Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

It's shockingly cheap to dismantle surveillance systems. You can poison them in your free time.
https://youtu.be/AJf4SNuDnoI?si=2_qOUwL2QjQMwTks

Some of my favorite international political cartoons from @cartoonmovement this week, by Matthew Fuller, Deb Milbrath, Gatis Sluka and Franco Juri.

More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/

#PoliticalCartoons #PoliticalSatire #EditorialCartoons #CartoonMovement

The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace #AI the most - https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/the-first-signs-of-burnout-are-coming-from-the-people-who-embrace-ai-the-most/

Via mandatoryrollercoaster.com

If you have a Ring (Amazon) camera, you are -- or will become -- a tool of the surveillance state. Is that really what you want to be?

https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution_id=698b47cbe724d10001786209&attribution_type=post

@atax1a can I, like, make an advance directive that if I'm incapacitated and require surgery that no AI-assisted instruments can be used

like a DNR, but DNAI

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-arise-botched-surgeries-misidentified-body-2026-02-09/

Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads during operations.

I AM FUCKING SCREAMING I AM FUCKING SCREAMING I AM FUCKING SCREAMING

I think imma just keep reposting this every day, as nothing expresses my rage about this farce better:

#Epstein #EpsteinClass

You know what I haven't got time for? People in videos saying positive things about 'AI'.

Ring has announced a new “Search Party” feature that could eventually bring mass biometric surveillance to our streets. It’s on by default. Shut it off.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/no-one-including-our-furry-friends-will-be-safer-rings-surveillance-nightmare-0

Tim Bray (@timbray) is coming to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop March 2 and says:

My position paper will be based on this blog piece: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/03/Time-to-Migrate

California must revoke permits allowing federal agencies such as CBP and the DEA to put automated license plate readers along border highways, a coalition of 38 groups led by EFF and the Imperial Valley Equity & Justice Coalition demanded today of Governor Gavin Newsom and the CA Dept of Transportation. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/coalition-urges-california-revoke-permits-federal-license-plate-reader-surveillance

Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is arguably the most blatant press freedom violation of this century.

The admin didn't even bother to present a pretext — it jailed her and sought to expel her for expressing views about one of the most important issues of our time.

https://freedom.press/issues/fpf-statement-on-dismissal-of-r%C3%BCmeysa-%C3%B6zt%C3%BCrks-deportation-case/

Some of my old comics have aged well!
#discord

https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/115022420121912435

It's cool and neat that most available writer/illustrator jobs are babysitting A.I. output to train them to replace you.

Love doesn't stink, but these bozos do. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/02/10

Unfortunately Chuck Schumer's list of DHS "reform" demands have been irretrievably lost after Tom Homan tucked them into his shirt like a bib before eating another child.

#AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It - https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/ai-intensifies-work/ "This captures an effect I've been observing in my own work with #LLMs: the productivity boost these things can provide is exhausting."

did my civic duty today:
went to a local donut shop
noticed they had a new ring camera up.
i ask the nice hispanic girl behind the counter "hey you know ice can see through that ring camera, right?"
she goes UHHHH NO WTF I HAVE ONE AT HOME
"tear it out of the wall. yank the power. ring gives ice free access to those"