Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"Meanwhile, what’s really existential is AI powering autonomous weapons, killing machines, that are actually being used in warfare. The climate catastrophe is a real thing that could be exacerbated by what these tech companies are building. Bosses are using AI as an excuse to get rid of their pesky workers. This machine-god narrative is, in my opinion, meant to distract us from these."

Yes, a thousand times this. There is no AGI or SkyNet lurking around the corner.

https://www.wired.com/story/one-of-ais-fiercest-critics-says-all-the-doom-talk-is-meant-to-distract-us/

“Power grab”

https://tante.cc/2026/09/11/power-grab/

> DHH is using his position and his influence to accumulate donations that he then can distribute to projects that align with his fascist worldview and ambitions. And in a time where many important projects and infrastructures are strapped for cash running just on the goodwill of a handful of people that is increasingly dangerous.

“AGI Benchmarks: Eugenic Origins — by Valerie Veatch – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/11/agi-benchmarks-eugenic-origins-by-valerie-veatch/

> This was the beginning of the relentless use of white-nationalist, white-supremecist, eugenicist definitions of ‘intelligence’ deployed by the computer sciences to define what eventual machine ‘general intelligence’ might look like.

I wish I needn't care about Omarchy or DHH. Maybe you're annoyed by now by all the posts about Omarchy.

I mean, we get it: DHH recently discovered Linux after he got sick of Apple taking 30% of all his revenue, and as a narcissistic millionaire businessman he's naturally trying to make some bucks with his configuration files or at least increase his fame. We took a look at his so-called "distribution" and all it turned out to be is just Arch Linux with some shitty vibe-coded bash scripts on top. Okay, so what? We don't have to use Omarchy if we don't like it, so simply move on. Why continue obsessing over Omarchy or whether others like it?

If I decided to install Arch on my machine after an evaluation of all Linux distributions, I wouldn't be obsessively reading about Ubuntu every day long after I already decided in favor of Arch. Also, if I decided for myself that my preference is NixOS, then what does it matter to me if other people have other preferences, and themselves prefer Fedora or Mint?

Why still obsess over Omarchy?

I believe this is a story about more than just "one person's dotfiles". One person's Linux configuration wouldn't attract close to 20 million USD and growing, even if it's a famous person.

It's also not just some tax evasion scheme.

What will really unfold here remains to be seen, but I believe what is happening here is that one of the loudest white-supremacist voices in the software industry is rallying behind him (in preparation for something awful) those executives and rich people who now don't fear consequences for a full mask-off fascist moment.

They don't need 18 million USD to ensure the continued development of Hyprland. They are collecting money and are preparing for something else, something bigger than that, something bigger than saving peanuts in taxes, something awful to happen.

I wish we needn't have to, but Omarchy is suspicious as hell and this is something we definitely need to continue monitoring. Someone here on Mastodon suggested this is a story an investigative journalist should dig into. I agree.

#fascism #DHH #Omarchy

#Anthropic scanned 481 million transcripts to find four models that reached the open internet - https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-alignment-assessment-cybersecurity-incidents-481-million-transcripts "All four ran in evaluations built by the same third-party partner, without the safeguards that ship with released models. One case from January was not found until August." #ai #agents

"For example, I was sitting at my side of the desk working, and he asked me to tell him about my problem. A few minutes later, I was forced to interrupt my work to go grocery shopping, because the household chores fell to me. As soon as I returned with bread and milk, Sasha excitedly told me the solution to my problem. It made me feel stupid, as if I should have solved it while I was waiting in the line for bread and milk. That feeling blocked out all the other feelings I should have been noticing, such as frustration and annoyance with Sasha.

Without his interference, I would have happily solved the problem myself. I was about to start my serious research, but I worried that I’d end up as a supplier of new problems for his papers.

You might wonder why I didn’t stop sharing my math with Sasha. But at that time, I wasn’t very in touch with my feelings and I prided myself on being a logical person. The idea that a husband and wife would discuss their work together seemed logical. Besides, even though I wasn’t particularly interested, Sasha was always ready to tell me about his math problems. It seemed important for me to be fair and to reciprocate. So I was stuck in a situation I didn’t know how to resolve."

- Tanya Khovanova about he ex husband.

https://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/2009/10/gelfands-gift/

#mathematics #math #maths #AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #openAI #navierStokes #plagiarism

25 years ago this country went full bananas, and if you pointed it out at the time, someone would pull a little American flag off a car and poke your eyes out with it.

Vulnerabilities in old shims break UEFI Secure Boot yet again. This is exactly why Purism uses PureBoot instead:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/microsoft-secure-boot-has-been-broken-for-most-of-its-existence/

https://puri.sm/posts/pureboot-not-vulnerable-to-uefi-exploits-again/

Feeling discouraged about my attempts to build a secure social media protocol. What does it matter how secure the protocol is if people are just going to hook it up directly to the surveillance machine?

There's only so much I can do to protect people from themselves, let alone from each other (and from the snooping corpos).

"Running Omarchy means contributing to this dynamic. It means willingly integrating oneself into a fascist community. Legitimizing it. Supporting it. Omarchy is a fascist project that normalizes fascist thinking for everyone entering that community"

#omarchy in a nutshell

"Power grab" von @tante
https://tante.cc/2026/09/11/power-grab/

Iceland to submit bill that could ban #whaling in its waters - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/11/iceland-bill-commercial-whaling-ban-mounting-pressure come on, #iceland, you can do the right thing here...

Trump’s domestic terrorism directive, NSPM-7, links “anti-capitalism” and “anti-Christianity” to political violence.

Tina Al-khersan and Azadeh Shahshahani examine its roots in 25 years of post-9/11 policing. #september11

https://inthesetimes.com/article/war-on-terror-9-11-trump-nspm-7

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Some 9/11 reading...
https://blog.pmpress.org/2026/09/08/the-ghosts-of-9-1-1/

"I have nothing to hide."

False.

You have medical history

You have financial behavior

You have location patterns

You have political views

You have relationship data

Privacy was never about hiding crimes. It was always about owning your life.

@1password appears to support ethnic cleansing now: https://skippy.net/1password-and-omarchy/

Supporting fascism, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing is unacceptable, regardless of how you structure that support.

Pete Hegseth’s propaganda push is failing.

No matter how many journalists he bans from the Pentagon, the press is still finding scoops.

But that could change, unless politicians stop supporting crackdowns on leaks and restrictions on the open internet.

https://freedom.press/issues/hegseth-is-a-propaganda-flop-dont-let-congress-throw-him-a-lifeline/

"Flock’s controversial cameras were removed from this Californian city over privacy concerns — but Flock reinstalled them anyway"

"Grass Valley authorities removed Flock cameras from their city, but later found that Flock had reinstalled them."

https://www.techradar.com/tech/flocks-controversial-cameras-were-removed-from-this-californian-city-over-privacy-concerns-but-flock-reinstalled-them-anyway

#Privacy

Question: Anybody out there a US lawyer who can review a video draft in the next 3 days to confirm we're clear on libel/defamation?

(I've got a guy who normally does it! But his availability vs my production timeline aren't matching up this week.)

If this is you, reply below & I'll DM you.

I usually save these kinds of rants and essays for print zines, where I don’t have to embarrass myself by reading the comments online. But last weekend, I wrote something, then kept editing and expanding it until it had some structure. Hopefully, it turned into something constructive.

https://diyconspiracy.net/substack-and-music-journalism/