Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Okay, writers.

If you proudly proclaim that you're using AI in your writing, I will at the very least MUTE you.

If I feel especially grumpy, I will BLOCK you.

I'm not giving time, access and content to people undermining my work.

If you cannot understand that AI is destructive, toxic and fascist, you don't deserve my attention or participation in anything you do.

@davidgerard wanna see all these "FOSS" projects that adopted pro-AI policy lose all of their contributors. also would love to see AI boosters ousted from FOSS spaces, especially since I was ostracized for my anti-LLM stance. only let them back in after a full, sincere apology, and reparative actions for the harm they've done to our communities.

it won't happen, but it would be nice 🤷

RE: https://disabled.social/@3TomatoesShort/117137455673341059

A good basic rule of thumb is that things that are involuntary (disabilities, deformities, natural appearance differences, illnesses, trauma effects ect) should never be the basis of an insult. Focus on the shit things people choose to do

@ChrisMayLA6 except, there's no such thing as unskilled labour. All labour requires a level of skill.

Residents in Gary, Indiana have been without power for nearly two weeks

Many are under a boil water advisory, which is nearly impossible without electricity

Thousands without power or safe water… and it’s barely a blip on the news

The richest country in the world is choosing to let people suffer

Please remember to check on the disabled and elderly … they are the first to die during catastrophic events like this

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/whats-going-on-in-gary-how-residents-are-still-without-power-nearly-two-weeks-later/3978350/?amp=1

#gary #indiana #uspol #disability #poverty #ableism

China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux https://piefed.social/c/technology@piefed.social/p/2303851/china-joins-europe-in-scrapping-windows-for-linux

With #ICC sanctions, Trump wants to make the world safe for war criminals - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/21/icc-sanctions-trump-war-criminals "The US is engaged in a lawless quest to protect American and Israeli officials" #shameful

Aaaaaaa, noAI DuckDuckGo is only letting me block 5 sites per query! And the entire first page is slop!

@moonglum that's why Gerrit is the only correct way to use Git. Thank you, I won't be taking questions.

They really are coming for us, friends. Be aware, be prepared.

https://labornotes.org/2026/08/federal-spies-hunt-minnesota-unions-search-conspiracy-find-solidarity

I may need to unfollow the postmarketOS hashtag due to a weird flood of negative doom posting about it not being ready to fully replace Android yet. I know people are worried about Android locking down app development and such, but don't take that out on one of the few projects trying to remove Google and Apple's dualopoly :( Complaining can't make development faster.

When education is under attack, now's the time to pick up these resources on teaching resistance and facilitating radical learning spaces outside the state and capital. Get 40% off all Education and Parenting titles with code ARM thru 9/1 here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=42

Bea Lumpkin was already a seasoned labor organizer when she became a teacher at 47.

She was also a mother, mathematician, feminist and lifelong communist.

Stacy Davis Gates remembers a woman whose life was too expansive to fit into any one political label.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/bea-lumpkin-obituary-chicago-ctu-rest-in-power-antifa-antifacism-activist-communism

#AI is making #Africa’s cheapest #smartphones harder to afford - https://techcabal.com/2026/08/20/ai-is-making-africas-cheapest-smartphones-harder-to-afford/ the poor suffer just to make the rich richer...

Is anyone running a matchmaking service to pair recently-retired programmers with open source projects that need maintainers?

The core argument from an upcoming piece; something I've come to view as nearly an iron rule in BigCo's:

Going from decent to excellent performance is a technical challenge, but moving from poor to decent performance is fundamentally a management and culture problem.

#DOGE’s #Screwworm Legacy May Be Tons Of Euthanized #Cats And #Dogs - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/20/doges-screwworm-legacy-may-be-tons-of-euthanized-cats-and-dogs/ "it’s obvious that there were no taxpayer cost savings due to DOGE’s fuckery. If anything, it seems like we’ll be spending more money to remediate the problem than we did keeping it from becoming one. "

Attention Nerd Friends:

Does anyone here have a connection with anyone that worked at Humongous Entertainment? I desperately want one of the podcast episodes next year to be talking to delightful people about designing children's video games.

The Force is strong with this one. https://www.commondreams.org/news/darth-vader-flock

RE: https://techhub.social/@jonathanreed/117129903538588670

Admirable, having the courage to follow his convictions.