Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Wow, Guyon Espiner talking to Tamatha Paul about billionaires on RNZ just now... using Bill Gates as an exemplar of the 'good billionaire'... wow, Tamatha at least pointed out his presence in the Epstein Files, but I really wish that more people knew how totally unworthy of his wealth - and any public adoration - Bill Gates has *always* been. He's always been a coddled trust fund kid who happily stabbed everyone else in the back to 'get ahead'. He's at best a sociopath & maybe a psychopath.

Are folks who host WordPress sites noticing a substantial spike in compromises? I've had several sites compromised in the past few months, a couple compromised multiple times...

Corporate America's offloading of customer "support" to mistake-prone bots is nearly complete, it seems. Getting a human on the phone becomes more and more difficult -- a deliberate strategy. Even non-monopoly/cartel businesses are doing this, which is amazing to me.

RE: https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/117400785095613107

"If you work in software, start figuring your way to get out of it."

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #vibeCoding #agenticCoding

Oh hey Portland! Some rad collectives are screening our first InterRebellium film. Get hyped because the 2nd film of the series is approaching completion!

From the organizers:

"Ⓐ Film & Convergence

A series of educational and connective events organized in coalition by anarchiststudies onlywewillfreeus and @sgc

Next:
Saturday, October 10th
turnturnturnpdx
2:00 PM Doors / 3:00 PM Film
All Ages
Donation (notaflof)

All proceeds benefit defense and commissary funds for MN15 and Prairieland comrades. There will be QR codes to donate directly to them at the door.

Film:
InterRebellium Part 1: The Estallido Social
By @sub.media

In October 2019, protests against a transit fare hike in Santiago erupted into a nation-wide insurrection against the Chilean state. For six months, the streets were transformed into vibrant laboratories of self-organization, creativity and resistance, before ultimately being cleared by the promise of a new constitution and the spread of a global pandemic.

Tabling:
anarchiststudies
onlywewillfreeus
@CrimethInc
@sgc "

A forensic extraction device used by law enforcement and some authoritarian regimes may be able to bypass your iPhone’s automatic reboot feature.

Read more about the potential risks from Magnet Forensics’ Graykey in our digital security newsletter — and subscribe.

https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/police-forensic-tools-may-bypass-key-phone-security-feature/

Different modes of thinking

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/modes-of-thinking/

Hearing lots of discourse about "stochastic parrots" recently? Here's a discussion of the backstory, both of the phrase itself and what's going on now.

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-two-words-the-ai-industry-hates

73,928
This is the number of Palestinian deaths since 10/7/2023 according to the Gaza Ministry of Health's most recent report on 9/24/2026.
This is what 73,928 looks like.
We will not forget.

Take a look at these, uhm, holiday decorations, and tell me if the problem is me:
https://sostrenegrene.com/de/produkte/kreativitaet/dekorative-holzformen-p-ebc9aef7

Do I know any Germans who care about labor law?

What's the state of labor law in Germany? If I work for a company doing tech infra work, can my company put in my contract that I can't work for another tech infra company after working for them for a year? Wouldn't that make it so I would be forcefully unemployed for a year? If that's the case, how is that even legal?

In any other profession, that sounds illegal

Also interested in the state of "noncompete" clauses there? Can they stop me from taking other jobs? Is that legal?

#germany #labor #union

If you hate AI, I'd cancel your Tuta email service. A vibecoded email app isn't worth burning down the planet.

Evidence: https://github.com/tutao/tutanota/commit/e2787487819131f48aa04c0e4898b725ddbb82cb

Claude code was used to bomb the elementary girl's school in Iran. I don't know how anyone can use it after that.

What's everyone's favorite No AI email service these days?

#tuta #noai #email

@_elena @oscl @paolo we have lots of cool talks at our track, but I'm also really excited to for our "Institutions on the Fediverse" panel.

This panel brings together experts who have brought prestigious cultural and public institutions on the Fediverse. 👏

We have the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK), the French Ministry of Culture, and @manfredzielinski is going to talk about social.overheid.nl, the Dutch gov Mastodon instance.

#oscl #oscl26 #opensource #digitalsovereignty

As I warned about months ago now, I can confirm that Google Chrome's #AI API is now actively being used for device fingerprinting and tracking purposes.

Out of 100 of the top global english language content sites - around 30% are actively using the API for fingerprinting, Google Advertising (profiling) or both) without the legally required consent (EU law).

#Privacy

I did an actual marketing thing! @piffio, a highly experienced CTO and generally very intelligent person has very kindly let me write a guest post on his newsletter, both because I am a capable writer and because it will help build awareness of the existence of Arca:

https://makemeacto.cc/the-liberal-arts-of-tech/

Sergio writes well and is very clever, and you should all go follow him on the Fediverse and sign up to his newsletter.

Anyway, please send me paper recommendations showing the measurably ill effects of the use of LLMs in academic use. Every angle you can think of:

- deskilling effects
- plagiarism and copyright
- is the generated code actually licensable?
- measurable vs. perceived productivity
- technical debt
- code quality / readability
…

You want a #seminar on #slop – okay (#malicious_compliance activated).

Please #boost

Spotify opens new front in war on fair use https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/10/spotify-opens-new-front-in-war-on-fair-use/

“Racletture Redux | blarg”

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2026/06/12/racletture-redux/

NEW: Historic Trees Demolished, Land Defenders Arrested and New Treesit at US-Mexico Border

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/historic-trees-demolished-land-defenders-arrested-and-new-treesit-at-us-mexico-border/