Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Is the DISCHARGE guy wearing sunglasses ? An eye patch ? Are they confused 😖 ? Are they sad 🙁? Are those two lips or is it lips and a chin crease?
What is the line beside the ? Is it an ! with the bottom cut off? Is it a hair part?

Only thing thats for sure is that they are certainly concerned about nuclear war.

Please tell me your opinions.

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@danmcquillan/116098694142499511

TL;DR: AI keeps getting massive investment despite not working as promised. This is because AI isn't really a technology solution, but instead a way for existing power structures to maintain control as the old world order falls apart. It makes the problems it claims to solve *worse* rather than better.

The alternative is "decomputing": less tech, instead of more; slower, not faster; tools built around collective care rather than automation.

Instead of asking how to power bigger data centres, we should ask who should control society's energy and water in the first place.

"The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded." —Leo Tolstoy

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DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'
L: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/doge-bros-grant-review-process-was-literally-just-asking-chatgpt-is-this-dei/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47076826
posted on 2026.02.19 at 13:01:50 (c=0, p=3)

Grok Exposed a Porn Performer’s Legal Name and Birthdate—Without Even Being Asked
https://www.404media.co/grok-doxing-real-names-birthdates-siri-dahl/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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Researchers Declare That A.I. Model Is Conscious;
ICE Immediately Seizes and Detains It

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"Our right and ability to do this work is now under intense assault."

"I asked journalists who have been covering the ICE raids in LA, Oakland, Chicago, and Minneapolis to share their advice on staying safe."

"Here's what they said."
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Author: Brooke Anderson
Publication: Prism
February 18, 2026
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#USA #Media #Protest #Military #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://prismreports.org/2026/02/18/photojournalists-ice-raids-movement-journalism/

bad category of person: person who comments "just buy a new <thing>, they're only like $25" under a post by someone asking how to fix something

“The hunting of whistleblowers is wrong because it is failing to address the actual problem, which is the reason they blow the whistle in the first place,” FPF's Adam Rose told Lookout Eugene-Springfield.

https://lookouteugene-springfield.com/story/government-politics/2026/02/18/officials-investigating-how-lookout-obtained-state-hospital-report/

Consequences in the US are too fantastical, so I'm hoping for a kaiju to emerge from the Potomac and stomp the Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation into dust.

Flexible spending accounts just aren't worth the effort, are they? This shit just feels like a scam.

Saw someone create a 19,000 line long Python dictionary today and now support loosening labour laws until they can be fired

Not seeing any redeeming qualities in this US-owned mining corporation. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-18/alcoa-fined-for-clearing-jarrah-forest-for-bauxite-mine/106359988 Why do countries like NZ and AU continue to allow any of these corporations even enter their country, much less put them in charge of carving it up and shitting on the piece. Irredeemable.

"LLM-generated passwords"

"LLM-generated passwords fundamentally weak, experts say" and it's really a headline

I can't even.

I. can't. even.

I can't even begin to apprehend the brainrot that has been pushed on humanity by the "AI" terrorists.

Every time I think I get it, something like this comes across.

Beam me up.

A giant 🖕 to every academic who sees fascist eagar to fund and apply their pet area of research as a golden opportunity rather than something horrifying and a reason to immediately stop whatever they're doing.

None of these comics are in the Epstein files. https://inthesetimes.com/article/i-went-to-pedophile-island-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-shirt

#Meta patented #LLM that would post for users after they die - https://mashable.com/article/meta-patent-ai-dead-bot-llm making money from you even when you are dead

Now I will say something nice about Republicans, for balance: Their big box concentration camp warehouses that will be an eternal stain on all of us sure are easy to draw!

Minneapolis’ ICE Surge may be coming to an end, but the fight is far from over. Our collective strength matters now, more than ever.
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Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-says-bug-causes-copilot-to-summarize-confidential-emails/

Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information.