Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

⚖️🇺🇸 Yesterday, we filed a total of 5 complaints in 4 different countries against 1 single company – the US-based company #Scale – which operates the #AI training platform #Outlier.

🚨 #ScaleAI doesn't just farm their 900,000 workers' extensive knowledge and experience. The company also collects huge amounts of their personal data and forces them to go through invasive biometric verification to earn money.

📑 For more information, visit our website 👉 https://noyb.eu/en/ai-training-platform-outlier-illegally-surveils-european-platform-workers

Note that this attack on Minnesota’s elections was explicitly racist: these bozos dressed in what they thought were Muslim costumes. You might not think that’s a key part of testing an electoral system — but •they• did.

It’s not that they think that people in general are voting who shouldn’t be allowed to vote. It’s that they think that •brown people• are voting who shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

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Be sure you savor and re-savor this •incredible• right-wing self-own:

Two “Project Veritas” operatives committed fraud at a Minnesota polling place to prove they wouldn’t get caught

••• and they got caught •••

and both are facing multiple felony charges.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/voting-felony-disguise-minneapolis

It’s 1986 and my mother is shouting at me to stop touching the computer, I’m wasting my life.

It’s 2016 and I am fixing mother’s computer, regaling her about the variety of rich opportunities computer touching has given me in my life.

It’s 2026 and I am cursing my mother for ever letting me touch a computer. I have wasted my life.

@oudzeikwijf To prove I am not a robot to a robot in order to teach the robot to pretend not to be a robot 😵‍💫

@estelle Yeah, for the AI cultists, disabled folks are not people to care about, just props to make up "gotcha" ethical dilemmas that fall apart under even the most minimal examination - something they're incapable of doing, since they're not reasoning just putting together words according to patterns they've seen work before.

Another grand jury says no to another Trumpist prosecutor's abuse of the legal system. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/grand-jury-declines-indict-former-trump-aide-cassidy-hutchinson-jan-6-rcna603233

It's essential that the public -- potential jurors and grand jurors -- be educated that they can say no to corrupt prosecutors, and serve justice.

These both happened on the same day. Oracle stocks gained 10% because AI is great, Alphabet stocks dropped 10% because AI is not going great.

Stock prices aren’t real. Nothing is real. Nothing makes sense. #AI

Chaser:

“Alphabet shares slumped more than 10% after the search giant reported a drop in free cash flow during the third quarter, in a worrying sign for the artificial intelligence trade.”

#Alphabet #google #stonks

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/28/alphabet-googl-earnings-q3-2026.html

RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/business-nbfr4cs7z/-/a-mFUYKTDYT0iNUfLBCjDjVA%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0

This has the smell of a pump-and-dump. Who's trying to boost the stock price to raise cash and why?

@MaddieM4 @ramblingsteve for what it's worth, in community management I've found its corollary "where you see mass abusive behaviour, it's always only a tiny subset of people actually driving it, and when you remove them the problem just disappears" to be basically universally true

Say it with me: dismantle coercive power structures.

Love this take, this inversion. A challenge to the intrinsic arrogance of colonialism.

It is not indigenous peoples that need to be saved, but the west.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/oct/28/i-am-mother-leader-warrior-of-the-amazon-nemonte-nenquimo-on-why-the-west-needs-to-be-rescued

Nice interview with Kathryn Ryan just now @billbennett - I think you should point out the irony of Big Tech - always so keen to enforce their 'IP' (another horrible term like 'AI'), having thrown it under the bus with their rush to scrape humanity's corpus of knowledge to train their bots... are now having it used against the 'IP' they hold dearest, via humans reverse engineering their flagship products. It's just desserts for those mega corps who want to have their cake and eat it too.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/117520438263252342

First of all, this is some mafia shit.

Second, 1M barrels is approximately 0.95% of global crude demand. Since crude oil is completely fungible, that’s about the effect it has on oil prices.

"I don't understand why some of you bother blocking quote posts because I'm just going to copy the link and it will look exactly the same"

We're not blocking anything, we chose not to enable quote posts, many of us because we disagree with them on principle.
"Why have rules against AI commits in your open source project, people are just going to do it anyway."
As I demonstrated yesterday, pasting the link absolutely does not "look exactly the same" for the vast majority of fediversans.

Fun story coming:

#libsodium has a #NoAI policy: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/blob/master/AI-POLICY.md

The author made a commit using Claude: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/commit/4f44abfed4c5ee7e1667e3fdf46d9253342cca69

Someone pointed it out in a discussion. The commit got force-pushed over, and the discussion was deleted: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/discussions/1564.

Funny enough, GitHub still flags the repo.

I suppose at this point libsodium should be assumed to be #slop, with author sweeping the fact under the carpet.

By the way, does anyone have any clue why there's no "archive the page" button when I paste the commit URL to Internet Archive?

Do I know people in Lisbon that would be interested in arranging an event around "Digital Solidarity" (the book, @alineblankertz and I published early September 👉 https://www.structural-integrity.eu/our-book-is-out-digital-solidarity-on-overcoming-capitalist-technology/)?

I will probably be there in November or December and would love to engage with groups and people about post-capitalist tech!

Rise of Palestinian parties in Knesset will redraw Israel’s political landscape - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/27/palestinian-parties-knesset-election-exit-polls-redraw-israel-political-landscape glimmer of hope