Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“Anthropic IPO filing: the disaster in numbers – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/01/anthropic-ipo-filing-the-disaster-in-numbers/

> Anthropic warns how many of its largest clients are not locked into long-term contracts and could drop Anthropic in a moment.

A carpenter friend in California told me today that the price of copper has gone through the roof -- e.g. $100 for a short section of pipe. He said the data centers are hoovering up raw materials in such a frenzy that the cost of essentially all construction materials is insane. I haven't seen any coverage of this angle (apart from IT hardware) in the media, but I guarantee that regular folks have noticed. More Trump-caused damage, and the worst is ahead of us, not behind.

I made another Zig tutorial. This one covers adding dependencies and parsing CSV: https://manchicken.com/2026/10/01/adventures-in-zig-csv-parsing/

Sometimes it's best to simply eat rice & beans.

An introduction to Public Interest Infrastructure Co-operative Cloud: save the date!

**Thursday, 15th October @ 19 UTC** (https://time.is/compare/1900_15_Oct_2026_in_UTC)

A public event reintroducing our project: a community of support for self- and community-hosters, a commons of production-ready configurations for libre software apps, and human-friendly tooling to manage it all. Developed and managed by an international democratic federation.

#CoopCloud #Cooperatives #LibreSoftware #OpenSource

There's a new very lightweight Fediverse platform that's just been released called littleFedi. You can follow its new official account at:

🌱 @littlefedi_official

Its official website including download and source code is at:

🌱 https://littlefedi.org

LittleFedi is intended for techy people who want to create their own Fediverse server using as few resources as possible.

It's written by @stefano (who also created the weather service FediMeteo).

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #FOSS #SelfHosting

Updated schedule: "What is Co-op Cloud" rescheduled to 2 weeks from now, Thursday October 15th.

– 3wordchant

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug!
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It's the Apocalypse!! And billionaire Hollingsworth Hound knows who caused it! Can you guess?
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Great thanks to The Inner Hive, including long-time member Amy DG and new member Steve Track! Join us at https://tomthedancingbug.com/the-inner-hive/ 👊
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

Of all the stupid ideas AI tech bros have had, this has got to take the cake. They reached out to religious organizations to explore how to provide models with “morality.”

If you want someone who is a subject matter expert in morality, talk to an ethicist and maybe a philosopher.

Religion is not about morality, religion is about religion. Religion is still trying to find morality, and they’re not searching particularly hard.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/anthropic-claude-morals-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FVE.sCa1.pUevmZMuW4bR&smid=url-share

You can't protect press freedom by violating the First Amendment.

This ruling is deeply troubling. It fails to confront the fundamental First Amendment problems posed by the so-called “independent” editorial board.

Press freedom can't be imposed by government decree.

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-warner-bros-merger-judge-approves-settlement-ags-1236893467/

Journalists witnessed yesterday's botched execution in Tennessee and did their job by telling the public about it.

But Tennessee is fighting to stop the press from witnessing every stage of an execution, in a lawsuit brought by the AP. Nothing to hide, right?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2026/oct/01/witnesses-recount-christa-pikes-survival-of-two-lethal-injections-video

Hey, folks! I'll be at the New York Comic Con Thursday 10/8 and Friday 10/9. Come by, say hi, get a book, or just hang.
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https://tomthedancingbug.com/2026/10/01/your-chance-to-view-ruben-bolling-in-captivity-at-the-nycc/

Are you interested in a #NoAI meet-up in the Rhein-Neckar area?
@rhelune and I are planning one. DM us and we‘ll dm you back with location and date(s).

#Heidelberg #Mannheim #Ludwigshafen #MetropolregionRheinNeckar

‘The toll is huge’: El Niño-driven wildfires overwhelm Indonesia’s orangutan population - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/01/el-nino-orangutans-indonesia-wildlife-destruction-aoe

Erase social media tomorrow? Brits say yes - https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/10/01/erase-social-media-tomorrow-brits-say-yes/5300109 "Just 7 percent of Brits think social media is a force for good and around one in three suspect that life would get better if all these sites were erased from the internet tomorrow. "

Revealed: factory farm pollution is costing the UK £130m a year - https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-10-01/revealed-factory-farm-pollution-is-costing-the-uk-130m-a-year time to make them pay these negative externalities

The AI Pascal’s Wager

Should you accept contributions generated by LLMs in your Open Source project?

https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html

This is very bad news. Owncast has relied on this program the past couple of years, and has allowed us to have servers and services we wouldn't normally afford to be able to do otherwise, especially now with Gabe being unemployed.

Any other cloud hosting providers want to step in and help all the open source projects that are going to be in this position?

Additionally, this might be a good time to show your financial support for Owncast.

https://fedifunding.org/projects/owncast/

“The AI Pascal’s Wager”

https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html

> On the other hand, if you refuse AI-generated contributions to your project right now, the worst very hypothetical regret you could ever have is "I should probably have done it sooner".