Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I need a new job. Let me know if there’s an opening for a very thoughtful, playful person who despises AI, cares about web standards, actually loves CSS and UX, has a long history in animation, and can write web or game code that ships with remarkably-few bugs (because I’m persistent and attentive)

As an admin on Fedi, I used to welcome new users, fight Nazis, and suspend trolls.

Now all I do is fight against the endless army of soulless scam machines, forever marching against our server walls in an attempt to destroy the community we've built here. It's exhausting and disheartening. At least the Nazis and Trolls were real people who would get pissed and fuck off eventually, but the LLMs will run as long as someone pays the electric bill for them.

The term "cargo cult" comes from a racist story popularized by a sexual predator; I'll say that the AI industry is rife with mimetic isomorphism instead.

Not only are LLMs themselves automatic devices for imitating form without function or purpose, but you keep running into shit like this, where the AI industry forms "institutes" with "scientists" and "researchers," all imitating the form of academia but not its function of inquiry or curiosity.

https://wandering.shop/@theodoraward/117549739626971654

I am extremely hopeful about the outcome of America's elections tomorrow. I'm also extremely skeptical about the polling numbers I'm seeing. Yet a friend with deep knowledge says that -- this time -- the polls are right. Doesn't matter. Vote as if your life depended on it. Because it might.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117547943336178533

Gross

Forgejo will be removing support for the OpenID Authentication 2.0 standard for authenticating users in 2027. Note that OpenID Connect (OIDC), and OAuth are unrelated technologies that remain supported. For information on the specific dates that support will be dropped, please refer to: https://forgejo.org/2026-11-removing-openid/

Reminder: that chat bot service you’re using may die when the AI bubble pops. If they do, they will likely sell all of the user data.

Read the terms, read the privacy policy, and still be very careful what information you give out. You will almost never get a say in who gets to buy that data when the company goes under.

Get AI agents the fuck off Fedi!

They're an existential threat to small instances, and they're a primary contributor to moderator burnout.

#FuckAI #IfYouSeeItReportIt #AI #LLM #NoBots

So far the private equity company which bought my employer has had the HR drone youngs go on an all-company email rage about how much the olds’ healthcare costs. (Guess we shouldn’t get cancer.) Now, they’re cleaning out the old folks via forced retirements.

Holy shit.

This guy takes a couple of minutes of audio from a security camera anywhere in the US, with no clues from the video whatsoever, and finds the exact spot where it was recorded.

How?

By correlating the Doppler curve sounds from two almost inaudible planes passing by with public ADS-B flight data.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UytYrhYLOKI (29 min)

I think this is the #OSINT video of the year.

Claude Code official Cursor extension gets malware back door

Signing official extensions is not fast moving enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1gNYxxq8U0&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261030-proton-mail-goes-full-ai-slop-tuta-starts-going-slop - podcast

time: 5 min 04 sec

Almost every American has voted for, read reporting that relied on, or benefited from reforms prompted by someone investigated under the Espionage Act.

There should be a bipartisan push to fix the go-to law for political and censorial prosecutions.

https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-comey-espionage-act-politicized-prosecution

Programming isn’t for girls, they told me, and I didn’t care. Programming isn’t for humans, they tell me, and do you think I fucking care?

Folks, please share the link for our Fediverse Multimedia Grants.

We have funding for creators to make podcasts, artist's portfolios, webcomics, music stores, video streams, or brand new kinds of channels here. And we pay developers to help them be successful.

Our deadline is Wed 4 Nov 2026. It only takes a few minutes to apply.

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/10/07/call-for-proposals-fediverse-multimedia-grants/

#Fediverse #SocialMedia #ContentCreators #Funding

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/