Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Two days in a row now the 80+ year old Trump voter I have morning coffee with has said something to the effect of, "capitalism has made everybody greedy, and it needs to go." I don't know quite what to make of this. His main news sources are whatever comes in over the air (CBS, NBC, PBS, I think), meaning not a Fox viewer, but culturally pretty conservative. But he sounds like he could be a radical socialist sometimes (he watched a Mamdani interview and didn't find anything to disagree with), and he's placing the blame for our social problems squarely on "capitalism." I don't know if this is a wide spread thing among the more conservative types, but so far I'm finding it rather encouraging.

🚨🇪🇺 The #ChatControl trilogue starts on Tuesday & the EU Council is trying to pressure Parliament into giving up its opposition. We must stop them once again! 💪🏼

And the proposed compromise isn't targeted policing, it is mass surveillance!

Because no matter the framing, the truth remains the same: There's no backdoor for the good guys only!

We at Tuta will continue to fight for your right to #privacy. Make your voice heard as well, today is the day!

➡️ https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Parasocial media: why influencers really aren't your friend

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/04-parasocial-relationships/

How the very design of social media supercharges misinformation and harm.

incidentally, I am still open to finding a job I enjoy more

1) I work from home in Amsterdam. If you are also in Amsterdam, I can physically appear before you on a regular basis.

2) I am not at this exact second a Dutch citizen but I'm working on getting that sorted and finally getting my US passport shredded. I came into the country on a skilled worker visa. I can read Dutch easily and speak it okay

3) I am an infosec expert with a lot of experience reviewing C/C++ source code but I am open to tangentially related roles like malware analysis or optimization analysis, I'd like something fresh

4) I am an intermediate reader of Chinese who is constantly studying, improving, and interested in a role where being able to read Chinese is helpful.

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
https://www.404media.co/humans-reading-copilot-prompts-images/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into 404 Media @404-media-404media

It seems both OpenAI and Microsoft have been hiring human contractors to manuall review (read and judge) verbatim prompts from users to "improve" the services.

YOU HAVE NO REASONABLE EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY WITH A HOSTED LLM!

These companies are reading chat logs, "improving" their models, and they will eventually try to mine them for additional products that they would like to sell while displacing their customers in the marketplace.

These thieves be thievin', y'all.

AI agents stole 600,000 credit cards for about $25 a target, Gambit says - https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-agents-600000-credit-card-records-gambit "used three open-source AI agents to breach 27 companies and steal more than 600,000 credit card records. A scan cost about $25."

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/117348316997310623

"There is no worthwhile career in AI-anything.

Simple as that. The AI industry is designed to dehumanise and commoditise labour. Everyone who has dedicated their life to token servitude has become a dull fungible meat proxy."

The future of media is in the hands of some disgusting freaks. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/09/28

Regarding Samsung bricking their smart fridges...

I once told a contractor that I explicitly did NOT want a smart appliance. His response was “you must be a software developer, they’re usually the ones who don’t want them.”

"...we can’t have a set-up that is “technically decentralized” but “socially centralized”. The #CoopCloud recipes are a lot easier to maintain, which makes it easier to share the moderation among ourselves.".

New post: https://opentech-auc.org/posts/2026-09-27-coopcloud/

With a shoutout to @AberdeenLocal1312 and @coopcloud

“Software Drives People Insane – The Gospel According to Graybeard”

https://graybeard.ing/software-drives-people-insane/

> And yet somehow the process of producing this stuff can turn perfectly ordinary adults into b-tier Bond villains.

AI has truly convinced every mediocre C-suite person that they are a genius and can replace everyone with AI. I never seen such AI psychosis. This is not going to end well for anyone.

When They say that the death of AI will "kill the Internet," they're wrong. It'll cut off the flow of algorithmic sewage. It'll cripple Meta, X, Google, and so on.

Those of us who have our own web sites, who communicate independently? We'll be fine.

Welcome to 1995. Here's your modem.

Can't wait!

Another day, a Monday. Another day when the investors keeping generative machine learning companies on life support aren't getting one cent in returns from me. Go fuck yourselves!

#llm #ai #aibubble

@SaraSoueidan people using the theft machine for their work, surprised the theft machine steals their work too... #llm #ai

More and more it looks like the big "AI" companies are ripping off their customers. It's the American way, of course, but this stuff looks egregious -- and it's going to push people with common sense toward the open-source local models. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/science/anthropic-biology-enzyme-mestre.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EVE.e8Mn._lRdB19pQprE

*ahem* lol

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49861047