Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“As a career neuroscientist who has written about this matter on multiple occasions, I can assure you that ADHD is absolutely a neurological phenomenon, you could see it on brain scans almost two decades ago. There is also decades worth of evidence revealing that there’s a very strong genetic factor at work with ADHD. So yes, people with ADHD absolutely have ‘differently wired brains’. That’s probably why ADHD has long been recognised by all leading medical organisations”
https://ohai.social/@Garwboy/117115407917646316

I fundamentally don't understand the slopocalypse in FLOSS.

It's all happening for no reason. Only herd dynamics.

Who needs supercharged speed (commonly professed belief / rationalization).

Infrastructure needs correctness and dependability.

the public hates AI, and it has nothing to do with a false impression that LLMs are powerful

the public hates AI because it’s unfit for purpose, actively damaging their neighborhoods and promising much more damage beyond that, making their work miserable, constantly being promoted by deadeyed grifters, it’s creepy as shit in both implementation and proposed goals, etc etc etc

the TESCREAL crowd is trying to redirect that rage into something they can use, and so far it’s not working, but you should be very careful you’re not doing their job for them

“…He attached hundreds of court records and asked the AI to read all of them and create a defense of #3M that showed that Watson Grinding was responsible for the explosion…

"Autenrieth, purportedly an expert with 20 years of experience in gas detection, also uploaded a picture of a gas detector and asked ChatGPT, “what am I looking at?”

Plaintiffs’ attorney: ‘that gas detector asked about is the “subject of the whole case.”’

Lawyers everywhere:

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/expert-witness-chatgpt-logs-court
#law #AI

Some cool posters I found scrolling through the Victorian State Library archives.

Ooo, this is exciting! What's new in BigBlueButton 4.x https://bigbluebutton.com/docs/4.0/getting-started/whats-new-in-bigbluebutton-4-0

I was recently invited onto the Dead Code Podcast by @jardo, who blessedly allowed me to complain about Scrum like the good 'ol days instead of the usual AI stuff. Give it a listen if you long for our old problems.

https://shows.acast.com/dead-code/episodes/dragged-into-done-with-nikhil-suresh

Molly Crabapple’s work goes where the fight is: the strike, the ICE raid, the border.

Now she’s In These Times’ first-ever Artist-at-Large.

Come celebrate our 50th anniversary with Molly and the In These Times community in New York next week.

https://www.allyoufascistsboundtolose.com/calendar/protect-free-speech-support-independent-media

As the United States marks 250 years, Liz Sullivan-Yuknis and Anna Canning look toward the next 250 and the communities already building democracy from the ground up.

Their focus: co-governance, and a vision where “We the People” truly means all people.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/cogovernance-american-democracy-250

“Any claims that this company is providing family safety is in direct conflict with their business practices, which are endangering people by violating their privacy,” EFF’s Daly Barnett told Kidsburgh. https://www.kidsburgh.org/life360-bought-an-advertising-company-in-january-heres-what-parents-need-to-know/

Social media bans and other age-based restrictions deny young people their rights to access information and speak online, EFF’s @davidgreene told @TheGuardian. Non-governmental alternatives – such as parental control tools provided by the companies – are better options. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/18/meta-pays-influencers-teen-social-media-ban

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Plus every print issue of In These Times and a Seven Stories Press discount.
Support journalism documenting resistance to fascism.

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Anyone surprised at charities hiring union busters.. I hope you understand that many charities are run by people who are even more sociopathic than your sociopathic bosses.

🇪🇺 🎙️ We've engaged in various EU Consultations to encourage an Open Web Data Infrastructure for Europe

Public Consultations enable citizens and businesses to share their views on new EU policies and existing laws. The Commission analyses the contributions and takes them into account for fine tuning its initiatives.

👉 Find out about the consultations we provided feedback in right here: https://openwebsearch.eu/remaining-active-we-provided-feedback-for-various-european-commission-consultations/

Become a Friend of PM, and support independent radical publishing. We’ll send you books monthly, and you'll get 50% off of everything on our website year-round. You’ll also receive this 5 panel Sockin' Suckas Hat free! Offer ends 9/1. https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=139

If anyone wants (for free) boxes and boxes and boxes of old books that our library does not have space for (obviously, not for LLM training) let me know. Seriously, we've been trying to give them away forever and they just keep piling up. You'll have to come collect them, though.

GitHub Actions users when they learn about GitHub Consequences

Has anyone tried out a #LilyGo? ...

https://meshcore.ninja/device/lilygo-tdeck-pro/

#Meshtastic #Meshcore

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