Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“The Endless Appetite for Fanfiction”

https://fansplaining.com/endless-appetite-fanfiction/

> In 2024, everyone wanted a piece of fic, from AI grifters to traditional publishers to ravenous audiences. Where did that leave the people who write it?

Dude. THIS HAS TO STOP.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-data-center-23-atomic-bombs

"Claude writes better code than I do"

Yeah, I'd keep that to myself if I were you.

“The Blackboard Way of Knowledge”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-blackboard-way-of-knowledge/

> I find it useful to talk about history – in no small part because the tech industry seems to always wish we wouldn't. Perhaps because we'd ask things like "didn't you just promise to revolutionize education a few years ago with a totally different product?"

Still #amReading Welcome to #AuDHD by Megan Griffith.

In the section on how to cope with the executive function piece of social engagements, she mentions working backwards from when you need to be somewhere to create a schedule (ex: I need to be there by 8, it takes me 15 min to get there, 30 min to get ready, so leaving a buffer I need to start getting ready at 7).

I'm fascinated to hear what the alternatives are?
How does anyone ever get somewhere on time without doing this?

Mother Jones: Using AI to Plan Backcountry Trips Is Getting People Into Big Trouble (Nov. 1, 2026)

“I think they kind of turned their brains off.”

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/11/ai-hikers-wilderness-outdoors-bad-information-preparedness-search-rescue/

#SearchAndRescue #hiking #AI

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