Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Every eugenicist with an opinion column looks like a sickly Victorian child suffering from something like "milkthrop."

This shit writes itself. This is so beyond parody at this point I can't write about it.

I had an author friend gush, for paragraphs, about how amazing my editing was. It was funny. It was honest. It was developmental juice that didn't have any trouble asserting it's flavor. He begged me to know what LLM I was using because he had other editors use LLMs and they weren't nearly as good or funny or sincere and they didn't seem to understand the work the way I did.

this has got to be the shortest email I've ever written. I replied,

“I used my fucking brain.”

#AI #NoAI #LLM

I've worked with and spoken to hundreds of developers over the last year, and my best guess is that the true extent of AI use in software development is being massively exaggerated.

I'm determined to get to the bottom of this before the year's out.

“Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yell – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/17/anthropic-watermarks-ai-output-and-the-ai-bros-yell/

Watching all of this unfold has been kind of funny.

Phosh 0.56.0 and Linux 7.2 on PureOS Dawn. Getting there.

...and speaking of the kernel, the latest LTS (6.18) is now available for testing on Crimson: https://forums.puri.sm/t/kernel-6-18-available-for-testing/31104

#pureos #crimson #dawn #gnu #linux #phone #librem5 #linuxphone #linuxphones #mobilelinux #linuxmobile #phosh #linuxonmobile #mainline #kernel #shotonlibrem5

Meanwhile, #Google #AI Overviews are lying about the continuing global Google Home outage

The outage has continued for hours. And while Google has admitted it is still in progress, questions about it to Google Search get this response:

"There is no widespread or global outage currently affecting Google Home services. Tracking platforms like Downdetector US show normal operation levels, meaning issues are likely localized to your specific device, app, or home network."

In fact, Downdetector shows a very impressive big red graphed outage in progress for Google Home.

Thanks for the misinformation, Google AI Overviews!

@davidrevoy @ozzelot the linux foundation receiving a fuckton of money from multiple AI corporations (including Palantir) and paying Torvalds a $1.5 million/year paycheck is almost certainly the reason why Torvalds instituted an AI policy in the kernel that requires maintainers to use LLMs for review and encourages slop in the kernel. he evoked a right-wing conspiracy theory while doing it.

a lot of people have told you the Linux Foundation isn’t Linux, that they don’t matter, that you should keep contributing. that doesn’t make any sense if you think about it, does it. this is capitalism, and the person at the head of a project receiving large amounts of money certainly affects everyone who’s part of that project.

the Linux Foundation posting slop is a symptom of a sickness, but keep your eye on what matters. the kernel is rapidly becoming slop and it’s run by someone who very loudly dislikes you and me and everyone else who doesn’t like LLMs. you can do better with your time.

@zzt "I'm glad we learned the lesson from that bizarrely overengineered juice squeezer which did the same job as a simple juicer just with a whole bunch of vendor lock in and pollution" I think, as I rub the lamp one more time in the hopes that I can persuade a genie to perform a boolean search.

@aparrish fixed it

@aparrish if only there was a way to make sure that the thing I wrote used the words that I wanted to put in it

can't quite put my finger on why but this has gotta be the funniest, most absurd, most humiliating sentence i've read in a long long time (from https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversion_of_writing)

Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yell

how DARE you catch me out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCiDuw5CzAY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260817-anthropic-watermarks-ai-output-and-the-ai-bros-yell - podcast

time: 7 min 46 sec

“Trump and his MAGA minions would like nothing more than to numb you, me, and the rest of us to their growing archipelago of death, a bloodstained map that stretches from the icy streets of Minneapolis to a dingy detention site in Newark, and from a bomb-blasted island off Iran to the sickbeds in an African refugee camp. They want us to feel numb as their authoritarian death cult expands, and we cannot allow that to happen.

"The truth is that the United States will remain a global pariah — a pitiful, helpless giant — as long as there is no accountability for these war crimes, including, or perhaps especially, the terror perpetrated by mystery men with American flag patches on the high seas. That means public hearings, trials, prison sentences, and the kind of truth and reconciliation this nation has not seen before.”

Will Bunch. Gift link.

https://share.inquirer.com/SVJriM

Another day, another Trump public attack on a female journalist.

Also another day when the rest of the White House press corps -- not just the right-wing propagandists but also the "reputable" journos -- pretends it didn't happen. What a bunch of cowards these people are.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/17/white-house-personal-attack-cnn-reporter-trump

Scientists cave in to the Trump regime's war on a human-livable climate: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/climate/national-academies-climate-chapter-judges.html

The continuing cowardice of major institutions in our society is a key reason we're in so much trouble.

It's difficult to imagine that Linux Foundation, which has a branch called "Agentic AI foundation", platinum-sponsored by Anthropic, Google and OpenAI, would not be acting in the interests of the said platinum members.

Anyone know of a good way of visualizing dense hypergraphs?

(Hypergraphs are graphs where an edge can connect more than 2 nodes.)

If you have a lot of edges, things get tangled very quickly. And if an edge connects a lot of nodes, even a single edge can be hard to understand!

Carlitos Ricardo Parias is approaching 300 days behind bars, the longest known time a journalist has spent in US custody.

Authorities say he's undocumented, but their account doesn't explain a growing mountain of evidence, FPF's Adam Rose writes in The Intercept.

Read more:

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/16/ricardo-parias-ice-detention-journalist-los-angeles/

“Invasive searches like ALPR database queries must require a judicial warrant,” EFF’s @cooperq told @FastCompany. “Policymakers must seize this moment—when even the leading ALPR vendor has admitted they have done too little to prevent abuse—to, at minimum, codify real protections into law.” https://www.fastcompany.com/91590083/why-we-love-to-hate-flock

Amazon's Book Woodchipper Facility has a cartoonishly evil logo because of course it does.

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys...
https://jwz.org/b/yk-v