Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“Whoops, our AI escaped its sandbox and stole most of the world’s billionaires money and redistributed it to good causes. It also wiped your debt.”

That would be the absolute winner

hey so about your favorite boy hank green. it’s such a shame that he went overboard with the LLM stuff, that was impossible to see coming, good on him for realizing he was addicted right? well wishes for the good boy!

anyway there’s smoking gun evidence that he was paid by effective altruists to do marketing for the “AI is so dangerous but so revolutionary” flavor of critihype by effective altruists. this is alleged by hank green expert hank green in the washington post, as well as an EA in charge of influencer marketing. he was literally being paid by TESCREALs.

someone in the same community ran a program where TikTokers were required to post an AI critihype video a day in a cult-like environment where they were subjected to “voluntary” waterboarding and other forms of indoctrination. I’m not kidding, this literal thing happened.

here’s @davidgerard’s pivot to AI with the evidence linked: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/06/the-ai-doomsday-cult-recruits-social-media-influencers/

“After just “10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving, people who lost access to the AI performed worse and gave up more frequently than those who never used it”.

An MIT study showed that test groups who used ChatGPT had the lowest brain activity and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioural levels”. We undergo not just cognitive offloading, but cognitive surrender: we forget what was possible.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom

#ai #cognitivedebt

No one in the seven-person curl security team is on or runs Windows. People sending us Windows-only flaws makes us groan and roll eyes. And sometimes hyperventilate a little.

Why this is so? Because no one in the team wants to be on Windows, and no other curl contributor is active enough, Windows-knowledgeable and interested in joining the team. Let me know if you are someone like that who I've just not noticed.

Wish I had enough money to travel abroad so I can eat lettuce again.

I see a lot of "unpopular opinion" posts today. Let me add one more. There's something we working folk need more than unions. We need cooperatives. People working together and owning their work. More people actually seizing the means of production, less working for rich rentiers.

Latest comic on a tiresome argument

#comic #cartoon #billionaires #EconomicInequality #economy #oligarchy

i first encountered gleb tsipursky about 12 years ago on a rationalwiki fan group on facebook. we banned his arse as an *obvious* spammer.

https://the-arkadian.tumblr.com/post/168291560431/reddragdiva-the-arkadian-reddragdiva

the lesswrongers put up with him about two years longer because they're somehow unable to ban an *obvious* spammy parasite.

anyway he just showed up in my inbox with a pitch for him to be interviewed on the podcast. yeah, maybe not thanks. Thanks.

anyway remember the name

I came up with some alternatives for Pentagon during the missile shortage. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/8/7/800080950/cartoon/munitions-shortage-solutions/

Katherine Rundell - who you should read on absolutely anything she writes about - is now writing about AI. "If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom

RE: https://mastodon.social/@freakonometrics/117054108271195109

“The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate”

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-massive-climate-lie-that-will-destroy-human-civilization

> This massive lie can best be summed up as “when it comes to climate change... we have more time.”

This is actually the main reason I'm so angry about the "AI" bubble. All this enormous effort could have been spent combatting the climate crisis and the opportunity cost of your fucking chatbot is going to be the very climate we live in

Imagine what we could have done with those 3 trillion dollars (or so)?

Made some more copies of #ParadiseLost and dropped a few off at Mindset boardshop. I like the slow burn of independently published media—slowly making its way around town, reaching people one by one via word of mouth over a long period of time.

ICYMI: This is a #zine about the very beginnings of the #punk and #hardcore scenes in Sarasota County, #Florida where I live. It’s an oral history zine and an art book. Hit me up if you want a copy. More info: https://shotgunseamstress.blogspot.com/2026/02/paradise-lost-sarasota-florida-hardcore.html

Oracle has banned AI-generated code from OpenJDK contributions, citing safety, security, and intellectual property risks. The open-source Java project steward said developers can use LLMs privately for debugging and reviewing code but cannot submit AI-generated material to repositories, pull requests, or other project channels.

source
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/03/as-larry-ellison-bets-the-farm-oracle-says-it-loves-ai-written-code-just-not-in-openjdk/5281851 and https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-claim-oracle-isn-t-writing-its-own-code

The number of #ElectricBuses is noticeably higher in town now. Apart from being quieter, they seem to be able to accelerate more smoothly too. As a #Cyclist, the biggest thing I’ve noticed is that, when you have to wait behind one at a traffic light junction, you don’t get a lung-full of noxious #DieselFumes and so it makes #cycling even more of a pleasure. I think the bus company is aiming to replace all urban diesel buses by next year. Bring it on.

#Transport #Biking #Bike #Bicycle #Cycle

How Journalists and Readers Started a Media Co-op in Pittsburgh

This week, workers and community supporters launched the Pittsburgh Progress, “a cooperative news organization, owned and democratically run by its workers and members… dedicated to looking out for, and telling the stories of, the working-class people who form the heart and soul of our diverse communities.”
#Coops #Media #Unions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp0TI_L6SEY

https://pittsburghprogress.com/

Every time I see something like this, I hear Gilbert Gottfried's voice in my head shouting "you fools!"

https://gizmodo.com/spotify-execs-bet-people-will-pay-for-ai-music-stock-price-plunges-2000794327

a comic by Smooth Dunk

https://bsky.app/profile/smoothdunk2.bsky.social/post/3mseieqolt22q

How to run a successful AI project

1. Find a well-scoped problem you can solve using boring technology. (You know: Postgres, Python, Java, shell scripts.)
2. Solve said problem the old fashioned way.
3. Find a way to cram a teeny tiny bit of AI into something that's of marginal importance and very low risk, so as to convince management that it's actually an AI project. Flattering their ego and making them feel like they are doing something exciting is an important part of working in technology.

In a world scarred by indiscriminate bombing, forced starvation, and mass displacement, a nameless survivor lies crushed beneath the rubble of a bombing—alive, but barely.
Available now at pmpress.org. Get 20% off with code RUBBLE here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=2154

Donavan McKinney organized health care workers before running for office. Now he has defeated an incumbent in Michigan’s 13th District.

Jake Triola argues unions leave wins on the table by funding politicians instead of building their own candidates.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/voters-trust-union-candidates-labor-democrats