Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@JessicaAnnEng My daughter got in trouble at school for calling out a teacher for using AI to generate a poster.

It was the art teacher.

The poster was to promote a student art competition.

Recently met a tech industry friend whose team got hit by significant layoffs in the past few months. The team hired on some (lower cost?) fresh faces who were tasked to work on their code with Claude #AI. One of the new folks prompted Claude to implement some new feature, and Claude extruded a response which recommended first getting advice from one of the engineers who was laid off.

#FunnyAndSad #tech #ai #siliconValley

RE: https://sfba.social/@skykiss/117494104791735233

Elon has even more blood on his hands.

500,000+ dead children and 200,000+ dead adults isn’t enough for him.

#fuckElon

https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=title&order=asc

More than 400 people are expected to gather outside the United States embassy in London on October 31 in the latest act of mass defiance against the British government’s ban on the #PalestineAction group.

During the initial legal challenge back in 2025, it emerged that Trump and Starmer had spoken by phone twice about Palestine Action in the March of that year. Starmer had requested updates from Police Scotland on the arrests about the damage done to his precious golf course. He briefed Trump regularly and that's why we shall be outside the embassy.

On Halloween Day mass defiance and the mass arrests expected to follow will lay bare the fundamental rights to free expression. I may go for a 'hattrick'

WE SHALL WIN

you can be part of this too.

My DMs are open x x

#FreePalestine
#ISupportPalestineAction

My BSidesPDX talk from today: https://www.youtube.com/live/lvJ0_bDFUa4?t=10447

Shocking! People can't just be automated. We speak with Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan, co-authors of Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry. This snippet is from Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s latest episode “My Tech Workers Have Unionized”!

(with @emilymbender)

Some marketplaces are mass-ruined.
Ours is artisanally owned & operated by hand.

Shop Artisans: the better marketplace for handmade goods. https://shop.artisans.coop

I Did the Absolute Bare Fucking Minimum For Overall Harm Reduction and Incremental Progress Instead of Succumbing to Despair, or Worse, Apathy

The eternal struggle of trying to maintain an appropriate facial expression throughout a conversation based on heuristics and context clues and having the lag become the main problem

“Oh, no! Sudden tone shift. Abort smiling! Abort! Abort!”

https://crimethinc.com/2026/10/22/introducing-the-nspm-7-defendants-union

"The Web Is More Than Enough"

https://aboard.com/the-web-is-more-than-enough/

> I put maybe twice as much effort into building a web-based office suite as I might normally put into writing a long newsletter post.

This dude is one of the tech intelligentsia's favourite CEOs and he's basically praising vibe-coding and arguing that programming has been completely devalued. This is who your executives and managers are listening to.

More importantly, this is the dude who most "AI" centrists really adore.

“AI & Design Systems Course with Brad Frost, TJ Pitre, and Ian Frost”

https://aianddesign.systems/

> buy for $1,495

Every dev trainer and educator I know is going out of business. Software dev writers are giving up left, right, and centre. Meanwhile this trend hopping crap is charging $1500 USD. 🤷🏻‍♂️

(Following links on websites is occasionally a big mistake)

OH MY GOD

I realized why the vibecoder software can be "like a home cooked meal" bothers me so much https://bradfrost.com/links/post/an-app-can-be-a-home-cooked-meal/

IT'S THE STEAMED HAMS SKETCH

Someone says they're making you a home cooked meal and then they plop a Krusty Burger on your plate and call it a family recipe they made themselves

PHP Foundation’s budget is about 700k a year. It’s used on something like 40 million websites. Almost no company who uses it contributes anything and many people work on it for free.

The latest trend is cybersecurity and AI vendors have realised they can vampire off its security for publicity (money).

Perhaps the world would be a better place if those orgs who rely on it just contributed sponsorship to the foundation, and didn’t monetise vulnerabilities for themselves.