Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@accessnow wins for “Fostering Change in Human Rights and Technology.” For years, they’ve worked hard to be the team companies and lawmakers can't ignore when tech policy and human rights collide. https://www.accessnow.org/ (2/6)

That "oh so powerful AGI everyone is developing that could kill us all" works on electricity. Just cut its power supply.

(Yes, another "I resigned from Anthropic today" is scaremongering on the hellsite.)

#AI #noAI #genAI #technofascism #BigTech #doomerism

If you really love CSS and want to get involved with an open source operating system—and more specifically app framework—that doesn’t use AI and really pisses off white supremacist homophobes, I would love your help!

https://github.com/elementary/granite

So, correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like node.js effectively ended up merging the vibe-coding vfs implementation that caused all the drama a few months ago? Just in a different set of pull requests that were still 14k lines long?

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/63115
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/63537

Versus the original:

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61478

NOAA is putting commercial fishing ahead of conservation - https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/noaa-is-putting-commercial-fishing-ahead-of-conservation/ #trump the destroyer

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“I’m tired of art that doesn’t trust its audience, and I’m concerned that the few remaining gatekeepers seem determined we can’t and shouldn’t be trusted.” https://theantiquarian.email/archive/how-to-tell-a-story/

Announcing TRUMP YOU! A curated comic book compiling Trumpcentric Tom the Dancing Bugs, bitterly signed by Ruben Bolling (i.e., me).
https://tomthedancingbug.com/tom-the-dancing-bug-store/#trump-you-comic-book

By 2021, U.S. spending on post-9/11 foreign and domestic militarization had reached $21 trillion. Sarah Lazare examined what those resources could have done to address climate change.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/climate-change-floods-war-on-terror-crisis-china

Red or blue, states across the country have adopted anti-SLAPP laws because they recognize that free speech deserves strong protection. North Dakota should too.

An anti-SLAPP law would keep North Dakota from becoming a magnet for frivolous lawsuits aimed at silencing speech.

https://kfgo.com/2026/09/08/free-speech-protection-bill-headed-to-north-dakota-legislature-next-year/

In 2025, Rebecca Burns reported on Seattle’s Vienna-inspired social housing plan: publicly owned buildings where low- and middle-income neighbors live together, higher rents subsidize lower ones and tenants help govern.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/social-housing-seattle-landlords-real-estate

So this means they're going to release the Palestine Action protesters, right? Right?!?

"Britain’s package of measures was announced on Tuesday in Parliament by Ed Miliband, who became foreign secretary in July. It represents the clearest shift in British foreign policy since Andy Burnham became prime minister that month.

“Today marks the beginning of a new approach,” Mr. Miliband told lawmakers. He said that the British government “agrees that there is ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in areas of the West Bank — perpetrated by settler terrorists.” All too often, he added, “the Israeli government has turned a blind eye to this and worse.” "

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/09/iran-war-iran-hits-us-bases-and-targets-vessels-after-tanker-strikes-pushing-oil-over-100-a-barrel-ansar-allah-saudi-conflict-intensifies-uk-leads-12-nations-west-bank-settlement-sanctions.html

RE: https://mas.to/@markwyner/117239941694616193

Imagine the shit people may think of something if "without it" is the bst possible marketing move.

Whoa. @libreoffice unleashes “no AI as a feature” and breaks download records.

“In one week, the installer was downloaded more than 1 million times — not counting updates via Linux distribution repositories.”

Great work, LibreOffice team! 👏🏻

https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai

#LibreOffice #FOSS #AI #Software #NoAIAsAFeature

This is why I love photo journalism.

#photography #PhotoJournal #AliceWeidel #Germany #AfD

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/117239484057326836

This stuff is really starting to make me _angry_. Every one of these new "achievements" looks plausible and like Lucy with the football, people I trust keep telling me it actually works and surely this time it's real. And then like clockwork, 3-6 months later, it turns out that the efficacy of this new technique is somewhere between "break even" and "fraud".

They're turning our whole industry, my entire life's work, into a goddamn memecoin pump and dump scam and I just don't know what to do.

@0xabad1dea Just before they did the ‘security’ stuff, someone sent me a ‘comprehensive code review’ of one of my projects. Most of the performance things were lifted directly from open issues I’d written, but one that it flagged as high importance was an intentional design decision.

It pointed out that one operation does a broadcast cache invalidation that invalidates all caches, rather than the subset that it actually needs to. The recommendation was to switch to having fine-grained cache state tracking. The problem is, that actually made cache accesses more expensive on the most performance-critical path in the system. Cache invalidations happened less than once every million accesses in typical programs, so this was an incredibly unusual case and optimising for it hurt performance everywhere else.

But, because it didn’t actually understand the code or the context, it saw a pattern that was slow and matched it to a high-severity warning.

I would expect it to do exactly the same thing with security reports. Memory-safety bug in a code path that can be reached only via trusted data? Highest severity!

Project Glasswing:

Claiming to have found 26 thousand real vulnerabilities but only 0.8% of them have resulted in a real fix in a real project after five months is dire. They blame it on the human independent review bottleneck, but human experts being paid for their time definitely have a higher throughput than that when working with data that’s actually actionable.

The assigned-at-Claude severity ratings are also dire. It assigns “high” or “critical” to 91% of findings. Most findings in the real world are low or medium. This should be especially true when using a magic machine to shake out every last little issue that was overlooked by humans focused on the biggest risks.

Together this implies it’s generating thousands of trivial or nonsensical findings and labeling them HIGH DANGER CRITICAL MUST FIX, and the human independent verifiers are sifting for the rare needle in this haystack worth passing on. This isn’t really an improvement over the high-noise automated scanners we already had

(This is a corporate blog of someone with their own vulnerability management services to sell, so apply an appropriate number of grains of salt to their analysis. Filter keywords: AI LLM Anthropic)

https://www.vulncheck.com/blog/anthropic-glasswing-receipts

These tools are NOT designed to be safe and there are oceans of evidence that they're incredibly risky to use. (for starters, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots). I care about you! You should care about yourself! You are not Built Different and neither am I, in fact if anything my psychological profile is especially vulnerable to such things and that's why I am extra careful and somewhat squicked out by them!

“ongoing by Tim Bray · Canceling Emily”

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/09/08/Emily-Got-Canceled

> The wastrels in Washington can reach across the ocean and silence a Canadian creator on an Italian website. With no prior legal process, nor any way to resist, and without fear of consequences.