Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

please for the love of fuck don’t have a parasocial relationship with a password manager, an encrypted mail provider, or any other security or privacy software vendor

you absolutely don’t need to defend the honor of a project you like. you especially don’t need to defend a project that’s provably doing something dangerous

when I call out keepassxc or proton or whatever in the strongest terms possible, I do it because it’s important. I do it to create awareness, not fear.

How many stupid LLM tricks must we read about. Neither the “researchers” (quotation marks definitely required) nor the “tech journalist” author realise that robot planning is like a 50-year old field with people earning PhDs and spending entire careers on it. The Mars fucking Rover does not have an LLM in it.

So Mr Amateur Hour Jones, who has fuck all experience in the field, shoves an LLM into a robot vacuum. They discusses none of the prior research in robot navigation and planning, makes up a stupidly simple task that the LLM fails to do. The headline is not “LLMs fail again to do something incredibly simple that robots could do 30 years ago without LLMs”. The headline is about the science fiction crap it spewed as it failed.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/llm-robot-vacuum-existential-crisis

Friends, please stop linking to Spotify like it’s ok.

The company steadily siphoned money from independent artists, then spent millions to host Joe Rogan, then littered their library with AI music, and now the CEO is investing in AI weapons.

There are plenty of less damaging ways to listen to music and podcasts.

The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a court order requiring the Trump administration to fun SNAP so that millions of children, seniors, and people with disabilities could eat food. The Republican party is trying to blame Democrats, but there isn’t a single Democrat who has sought to block food or healthcare assistance to those in need.

The American government is not broken and dysfunctional, it’s callous and malevolent.

Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into manholes
L: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/elon-musk-boring-company-fined-150000426.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45862674
posted on 2025.11.08 at 22:32:46 (c=1, p=6)

SPACE DATA CENTERS!
PARTICLE ACCELERATOR CHIP LITHOGRAPHY!
100 NUCLEAR GENERATORS!
SEX BOTS! (Ok, maybe that's just Elmo McFuckup)
SUPERINTELLIGENCE!

It would be more amusing (and yet still deeply pathetic), if people didn't actually take these fools seriously.

It just illuminates the deep intellectual bankruptcy of the industry, and especially venture capital.

This Veteran’s day, don’t thank me for anything I did in the military. There’s no honor in it.

My service to humanity began when I requested a hardship discharge, joined Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace, and started resisting militarism.

Reclaim Armistice Day. Peace through resistance.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/06/job-cuts-accelerate-october-layoffs-trump/

🚨 Jobs Shock:
Layoffs surged in October — 2025 job cuts have now hit recession-level highs, according to new data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
The warning signs are flashing red for the economy.

#jobs #Economy #Layoffs #Recession #washingtonpost

Next time Trump needs a mysterious MRI, they should put him in a Gravitron and tell him it's a medbed prototype.

Coop-Cloud: Democrtically built and governed cloud going on now related to this morning's first keynote, The Seattle Community Network Stack

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/BXX88L/

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/NZUCYJ/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #CommunityInfrastructure

Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads, European human rights rules
L: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/tech/facebook-gender-discrimination-europe-ruling-asequals-intl
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859160
posted on 2025.11.08 at 14:18:18 (c=0, p=5)

I am sorry, I made a thing again: https://manchicken.com/2025/11/08/fun-with-nfc/

EMBER report:

21%
Average annual growth rate of renewable additions needed from 2023 to 2030 to meet a tripling of renewable capacity.

29%
Actual annual growth rate of renewables additions from 2023 to 2025.

But also:
National renewable targets still aim for just over a doubling, falling short of a tripling.

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/renewable-additions-in-2025-are-once-again-expected-to-surge-putting-tripling-within-reach/

Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/everyone-hates-elon-protest-tesla-dealership-london-400042/

EFF is fighting for technology users and with your support, we're here to stay.
Become a member today to help us Take Back CTRL of tech, and we'll thank you with a new set of camera covers along with the member gift you choose. Join us! https://supporters.eff.org/donate/tbc

This week's comic is about how easily conventional wisdom gets turned on its head by bad faith actors, especially in a media environment lacking responsible editors.

#health #science #food #consumers #media #disinformation

Open enrollment sticker shock? Try these alternatives. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/11/7/2352601/-Cartoon-Actually-affordable-health-insurance-plans

We feel that the time was right to take a more up-to-date snapshot of how well the anti-virus companies are performing. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/eff-teams-av-comparatives-test-android-stalkerware-detection-major-antivirus-apps

Reuters' Jeff Horwitz analyzes leaked memos that reveal that: 10% of Meta revenue comes from scam ads, and; Meta knows it, and; decided not to stop about it, because; the fines for facilitating life-destroying fraud are less than the revenue from helping destroy users' lives:

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/08/faecebook/#too-big-to-care

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YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship/

The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

Go PeerTube