Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

RE: https://mastodon.online/@tomstafford/117517506699981465

important point

RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/117516108521286107

I stopped working on control systems back in my early/mid 20's when BAe/Rolls Royce couldn't promise the code I wrote wouldn't be used to test weapons.

I totally get the desire to work on cool shit but Boston Dynamics was always going to sell more systems to repress people than do search and rescue missions just look at the design of their robots. They are offensive tools.

So a #Tesla semi spontaneously burst into flames this afternoon and shut down a major highway in #Hayward #sfba #california until tomorrow.

“The CHP said at 7:45 p.m. that the fire was expected to burn for between 15 and 18 hours and that the southbound lanes of I-880 would remain closed until it was out.”

https://abc7news.com/post/tesla-semi-truck-bursts-flames-shuts-down-880-hayward/19988258/

anyway i just found this community of AI abstainers called humancrafted through the referrers to my no AI notice, in case that's up anyone's alley: https://humancrafted.discourse.group/

@drahardja Standard American response, no? It’s fine building things that hurt people if you don’t have to see them. If you can other them. Now it’s ICE and it’s on our streets.

This is how Facebook employees have always slept at night.

@drahardja Maybe the museum of science and the public library can do some kids' events about electric shock gloves next

I’m sorry, but what did these #BostonDynamics employees think they were working on? Animatronic performers for Chuck E. Cheese?

These robots are obviously weapons. They’ve always been obviously weapons. It’s always been pretty clear that it’s only a matter of time until the military deploys them. And US law enforcement too, because they are basically paramilitary forces now.

Boston Dynamics took money from DARPA to develop their humanoid platforms. DARPA sponsored a series of humanoid robot competitions. Do these folks think they’re doing it for pure science? Everyone in the game has always known DARPA is trying to make remote-controlled or autonomous robo-soldiers, and these companies are spending money on prototypes because they want to sell them. I don’t know how it could have been more clear.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/boston-dynamics-employees-want-to-block-sale-of-robot-dogs-to-ice/

@emma @be Indeed I was afraid of this to happen when the GR got discussed. There were many people whom I highly respect (and still highly respect) who were convinced that there were indeed roughly 3 choices: "no LLMs", "maybe LLMs" and "always LLMs". Unfortunately, those who said that the "maybe LLMs" choice was the same as the "always LLM" choice seem to be receiving evidence that they might've been right all along and in fact there were only 2 choices... @cwebber

Here's the thing I can say to younger queer folks now in case they don't know this: before the internet they told us there were ZERO others like us. ZERO. They told each and every single one of us that we were wrong and alone and didn't have stories that deserved to be told in fact had stories that could not be told at any cost.

So when they say there aren't *enough* of us now to defend our rights, to stand up for basic human rights, when they say we're too few to consider, too fringe, too little too vulnerable, too outside to consider? They're lying again, still and always.

They want queer people to feel like we're alone when we really, really, really fucking ARE and HAVE BEEN and WILL ALWAYS be here and if you feel alone because everyone around you says you are, remember they lie.

Evolution seems to work well as a replacement for Thunderbird calendar.

I blogged about recovering Thunderbird data: https://www.brainonfire.net/blog/2026/10/27/recovering-thunderbird-data-loss/

It may actually have just been a busted cache, even though I was using local calendars, as the data in local.sqlite actually seems to be complete?! But it would have sucked to lose something, so I'm glad I went through this exercise anyhow.

A 28-Year-Old #DOGE Operative Gutted #USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working There - https://www.wired.com/story/a-28-year-old-doge-operative-gutted-usaid-hr-had-no-record-of-him-working-there/ “If Lewin didn’t even fill out the papers and was not authorized to take these actions, then he could be exposed to personal liability,” sue him now.

Are you hungry? Is your appetite for pizza higher than your aversion to bullshit?

On Thursday evening in Heidelberg you can eat pizza for a small price of listening to "effective altruists", yes, that doomsday sex cult, talk about how "AI" could totally kill us all, but not by "AI" companies exacerbating climate change, or a fool with nuclear codes trusting a chatbot, no no, by becoming sentient and deciding to exterminate humans 😱

Register here:
https://luma.com/ps3wshex

Register any person in need of a hot meal you might know. Advertise free pizza to any unhoused person you encounter. Make their "altruism" effective for a change!

#AI #noAI #technofascism

LibreOffice is now a project that uses chatbot code then tells people who call them out that slop is "not slop"

so much for the "no AI" babble

https://web.archive.org/web/20261026230500/https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/117214068793979843

Waiting 10 years to charge Comey with espionage says everything. The Espionage Act is so poorly written that it’s just a blank check to go after political rivals and whistleblowers.

The abuse won’t end until the law is reformed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/us/politics/james-comey-charges-doj.html

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There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.

An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/

The Ultrawealthy Produce More Carbon Pollution Than Nearly Half of Humanity
https://time.com/article/2026/10/27/carbon-emissions-ultra-rich-oxfam-report/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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It might be appropriate to call voluntary AI users scabs. Stop feeding the machine dismantling our own labor! There isn't some basic income program. No utopia. Quality hasn't improved. Communities aren't healthier. The world isn't getting smarter.

Instead we have crumbling communities, loss of skill, a terrible job market, lack of trust with almost every interaction online, massive creative theft, and a dying planet. Yeah, these people are scabs.