Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

There's a dust-up over an AI ad from Bookshop.org. But they didn't use AI; Meta's ad platform automatically created an AI "variation" of the original, non-AI content.

I went to disable this crap in our Shiraki Press ad account, and got served a popup *demanding a reason why*.

Fuck Meta for this. Consent matters. We've just pulled all paid advertising from their platforms.

Trifecta: Meta screwed with the accounts of the non-fascist Brazilian presidential candidate: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/meta-employees-said-lulas-accounts-were-hindered-during-brazil-election-folha-2026-10-16/

The American tech oligarchs are completely beyond control at this point. They need to be stepped on, hard and soon.

Meanwhile, Larry Ellison and his pals have locked out of TikTok the account promoting the new, scathing documentary about Elon Musk.

Big (Tech) Media is on a censorship rampage aimed to shut down the critics of the escalating right-wing extremism.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/musk-movie-tiktok-banned-theaters-showtimes-1236734308/

Let's hope this is (yeah right) an innocent mistake that will be quickly fixed. But if Meta has banned the No Kings account from Instagram, as alleged, it is a direct and vile act of censorship. Of course, it'll please the endlessly hypocritical Trumpers. https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2111534415369437300?s=20

Casting call at the White House. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/10/16/800113335/cartoon/press-secretary-auditions/

From 2022.

US corporate lobbyists mounted ‘blitz’ to dilute landmark EU #deforestation law, report finds - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/17/us-corporate-lobbyists-europe-deforestation shame on #eu politicians for letting them...

You don't have to go broke for Halloween decorations. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

On December 31, we are shutting down our legacy Codeberg Pages in favor of its already available replacement.

In our blog post we share how you can check if your pages are deployed via the legacy setup, and if so how you can migrate: https://blog.codeberg.org/migrate-your-site-to-the-new-git-pages-backed-codeberg-pages-now-were-sunsetting-codeberg-pages-v2.html

@zzt@mas.to

"when our labor is stolen that’s a personal betrayal"

Brazilian Amazon deforestation falls to lowest on record as pivotal vote looms - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/16/brazil-amazon-deforestation-lowest-on-record-election fab achievement, but I fear it won't save lula...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eurasiareview/117454933852735643

given chinese investment and influence, to be expected....

Something Else To Look Forward To: #AI #Worms - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/16/something-else-to-look-forward-to-ai-worms/ get ready for the attack of the lawnmower botnets...

@luca Yeah. It's fast fashion https://tante.cc/2026/01/15/software-as-fast-fashion/

The term "single use software" currently lives rent free in my head.

People use LLMs to create software specific for their needs. But neither can other people use it (hardcoded variables, no rights management, too specific), nor do they use it again (too specific, easier to produce a new one).

Single use software is not maintained. Nobody understands it or has an interest in keeping it working.

The creation of single use software feels cheap, but isn't. It takes time to create the software, it needs infrastructure and power. The time is experienced as short compared to how long it takes to create maintainable and reusable software. But once you take into account how many people benefit from reusable software, the single use software takes way more time to create than what it saves. The infrastructure and power costs are hidden because the data center isn't visible. The costs are subsidized by venture capital.

Like other single use items, single use software brings risks of unforeseen consequences. From data loss or leaks to issues for maintainers of reusable software (eg. verbal abuse, less motivation and lost income).

As an example of single use software is a German LinkedIn post of a person who slopcoded a HEMS (home energy management system). It took them more than a week. While open source projects like https://evcc.io/ already provide the same functionality. They could have used it for free or paid 100€ and got support for some additional devices. But they decided that they know better how it should work and now have a single use software. If it breaks there is nobody they can ask. There won't be updates and no community to discuss and develop new features. No organization will ever be interested in officially supporting it. And even if it works, it only benefits that one person.

(This doesn't mean people shouldn't build things that only they use. But they should enjoy doing so.)

The amount of financial anxiety I can suddenly detect permeating the people I know in the AI sector gives me the strength to go on

I have avoided commenting on speculating on when we're nearing Peak Bubble for the past two years, and I still probably wouldn't do it in the press, but by pure social intuition (of the sort no one should use to guide their investments), I think we're hitting it around June 2027

Shoot the reckoning straight into my veins, I'm so ready

@Wtebbens In caseyou hadnt seen, that article is also available as a web page -https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/How-the-Fediverse-Found-Parts-for-Its-Platforms

@Bonfire @cwebber @coopcloud @SocialCoop @nlnet

@GoldenRetrieverGF Don't forget, these were also usually the people who would not lower themselves to use standard and proven libraries, they would insist on using their own, at best mediocre, cobbled together, shaky, flaky, plagiarized, stack exchange copy-pasta, buggy "solution" and praise it as the most genius thing since sliced bread.

Something I've noticed while on book tour for the past couple of weeks is that Mastodon is really good way to let people know about bookstore events. So many people I've met on the road have told me that they found out about my book tour from me or other folks on the fedi. I think it's partly because so many book-loving people are on Mastodon. But also if you compare Mastodon to places like Bluesky or Insta, the community here has a higher percentage of actual humans vs. bots or operatives.

News stories about the weird and corrupt Kimberly Guilfoyle all seem to mention that she was Trump Jr.'s fiance but don't mention that she was married to Gavin Newsom.

Both are relevant or neither is relevant. (Both are.)