Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

From today's FTM newsletter:
https://www.ftm.eu/newsletters/less-red-tape-more-pesticides-bee-careful-what-you-simplify

Data privacy. Today's cartoon by Gatis Sluka. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/

#data #privacy #ArtificialIntelligence

Constantly, when I read articles on the NY Times website (Firefox in Android), the site pops up annoying "upgrade" offers and demands that I use the app. Is there any way to remove these vandalisms permanently?

Fielding questions re: this article w/bizarre factual errors. First, there's no "Montecito County" in CA. Second, 2 fires are actually in *Monterey,* & 3rd in *Mendocino*. Third, 60k ac have *not* burned in either fictional Montecito nor real Mendocino.🤨 https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-12/three-montecito-county-fires-burn-60-000-acres

“AI hypervigilance is now an omnipresent cognitive load for your users”

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ai-hypervigilance-is-now-an-omnipresent-cognitive-load-for-your-users

> AI may make your job easier, but that effort has just been shifted onto your users. They are noticing it and they hate it.

RE: https://dresden.network/@DresdnerForschungswerk/117263581784181821

Translation:
Now @sabrinkmann into the vastness of the Fediverse with alternatives for e-commerce. For example, I hadn’t heard of #Valueflow before—it’s the foundation for federated marketplaces, as Flomarkt has already implemented.
Samuel then introduces Menuverse, which lets you build federated cafeteria menus that you can follow—for example, via Mastodon.
The Economiverse then brings the store and the marketplace together.
There’s still a lot to work on, but these are exciting prospects for gradually becoming independent from Amazon, Etsy, and the like.

What's an influencer?

If you really think that AI running out of control is a dangerous possibility, then make tech company CEOs legally liable for illegal actions taken by their company's agents.

sorry but this is extremely funny

Listen, I know it's hard for us "average" folks to stop rich people like Elon Musk from doing horrible things, but one very easy thing we can do is stop using his services that help support hatred. Get the fuck off of X. It's not a difficult thing to do. There are zero excuses.

https://truthout.org/articles/elon-musk-spends-100-million-on-anti-trans-ads-targeting-dems-in-midterm-races/

“Abdicati | blarg”

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2026/09/12/abdicati/

> I can’t begin tell you how tired I am of people anthropomorphizing AI in a way that lets OpenAI and its employees straight up confess to committing crimes on stage, in front of an audience full of people who should absolutely know better who are all just nodding along, applauding their own humiliation.

Eat your meat, hogs. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/9/11/800096875/cartoon/white-house-mystery-meats/

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Robert Paxton lays out 5 stages of fascism.

DHH's "Omarchy Doctrine" completes Stage 1.

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/dhh-omarchy-doctrine-fascism-stage-one-by-definition/

Twitter is TESCREAL social media (for obvious reasons), which helps me see their talking points

1. Anyone pushing "stochastic parrots framing" shouldn't be taken seriously.

2. People "denying" the machine god narrative, like me, are akin to anti-vaxxers & climate deniers.

These are things they're saying to the left politicians they've captured, like Bernie Sanders who's being advised on "AI" by eugenicist doomsday cult leaders.

I wish we really were in a simulation like this people say 🙄

"To me, Rocketship exemplified the ways in which […] these technologies and associated practices served to reinforce regimes of surveillance and control, utterly dehumanizing students as it datafied them."
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/click-here-to-comply/

Part of the problem, I think, is that some otherwise well-meaning people genuinely don't know how to distinguish between engagement and control when it comes to dealing with children, in part because they don't fully recognize the humanity of children.

When these dudes were in university, Black people and women were driven out of computer science programs.

When these same dudes were software engineers, running hiring committees, Black engineers and women suddenly couldn't get hired, despite being all over the early industry.

When these same dudes became Venture Capitalists, Black people and women couldn't raise any money or get on any boards, even though Black women disproportionately start small businesses.

Now that these dudes are centi-billionaires, they're open and vocal about their explicitly ethnic cleansing policy positions, and get alt-right presidents elected, and end DEI, and roll back civil rights, and say that giving women the right to vote was a mistake, and talk about white birth rates.

And I have to read nonsense from journalists saying that the extreme money turned them fash?🤡

No.

You turned fash into extremely wealthy people. By being asleep at the wheel while the worst people on earth amassed untouchable levels of wealth.

It's been obvious for a few years that the AI industry is building a great big
financial bomb made of recycled debt, but I'm sort of amazed at just *how* big the bomb is.

Even if AI was *all that* technically - which it isn't - the financial bomb will *still* go off.

At this point the questions should all be: when, not if, it goes off - what happens next?

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau for September 13, 2026 | GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2026/09/13

#Humour #Cartoon

Good morning Fedi friends!

Yesterday was such an incredible, energizing day of presentations at Berlin #FediDay. And very intense!

I simply wanted to give a shout-out to the people doing incredible things on the Fediverse, whose stories I shared in my presentation:

💙 @aral and @gazaverified
💚 @stefano and @admin + @littlefedi_official
💛 @jonassmith and @smk
❤️ Christine, @imacrea and @cercle

You all give me so much hope 💜