Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@drahardja

If centrist Democrats are not reigned in, the blue wave will turn into a red wave in two years. Our house wins seem monumental. But Democrats lost more seats (61) in 2010 in reaction to Obama than we gained last week.

Americans need to see our lives get better. We want progressive policies by large majorities and if we don't get them fascism will keep rising.

There’s a tempest in a teapot brewing over Dior’s “hand-drawn animation” Christmas ad, which they commissioned animation director Sylvain Chomet to do, over the use of generative #AI in an ad that ostensibly celebrates human craft.

Chomet and Dior are trying to claim that there was no AI generated, but the evidence captured by keen-eyed observers are IMO indisputable: nonsensical extra features on objects in motion (beyond motion smear), inexplicable hand-merging sequences—not things that a human artist would decide to draw.

Chomet now admits the use of an “interpolation tool” for tweening—which could have used genAI.

Ben Wild of BWS claims he has information from people who worked on the film that #genAI was used for major parts of the clip.

Using #AI hurts your brand, especially when you’re trying to associate your brand with quality and craftsmanship.

https://variety.com/2026/film/global/sylvain-chomet-denies-ai-accusations-dior-robert-pattinson-1236941945/

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news/117585261965616394

Y’all — ICE *BLOCKED THE AMBULANCE BAY* of an emergency department while having a hissy fit after the hospital wouldn’t allow them to be present for a portion of a detainee’s examination.

I’d lose my shit. Absolutely. What kind of unsafe fuckery is that. I want to know how many ambulances had to be diverted to hospitals farther away because of it.

I applaud the judge who sentenced Russell Brand for his remarks at sentencing. This is what people, especially men, in positions of authority and power must say publicly about criminal sexual assaults on women. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/nov/09/russell-brand-sentenced-rape-sexual-assault

Seems a pretty safe call to ignore any “anarchist” group promoting gen AI in any way. 🤡 :no_ai:

“Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge, then fired leaders who objected, Colorado lawsuit alleges”

#ethereum #crypto #cult

https://www.denverpost.com/2026/11/06/ethereum-suicide-pledge-lawsuit-mandate-boulder-crypto/

The List

1. Legal consequence for someone, anyone who paid for a pardon or otherwise bribed the government.
2. No more stock trading or crypto for congress and the president.
3. Someone (anyone) goes to prison for Epstein beyond Maxwell.
4. Legal consequences for those who overstepped the law through ICE.
5. Congress reasserts its power to decide when and IF the US goes to war.

Each is worth one point. 3/5 is the lowest passing grade.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/117583579591933799

This. As someone who’s fought hard at companies to prioritize accessibility work, I think if executives get word that people with disabilities can “solve the issues themselves” you’ll actually get less accessible software (if you can believe it) in the long run.

I won’t fault someone for using what’s available, but anyone acting as if LLMs are a longterm solution for accessibility is either not thinking this through, or purposely engaging in bad faith.

AI data centres 'could become Scotland’s biggest polluter in just four years'
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26709797.ai-data-centres-could-scotlands-biggest-polluter-2030/?ref=rss

Corrupt rat jumps off the sinking ship. https://www.aol.com/articles/us-sen-ron-johnson-accuses-162239000.html

The one thing every person who says they can live with slavery has in common is an absolute certainty that they will not be the slave

A federal judge said Saturday she intends to appoint an ex-top federal prosecutor in the nation’s capital during Donald Trump’s first term
to investigate whether she was purposefully misled by lawyers and administration officials in a lawsuit challenging one of his prized Washington construction projects,
the renovation of a historic public golf course along the Potomac River.

Jessie Liu, a former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia,
would examine whether officials with the Interior Department and the National Park Service and attorneys with the Department of Justice
violated ethics or misled U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes during the course of the case that was initiated in February by the DC Preservation League and two golfers.

The Republican administration plans to close the East Potomac Golf Course and park on Nov. 15,
intending to construct a “World Class, championship-level golf course that is capable of hosting major events.”

An injunction issued by Reyes last month temporarily bars the government from removing or damaging any additional trees on the course
and the administration must give 10 days’ notice in writing before making any “irreparable modification” to any “forms or features” of the course while the lawsuit is active.
Reyes is giving each side a chance to be heard on her plan to name Liu as special master in the case.
They must do so in writing by Friday, when the next court hearing in the dispute is scheduled.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/07/judge-wants-probe-into-whether-she-was-misled-in-trump-golf-case.html

Sure am glad I didn't relearn emacs and just stuck with a pre-slopped fork of vim.

Cool, apparently Lowes and Walmart have such paranoid surveillance/anti-fraud/firewall measures that I can't actually order anything or create an account.

this, of course, means that unless and until eli zaretskii will be removed as the maintainer of the gnu emacs, no decent people should continue to use the software.

@kevingranade @cwebber They value the ability to fire and replace all their workers more than they value the quality of their product, and more than they value money.

SIGHhhhhhh.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-10-01/newsom-vetoes-bills-to-block-federal-immigration-agents-from-state-employment

AI Bros just wanna own slaves. Its really that simple.

@drahardja you mean, once a piece of software is done we just… stop touching it? Sounds bizarre, is that even possible?

I think software can remain static and non-updated if (and only if) the problem domain it tries to solve remains static.

The key to stable software, then—and this is so obvious it’s painful even to say—is to stop asking it to do more and more. Once it covers a good amount of its problem domain, stop adding to its problem domain.

Part of allowing software to mature is creating strategic interfaces and ways to let new software *extend* the behaviors of mature software without changing the mature software’s problem domain. UNIX folks knew how to design for composition way back when; in many ways, we need to remember how to do that once again.

Sometimes it seems like it’s almost a bragging contest to cram more and more features into bloated software. Perhaps a better way forward is to define *down* the core problem domain that your program is supposed to solve, and then design interfaces that let other software extend it without making your software obsolete.

#FridayDevAdvice