Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"Fiscal responsibility" is mostly a dogwhistle for "we're gonna cut services to keep taxes low. Except the police, we'll always fund that". Fuck that.

It's very easy to get depressed by the state of politics right now, but then you see interactions like this one, and it rekindles your faith. A new generation of politicians will come forward and they will be different.

#AbduElSayed #USpol #Politics

Scholars conclude ‘beyond doubt’ that #Shakespeare was main author of Edward III - https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oct/18/scholars-conclude-beyond-doubt-that-shakespeare-was-main-author-of-edward-iii "Play anonymously published in 1596 was collaboration between Shakespeare and Christopher #Marlowe, according to computer analysis" the more, the merrier

‘Tough to watch, impossible to ignore’: reviewers on #NAZA documentary - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/16/tough-to-watch-impossible-to-ignore-what-the-reviewers-say-about-naza-documentary "Film interviewing military insiders about mass killing of civilians in #Gaza wins widespread praise around the world" #israel

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@CiaraNi @snittegodskontoret this is just great! Dead Robot would like to join this campaign

https://deadrobot.cc

‘New data centres? No thanks’

A new logo for the Danish campaign against data centres. Lovely work by @snittegodskontoret - a lovely, clever counterpart to the ‘Nuclear Power? No Thanks’ logo. (Also a Danish design)

Den Smilende Sol - Den Sure Sky

The Smiling Sun - The Cross Cloud

The angry, real cloud. The water. The electricity. Nice layers to it.

www.datacenterinfo.dk/

#DataCentres

My LibSyn podcast page has been fixed to the previous non-shit version!

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/

now works on mobile

That #IndieWeb irrelevant post by StarBreaker is looking more and more apt right now. Major IndieWeb Services Now Have genAI and Claude Built-in. What Do We Do? https://brennan.day/the-indieweb-now-has-genai-and-claude-built-in-what-do-we-do/ #AI

It will never stop being ironic to me that the one place I am certain never to stumble on LLM slop is piracy websites. I use piracy websites like the best catalog ever and then I go check out media from my local library. I am sure people have tried to upload LLM slop to piracy websites, but the pirates aren't sharing it, buddy. #Piracy

I bought the domain https://whynoai.info in which I’ve cataloged the answers I usually give when people ask me “Why no AI?”, with some relevant links.

Send a link to it if someone asks you the same question!

Please send me suggestions, corrections, and comments!

#AI #AISlop #noAI

It is quite possible to create a heavily biased media environment by reporting accurately, but selectively. Lying on the part of the media is actually largely unnecessary, at least for the kind of propaganda that the anglosphere prefers

Apropos of nothing in particular, having terms to describe your behaviours increases your awareness of them.

"Autistic polling" is a good example. Having a label for the tendency to ask more questions to make up for the inability to read cues from the environment both helps you understand yourself and lets you give context to others

But it also helps you recognise a handicap. Like realising that my tendency to "dolphin" in conversations is a liability in debates.

Happy Sunday! Here's a site I've built because I've been thinking about this and want to see more of it in the world: a space for describing and sharing scholarly skills that I've picked up and nurtured over the years.

Also this is a no AI zone in at least two ways: no talking about it and no using it.

https://critical.computer/

From @olivia: "Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists."

https://osf.io/dkrgj_v1

If you want AI put in the context of the replication crisis, with a healthy dose of reminders about how and why we should do science in the first place, then this is for you!

@icing I would argue here that the stock market _is_ malicious intent. It is the legally mandated purpose of most publicly owned companies to Try To Take Over The World, and that by definition means either co-opting FOSS or eliminating it. And even if it *were* "economically"(*) reasonable, it is not reasonable for the environment, nor for people outside the C-suite, i.e. the people who actually write and fix the code. See also, The Lorax.

I'm not a policy wonk; I don't know how to _really_ fix this in readable fashion. Maybe it's just that we put together something that works _well enough_ until this AI-fuelled bubble (which has already been poked) finishes bursting. It's no longer, strictly speaking, my problem; I've exited the game. AND, I value the next generations enough to stick my furry-except-on-top head up 👴 and give the Overton window a shove away from voracious bigtech and towards people who actually give, and matter, a damn. They want to keep Biggering and Biggering. Y'all want to _keep your sanity_ (and hopefully do something Actually Useful with it). I am _passionately_ in favour of the latter.

(*) define "the economy" << rich people's yacht money >>

So, we cannot really stop playing this suicidal game, racing to the bottom, without you losing access.

We can stutter the onslaught, somewhat under the radar, for short durations of bliss. We have not found another remedy, so far.

Should you think this sounds like a hostage situation, you might be right.

RE: https://chaos.social/@icing/117460774409401144

One effect of using LLMs in code that I have readily observed in my own workday is the DDoS effect, where it’s much, MUCH cheaper for various unrelated parties to use LLMs to generate bug reports—and sometimes “proposed solutions”—but it costs much, much more for maintainers to wade through the voluminous reports to figure out which are actually substantial.

#ai #llm

"Trans Lives are Real. Harry Potter is Not"
Sticker spotted in NYC

@bkuhn @copiesofcopies @cwebber i think it can be reasonable to use unethical technology if there is no other choice, for example if your employer is forcing you to use proprietary software or genai; or your government (or bank) requires a proprietary app. however, this doesn't mean it's good. we should strive to minimize usage of these unethical things as much as we can

systemic issues generally are not solved by personal decisions, but many people going against a systemic issue can be a path to solving it. it's sort of a "when do a few pieces of sand become a heap of sand?" kinda situation. the way this informs how i do activism is that i try not to target individuals, and try to go against the wider issue

also, personal decisions can cause ripples if people are open about those decisions: i openly decide to avoid proprietary software and i openly object to all genai. i also openly decide to avoid consuming animal products. the act of doing this by itself may not do much, but i am setting an example for others, who can do the same, and together we are much stronger

i don't think it's possible to use genai to destroy it, imo the path forward is to completely reject it and band together with others that reject it. this is unethical and anti-social technology that has no place in the world