Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@varx I just ignore it. Non-technical colleagues are being misled about what these tools are capable of, and their use of genAI for making things like "music" and "art" are borne of ignorance.

I saw someone yesterday sharing their "AI-generated music" 🤢, and my AWS representative keeps replying to my questions with LLM output. It's getting out of hand, and I'm not sure I am handling it terribly well.

I'm of the view that the laws of "easy-come/easy-go" are still in effect. You have folks producing large volumes of documentation with their tools, and then everybody else uses their tools to summarize the document. At the end of the day, all of the tokens were a waste, all we needed was a dozen bullet points and we can all move on with life without spending $5 for the tokens to make the trash document that nobody will ever read.

Repeating Failure: How Spanish Overblocking Ignores the Lessons of #Italy’s Broken #PiracyShield - https://project-disco.org/european-union/repeating-failure-how-spanish-overblocking-ignores-the-lessons-of-italys-broken-piracy-shield/ good background info on the latest #copyright madness in #spain

#OtD 22 May 2006 teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico, walked out on strike for the 25th consecutive year. They set up a camp and encouraged students/families to join, which tens of thousands did in an uprising that lasted 5 months https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9510/oaxaca-teachers-strike

#Oil markets nearing ‘red zone’ as Iran crisis continues, warns IEA chief - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/21/oil-markets-nearing-red-zone-as-holiday-season-nears-warns-iea-chief "countries would pay a premium for supplies from secure sources and for #renewable energy."

the reaction to the arXiv slop penalty is the gift

"So this means you expect every author to check every citation and make sure that every citation is real and accurate" GOOD LORD WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING IN THERE THEN

https://xcancel.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/2055622745535242431

The reason the right and corporate center are experiencing great gains with AI are that they are floating on massive piles of exploitation that cushion losses, that the things they need are probabilistic managerialism where imprecision is a benefit as it can be constructed to always err in the manegers favor, and the winning end state for them is total surveillance with carefully controlled access to information. None of these things can be "adopted by the left"

not to be too blunt about this, but LLMs simply do not belong anywhere in a data analysis workflow. not for cleaning, not for coding, and certainly not for analysis. it's frankly absurd and terrifying that data science etc people are adopting these tools

i do think it's funny that any company that wants a huge influx of extremely good engineers could just say "we are not doing ai" on the careers site

Do I have any plumbers following me? Or people who are great at DIY plumbing stuff?

I’ve got an issue with my shower, absolutely no spoons to deal with it and the worst, strangest shower fixture I’ve ever seen. Maybe it’s more common in other countries?

It’s a Riobel thermostatic and the little handle that controls temperature is NOT working.

I’ve been trying to tolerate it but got scalded badly tonight and I’ve had enough.

If anyone can help me kick ideas around I would be super grateful.

#pleaseboost #plumbing #shower #help #disability

You crack jokes, but every day Larry Ellison has to chew protein powder, store it in his neck, turn it into crop milk, and regurgitate into his son David, who to this day, has no idea how to eat, shit, or live.

Thirty years ago we were liberal enough in Aotearoa New Zealand to elect the world's first openly transgender mayor, and the world's first openly transgender member of parliament. I don't think deep down we haven't changed that much.

I'd like to believe that we're much better than the horrible pricks in our current coalition of chaos would signify and have you believe.

Need to ditch them in November

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgina_Beyer

#nzpol

How are y'all handling coworkers who post slop?

Several of our contractors have made rather voluminous wiki pages that are heavily redundant and over-explanatory. So far my approach has been to just... quietly not read them, and pretend the pages don't exist. (If I need information that the page is supposed to have, I just ask the contractor to explain in Slack or a meeting.) It's bad for the company in a bunch of different ways, but the company is all-in on AI and doesn't want to hear dissent, so there's no way to address this systemically. (And I'm not invested in the company's long-term health.)

One coworker posts AI outputs sometimes, but is a bit more discerning, and we have a good enough relationship that I've been able to explain that hey, I'm not reading that, but you're free to tell me anything you learned *after* you verify it.

I'm curious to hear how others are handling it.

Heard they're working on a data center that's cooled by the diarrhea of the people it poisoned.

Are you a huge piece of shit? Did you participate in a coup? You may be entitled ... to decent people's tax dollars. https://www.patreon.com/posts/insurrectionist-158898436

RE: https://wandering.shop/@katfeete/116614462444516402

Yep same. I came up as a farm worker. Now I'm spending most of my working hours on the farm running it myself, and the farm is small. On land that I don't own. It's rented.

So I'm about as close to the legendary "small peasant farmer" as it gets.

And I can tell you the ONLY reason I can do it at all is I made it to the middle class & am no longer broke.

There's money & energy left over after paying the basic bills to... what? PUT IN THE INVESTMENT & TIME IT TAKES TO SET UP A FARM

An historic UN Climate Resolution passes making nation states legally responsible to protect people from harms caused by climate pollution.

The usual suspects opposed of course, just 8 of them, with 141 in favour. 28 abstained.

While not legally binding (and decades late) the resolution can become an important tool in litigation as at least now it is named, written up in international law at the highest level.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/21/un-vote-support-icj-world-court-climate-change-opinion

#climate

Google's (baffling) plans to turn search into ad-polluted AI won't make Google Search all that much worse than it is now.

I use Kagi, which uses Google API, and others, to create a search that actually works well, and recommend it. I also fear Google will kill it.

https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-marketing-live-search-ads/

them: Wow. This person who keeps making videos abt how most small family farmers are millionaires w a 6-figure income? We should ask her how to save farmers.

me: Nah we shouldn't be "saving" millionaires w 6-figure incomes. Or the farmers who are even bigger

them:

Every so often the head of a do-gooder nonprofit or journalist reaches out, wanting to hear my thoughts on [farm topic]

And they're always floored & taken aback that I say "mean" things about farmers. Like "They're adults. They chose this. And they should live with the consequences of their actions."

Policymakers are legislating blanket bans on social media based on evidence that would be rejected in any other field of public health. Before imposing these draconian measures, they must listen to the experts sounding the alarm on oversimplified conclusions. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/science-not-settled-how-weak-evidence-fueling-national-push-ban-social-media-youth