Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The appropriate response to any version of "never bet against Elon" is "citation needed." And yet I keep seeing versions of that evidence-free assertion from people who really should know better.

http://robpegoraro.com/2026/10/24/saying-never-bet-against-elon-does-not-actually-make-you-look-smart/

@baldur this reminds me that it’s time to sit down and write a “yes you need a code of conduct for your OSS project that explicitly rejects nazis” thing, because it’s definitely not a vague theoretical thing any more.

I have a faint hope that more than zero people will start being better about community management in their projects. Maybe even three people will do it.

Student activists at Cornell have started putting up these signs on campus. I commend them. When I was at Syracuse 35 years ago we plastered the campus with flyers that used "My Rapist" in them. "I saw my rapist in class today," "SU let my rapist off," an ad in the student newspaper that said "My Rapist reads this newspaper," etc. It is good praxis. The problem is that it doesn't seem to have gotten any better in the past 35 years. In fact it may have gotten worse.

A Black couple showed up to tour an apartment in Queens... and the broker accidentally texted THEM instead of the owner: "Ugh. They are Black."

They'd just moved from Delaware for her new job. Now they're SUING Douglas Elliman, the agent AND the owners.

"It doesn't change the pain. It doesn't take away the pain you caused us that day."

Think about it. They were judged before they even had a chance.

They only found out because she texted the wrong person. Most people never do.

I was in a taxi the other day, an electric Toyota, and it was constantly bugging the driver with various “driver safety aids”, like literally a stream of bongs and chimes and sirens. And half of them were “driver inattention! Sit up and look forwards!” He was sitting up and looking forwards, but also he was black, so the car’s interior camera was not registering him properly. But hey, tech is neutral and AI doesn’t encode bias.

Over the past couple of days, the Trump regime has made clear its plans to subvert the current U.S. general election. In an effort to keep control of the House, the Trump regime is threatening California county clerks who do not cooperate with the regime’s effort to sow unwarranted suspicion about noncitizen voting. https://apnews.com/article/california-department-of-justice-noncitizen-voting-election-0a70161dba31a833fa75507a7484853b 1/

In the spirit of this comic, I armed myself with COVID and flu antibodies this week.

#comic #cartoon #humor #health #apocalypse #food #survival #science

This guy and his weird dick need to be taxed out of existence. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/10/23/800116520/cartoon/musks-last-minute-midterm-pitches/

Don't forget that you can buy a signed copy of the new Tom the Dancing Bug comic book, TRUMP YOU!
Did you forget?
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All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 67,595: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/politics/in-us-gas-talks-with-kremlin-hidden-financing-for-alaska-project-emerges.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LFE.Mrou.Zkk3LRCYlnHi&smid=url-share

A tale of oil & gas, Trump family/crony ties to Putin, and more.

A downside to researching the current mood and morale among software developers is the frequent sudden onset Nazi praise.

Like, you're watching somebody's kinda half-baked ideas on how the software economy works on YouTube, but it's all from their perspective so still useful information about their experience, and suddenly you get a spiel about how DHH or some other outright fascist is great.

Dude. You had me sympathising with you for a couple of minutes there.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hannorein/117484899534152804

This post is not getting enough tracking. So I'm upgrading it to from "worth a read" to "best thing you'll read on the internet today"!

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Who'll be the White House's next mouth-hole? https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/just-eats-ai-put-bacon-and-eggs-in-a-glass-of-cola-and-its-exposed-a-much-bigger-problem-with-ai

more or less confirms that the PHP exploit on Wednesday was overblown, and contrary to claims it would be exploited in 15 mins, we haven’t even seen one confirmed exploit yet. even proof of concept exploits are incredibly hard to write and deploy.

AI companies were lying. again

https://blog.luitjes.it/posts/i-want-my-wednesday-back/

AI agents are entering banking systems.
Banks now struggle to distinguish between human users and unauthorized AI agents.

I said this because common sense is not so common.

“Multiple Reports Say Nvidia Manufactured the Gaming GPU Crisis by Forcing Big Tech to Stockpile Unused AI Hardware”

https://respawnfirst.com/multiple-reports-say-nvidia-manufactured-the-gaming-gpu-crisis-by-forcing-big-tech-to-stockpile-unused-ai-hardware/

> the problem comes from Nvidia reallocating manufacturing capacity to force-feed enterprise clients AI hardware that they don’t have the capacity to use

Because of course.

Drop-In Time toots were popular this week. A lot of people (relatively speaking) asked about how the setup worked. This blog post which I'd written in 2018 which is actually pretty accurate to what I do today with a few changes:

- I work at the public library now (and once a month at a senior living place)
- I will occasionally do a house call (library will pay for this) or email help
- we no longer have a local adult ed program or a coffee shop where you can run a tab

https://www.librarian.net/stax/4841/ask-a-librarian-how-does-drop-in-time-actually-work/