Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“Michael Crichton, psychology, and AI - Austin Kleon”

https://austinkleon.com/2026/11/10/michael-crichton-psychology-and-ai/

Miller is a white nationalist fascist, and makes that clear every day. Don't expect America's ever-normalizing Big Media to say it, thought. https://popular.info/p/major-media-outlets-sanitize-stephen?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1664&post_id=224060612&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=1aumh&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Microsoft, from the very beginning, has been prolifically stabby, especially in the Gates era, and it bugs me with *great intensity* that both Microsoft, and Gates, have managed to rehabilitate their image and rewrite their sordid history. Especially bugs me that people think Gates is a good guy, and not just yet another ill-gotten billionaire who goes around with the tag "philanthropist" after decades of doing evil.

OK we have enough French translators, thank you!

We need translators for

⁃ Italian
⁃ Polish

https://sfba.social/@drahardja/117576862013078469

i can't wait for 18 months from now when quantum computers are going to be really important and everyone will have to care about them for some reason

The US Senator with the most stock in data center companies is also leading the push for the BAAJA permitting legislation that would make it easier to build the fossil fuel infrastructure the data center industry needs to expand.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), negotiated and introduced the “Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act” (BAAJA), that would exempt most energy infrastructure projects from federal environmental review, narrow communities’ ability to challenge those projects in court, and limit states’ authority to deny water-quality approvals for pipelines and other projects..

Whitehouse and his wife hold up to $12.3 million in AI-related stocks.

https://readsludge.com/2026/10/14/senates-top-data-center-investor-backs-environmental-rollbacks-to-power-the-industry/

#BAAJA

Tourism info about Monterey and Pacific Grove are always like, there used to be Chinese fishing villages here, California has been diverse for hundreds of years

Yeah, why don’t you print what happened to them?

Or that Pacific Grove had people putting on yellowface, carrying lanterns and wearing kimonos up until.. *checks watch* the 2020s?!?

Mozilla's study of nearly 25 million Firefox users found that its fingerprinting protections cut the share of uniquely identifiable users from 75% to 46%. That figure is measured against simulated commercial fingerprinters. Mozilla says some protections are on by default only in Private Browsing, and Strict Enhanced Tracking Protection applies them to all windows.

https://fingerprinting.study/

#Firefox #Privacy

"It's a tool, it's fine for coding. it's controversial but so were unit tests"

this perspective is making me a little bit crazy today. like, okay, we disagree on how ethical it is, how effective it is. that stuff is complicated, and there are colorable arguments even if I think they are wrong.

but how can you not see, at least, that it is historically controversial. that there are more people who fucking HATE it with real, visceral intensity beyond any superficial "flamewar" hostility

LLMs are inherently unethical. Yes, the technology itself is unethical.

a heartwarming github issue https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/59060

I had expected that eMudhra would simply ghost the browser vendors, but I hadn't counted on their overconfidence. They still don't even understand how serious the problem was!

« Where we got lucky - The ECDSA weakness was identified and reported before it was used against any eMudhra‑issued end‑entity certificate. »

Three weeks later they still think it's about misuse of legit leaf certs!

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2083449#c82

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.

New article by me ⛨✨!

CryptPad Review: Replacing Google Docs

If you have been looking for a privacy-respectful replacement to Google Docs, now is the time to move! 📦

@cryptpad offers a full office suite that is completely end-to-end encrypted and built from the ground up with data minimization in mind.

And it's free! 🎉

Why stay with Google when there is a much better option literally right there👇
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/07/cryptpad-review/

#LeaveGoogle #CryptPad #Privacy #E2EE #Encryption #PrivacyGuides

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.)