Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I talked to @404mediaco about generative AI's impact on teaching. Apparently I wasn't alone... not by a long shot. @jasonkoebler got a ton of responses about this topic and ran many of them here:

https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

While it's distressing to read all of them, it's good to see I'm not alone.

#generativeAI #higherEducation #teaching #academicChatter

“In 2017, ‘a confidential doc is leaked that reveals Facebook offering advertisers the opportunity to target 13-to-17yos across platforms during moments of psychological vulnerability when they feel ‘worthless,’ ‘insecure,’ ‘stressed,’ ‘defeated,’ ‘anxious,’ ‘stupid,’ ‘useless’ & ‘like a failure.’ Or target them when worried about their bodies & thinking of losing weight.’

They knew when a teen deleted a selfie & would bombard her w beauty ads, assuming she deleted it bc she felt ugly.” /1

@strypey I hit this problems too. I solved it buying a Oneplus Nord N10 for a very modest $165 from Aliexpress. This phone and several other Oneplus models can run LineageOS which also helped with my deGoogling efforts.

I used it for a couple of weeks on the stock image before I reflashed and that worked OK too.

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/billie/

Just found out that an old intranet we created for a customer (on Drupal 5?) back in 2008-9 is still running (not on the open internet). Their MS Sharepoint replacement for it has been... less than stunningly successful in its designated role. I suspect that original Internet would've cost the orders of magnitude less in up-front development and per-year maintenance.

PieFed has a mobile app https://piefed.social/post/817564

A large #Lemmy instance is shutting down - https://lemm.ee.

Fortunately, #PieFed provides a way to migrate the posts in all the communities on it to somewhere else!

See https://piefed.social/post/667044 for a demo.

#fediverse

@lightweight Interesting bit on RNZ this morning about electricity generation, where the point was made that the gentailers goal of making a profit is directly opposed to the goal of reliable and efficient electricity supply.

So to add to your musings, I would say that things that are necessities (food, water, shelter, health care, education, security, electricity, internet access?) should be supplied by government - at least to a basic level (housing).

Making government supply of these things efficient is a management problem, not a reason for privatisation. Privatisation has it's own inherent inefficiency, in that it needs to make a profit.

After a recent discussion with a politically opposed (hard right) acquaintance is that neither full socialisation (left) nor full privatisation (right) are desirable options. My considered impression is that there's a middle ground - where you have to understand *where* privatisation makes sense, and where it's counter-productive, and socialisation makes much better sense. I think revolves around the sense of 'calling' among practitioners (or lack thereof).... 1/n

I'm envisioning an onboarding website that encourages creators to publish into the #fediverse, and shows them how. With sections on how to publish different kinds of media;

* long form text, eg news articles and blogs

* images, eg event photos or webcomics

* podcasts

* videos

* livestreams

Each section could have a comparison table of all the software software that can currently publish that kind of media over AP, and maybe a shortlist of recommendations.

(1/2)

#FediverseOnboarding

The PERA and PREVAIL Acts would revive invalid software patents and cripple our best tools for fighting patent trolls. https://act.eff.org/action/don-t-let-congress-bring-back-the-worst-patents

How the Farm Industry Spied on Animal Rights Activists and Pushed the FBI to Treat Them as Bioterrorists - https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-wmdd-dxe-animal-agriculture-alliance/ "For years, a powerful ‘#BigAg’ trade group served up information on activists to the FBI. Records reveal a decade-long effort to see the animal rights movement labeled a “bioterrorism” threat."

Ten jewels of English #nature at risk from #development and #Labour’s #PlanningBill | #Biodiversity | The Guardian

I’m sure there’s a better way of addressing the #HousingCrisis than riding rough-shod over delicate #ecosystems.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/ten-jewels-of-english-nature-at-risk-from-development-and-labours-planning-bill

#UK #Environment #Ecology #Housing #Politics

Public support for #Israel in western Europe at lowest ever recorded by YouGov - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/public-support-for-israel-in-western-europe-lowest-ever-recorded-yougov "Survey says fewer than a fifth of respondents in six countries hold a favourable opinion of the country" #gaza

BWAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

"AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers"

A $1.5 billion AI company backed by Microsoft has shuttered after its ‘neural network’ was discovered to actually be hundreds of computer engineers based in India.

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/ai-company-files-for-bankruptcy-after-being-exposed-as-700-human-engineers-3208136/

A comparison of decision-making methods: majority vote, consensus, consent, autocratic decisions, and the trickiest one: "no decision-making method."
https://www.sociocracyforall.org/decision-making-methods-comparison/

#sociocracy #holacracy #democracy #hierarchy #leadership

If you're a US citizen, a trans woman, the gender on your passport is F, and you've reentered the US since March 1, what was your experience at the border? Please boost for reach.

Unlicensed law clerk fired after #ChatGPT hallucinations found in filing - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/law-clerk-fired-over-chatgpt-use-after-firms-filing-used-ai-hallucinations/ "Law school grad’s firing is a bad omen for college kids overly reliant on ChatGPT." just the start

A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing #NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/02/a-23-year-old-crypto-bro-is-now-vetoing-nsf-grants-while-staring-at-his-water-bottle/ more #murican madness

A centralized intelligence database on all Americans is not inherently legal.

It likely breaks the Privacy Act of 1974, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the 1st, 4th and 5th Amendments.

This must be stopped. Contact your Senators and Representative and ask them to stop it. I use @5calls to call mine.

https://newrepublic.com/post/195904/trump-palantir-data-americans

#USpol #infosec #privacy #law

Citizen gives "everyone the power to deem who is and isn’t suspicious, and who belongs or doesn’t belong in their community—which means they can be a digital superhighway for racial profiling and invasion of privacy,” EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2025/06/01/citizen-crime-tracking-app-pittsburgh/stories/202505300068