Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

(It's the delta that worries me in the code I see—the change in quality, that is. Engineers with a quarter century of experience churning out code by the bucketful that's quite a bit worse than what they used to write. So either they aren't reviewing their own code like they used to or their skills have degraded.)

bonus: since R = U/I, this means that I (current) is always equal to 2 amperes.

this textbook might kill someone

Every time I see a vibe coder say something along the lines of "if you haven't used these tools over the past five minutes, you don't know what they're capable of, because everything's different now!" I get a little bit perplexed.

You do know that we can see the output without using it ourself, right? Some of us are still reviewing pull requests and reading through code repositories, y’know?

Wednesday October 21, 2026, Joe’s Garage , Amsterdam

“Proxycafe – Rise Against Big Tech.

Door opens at 19:00. Presentation, discussion from 20:00

We are living inside a sci-fi book. Which narrative of resistance are we going to write?

In this talk we want to open a discussion, talk about the resistance to big tech.

Which kind of alternatives are we working on?”

https://joesgarage.nl/archives/19168

“Internet of/with Squirrels” :)

https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Consider_the_Squirrels.21

Oh we are talking about LLMs being conscious and whether they should get rights or not? Fuck everyone who even entertains that thought even remotely. Animal and people rights are all over the place ignored, mistreated and worse. And don’t come at me wrt whataboutism.

AI-Psychosis is too friendly at this stage.

Asking for no reason: is it an #autistic trait to be super heat sensitive/prone to worsening anxiety when hot? And as a result, to really prefer not to wear clothes while at home or otherwise in private? And also just to find most clothes restricting and uncomfortable in general? I also have some very strong preferences when it comes to fabrics, not just for clothes but for bedding, towels, and cloths as well.

This is all a bit embarassing, but I'm dying to know if I'm alone in this.

#askfedi

"I suggest the social action: shame. Shame these people. Their actions are shameful. AI bros hate being shamed and they try to make rules against shaming — because shame works.

None of these people doing shameful things deserve a place in polite company. They should be shamed for their shameful choices."

Linux kernel goes full AI slop code, hides chatbot commits – Pivot to AI
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/14/linux-kernel-goes-full-ai-slop-code-hides-chatbot-commits/

@j5v Yeah, the emerging monoculture where everybody copies tech's abusive mismanagement habits and falling into the same investment-motivated traps is one of the biggest issues we're facing. It's happening here in Iceland as well. Our unions have become more militant in response, but in many cases that has alienated them from the popular political support they used to have, which would have been the key to fixing it.

(Every left-wing party got wiped out from parliament last election here.)

True reform is for most of these tech companies to no longer exist in their current form and for them to get replaced by something healthier and more constructive. That requires political, regulatory, and economic reform.

5/5

"Fiscal responsibility" is mostly a dogwhistle for "we're gonna cut services to keep taxes low. Except the police, we'll always fund that". Fuck that.

It's very easy to get depressed by the state of politics right now, but then you see interactions like this one, and it rekindles your faith. A new generation of politicians will come forward and they will be different.

#AbduElSayed #USpol #Politics

Scholars conclude ‘beyond doubt’ that #Shakespeare was main author of Edward III - https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oct/18/scholars-conclude-beyond-doubt-that-shakespeare-was-main-author-of-edward-iii "Play anonymously published in 1596 was collaboration between Shakespeare and Christopher #Marlowe, according to computer analysis" the more, the merrier

‘Tough to watch, impossible to ignore’: reviewers on #NAZA documentary - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/16/tough-to-watch-impossible-to-ignore-what-the-reviewers-say-about-naza-documentary "Film interviewing military insiders about mass killing of civilians in #Gaza wins widespread praise around the world" #israel

Shop benefit merch for the Minnesota 15 and the Prairieland Defendants!
Shop all benefit merch here: https://www.pmpress.org/category/solidarity-merch-benefit-bandanas-shirts-and-more

@CiaraNi @snittegodskontoret this is just great! Dead Robot would like to join this campaign

https://deadrobot.cc

‘New data centres? No thanks’

A new logo for the Danish campaign against data centres. Lovely work by @snittegodskontoret - a lovely, clever counterpart to the ‘Nuclear Power? No Thanks’ logo. (Also a Danish design)

Den Smilende Sol - Den Sure Sky

The Smiling Sun - The Cross Cloud

The angry, real cloud. The water. The electricity. Nice layers to it.

www.datacenterinfo.dk/

#DataCentres

My LibSyn podcast page has been fixed to the previous non-shit version!

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/

now works on mobile

That #IndieWeb irrelevant post by StarBreaker is looking more and more apt right now. Major IndieWeb Services Now Have genAI and Claude Built-in. What Do We Do? https://brennan.day/the-indieweb-now-has-genai-and-claude-built-in-what-do-we-do/ #AI

It will never stop being ironic to me that the one place I am certain never to stumble on LLM slop is piracy websites. I use piracy websites like the best catalog ever and then I go check out media from my local library. I am sure people have tried to upload LLM slop to piracy websites, but the pirates aren't sharing it, buddy. #Piracy

I bought the domain https://whynoai.info in which I’ve cataloged the answers I usually give when people ask me “Why no AI?”, with some relevant links.

Send a link to it if someone asks you the same question!

Please send me suggestions, corrections, and comments!

#AI #AISlop #noAI