Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@jonpsp @internetarchive we asked SecondHandSmokeGPT, funded by Marlboro, about lung cancer. the results were a mix of useful answers, wrong turns & outright refusals.

@internetarchive like seriously, what am I supposed to feel here, IA?

you exposed a bunch of kids to a technology that leads to cognitive surrender

it gave them a bunch of fucking useless answers

training it fucked over a bunch of poor people and had a severe environmental cost

the fuck am I supposed to be feeling?

@kimcrawley When I discovered that the CEO of my former employer made business with all the Gen AI companies (and a few companies complicit in genocide to top it off), I used the next all-hands meeting to ask the CEO in front of all 200 employees:

"Did you not do _any_ background checking of your business partners, or are you fine with knowingly enabling fascism?"

I asked this after outlining how, for example, Perplexity built the "search function" for Trump's "Truth" Social and is sponsoring the far-right extremist Ben Shapiro. So it wasn't a vague, unfounded accusation. Everybody present could factcheck me.

You won't believe the shitstorm I received (after I was silenced/censored by my skip-level boss, of course) from the other employees who all jumped to defend the CEO.

My direct boss called me rude and impertinent.

I am sick and tired of "nice people" who don't even recognize fascism, and when they do, they think they can stop fascism by telling fascists, "please please please, consider not being fascist? 🥺"

This is shameful discriminatory and misogynistic reporting.

People aren’t choosing disability to be “cool”.

Young women don’t have to “prove” to you that they’re sick.

Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’ve left a disabling virus rip through the population for over 6 years.

The insinuation that disabled women who post about their experiences are “entrenching a culture of economic activity” is ableism.

They want to shame us into being silent about our suffering.

Make noise.

Let’s tell the Telegraph this disgusting article should be retracted

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/05/disability-became-cool/

#ableism #eugenics #disability #chronicillness

I learned today that POSIX specifies a tool designed to assist you in reviewing & modifying LLM-generated code. In typical Unix fashion, they shortened "reviewing & modifying" to just two letters:

$ rm code.rs

It even has command-line options to [r]ecursively [f]ix whole directories of LLM-generated code:

$ rm -rf project/

"I didn't come to the Fediverse to have ____ shoved in my face."

I didn't come to the Fediverse to hear your entitled opinion of what the Fediverse is for, so I guess we're even.

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Flock this shit. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/9/4/800093843/cartoon/surveillance-innovations/

I am shopping around for attorneys to sue a couple businesses over their use of AI and automated voice customer service.

Due to my Parkinson's Plus, MSA, I have speech issues and over this past month, at multiple businesses, I haven't been able to get past their AI customer service loop to speak to a human because the AI can't understand me.

I even made an #ADA request for a human worker to the AI prompt.

I am going to sue to try to force their AI to understand an ADA prompt, or offer one, to bypass the AI/voice only customer support and directly connect to a human. #AI

One issue is, I talk slow and deliberate because I have to get the words out and some phrases are slower than others and AI customer support is too impatient to wait and moves on mid-sentence, not understanding my request

Huge congratulations to the US-based Wikimedia Foundation employees who voted with 92% support in favor of unionizing, and shoutout to the tireless work of the organizers.

https://wikiworkersunited.org/announcements/2026-09-04-us-wikimedia-foundation-workers-overwhelmingly-vote-to-form-union-with-cwa/

#Wikipedia #WikimediaFoundation

“DHH Nazism Funded by 1Password VP Who Wrote “Honest Security” | flyingpenguin”

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/dhh-nazism-funded-by-1password-vp-who-wrote-honest-security/

It's certainly starting to look like much of tech is run or financed by Nazis and Nazi sympathisers. As in, out and out "will to power" fascists

This one will hurt: I love 1Password as a product. But I'm the son of a concentration camp survivor. I will not give money to companies that align themselves with nationalism, and certainly not ethnic cleansing. Completely disappointing, @1password. https://www.flyingpenguin.com/dhh-nazism-funded-by-1password-vp-who-wrote-honest-security/

“It’s not a sustainable intellectual take.”

Emily Galvin Almanza notes the contradiction: Conduct treated as sexual misconduct outside prison is normalized when guards force incarcerated women to strip and undergo searches.

Khawla Nakua reports.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/investigation-prison-abolition-invasive-humiliating-routine-violence-incarceration-women-strip-searches

After 8 years, Europe’s BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury - https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/after-8-years-europes-bepicolombo-mission-is-on-final-approach-to-mercury/ "what makes this mission really unique is that for the first time in space exploration, we are bringing two spacecraft to the vicinity of the planet, and we are going to put them in orbit around this mysterious body." #space

If you're worried about the elections-

There's actually a lot we can do keep them on track?

One of the best things you can do is sign up to be a poll worker!

They train you, AND it's paid work!

https://powerthepolls.org/creator-sarahtaber

@cygnathreadbare @tante Didn't know about this, EFF did indeed defend Kiwifarms: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police-online-speech-no-matter-how-awful-it

🤮

People are getting doxxed and murdered and EFF is more worried about their tech stack.

the AI is on the cusp of AGI except when the topic is all the moral issues around enslaving a sentient being and doubt that an AI god is even possible, then the goal was never AGI at all and you’re silly for thinking that’s still a thing

the AI is a transformative tool that creates unique output when the topic is copyright, but if you evaluate the AI’s output and find that it just blatantly copied something from its training set (Servo, SuperTuxKart, gcc, clang, there’s so many examples when you look), then the AI was never capable of transforming anything and you were silly to think it was

the AI is very good at logic, except that if you feed it a mild, original variation of a logic puzzle it fucks it up entirely in a way that instantly reveals it’s only regurgitating answers from its training data. and this is such a problem for the AI corps that they’ll scrape your variation into their training data too and make very certain the AI outputs the right answer, so it looks like they fixed the AI until you try another variation on the same puzzle.

the AI can finally spell strawberry! specifically. with a really long, weirdly angry answer. because they special cased it in the latest model, and it’s literally just outputting a rant from some anthropic asshole.

@davidgerard yeah, being a friendly face for big tech makes them bad guy PR, and I say that from being inside their sausage making machine many times and smelling the spoilage.

Morgan Mayhem (https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/19/16675704/morgan-marquis-boire-hacker-sexual-assault)

Weev (https://www.reddit.com/user/weev_is_a_nazi/)

Alex Stamos (Facebook, need I say more)

their list of horrible humans goes on and on.

I try to write up what I can but it always seems like their self-promotion is so good nobody has grasped who they really are and why it's so bad for tech. John Stewart maybe did the best takedown yet.

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-old-eff-dog-dont-hunt-cohn-of-silence-leaves-x/