Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

That they are winding down the "Forkiverse" is fine. Nothing has to last forever. But with the hosts all admitting that they mostly just rented a Mastodon instance they then didn't moderate and use I wonder how it could be labelled an "experiment". What was the hypothesis?

And when I heard Kevin Roose just saying "yeah there's thousands of accounts but since nobody built a business there we can just pull the plug without a second thought" it because clear that - at least for Mr Sloplord - it never was about creating a social space but about creating a mall.

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Something that struck me as I was writing that Zig tutorial last night: I can't really remember the last time I had a conversation with a software engineer at work who was familiar with how memory worked in their code.

So many people aren't programming computers, they're programming their abstractions; they know very little about the computer itself.

Talk about alienation.

TV's gettin' stupider thanks to these two. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

I don't know what's going on at Netlify but it sure looks like they're doing something seriously dodgy with how they calculate bandwidth use.

Trump Tourism Effects, or, that can’t be right. https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2026/10/01/trump-tourism-effects/

Amazon seeks to offload $8bn of Nvidia chips to external investors

https://app.ft.com/content/97d8d346-519e-48fb-8df8-66cf5f12ef62

Interview: AI is not the threat. It's the people building it "that are the existential risks to humanity."

"If a bridge collapses, we don’t ever ask, “Was the bridge uncontrollable? Was the bridge unethical?” And really, AI is no different than that."

When we describe these systems as if they have their own agency, we’re helping the companies market themselves. "We’re also helping them sidestep accountability."

~Timnit Gebru

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/10/1/timnit_gebru_ai

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“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.

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

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Its official website including download and source code is at:

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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).

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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