Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

LLMs are fascist technology.

Note that I didn't say "cloud-hosted LLMs" or "LLMs that aren't local-only" or some other qualifier. I did not, in fact, stutter.

So California AG Bonta and his colleagues from other states were engaging in antitrust theater. Their "settlement" with the soon-to-be media giant Paramount -- that is, Larry Ellison and his sock-puppet son (and three Arab-oil dictatorships) -- is a pathetic cave-in. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/critics-say-california-got-too-little-in-deal-to-let-paramount-buy-warner-bros/ar-AA2cHhTk

Huge anti-ICE pasteup memorial in Minneapolis for those killed by ICE in the past year.
The pasteup is in the Whittier neighborhood, on the same block as Alex Pretti's memorial.

This is most worrying: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/1520107/dolphin-found-dead-on-invercargill-beach-died-from-toxoplasmosis the idea that cat-dependent parasites can wash into coastal waters and infect our rarest, most precious taonga species is devastating. This is on us.

"Short nerds with high-pitched voices insist Conversation Simulator 2000 is going to turn into a living thing and wipe out humanity, and the only safe path forward is if they are granted full power to steward AI development. The world’s media hangs off their every word.

"Meanwhile, coverage of the actual life-threatening apocalypse only gets lower and lower every month. And the industry itself shows no sign of letting up in its plan to keep expanding the use of fossil fuels to feed data centre energy hunger. They’re fossil fuel cultists injecting methane gas directly into the heart of their machine god."

#AusPol #AI #ClimateChange

https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/anthropic-openai-artificial-intelligence-data-centres-climate-change-jacob-coxon/

Shout out to everyone protesting at the Kennedy Center tonight.

#KennedyCenter #fascism #uspol

remember: if you want to do something incredibly unpopular like use LLMs in your project, start a discussion thread and make sure to flood it with the most noxious pro-AI guys you can find. if some of them are racists, that’s perfect! then when the rest of the community reacts strongly to you wanting to do something horrid and the discussion thread about it being filled with horrid people, lock the thread because it’s “too heated”. then you can do whatever you want because the discussion has concluded!

isn’t that right, KDE?

My comrade Hardworking Netizen is a retail worker who also does web development. They are also an anti Gen AI political activist, and trying to labor union organize their workplace. They are also #Covid safe.

Their message:

"hi all - I just worked a shift with major overtime and severe understaffing, and got a single 15 minute break in all of it - I only have $2 in my bank account, $20 would help me get something to eat. Thank you;

https://ko-fi.com/hardworkingnet
"
Share! 🎉🎉 #NoAI #MutualAid

"Higher velocity = more good" is a misunderstanding premised on the idea that every piece of work on your Jira board is there because it adds value in some way.

Once you understand that the majority of developer tickets are actually negative-value, you will become enlightened.

#tech #software #softwareDevelopment #productmanagement

A Paramount-appointed editorial independence board for CNN and CBS is worthless.

The fish rots from the head, and this particular fish is headed by a compromised oligarch with a history of throwing under the bus to advance his business interests.

Our statement:

https://freedom.press/issues/fpf-statement-on-editorial-independence-board-for-cbs-and-cnn/

WebKitGTK 2.54 has been finally released, and with it (among lots of other great things!) my patches adding support for fractional TouchPoint coordinates, PointerEvent capture/release through the DOM API, and fixing pinch-to-zoom handling and V4L2 video acceleration. It's been a while but it's out now:)

https://webkitgtk.org/2026/09/16/webkitgtk-2.54-highlights.html

#librem5 #mobilelinux #linuxmobile #linuxphone #linuxphones #gnu #linux #epiphany #webkit #webkitgtk #wpewebkit #purism #gnome

@phosh If you want to help us test this on @mobian please pull phoc (0.58~alpha1-1) and gtk4 from unstable. (4.24.0+ds-2).

Twenty-five years ago ten people set out to find whether a company owned by its workers could do serious engineering entirely in the open. We think the answer is in the commit logs.

All of it is upstream, where anyone can use it. Here is to the next twenty-five.

I am so burnt out, from work, from slop, from technofascism, from the minefield using tech has become, and now even my cakes are falling apart 😩

I predict this thing never actually comes online. It sounds like an engineering disaster waiting to happen.

https://montanafreepress.org/2026/09/18/broadview-area-data-center-sees-first-phase-of-construction-with-roads-well-work/

@baldur
The models have eaten tons of "enterprise best practices" that of course were meant for a different enterprise and never actually used but made up by some dude trying to score on StackOverflow. So the answer to your question is: Yes, but worse.

I have to work with slop-coders for a project and I have to ask: is it an “agent” tick to rewrite node projects to run all tests in docker? So instead of running the project in the node everybody has set up, it rewrites it to run in node wrapped up in a docker image with tons of weird and unnecessary cruft.

Trying not to be annoyed at the unnecessary complexity and absolute garbage docs they keep adding (the project is already fully documented)

On September 21, 1979, The Clash tore through the Palladium in New York City. It was a night that would become rock history.
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they cover ‘social topics’ - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/21/meta-ban-virginia-woolf-a-room-of-ones-own-barcelona-teatre-raval "Facebook and Instagram ads mentioning ‘civil rights or feminism’ are filtered out" #meta's #infantilising #censorship