Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Hope you're hungry for prions! https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/09/14

Me: "I want to learn German."

Them: "Why would you do that? Don't bother!"

Me: "Because I spend half my time on the Fediverse clicking on the 'Translate' button."

I can't help it if so many of the awesome accounts I follow are in German. And I want to be able to understand their messages without clicking on 'Translate' 50+ times a day. Plus this way I would understand / could attend ALL the talks at Berlin #FediDay.

I'm putting this here so that people hold me accountable 😅🤗

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/117265359683542601

I’ve been thinking along the same lines, with a few additional notes:

- Outsourcing was never rolled back. Industry went abroad and never returned
- Companies overall adjusted and now, more or less, benefit from it
- Much if that is because many companies also outsourced design and engineering, so lower coordination costs
- Most products are still worse than pre-outsourcing
- Domestic labour was pretty close to destroyed.
- Countries that went all-in on outsourcing effectively deindustrialised

I've thought often the last couple of years about how the “Fire your developers! Use AI!!” craze feels really similar to the outsourcing / offshoring mania of a few decades ago — and how many of the same problems it shares:

- Cost-cutting shiny things
- but turns out generating code was the easy part
- and building cumulative shared understanding is everything
- and shortcuts around that dig you in a hole really fast
- and that hole is full of code that nobody can maintain.

Something in the water, I guess. Something always in the water that once in a while explodes when conditions are right, like algae blooms.

From today's FTM newsletter:
https://www.ftm.eu/newsletters/less-red-tape-more-pesticides-bee-careful-what-you-simplify

Data privacy. Today's cartoon by Gatis Sluka. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/

#data #privacy #ArtificialIntelligence

Constantly, when I read articles on the NY Times website (Firefox in Android), the site pops up annoying "upgrade" offers and demands that I use the app. Is there any way to remove these vandalisms permanently?

Fielding questions re: this article w/bizarre factual errors. First, there's no "Montecito County" in CA. Second, 2 fires are actually in *Monterey,* & 3rd in *Mendocino*. Third, 60k ac have *not* burned in either fictional Montecito nor real Mendocino.🤨 https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-12/three-montecito-county-fires-burn-60-000-acres

“AI hypervigilance is now an omnipresent cognitive load for your users”

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ai-hypervigilance-is-now-an-omnipresent-cognitive-load-for-your-users

> AI may make your job easier, but that effort has just been shifted onto your users. They are noticing it and they hate it.

RE: https://dresden.network/@DresdnerForschungswerk/117263581784181821

Translation:
Now @sabrinkmann into the vastness of the Fediverse with alternatives for e-commerce. For example, I hadn’t heard of #Valueflow before—it’s the foundation for federated marketplaces, as Flomarkt has already implemented.
Samuel then introduces Menuverse, which lets you build federated cafeteria menus that you can follow—for example, via Mastodon.
The Economiverse then brings the store and the marketplace together.
There’s still a lot to work on, but these are exciting prospects for gradually becoming independent from Amazon, Etsy, and the like.

What's an influencer?

If you really think that AI running out of control is a dangerous possibility, then make tech company CEOs legally liable for illegal actions taken by their company's agents.

sorry but this is extremely funny

Listen, I know it's hard for us "average" folks to stop rich people like Elon Musk from doing horrible things, but one very easy thing we can do is stop using his services that help support hatred. Get the fuck off of X. It's not a difficult thing to do. There are zero excuses.

https://truthout.org/articles/elon-musk-spends-100-million-on-anti-trans-ads-targeting-dems-in-midterm-races/

“Abdicati | blarg”

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2026/09/12/abdicati/

> I can’t begin tell you how tired I am of people anthropomorphizing AI in a way that lets OpenAI and its employees straight up confess to committing crimes on stage, in front of an audience full of people who should absolutely know better who are all just nodding along, applauding their own humiliation.

Eat your meat, hogs. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/9/11/800096875/cartoon/white-house-mystery-meats/

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Robert Paxton lays out 5 stages of fascism.

DHH's "Omarchy Doctrine" completes Stage 1.

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/dhh-omarchy-doctrine-fascism-stage-one-by-definition/

Twitter is TESCREAL social media (for obvious reasons), which helps me see their talking points

1. Anyone pushing "stochastic parrots framing" shouldn't be taken seriously.

2. People "denying" the machine god narrative, like me, are akin to anti-vaxxers & climate deniers.

These are things they're saying to the left politicians they've captured, like Bernie Sanders who's being advised on "AI" by eugenicist doomsday cult leaders.

I wish we really were in a simulation like this people say 🙄

"To me, Rocketship exemplified the ways in which […] these technologies and associated practices served to reinforce regimes of surveillance and control, utterly dehumanizing students as it datafied them."
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/click-here-to-comply/

Part of the problem, I think, is that some otherwise well-meaning people genuinely don't know how to distinguish between engagement and control when it comes to dealing with children, in part because they don't fully recognize the humanity of children.