Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I'd like to try and write a zine guide for going vegan for as cheap as possible, while keeping things accessible and very importantly, nutritionally adequate for as many people as possible. I would like to do this as a worked example for myself so I can have a better point of reference for the writing, in which I would rely exclusively on dried legumes, whole grains and frozen veggies for a month, all bought from the nearest grocery store, and test out to see what everything costs. I'd also try and include the cost of every single condiment/flavor-boosting ingredient per dish, as well as the price for any supplement use. Maybe I'm in over my head here, but I really think I could do some good with this.
If I ever get to writing, I'll try and kindly ask for feedback from wherever I can to make sure what I put there is accurate.

@davidgerard @MrBerard not to mention the unsupported claim that a local LLM can do any of this crap at all, when we know that local LLMs are horrid even compared with the low bar set by regular LLMs.

like, from experience I know that slop firmware barely works. LLMs are fucking horrible at writing systems code. I also know that local LLMs are even worse at everything than uhh “the most popular frontier models” to quote the article.

so whose ass is 404 pulling the idea that local LLMs are any good for this from? that doesn’t seem like reporting to me. not to mention that this “true ownership” crap sounds like marketing language, especially alongside fluffing the crap from OpenAI and Anthropic. “the models are so powerful but they suck due to guardrails” is a trick these corporations have been pulling for years.

I expected much better from 404. I don’t see a point in continuing to read them if they’re just going to report unsubstantiated claims and marketing babble.

AI needs to be destroyed

https://bsky.app/profile/poormojo.bsky.social/post/3mzgjtudnhc2b

Correct:

https://kamloops.social/@fname/117593906114969317

…not just because the cruelty is the point and the worst people support the worst people, but •also• because a primary goal of Metro Surge up at Stephen Miller levels was to ••get an ICE agent killed•• so they could invoke the Insurrection Act and fully militarize the operation. We just wanted ICE gone, but their bosses wanted a few of them dead. It’s a strong claim, but I stand by it.

@drahardja @benroyce @jscholes As one excluded person, I have gone through phases where I've felt that exclusion by default will never change, and working around it with powerful technology is the best we can hope for. I know, of course, that advocacy does sometimes work, at least if it has legal teeth; mainstream phones have built-in screen readers.

@benroyce @jscholes @matt I think there are several factors that are (sometimes deliberately) conflated when it comes to the “AI” discussion. When we talk about “AI” in popular conversation today, I think we are basically always talking about the Oligarch AI machinery. I agree the protein-folding ML-style AI are awesome use cases, but they’re only thrown in the conversation to confuse the matter and legitimize Oligarch AI.

Accessibility is one use case I admit I’m struggling with. On the one hand, I would never condemn this use case, even if it uses Oligarch AI. On the other, it is also often used as a cudgel to legitimize the entirety of Oligarch AI, which I fully reject.

In popular discussion though, “accessibility” is almost *never* the topic at hand when people are discussing “AI”, for better or for worse; and often, when the topic comes up, it’s sadly only as a talking point to justify someone’s *other* uses of slop generation.

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Y’all, you know I love a red string board. This #Nvidia nonsense? Whoo boy, do I have a red board!

So Jensen #Huang and Alice Huang are our main named players. For ease, I’ll use first names. So, the infamous Jensen signs boobs incident…the boobs reportedly belonged to Alice, and that began their relationship.

Alice was a Chinese media personality, who suddenly found herself the sole owner of a Taiwan chip company, #Megaspeed. Megaspeed had a ton of nvidia chips in shipping boxes labeled #GDS and #Chindata, who happens to be two of China's biggest data center operators. Megaspeed was housed at Chindata's Southeast Asian arm, #Bridge Data Centres.

And that’s before I even break into the #TanYongPong shell company, and the #BVI ownership chain.

Y’all, this wasn’t an affair, this was a cover for a $7.5 billion chip diversion pipeline. I’m calling it now.

(I’m not now, nor have I ever been suicidal.)

While we are watching this Senate leadership battle play out, let's think about one of the major implications. Whoever wins is going to have the power of appointing committee positions.

Right now the battle lines are being drawn, with billionaire elite backed moderates supporting Chuck Schumer, and #WeThePeople backed progressives supporting Chris Van Hollen.

If we want to break the yoke of the billionaire elite on positions of power within the Senate, Chris Van Hollen must win this fight.

Re: https://mastodon.social/users/404mediaco/statuses/117592857554097967

This is incoherent. The "open weight" "local" models are largely coming out of the AI labs that are making hackable hardware inaccessible to many people, and have this outcome as one of their goals. The future of hacking your devices is having devices that are accessible.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #hardware

I think I'm just gonna ditch my custom email domain and switch over to posteo.de. Their anti-LLM stance really sets them apart from other email providers that value security and privacy. It will be a pain to update all my accounts but it will be another opportunity to delete accounts I don't need too.

#posteo

Pharma firms’ focus on weight-loss drugs could put insulin supply at risk, experts warn - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/nov/10/pharma-firms-weight-loss-drugs-insulin-glp-1-ozempic-mounjaro national governments should be producing #insulin themselves

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“Politics” refers to the processes and activities that groups of people use to make shared decisions about the distribution of power and resources.

When a company prioritizes a specific political party, that’s politics. When a company chooses to harm or to protect a specific subgroup of society, that’s politics. When a company decides to fund or eschew a specific technology, that’s politics.

And when an multibillion dollar AI vendor decides to give their technology free reign to plagiarize people’s work en masse and scramble entire job markets, but then decides to crack down on that technology when it infringes on •company’s• work and scrambles •product• markets…that too is politics.

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#alexpretti #ICENazis #immigrationandcustomsenforcement

https://theonion.com/entenmanns-ceo-announces-he-happy-to-share-donut-secrets-with-chinese-spies-in-exchange-for-sex/

So, I know that I won't actually win anyone over to writing alt text by shaming them directly, but I am utterly flabbergasted how many so called "radical" accounts posting political art either don't bother with alt text at all or are really fucking bad at it.

Progressive needs to be inclusive. That means accessibility too. How can we support each other if we don't include each other?

Comment from my eleven-year-old with regard to the Google in schools debacle: "I prefer #LibreOffice to Google Docs because it's weird and annoying in more predictable ways."

"One of core tenets of what my show has found out is that intense wealth does not equate to intense competence." ~Pablo Torre, investigative journalist