Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"Oh no, the cigarettes have 'gone rogue' and are causing lung cancer and buying legislation to make themselves legal!!"

Do you hear how ridiculous that sounds?

This is a post about #AI

It took humanity 68 years to install 1TW solar capacity, which we reached in 2022.

It took 2 years to double it to 2TW, which we did in November 2024.

Now a little under 2 years later, we’re at 3TW.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/three-terawatts-solar

#RenewableEnergy

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta "Ruling comes as part of second phase of landmark trial that found social media company enabled harm against users"

"When Thiel, Musk, Zuckerberg and Andreessen mine science fiction for blueprints, they are not finding the only possible futures. They are selecting the futures that justify their power."

https://aeon.co/essays/silicon-valley-has-a-science-fiction-problem?ref=life-in-the-21st-century.ghost.io

@ShadowJonathan
Hmm okay, I can only assume Google would just wipe their collective corporate ass with a GDPR Article 17 request ('right to be forgotten') if someone was to issue one over scraped Google Drive documents.

I mean, that'd mean they'd have to retrain their models (from scratch?) without the scraped documents.

ive been looking for this movie for over a decade now, maybe im famous enough for one of my followers to recognize it 🥺

Authenticity Problem

Bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/064.html#bonus

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

She draws the picket line, resistance to ICE and life at the border. Her art is journalism and movement work.

This fall, @mollycrabapple joins In These Times as our first-ever Artist-at-Large, in partnership with the Puffin Foundation.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/bund-ice-socialist-molly-crabapple-in-these-times

@st3fan

Alternatives to #MSGitHub are e.g.

#Codeberg https://codeberg.org/, a @forgejo instance run by @Codeberg, open for #freeSoftware, with some limitations for #LLM generated code

#Salsa https://salsa.debian.org/, a @gitlab instance run by @debian, open for all free software projects

#sourcehut https://sourcehut.org/, a forge written from scratch (AFAIK) and maintained by @drewdevault

Hope, that you like at least one them 😉

Public housing, publicly owned energy, national rail, universal healthcare and free buses are not disconnected reforms. In a democratic socialist vision, they are steps toward an economy organized around public needs rather than private profit.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/democratic-socialism-economy-sanders-mamdani-aoc

“Incentives are for losers - by Adam Mastroianni”

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/incentives-are-for-losers

> So when thinking about any human ability, it’s useful to ask: is this more like speaking, or is it more like reading? Is this an ancient capability that we get for free just by living long enough, or is this a modern skill that you can’t get without working for it?

I know somebody out there wants to read about trade liberalization on a Thursday morning, right? Right?
#economics #trade #development

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/08/trade-liberalization-never-lifted-all-boats.html

Missing from the discussion on the referendum here in Iceland on reopening negotiations with the EU is that even if "yes" wins both referenda (negotations and then joining), joining is extremely unlikely to actually happen

It would require changing our constitution, which requires a law to pass in two parliaments separated by a parliamentary election. In practice, this means "join the EU" would need to win four public votes: two referenda and very likely two elections

A life devoted to labor education, intergenerational organizing and social justice.

Join friends, family and movement communities for a celebration of Beatrice Lumpkin on Sunday, August 9, at the Chicago Teachers Union Center.

https://www.allyoufascistsboundtolose.com/calendar/a-celebration-of-the-extraordinary-life-of-beatrice-lumpkin

from the article:

Never in the history of human endeavour have companies been so keen to report their products going wrong. It seems a rogue AI is the latest must-have accessory in Silicon Valley.

The reasoning behind this is not hard to follow. When your product is artificial intelligence, melodramatically realising your system is even smarter than you thought it was is a simple marketing ploy.

And when one of your rivals goes rogue, you have to go rogue too or you are as good as admitting your model is not as smart as theirs.

“AI company admits their model is smarter than they realised!” is just an advert in scary headline form.

https://off-guardian.org/2026/08/05/are-you-ready-for-the-rogue-ai-psy-op/

The Case for Marine Protected Areas - https://www.pew-bertarelli-ocean-legacy.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2025/10/the-case-for-marine-protected-areas hopeful stuff, but much more needed

What I find sad about the sudden prevalence of LLMs is that it lays bare how careless and disrespectful people are willing to be if you give them a chance. "Here I let this machine do a barely adequate approximation of the job I'm supposed to do. It's your problem now."

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