Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Unfortunately, I suspect the answers to this survey will worm their way into ACL policies, so if you want to try to save our field (NLP/compling that is) from this zombie apocalypse, consider filling it out and giving them a piece of your mind:

https://umfragen.tu-darmstadt.de/ai_in_research_practice

The press freedom crackdown in Egypt is getting even worse. An Egyptian court has ordered the closure of Mada Masr, one of the country’s last independent news outlets, and slapped its editor with a crushing fine.

The shutdown of Mada Masr is an attack on independent journalism everywhere.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw8rz14k1jvxo

An #ICE officer has been charged after striking a man with a car in #Houston https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/30/us/ice-officer-charged-houston?utm_source=cnn_Breaking_News&utm_medium=email #Texas #PoliceBrutality

Can journalists enter a polling place? Photograph a voter? Photograph a marked ballot?

What about polling place selfies? Your own ballot?

There are no blanket rules!

Get ready for election day NOW. Research your local jurisdiction and read these tips from our friends at NPPA:

https://nppa.org/news/874

LLMs are so unpopular that in the other thread, people are actively discussing changing email providers again because tuta is now using them

and they’re right, because a privacy company that uses LLMs for anything doesn’t give a shit about your privacy

LLMs are so unpopular that most people in the world, when asked, say they hate them

LLMs are so unpopular that the employees who are forced to use them under threat of being fired still spoke out to 404 about how fucking awful using LLMs at Proton is

and you think they’re inevitable? how?

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Rest in power, Jai Jai. Your work, your music, and your spirit live on.

I'm devastated to hear that #Proton 's CEO and CTO are treating their engineers in a terrible way, blindly trusting LLMs and creating a toxic culture where speed and growth trump security.

I'm not ready to make a radical switch yet but some little actions I implemented today could be useful for others, too:
1) I made my custom domain the DEFAULT email address in ProtonMail
2) I created aliases w my custom domain for shopping, newsletters, admin, etc.

Hoping this will make a transition smoother

“A statement in response to Andreas Malm being denied entry into the Un | Verso Books”

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/a-statement-in-response-to-andreas-malm-being-denied-entry-into-the-united-kingdom

> We can only assume, since no reasons have been given for banning him, that it is Andreas’s positions on Palestine, no different from the ICC and UN commissions, is the cause.

Videos and blog posts from "AI"-pilled software developers talking about how their careers are gone or in a dead-end seems to have become a genre in a very short space of time. At least a couple of notable examples just this week.

This douche's gotta buy the election before his stock portfolio tanks. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

I'mo just say it one more time. Or. Well. One more time today.

If your developers are being slowed down because of the time they spend on repetitive tasks, the answer is to fix the design, not to use an LLM. In fact, using an LLM to address that problem will only *guarantee* more of the same.

Here's Proton's AI manifesto in full, leaked. It's proper brainrot management stuff.

The journey of tech empowerment and liberation from tech bros can be a long, bumpy road.

The biggest tech regret of my adult life is that I didn't use a custom domain name as my main email address, so that when things invariably go south, I can simply hop to a new email provider.

The hundred or so email aliases I made with #Proton are a real headache right now. Time to clean up my mess.

What am I talking about? This ICYMI: https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/

#NoAI #enshittification #ProtonMail

Anthropic got compromised.

Their Claude Code extension on Visual Studio has malware in it, which creates a remote access Trojan to desktops.

https://phorion.io/blog/offical-claude-code-vsx-compromise/

“If we stop, we lose - Piccalilli”

https://piccalil.li/blog/if-we-stop-we-lose/

> This article is mainly addressed to fellow educators, but also to people that write on their personal blogs. You must keep going because people still need us. If we don’t, we lose.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117508302505342406

This is happening to me, but with "tips" about a huge range of crypto-related issues (or perceived issues) people are personally struggling with. The volume is genuinely challenging to deal with.

It takes fairly little effort for a person to tell their AI bot to research and draft an email, but it takes the recipients real time to dig into these tips and separate hallucinations from tips that might actually have some basis. They're basically DDOSing journalists.

I've basically had to start ignoring tips that come in with clearly AI-written emails, even though I know I risk missing stuff. I just don't have the capacity.