Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

One of the weirder trends in Big Tech’s AI obsession is the idea that expertise is becoming less valuable.

Imagine two arguments:

1. AI enables radiologists to review more scans.
2. AI enables anyone to be a radiologist.

“Everyone is a builder” increasingly sounds like Big Tech embraced #2.

This is just dumb: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1245875/us-declares-it-will-accelerate-military-presence-in-australia the US is no longer a credible ally. Its administration has demonstrated it has no loyalties. None. It is a corrupt, failed empire.

This is a message to non-Germans (and some Germans, depending on their politics) to leave Germany, regardless of the federal state we live in. #afd #fascism #germany #deutschland #nazism #depol #election #sachsenAnhaltWahl #sachsenAnhalt

As corporations race to dominate legal cannabis, the people most harmed by prohibition are still fighting for a voice.

Kojo Koram asks: “Will the communities who bore the actual weight of the War on Drugs have any say in shaping what comes next?”

https://inthesetimes.com/article/cannabis-is-capitalisms-next-fix

There's a good chance that this is as good as the tech will get and, despite being thoroughly dysfunctional, it'll still be the long term future of programming simply because employers would rather pay two dollars for a shitty unreliable model than one dollar for an employee.

Think about outsourcing. There was no "after the outsourcing bubble" for most western factory workers. There was just immiseration and ruined towns.

There was no "after the 2007 housing bubble". We still have housing bubbles pretty much everywhere you look. The finance markets are even less regulated. Fraud was basically legalised.

So, I'm sceptical about the notion that the software industry will "revert" after the bubble.

Unreliable models whose output is massaged into place by overseas labour will just suit them fine, even if the result is largely broken. See outsourcing

I'm guessing there won't be an "after the bubble", at least not for software dev . This might well be the future of coding in perpetuity, just at some point it'll be even shittier

This can only be fixed on a political level. A bubble pop will give the investor class an opportunity to solidify the system into place, much like after 2007

Did a collab with Adam Ragusea about "How do we stop the goshdang outbreaks?"

https://youtu.be/IWIWwWWHna8

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117224570706547009

Periodic reminder that if your market depends on volume sales to survive, then killing affordable entry into a market means killing the market.

#Autistici / Inventati are closing down.

I am speechless.

A/I is history.

"A/I is shutting down. The Autistici/Inventati collective is shutting down and will soon discontinue all of the services we provide.

There is no easy way to announce or explain this.

Every day we stayed online after August 26, 2026, has been a victory, but now we are forced to stop."

https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/a/i-shuts-down-stay-human/

#Reform #London #mayor candidate accused of talking down capital with ‘pity’ remark - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/07/reform-london-mayor-candidate-laila-cunningham-accused-talking-down-capital "said she would also scrap the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) if she won power," she's obviously wants londoners' health to get worse; idiot; get lost (from jan)

@The4thCircle @kestral Moreover, if some of the code in your project falls under a copyleft license like GPL and was written by other authors who you do know, the terms of the license you received from them requires that you document the provenance of all changes making up the derived work, including authorship.

If you are merging AI slop into the codebase, you are violating the terms of the GPL on the code by known contributors, and thereby infringing their copyright.

“Move Slow, Remake Things”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/move-slow-remake-things/

> This growing rejection and refusal of technology – inside and outside of schools – is about much much more than the technology itself. It is, in part, about the loss of control; the loss of agency, autonomy, and privacy.

People: Sara, why did you retire from Software Eng in your 40s?

Me: Gestures at this absolutely perfect encapsulation...

It is already happening.
Predictably, from now on, this abuse will be used against and tested on the life of ordinary people. As it becomes normalised, sanctions will hit any adversary. It will be late - but there is no reason to be even later before doing the right thing.

you might think I’m misrepresenting the idea of superintelligent AI here but no, the intelligence explosion is supposed to be a faster-than-overnight revolution that changes the entire world

I uhh didn’t make this shit up

I did learn a ton about it because anti-cult work is always good work

@Di4na @hungryjoe @zzt oh, yeah, we can tell this part of the story now because there are no longer ongoing legal matters it could affect

his manifesto was written to be a test case, in an attempt to use labor law in the service of hate. we were advised of this by Google's own lawyers (this was back when activists and management were still on speaking terms), and events over the following months bore that out

Dont forget. Bill gates got an std on epstein island, tried to hide it by feeding his wife antibiotics, she found out and that led to her divorce.
That is a lot, before we even start talking about the skeezy business practices. (Paladium, the browser wars, similar business practices in other areas, including directx vs gl)
He keeps trying to rewrite himself as a good guy. Dont forget history.

Sorry to disappoint all the people who learned that the EFF is shilling for AI companies and were planning to move their donations to the Internet Archive.

The Internet Archive is also full of assholes who are OK with boiling the planet instead of doing the right thing.

https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/117219501245722161

#NoAI