Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

New from 404 Media: Meta announced Muse, its AI agent that can book restaurants for you. We've seen internal Meta messages showing Meta is actually testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers. In those tests its not AI, it's just a person
https://www.404media.co/meta-tests-muse-ai-agent-calls-that-are-actually-made-by-humans-in-a-call-center/

We’ve officially reached the point where hearing your spouse’s voice on the phone isn’t enough proof that it’s actually them.
That sounds ridiculous until you realize voice-cloning scams are already here.
Have a code word. Call the person back directly. Verify before sending money, giving card information, or doing anything else.
We used to tell people not to trust random emails.
Now apparently we have to tell them not to automatically trust familiar voices either.

RE: https://journa.host/@fulelo/117318943608527144

maybe they should have embraced #EVs instead of fighting them at every turn...

really serves them right.

@GossiTheDog

Elsevier’s site was replaced by ransomware? How could anyone tell?

the people that are enthusiastically for generative AI often turn out to be nazis, homophobes, misogynist, anti-muslim and anti-semitic...
the people that are categorically against AI, are often women and/or queer, POC, jewish and so on...

regardless of your politics, if you are enthusiastically for generative AI, you need to understand this fact. because even if you know you're not a nazi, when you come into our communities and start negging us about AI and not taking 'no' for an answer, you sound just like one.

ask yourself: why do your priorities align more with the nazis, then the people they are trying to exterminate?
then ask yourself: who is in control of AI? who benefits of you renting it?

“It is important that terms such as ‘remigration’ do not become normalized without people understanding what right-wing extremists mean by them,” they wrote. “In this context, it refers to the forced removal of groups of people because extremists believe they do not belong here.”

https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/22/dutch-intelligence-service-warns-far-right-extremists-normalizing-ideas

as an anarchist we don't really see institution-building as a particularly great theory of change

it might have something to do with having wound up at odds with organizations we created, you know? that bit of personal history might make the seemingly abstract concern feel a lot more concrete to us. just speculation

but to whatever extent you do end up building institutions anyway (and there are reasons to, even so), remember that preventing Nazi takeover is mandatory. you must have a strategy for that.

Portland, OR's public transit system is facing budget shortfalls and cuts. Help us keep our weird city moving: https://c.org/zKyX4MtszC

Latest reminder that you should assume the following about any statement from Trump's ICE/DHS goons claiming to exonerate the regime of bad acts: They're probably lying.

https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/dabury-ice-school-bus-arrest-cnn-murphy-22414500.php

Taking away people’s healthcare: bad. Taking it away before an election: politically stupid. Thinking that saying “FRAUD” will fool people: something you only do if your brain is totally Fox-addled. IOW, a perfect encapsulation of Team Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/09/22/trump-officials-plan-cut-hundreds-thousands-aca-claiming-fraud/

All corruption, all the time in Trump world: "World Liberty’s Crypto Ties Enriched Trump as Investors Lost Out" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-22/trump-crypto-venture-world-liberty-made-big-money-as-plans-fell-short?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc5MDEyMjkxNSwiZXhwIjoxNzkwNzI3NzE1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUTDQ1QUNWVFREMUkwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBQjUxRjdCOUYxODk0NjBCOEE2RDU3NUM5QUQzOUUzQyJ9.qXk4LCDo8jcpXqrAh9aTEgmhwnYZEffLztVWJdhc_qc

It was obviously a scam from the start -- and just one element in what is by far the most corrupt presidency in American history.

Groceries, housing and utilities topped both groups’ priorities in the Class Gaps Poll. Among working-class respondents, 10 of the top 12 priorities concerned costs, wages or jobs. Mindy Isser looks at what the findings mean for progressive politics. https://inthesetimes.com/article/working-class-politics-left-election-midterms-college

"The existential risk to humanity from AI, it's stupid people." - @davidgerard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfvH8vHoMX4

#noAI #AI #LLM #LLMs #vibeDefence

I have owned a #Librem5 for almost 5 years. Every year it has gotten a little bit better in terms of funtionality. It is now at the level of really quite excellent. Not perfect, but a real, useable, fun, freedom-respecting device. #linuxmobile

"Big nor'eastah comin'." has been added to the local chit-chat.

153M drivers' licenses collected for ID verification are being sold on the dark web. Fight data collection!

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/

It's been a minute, but I am switching roles and have already switched location. In the new year, I will be creating my own co-op consultancy to help build worker co-ops in the land of Haymarket Square

Candidates are winning support by disavowing Big Tech, criticizing AI and promising to stop data center growth, Stephanie Jordan and Mary Armas write.

They point to Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan primary victory.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/big-tech-artificial-intelligence-ai-data-center-protests

(Legal backstory: county GOP leadership has filed a complaint that Irene broke a technicality, & thus needs to be fired.

Irene did not, in fact, do any of that.

The only reason this has worked so far is the NC state board of elections is GOP-dominated. So partisan attacks get a pass there.

So she's bringing the legal battle to court. That will force the local GOP to bring their case into the open & that the accusations are bogus.)