Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This is a worthy essay about the "This isn't who we are" trope, involving a white Texas businessman who suddenly awoke -- when it affected him and his fiance -- to our fascist reality. (The piece is somewhat repetitive, but I recommend it anyway.) https://www.the-reframe.com/this-is-us/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter#/share

RE: https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot/117305935258429539

This is a crime. I knew Amy Klobuchar was a piece of shit, but I had no idea that she would torpedo efforts to let innocent people that she directly harmed rebuild their life just for electoral gain.

What a terrible person she is.

“Responding to a user who wrote that ‘every year I’m sad to learn that next season won’t be the book where he kills his way through a white supremacist militia camp,’ Ritchson explained that the novel (titled ‘Die Trying’) is his ‘favorite book.’ ‘Fun fact: I had it approved until someone got re-elected.’”

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/alan-ritchson-jack-reacher-novel-die-trying-1236870453/

well over 90% of projects in the computering fields fail due to the misidentification of computering as the correct solution space for the actual problem to be addressed.

Having Opinions about specific versions of LLMs feels a lot like Knowing Your IQ. Like, I understand that you believe it's important, but it's telling me much more about you than you think it is, and not in any kind of good way

Republicans are still figuring out their midterm strategy (Besides "We'll kill you all.") https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/9/18/800099004/cartoon/republicans-midterm-messaging/

I have a question for linguists, teachers of English, language nerds.

In my first language (Croatian) copulative verbs (such as "to be" or "to become") reset the case of what follows to nominative.

"To sam ja" - "It is me", literally "It is I". It is not like that in English, and it is an ongoing joke in "'Allo 'Allo!". Guess it is a direct translation of French. I do not know any French.

Why are the pronouns (because English has no cases for nouns left except genitive) following copulative verbs in English in the objective case?

Bonus question: subject in a sentence is supposed to be in nominative case. "I am going to school." But "Me and you are going to school.", "You and I are going to school." Which of these are even correct?

#English #language

I'll be talking to my buddy about how money works and where it comes from on today's META Politics stream. If you want to understand why the national debt is not a problem (but your personal debts are), tune in, starting in 15 minutes (10:30 am Mountain):
https://www.twitch.tv/meta_politics

the point of the AI bubble is to have a VC bubble party

and do all the awful financial enginering you've been really wanting to

https://www.ft.com/content/7f11afae-c4e3-4054-a65b-873f3647f563
archive: https://archive.is/a4uct

@Tutanota
Privacy is fundamental to democracy, community, intimacy, diversity, and safety. Humanity cannot afford to lose privacy 💚🔒

I'm seeing a lot of "Oh nooooo Taylor Farms bribed Trump & now they'll be excused 🥺"

Seriously? We need more of a spine than this, folks.

So let's talk about what really happened with Taylor Farms; the FDA false positive; & why we gotta stop handing wins to billionaires before we even start to fight.

https://youtu.be/qKrUWmUv8-0

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau for September 20, 2026 | GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2026/09/20

#Humour #Cartoon

“The AI Chemist: To be trustworthy, LLMs need to show their work”

https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/drug-discovery/AI-Chemist-trustworthy-LLMs-need/104/web/2026/06?sc=260617_sc_eng_bs_cen

> The problem is they aren’t always right. And if you are relying on them for CADD (rather than as pretty pictures), they need to be.

@ChrisMayLA6 a while ago the Netherlands government started training hairdressers in detecting signs of domestic abuse and pointing victims towards support, for a similar reason

https://nltimes.nl/2026/04/01/hairdressers-receive-government-toolkit-spot-signs-abuse

I just need you to know that if anything happens to Altman, Amodei et al, it was their own "AI" going rogue, it was not any of us humans.

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #robotApocalypse #technofascism

I don't like passkeys. Don't get me wrong, passkeys are secure and the underlying technology is great. The implementation, however, just isn't there yet. I wrote up an explanation why on my blog. https://hawksley.dev/blog/i-dont-like-passkeys

> Computational models in psychology are typically judged by a single standard: empirical fit. [However, it's] misleading as a sole criterion, as the same result can arise [in] different situations: theoretically faithful models, mathematically flexible ones, miscalibrated operationalizations...

👇🏼

Chuang, Y., & Guest, O. (2026). Beyond Empirical Success: Evaluating Theoretical Virtue Across the Computational Modeling Chain. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22708906

(Not the Onion)

Financial Times: How should investors position for the robot apocalypse?

The end of human existence might be bad for financial markets

https://www.ft.com/content/129a5052-ac31-4975-8a88-91ce09740a0b?syn-25a6b1a6=1

#AI #AIpocalypse

there's not many things that get me going so fast as hearing that LLMs are useful as accessibility tools.

they aren't. where they somehow work, they are at best adequate. and it's never done with accessibility as a main goal, usually just something half made-up to make the detractors shut up.

now imagine what we could have, if a promille of a promille, one-hundred-thousandth of the money put into the autoconfabulators was spent on fucking actually developing accessibility tools.

"A West of Ireland data center objected to by novelist Sally Rooney had its planning permission overturned on the grounds that it breaches Irish national climate policy.

Rooney lodged an objection in January, writing to Mayo County Council that permission for the centre would increase carbon emissions, cause risk of blackouts, and that “climate change represents an immediate & unprecedented threat to our way of life in Mayo and the future of human life round the world.”

https://lithub.com/sally-rooney-just-defeated-a-data-center/