patients trying to get an appointment out of the AI can totally speak to a human any time. This turns out not to be true.

Generative models have no place in healthcare.