Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Is there a geo-data set for the European railway routes – routes not tracks, I know how to get those?

Ideally tagged in such a way that you can easily select a specific segment.

Background: I want to make an Interrail map which, among other things, shows where you can go without mandatory reservations.

I know there's a bunch of #autism / #adhd / neurospicy people on here: anyone have any experience of Auditory Processing Disorder? It's becoming more obvious to me that I'm finding it hard to understand people, particularly in busy environments or when they speak quickly, but I'm aceing all the standard hearing tests so I'm starting to wonder if I have APD. I know there's overlap between neurodivergence and APD, and while I'm not diagnosed with anything it wouldn't surprise me. OTOH it has only started becoming a problem the past few years. Any adjustments which worked for you, experiences getting diagnosed etc., would be helpful to hear. (Ha, ha)

if you're outside the US and you want to watch Ghost In The Machine (and you want to give them money and not just watch it via invidious), it should now be $5 to rent on Kinema

https://kinema.com/films/ghost-in-the-machine-pvxg4p

The oligarchs' warnings about AI are self-serving nonsense. But there are real harms from AI, as explored in the documentary "Ghost in the Machine."

New from me:
https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/ghost-in-the-machine-shows-what-were-fighting/

@phosh I think we have patches for the known issues now.

This week's comic: The Big Picture

#cartoon #comic #inequality #hierarchy #history

I fucking hate logging into DigitalOcean these days. The AI trash everywhere is overwhelming.

Twist: they didn't discover a new cat, they just found out about it. The locals have known about it forever.

"In their paper, the researchers propose the cat should be known as Leopardus tilcayo, in honor of the word local people know it by. "We asked the local people, ‘Why do you call it tilcayo?’” says Nogales-Ascarrunz, who is herself from Bolivia. “And they said, ‘I don’t know! My grandpa called it tilcayo, so I call it tilcayo.” "

😡🚨 Next round coming up: Let's fight against #ChatControl 🚨😡

In July, the European Parliament approved Chat Control 1.0 👉 NOW, On September 29, the negotiations for CHAT CONTROL 2.0 RETURN.

Unfortunately, this is a much bigger threat for everybody's #privacy.

At Tuta we will continue to SAY NO to Chat Control and fight for our right to privacy ✊❤️

More on Voluntary Chat Control 1.0 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/voluntary-scanning-google-microsoft

More on Chat Control 2.0 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism

Revealed: Five #police forces to drop #Palantir surveillance tool - https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-five-police-forces-to-drop-db0 "Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot."

“From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his way”

https://www.thenerve.news/p/steven-pinker-anti-woke-eugenics-race-science-free-speech-epstein-edge-nathan-cofnas-jason-arday?utm_source=www.thenerve.news

I've had several bosses and former coworkers who were major Pinker fans and they all turned out to be toxic dicks. So he's useful as a red flag. See a Pinker book on the shelf: refuse that glass of water and get the hell out of Dodge before you become one of Pinker's statistics of for a "decline in violence"

Thank you to each of you who writes your own toots, hand crafts your own blog posts and stories, draws and paints your own art, and makes your own music.

I have long liked people's own personal blogs and websites - the indie web - but I guess that, until the increasing proliferation of slop, I had not really appreciated just how much I valued human creativity overall.

I know that the overbearing tone at the moment is that we should all be using AI, so I am most grateful to those of you who resist, and continue your own creativity.

I read recently that in societies where empathy increases, justice decreases. It puzzled me at first, but it makes sense.

Philanthropy is all about compassion and empathy – giving. But that doesn't make it fair.

In fact, often it’s another way of making sure some are benefactors and can feel great about themselves, while others are poor and crushed and have to feel permanently grateful if they get anything at all.

⬇️

“AI almost starts WWIII”. No it did not. The people stupid enough to think that LLMs can be used as a reliable source of information did that. That’s like reporting “Tarot cards almost start WWIII”. Completely irresponsible framing.

Feels like Icelandic media has a clueless “AI” hype piece every single day at the moment. Their complete inability to apply any sort of criticism or scepticism to the claims is exhausting to witness.

The food is contaminated.

The medical supplies are contaminated.

If you’re thinking “I will just wash everything more to be safe”… think again.

The soap is contaminated with bacteria.

This was always the goal of deregulation.

Flood the zone so people can’t keep up.

It’s a cull:

https://nypost.com/2026/09/16/lifestyle/hand-soaps-recall-upgraded-by-fda-over-bacterial-contamination-fears/

#uspol #deregulation #fda #recalls #eugenics #fascism

Given the outrageous, dangerous, and outright false statements made about how the polio (and other) #vaccine was a "fraud" (at the Children's Health Defense conference), here's a reminder of what a massive success it was.
RFK Jr. & his minions must be stopped from destroying the US healthcare system.

Moooooooooom! manchicken is making tutorials that he's likely to lose interest in again!

https://manchicken.com/2026/09/19/adventures-in-zig-finding-a-substring/

People who think "anarchy" means a descent into violent chaos are people who have read zero books on anarchy by people who have defined and adopted the philosophy.

So many alternative ideas on organizing society have been poisoned by those who benefit most from the way our society is currently structured.

We should all read books about ideas we disagree with, and accept those authors genuine intent. Then we can disagree honestly with the ideas, rather than dishonestly with their caricature.

"They tried to bury us, but didn’t know we are seeds! New archive containing all Noblogs pages now open!"

#NoBlogs #A/I

https://nublogs.org/