Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I love how all these open source projects are accepting LLM generated stuff, and when called out on it, they will quickly mention that "this is not the place to debate the ethics of AI".

So my question for everyone saying that is... if not now, when? When will we discuss if the source of the thing you're trying to ram through our throats is acceptable? When will we discuss if you normalising the damage the LLM companies are doing to create these tools is acceptable?

Or are we just going to ignore all the bullshit because it is (according to you) "useful"?

I bet people thought labour from kids sent to the mines was useful... Or the results from inhumane studies were also useful...

So, I ask of you again, when IS the time and place to discuss the ethical ramifications of you using these things? Because it never seems to be the time for it somehow, isn't that interesting?

This administration managed to take the joy out of diarrhea jokes. (I'll still make them; I have no other skills.)

A temporary pause after two deadly ICE traffic stops is not accountability. Neither is more training for an agency empowered to terrorize communities.

Representative Delia Ramirez says abolishing ICE is only the beginning: dismantle DHS.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/delia-ramirez-says-abolish-ice-dhs-must-go

‘More real than anything you’ll see scrolling’: the radical resurgence of UK fanzines, 50 years after punk
By Claire Biddles

Five decades years since punk bible Sniffin’ Glue, DIY magazines are in rude, rich health. Their creators talk fandom, community-building and resisting the algorithm

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/15/uk-fanzines-zine-radical-resurgence

#Music #Culture #Punk #Indie #Hiphop #Magazines #Newspapersmagazines #TheGuardian #ClaireBiddles

#Forgejo 15.0.5 was just released!

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

@manchicken @carnage4life https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/grok-build-uploads-entire-git.html

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116919986243362258

That's another way of saying: "Grok was stealing users code"

LLMs do not exist to make people happy but to harvest data and make money people

The continued bombing of Iran is not just a crisis. It is a violation of U.S. and international law.

Phyllis Bennis writes that when powerful states wage illegal war without accountability, the future becomes more dangerous for everyone.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/iran-war-united-states-israel-trump-illegal

It should have been obvious to everyone that the Turing Test was fatally flawed as soon as the ELIZA effect was discovered.

"A new book claims AI has been built on a flawed assumption dating back to Alan Turing's famous 1950 paper. Peter J. Denning argues that the most important parts of human intelligence, including common sense, intuition, culture, and practical know-how, cannot be encoded into computers. He believes this makes true human-level AI impossible, regardless of how large language models become."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260713084850.htm

@GuerillaOntologist @privacyint

I do completely agree. LLMs are trained to simulate human speech based on previous human speech. That is why I am so curious about why some people insist on adding the term "generative" to those programs.
There is no creation, just reproduction of the most probable (given certain context) words.

For me it is madness to delegate thinking to such programs. Well dressed, to be sure, but madness indeed.

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When officials say a jail is “crumbling,” the answer is almost always treated as obvious: build a newer, bigger cage.

But organizers in Atlanta, Massachusetts and Illinois are showing there are other answers.

Join us on Wednesday to discuss how communities are fighting jail and prison expansion.

6pm ET / 5pm CT

RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/how-to-stop-a-jail/?clear_id=true

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/116917803417921274

these people never learn that the more you give the right, the more they demand...

RE: https://zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto/116916166658870729

Once we accepted that undocumented people be referred to as “illegal aliens”, we were always going to get here.

Taco Bell has proactively pulled raw produce off the menu to protect customers from the explosive diarrhea parasite.

America is now a country where a fast food chain takes more responsibility for the health of its citizens than the US government.

https://people.com/taco-bell-locations-stop-serving-ingredients-amid-cyclosporiasis-outbreak-report-12014595

#publichealth #uspol #foodsafety #Cyclosporiasis

This is absolutely awful. No one should be shot in the street for no reason.

ICE has shot at least 4 people to death in 2026.

Two times 4 people, is 8 people.

2 X that is 16 people.

2 X again is 32.

2 X again is 64.

2 X again is 128.

Cops have killed 153 Black people so far this year.

There are about the same number of Black people as immigrants in the United States (both ~50 million people).

So the difference of 20X in the number of police shootings is significant.

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/biddeford-witness-saw-gunshot-victim-bleeding-from-head-2/

Law enforcement agents are trained NOT to shoot the driver of a vehicle because of the danger the vehicle poses to everyone nearby.

ICE thugs continuously shoot at people behind the wheel.

Today’s statement from DHS should be considered an admission of murder.

The driver wasn’t trying to run over the ICE agent.

He was trying to flee.

You can’t shoot to kill because someone is trying to get away.

It’s murder.

#uspol #abolishice #immigration #fascism

Today ICE fascists fatally shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine.

This is at least the 11th person they’ve murdered this year—that we know of.

This man did everything he was supposed to. He was authorized to work in the US. He had a Social Security number. He served his community.

But because he didn’t have the complexion for protection, ICE fascists murdered him in broad daylight. Abolish and prosecute ICE.