Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Is there anyone in the #DMV ( #DC, #MD, #VA ) area that is looking for a "Sr. IT Specialist" role?

Can you get cleared or do you have active Secret (or higher) clearance?
Can you be in Arlington, VA 2-3 times a week (WFH the rest of the time)?
Do you want my current role as I transition to a new one?!

Looking to backfill my position. Preferable to start ASAP (definitely before December 1st, if possible).

If so, DM me. I can provide the job posting! And remember, I'm 70-90 miles from the office (near the Mason-Dixon Line) and this job has been fulfilling enough that it's been worth it. An IT Engineering position practically tailored for me just happened to become available and I took the leap!

Seriously, in the last 29 years of mostly IT work, this has been the most sane, caring, supportive IT team I have ever worked with.

#GetFediHired #FediHire #Jobs #JobSearch

Quietly waiting for more companies to discover that "AI-free environment" is the magic phrase that will attract the smartest, most dedicated experts in the world to come work for you. We don't often get magic phrases with zero downsides but we've got one right now and you can just, you know, use it

#antiAI #noAI

Crossing my fingers that I live in the kind of country that would elect someone like Abdul El-Sayed and not the kind of country that would elect someone like Mike Rogers. Rinse and repeat across 50 states and so many seats and contests. A lot rides on tomorrow.

@icculus If a reply is welcome

What I honestly think has changed

Is that doing things "because it's impressive" is over. "I got X technology working on Y old system!" and everyone's impressed by your programming chops. No longer a point. Impressing people can be automated.

So what matters to me now

Is making things, that the people I care about, will benefit from, and enjoy

And the people I care about most

Are the people who don't want to use software/play games written by LLMs

"Reddit will force everyone to log in / Reddit is becoming a ‘logged-in-only experience,’ says CEO Steve Huffman."

Good. Get the fuck off of these platforms that only exist to make you go insane while you create content for them and they collect your data.

Start a blog. Live your life. Be free.

I'm an anti Gen AI whistleblower. And I'm calling out people and entities in tech and publishing in my upcoming memoir, How I Became The Hacker Who You Hate.

I lost my livelihood for standing up against the Open Institute of Technology, I refused to subject my students to Gen AI.

This Kickstarter is my livelihood now.

Please share! 🎉

#NoAI

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/how-i-became-the-hacker-who-you-hate/

A Right-Wing Think Tank Has a Plan to Prevent #Democrats From Being Seated in Congress - https://www.wired.com/story/a-right-wing-think-tank-has-a-plan-to-prevent-democrats-from-being-seated-in-congress/ “neo-Marxist progressives and anti-Western Muslims” can’t sincerely swear to protect the Constitution - rather rich given #trump has trashed constitution so much

if an extremely high ranking executive officer of a corporation well-known for doing immoral shit states that their employees are all doing something weird and immoral, it’s not in fact a leap at all to read the “or else” into that

the executive officer didn’t just mention the weird and immoral thing his employees are doing, on the record, during an interview with a journalist, because he thought it was cute and funny

he did that to normalize the weird and immoral thing his company is doing because palantir, a tech company with a long history of enabling fascism, is very certain they’ll get away with it

deans and provosts going from team to team and department to department looking for places to foist "ai" with the same energy as the awful guy at the bar who hits on every woman thinking it's a numbers game rather than realizing that nobody wants what you're offering

9) The whole reputation of Debian suddenly disappear. Canonical announce a hard and definitive fork from it for a 100% Snap distribution.

10) Debian is dead, long live Debian.

The bad news is that the best time to prevent this was during the LLM-use vote.

The good news is that the second best-time to prevent all of this is right now.

I still trust you Debian, do the right thing!

❤️

As I predicted in https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html , no taking a strong stance against the use of LLM in your project is exactly the same as taking a strong "use LLM everywhere" stance.

There’s no middle ground.

#Debian is demonstrating this more quickly that I even envisioned by now forcing packagers that upload to NEW to receive an LLM feedback about their work.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/10/msg00263.html?pow_referer=

You can still "opt-out" but for how long?

All of this is so predictable and preventable…

RE: https://journa.host/@theintercept/117547320489931264

as i have said numerous times:

when faced against fascists, you are either for or against fascism. there is no middle ground.

right now the Democratic Party has a fascist middle ground problem. and these wannabe fascists-lite get away with it because thanks to racism.

remember what Toni Morrison said about the twin hydra of fascism and racism?

30 years ago fascist democrats hid behind Mass Incarceration & The War On Drugs. today it’s zionism and genocidal, ethnonationalist racism.

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@davidgerard i don't think they know what "clean room" means

@davidgerard sloppupysaas

also wtf is with these projects calling themselves "clean room", like that means anything when these models were trained with everything in existence

#Palantir #AI tech unused or little used by 29 #NHS trusts said to be benefiting from it - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/02/palantir-unused-nhs-hospital-trusts "Gap between NHS claim and trusts’ comments described as ‘very misleading’ by senior health official" #ukgov needs to wake up

If you want to avoid FOSS which uses GenAI/LLMs, there's a guide called "AI-free FOSS Alternatives" at:

🏡 https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/ai-free-foss-alternatives

It's heavy on technical terms and detail, so it's good for comparing different projects and navigating least-worst options, but does require some prior tech knowledge to understand.

It also has a section listing reasons why LLMs are problematic:

🏡 https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/ai-free-foss-alternatives/src/branch/main/why_not_llms.md

#FOSS #GenAI #LLM #AI #AntiAI

I don't think being bombarded with noise is a requirement for being leftist.

Quiet spaces are not fascist. Quiet spaces are what some people need. Wanting to hear birds instead of techno and screaming doesn't make someone right-wing.

The key is building communities where the kids can run around laughing in parks and playgrounds, and people can dance and sing, but people who want to hear themselves think also have a place or two.

We don't all have the same needs. We don't all crave crowds of people around us. In a just world, housing would have good soundproofing and there would be enough third spaces that a few quiet ones wouldn't be depriving the loud people of their community.

So, the "freezer attack" that happened in France was apparently not enough to make store owners elsewhere think "could this happen to me?", so now it has happened in Sweden.

Do people simply not care?

@davidgerard

The US AI bubble might not have collapsed yet, but in South Africa we're more efficient and ours collapsed this weekend. Truly Africa is the future. (To be fair, the South African one was also more advanced in that it didn't actually have any data centres, it was just an MLM painted in AI theming.)

I thought you might enjoy this story.

Also, we learn the Zulu word for a rugpull, which I didn't know because my Zulu is awful.

https://groundup.org.za/article/vast-ai-investment-scheme-collapses-leaving-victims-in-the-dark/