Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

🚨 Important update about my latest #WSocial article 👀

A user on #ATproto cracked the code and came up with a reasonable explanation for the made up number of comments on W Social's homepage.

The number next to the speech bubble (comment icon) are an "engagement metric": the sum of boosts and likes. It all makes sense now!

https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/

(scroll down to the end of the article for the update)

Why the spread of powerful local #AI models makes #copyright enforcement even harder - https://walledculture.org/why-the-spread-of-powerful-local-ai-models-makes-copyright-enforcement-even-harder/ #china #redflaglaw

I do appreciate that all of these creepy-ass companies are giving me the heads-up to submit delete requests.

my favorite thing about the slop era is when you get an LLM booster really mad and they reveal the tasks they’re doing that can’t be accomplished without AI and it’s all really basic text editing they never learned to do properly

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This worst part is not the little mistakes, e.g. the wrong condition written on a form. Doctors make those mistakes too, and even though the LLM makes more of them, they're easily corrected.

The bigger issue is the focus problem. The LLM doesn't know what's important.

I'm currently seeing a doctor for a course of treatment. We check in monthly to see how the treatment is going, tweak my other meds, and talk about any issues that come up.

Because he is a normal human person, he starts every consult by asking me how I am and what's happening in my life. At our last consultation, I mentioned some life stress.

The LLM wrote in my consult notes that I was consulting him for the life stress. It doesn't even mention the condition I'm being treated for. Now that's in my notes, and when the doctor goes to review them (or if another clinic needs to look at them), they'll get completely the wrong idea about the consultation. The very serious medical condition is de-emphasised, and the inconsequential chatter is given pride of place.

I'm basically in the position of having to write my own consult notes for every consultation, and give a list of corrections to the doctor. It's another laborious task that makes medical care inaccessible.

Having a chronic illness brings a thousand small administrative tasks. One of the most frustrating new ones is having to go through every doctor's note, letter, pathology form, and consultation report and correct the little bits of fiction that their LLM note-taking app has added in.

I don't need this extra task! My illness is already a full-time job.

#LLM #fuckAI #chronicillness

another take about the proliferation of ai music meaning that people need to "get out and see shows in real life" and these always upset me as an immunocompromised person

you can find non ai music online still. there are still lots of people doing it. try being more mindful about your listening and not listening to the spotify playlists that they fill with slop

support people on bandcamp and mirlo and bandwagon and subvert

check out live streamed music which is still happening for real. i know a place where you can check out hundreds of hours of modular synths

stop separating "real life" from "online" as if they are mutually exclusive, and make people like me feel like shit and like nothing they do counts. Every time i play a show i have to take a risk because nobody masks and they don't clean the air and a lot of my friends can't come and that fucking sucks

Shows are great. But not everyone can make it to shows. Not everyone lives somewhere there are shows. Not everyone is physically able to attend shows. Some people are high risk and have to take a risk every time.

This is a Yes, And situation. Be more mindful about music if you want to hear stuff that people made.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@businessinsider/tech-km6gng0uz/-/a-BALGlI31RUqTufKtvSdxdA%3Aa%3A48159484-%2F0

The word is #dystopian, not "darwinian".

"We're in a dystopian moment where employees have to prove their enforced deskilling" - fixed it for you, silicon valley scum.

and calling it "skills" to add insult to injury.

The monsters pushing this on people must be brought to justice after the bubble implodes.

SCOOP: #WSocial is doctoring metrics on its homepage, inflating the number of comments on posts by prominent people on its network.

I suppose a more accurate tagline for them should be "Trust your feed?"

My article about it: "W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data"

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/

#blog #BigTech #EUBigTech #TEP #TrustedEuropeanPlatforms

So, about all those AI datacenters that we are supposed to need...

Mon, 22 Jun 2026
Due to unprecedented and historically high temperatures in the region, it has become impossible to maintain the environmental conditions required for the safe operation of equipment hosted at the facility.

(Cogent datacenter in France)

https://www.mail-archive.com/frnog@frnog.org/msg80526.html

Hey private enterprise enthusiasts. You believe that the public sector can save money by handing over utilities to companies, which are inherently more efficient.

Here's why this doesn't work.

You have to pay someone to monitor the private companies. Because they have no incentive to deliver what they promised. They always cut corners in the name of profit. And that monitoring eats the savings you hoped for. While you have no control over your utilities.

#capitalism

The thing about this, and this whole thing, is that only a pattern completion machine would do any of this. A human being would have taken one look at the issue and been like "what the fuck is that, that's not real" but the bots have zero judgment between just performing the form of code without any meaning and the real thing. LLMs produce boilerplate. Code boilerplate, syntactic boilerplate, semantic boilerplate.

The bot notes pre-existing test failures without noting that nothing in the entire repository, nor anything it is doing makes a goddamn bit of sense.

For the #LoRes Mesh project, we've decided to change from the GPL to the Anti-Capitalist Software License.

You can read more about our reasoning here:

https://lores.tech/blog/anticapitalist-license/

Essentially though it boils down to thinking that the Free Software movement's desire for "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose" does not seem to be a good way to actually produce the society free from harm and oppression that we want.

#AntiCapitalistLicense #CoopCloud

BREAKING: Wikipedia workers in Britain are setting a global first by becoming the first body of workers at the online encyclopaedia to seek union recognition.

The WMF has undergone a period of significant change in recent months, escalating workers’ concerns over transparency, trust, and the organisation’s future direction.

Trump and George W. Bush judges -- known for being right-wingers -- make a travesty of justice in Texas sentences. But the Guardian, normally an excellent news org, doesn't mention even their names, much less their ideologies. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-protesters-texas-sentenced

Where are the editors, anyway?

Unsealed court docs spotlight Judge John Docherty scolding federal prosecutors and investigators in Minnesota for failing to meet even the most basic legal probable cause requirements while filing for search warrants of activists and press in the Cities Church case.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/unsealed-court-docs-spotlight-judges-rejection-of-federal-search-warrants-in-cities-church-case/

Ugh, and now Guyon is talking to an ex-Microsoftie who - imagine - is gushing about adopting more 'AI'. We need to stop giving these people so much attention.

Please boost, PSA: @MichaelaKHulse has started government petition telling the government to honour its commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement.

#Wellington #LowerHutt #NewZealand #AotearoaNZ #Aotearoa #NZPol

https://petitions.parliament.nz/0cbe8214-89b7-45e5-3c5b-08dec98aceba?lang=en

If you are doing any yard work, work on your home or apartment, need decent furniture, all at a decent price and live near a Habitat for Humanity Restore, check it out before going to a big box retailer... I can testify that they have saved us a lot of money. They are open to the public also and their profits goes for a good purpose. Many retailers donate old stock to them. #PaulsYard #PaulsRoof

https://www.habitat.org/restores

They are in #Canada, also https://habitat.ca/en/restore/find-a-restore