Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

okay I have successfully avoided responding to any of these directly but after having seen like the TENTH post today saying something like "we don't need to convince you to like AI, the revolution is coming whether you like it or not" I just have to reply, generally, to this whole sentiment: OKAY THEN. IF WE ARE GETTING LEFT BEHIND THEN LEAVE US BEHIND, ALREADY

@broadwaybabyto Here's the same article in archived form so that you don't give that garbage rag any traffic:

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/MxJZr

A few quick thoughts on why "AI Labs" love having their LLMs do math https://tante.cc/2026/09/07/the-function-of-llm-based-math-proofs/

“Heat kills 5 times more people than official stats show : NPR”

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/31/nx-s1-5724225/heat-wave-death-toll-tracker

> Thousands of Americans die every year from a chronically underreported cause: heat.

RE: https://systemli.social/@anneroth/117224382426870269

This is a pretty big deal, flying mostly under the radar. It goes to show a couple of things:

The only sovereign nations on earth are the US, China and Russia. The US has just proven that it can debank anyone it wants, with the twitch of a pen, with the exception of those protected by the other powers. There is no legal oversight, no court approval, no way to appeal...just defacto decisions by a narcissist with nukes.

Nobody is safe while these people are in charge. If the US can make a group of Italian volunteers who created a service that was proton before proton equal a hotbed of terrorists to global banks and DNS resolvers with nothing more than "I said so", then y'all...ain't a one of us that hasn't done something a fascist doesn't like.

#StateDept #terrorism #autistici

German politicians from all sides are actively posting on X, making advertising revenue for Elon Musk, who is helping AfD take over Germany.

If you are German, ask your politicians to stop supporting the Nazis of our time.

AGI

@keoni

It's wider than just Thiel. Our own Alan Gibbs was a driving force in creating the Atlas Network, and his daughter (former manager of the Headless Chickens, Straitjacket Fits and 95bFM) ran the joint for a while. They collect money from the very rich and distribute it to hundreds of grubby little front organisations like the FSU, the TPU, the ACT Party etc.

In the old days we would call this the CIA, this is the current privatised model.

I'm now very suspicious of 95bFM alumni.

If you support "age verification" online, you are supporting a system that GUARANTEES privacy meltdowns -- endangering all of us -- because the giant databases of scanned IDs are perpetually hacked by criminals who sell private data. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/

"Lupe" shares, "We're harvesting cilantro piece rate. We get paid $1.50 per box of 48 bunches. Supermarket sell each bunch for 75 cents each. It isn't fair. But there is nothing we can do except try to work a bit faster to squeeze in harvesting an extra box." #WeFeedYou

@internetarchive LLMs?!?! Seriously?

This is disgusting - these chatbots cause AI psychosis in their users, are built on the misuse of people's work against their wishes, and are horrendously computationally inefficient, meaning they are awful for the climate and water usage

Cancelling my monthly donation - I'm not sending money towards LLMs

@internetarchive What the fuck are you doing.

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