Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

so almost all of the replies on this are about how this feature isn’t only for surveillance, surely apple’s using it to fight generative AI even though it’s perfect feedstock for it, also our good boy would never sell us out to the cops

anyway I hear the apple watch and iphones have an always-on recording mode now too? but our good boy corporation would never do surveillance

It's that time of month again when I promote my work, and I have some cool things to share! Most notably, Arca has passed twenty subscribers and we're almost a quarter of the way towards being able to cover our living expenses from Arca alone! If you'd like to join them and want to learn interesting things about statistics and engineering, we're currently in early access, which means that you can lock in access at a *permanently* discounted rate. Take a look here:

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Define “experts.”

https://theonion.com/experts-advise-against-throwing-laptop-across-office-ev-1819579112/

[...] Even if someone makes a 100% ethical large language model or other Genarative AI model, even if it took 2 cents to train, no more energy than you can get from 20 potatoes, and runs on an Apple II, I still wouldn't want to use it because it robs me of the opportunity to teach, and others of the opportunity to learn and become part of the community.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117241250895962141

Meanwhile they couldn’t afford $50 a month for GNOME and Flathub VMs and cancelled their sponsorship last month.

Learn your rights on the job with Arise Chicago tonight, 6–8 p.m., in person, at the In These Times office on Milwaukee Ave. Bring a coworker! https://actionnetwork.org/events/worker-rights-workshop/?clear_id=true

🎉 And... announcing the completely complete Complete Tom the Dancing Bug Library!

All eight volumes compiling the entirety of the comic strip (and more!) from 1990-2023 (!) are now lovingly published and waiting to find their forever homes! 👇

https://tomthedancingbug.com/2026/09/09/announcing-the-completely-complete-complete-tom-the-dancing-bug-library/

Online shopping was supposed to be a bargain between shoppers and retailers where shoppers would look the other way while retailers fucked their workers, and in exchange the shoppers would receive greater convenience and a less expensive and tedious shopping experience.

How’s that going now? https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/its-getting-harder-to-return-thingsand-its-making-shoppers-mad-38b2fc55

The workers already got fucked, and now it’s time for the shoppers to be put to the grindstone to bleed for corporate (mostly private equity) gains. Even the WSJ is covering this.

While the Stop Gen AI website is down due to malware, you can sign up for Saturday's event without going through our website.

Go directly here to register for free. Let's organize against Gen AI!

Share! 🎉

#NoAI

https://zoom.us/meeting/89319962593

We do not want "aligned" genAI. We want it wiped off the face of the earth!

#AI #noAI #LLM #genAI #technofascism

@chrisstoecker An idea: A "simple" way to curb AI development could be to limit energy consumption for AI companies and their data centers. This could probably be ordered quite easily by the governements.

@accessnow wins for “Fostering Change in Human Rights and Technology.” For years, they’ve worked hard to be the team companies and lawmakers can't ignore when tech policy and human rights collide. https://www.accessnow.org/ (2/6)

That "oh so powerful AGI everyone is developing that could kill us all" works on electricity. Just cut its power supply.

(Yes, another "I resigned from Anthropic today" is scaremongering on the hellsite.)

#AI #noAI #genAI #technofascism #BigTech #doomerism

If you really love CSS and want to get involved with an open source operating system—and more specifically app framework—that doesn’t use AI and really pisses off white supremacist homophobes, I would love your help!

https://github.com/elementary/granite

So, correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like node.js effectively ended up merging the vibe-coding vfs implementation that caused all the drama a few months ago? Just in a different set of pull requests that were still 14k lines long?

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/63115
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/63537

Versus the original:

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61478

NOAA is putting commercial fishing ahead of conservation - https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/noaa-is-putting-commercial-fishing-ahead-of-conservation/ #trump the destroyer

In a world scarred by indiscriminate bombing, forced starvation, and mass displacement, a nameless survivor lies crushed beneath the rubble of a bombing—alive, but barely.
Get 20% off this new title with code SEPTEMBER thru 10/1 here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=2154

“I’m tired of art that doesn’t trust its audience, and I’m concerned that the few remaining gatekeepers seem determined we can’t and shouldn’t be trusted.” https://theantiquarian.email/archive/how-to-tell-a-story/

Announcing TRUMP YOU! A curated comic book compiling Trumpcentric Tom the Dancing Bugs, bitterly signed by Ruben Bolling (i.e., me).
https://tomthedancingbug.com/tom-the-dancing-bug-store/#trump-you-comic-book

By 2021, U.S. spending on post-9/11 foreign and domestic militarization had reached $21 trillion. Sarah Lazare examined what those resources could have done to address climate change.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/climate-change-floods-war-on-terror-crisis-china