Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/116454215176535461

finally! a new feature that actually improves user productivity!

David Ellison "may not turn CNN into Fox News overnight...But it’s a virtual certainty that when his business interests are at stake, Trump will be given a seat at the editor’s desk," FPF's Seth Stern told Al Jazeera.

Read more:

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2026/4/22/warner-bros-and-paramount-merger-could-reshape-us-media-landscape

The no-go zone paradox: #Chornobyl’s wildlife thrives amid pro-nuclear shift - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/23/exclusion-zone-chornobyl-wildlife-thrives-amid-pro-nuclear-shift "very powerful demonstration of the relative impact of the world’s worst nuclear accident, which is not so big, and the impact of human habitation, which is devastating."

We're a little over a week away from the Upstate Anarchist Book Fair! See you there!
https://upstateanarchistbookfair.com/

Not what I would call entertainment, Microsoft. But okay.

Claude Code rate limits: Anthropic AI squeezes the customers

what are they going to do? learn to code?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTSg0Xsic8k&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260423-claude-code-rate-limits-anthropic-ai-squeezes-customers - podcast

time: 8 min 11 sec

There’s no such thing as “parental rights.” There is only parents exercising their child’s rights in trust until they reach the age of majority.

As parents, we have a duty to seriously consider what our children want and value when exercising those rights, and to confine our activities to what the child themselves would approve of.

Failing to do so seems to be a demonstration of bad-faith and exploitation. You don’t get extra rights to control government policy simply by having kids.

I'll take decentralized and janky over simple and evil.

Medical data of 500k #Biobank volunteers listed for sale on Alibaba, UK minister reveals - https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/500k_biobank_volunteers_data_listed/ oh look: just as we warned would happen... easy to deanonymise too...

On May 5th, join a TechSoup Connect webinar with @michael for a session on our Apps for Change programme!

We'll be exploring how Apps for Change can provide an escape from Big Tech and unlock deeper connection to community.

RSVP now to ensure you get in: https://events.techsoup.org/events/details/techsoup-techsoup-connect-canada-chapter-presents-apps-for-change-building-community-owned-spaces-in-a-big-tech-world/

#TechForGood #SocialWeb #AppsForChange #Newsmast #Fediverse #TechSoup

There is a way to stop ICE, and we all know what it is... it's just not pretty, polite, or legal, so I can't mention it.

Taxpayers in the US have paid something like 60% of federal taxes to the US military and associated contractors for the last several decades. We have the largest military budget on Earth.

Afghanistan is a mess. Iraq is wobbly. Iran is straight up winning. Ukraine has flipped the script and now they're teaching us how to fight.

WTF was all that money for? Why the hell aren't we shifting any of that, very clearly wasted, investment?

#USPolitics #waste #fraud #abuse

I liked this parenthetical aside by @pluralistic as much as the main piece.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/22/uber-for-nurses

"Voting with your wallet" is an absurd notion not just for the reason Doctorow gives here: it also makes individualist consumption (and the display of your consumption on social media) the primary vehicle of political action, rather than organization.

It's the same as when they told us our consumer choices and individual behavior would "Save the Planet," all while ignoring the actual problem.

Slop machines are the antithesis to consent.

Our information is used to build them - without our consent.

They are pushed into our lives - mostly without our consent.

People use them on each other - without consent.

Boosters, try and convince me that your favorite tech hype isn't just a violation of people's right to self-determination!
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#LLMs #StopTheSlop #Slopposition

“President Trump has his own way of calculating,” Kennedy replied. “There’s two ways of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug, and you reduce it to $10, that’s a 600% reduction.”

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/04/defending-trumprx-scam-rfk-jr-absurdly-claims-trump-has-his-own-way-of-calculating-percentages.html

The worst thing about AI right now is that I can't go to a coffee shop without having two tech bro dipshits on either side of me discussing their AI-first startups.

Their startups all seem to be having the same difficulties: the two engineers they do have are stupid, and their target customers just don't "get it." Surely the problem isn't them, their lazy-ass business plan, and their unwillingness to do more than just buy tokens.

It's exhausting.

The Jewish Labor Bund opposed Zionism not because it rejected Jewish identity but because the organization saw in it the same ethnonationalist impulse that underpinned antisemitism and destroyed Europe: http://jacobin.com/2026/04/jewish-labor-bund-crabapple-review

It's not, of course, generative AI that's deceiving people. It's the humans using AI to generate fake images and the humans who pass the fake images off as their own photos who are deceiving other humans.