Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I genuinely love how stupid this LLM-generated phishing email is.

@tuban_muzuru @inthehands
The data sourcing problem isn't as simple as copyright.

What AI companies are doing is:

1. taking from a public resource (public websites, source code of FOSS projects, knowledge-sharing forums, etc)

2. destroying the public resource in the process (overloading the websites, flooding FOSS projects with slop PRs, disrubting the social dynamic required for forums to work)

3. renting you access to a worse version of the public resource they have destroyed

@inthehands It seems most people just don't want to think about these things at all? I have close friends — lovely, caring people, who just don't want to discuss these topics. They'll use Uber, AirBnB and a whole host of LLMs because they're so convenient, and any mention of ethics gets a "yeah, I know" and then they continue buying tiny bottles of tap water to drink.

I want to somehow shake them awake without losing them as friends, and I have no idea how. Show them it doesn't have to be this way.

The em-dash in this toot was put there entirely by human hands.

@inthehands my husband reminds me that companies don't give away anything for Free. There is always the cost, our cognitive abilities. And if it is free, a gift, do we trust the hands giving it to us? I trust musk/Thiel/altman/etc to destroy humanity, so no, I don't want this gift. Or this free extention. Or to outsource my intelligence. It's not free if it's stealing water and land rights.

I’m kind of speculating here. I get off the LLM coding bus at several earlier stops:

⁃ The energy and water usage are an environmental disaster (so I mostly avoid it for the same reasons I try to reduce my driving).

⁃ The data sourcing is an ethical disaster (so I prefer to avoid it for the same reasons I try to buy fair trade products).

⁃ The people who profit from it at the top are largely horrible (so I’m about as interesting in debating its pros and cons at length as am I debating the work capacity of a Cybertruck).

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When governments use the benign expression "lawful access" instead of an accurate one -- "backdoor required" -- you know that surveillance statism is the goal.

It's Canada's turn to stomp on real security in the name of total surveillance.

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/05/the-lawful-access-two-headed-surveillance-monster-how-bill-c-22-went-off-the-rails/

my husband looked over my shoulder at this post and was casually like "oh yeah, the rust PR, I saw that"

y'all, he's not a programmer. how did this breach containment so hard. who here is DM'ing my husband about rust project policy drama

Google is polluting everything it does with "AI" -- now including Maps. In this case, it's preempting people's comments on the Maps site, which I guess is better than preempting other people's sites.

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tell me you’re a coward without telling me

No comment on this PR may mention the following topics:

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@Athena I am suddenly less interested in their policy on LLMs and more interested in their policy on ethics. Excluding ethical concerns as a basis for policy is what you do when you know your preferred policies are unethical. Any project which accepts such an exclusion should be treated as a threat.

Remember when they used to ask “why do you make everything about race?”

I just managed to make another watchface, this time (pun intended) it's always 11 AM, but the timezone changes every hour to where it's 11 AM in the world.

I wonder if a blackhat will launch a "new" LLM service that just MITMs ChatGPT/Claude/whatever as a service, but then harvests sensitive information from the context and prompts, and maybe even injects malware into the user's computer.

That would be kinda funny.

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