Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

they are going to slop up your favorite niche thing for attention and validation.

you have to say no.

You can buy the RAID manual either as a two-volume edition, or as two copies in smaller size (perfect for redundancy)

Tourism banner in Helsinki, Finland.

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/117567174281074323

My favourite interview is this week Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, saying he was surprised by the data centre and AI backlash.

My man, you’ve had people publicly saying AI will remove jobs, risks destabilising the economy, and has a decent chance of ending civilisation.

These things may be executive-level porn - but many executives are psychopaths. Most people aren’t.

If you're hate-sharing Erick Erickson's NYT op-ed, you have to love-share this. Them's the rules. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

"I no longer believe that our technology will have a net positive impact on society. I think there’s a fantasy world where AI can help decarbonise grids, cut waste, protect ecosystems, and benefit humanity,” she wrote in her publicly posted resignation letter.

“But it’s not this world, and it’s not this type of general-purpose AI we are racing to develop.”
Sofia Liguori, Google whistle-blower

#Google #AI #Israel

https://www.opendemocracy.net/nice-face-of-the-devil-google-whistleblower-on-ai-gaza-and-breaking-nda/

Data centre developers shocked that nobody likes them

lol eat shit

https://www.ft.com/content/32fd4450-5880-437d-9bd9-df13289ada24
archive https://archive.ph/cZsU6

Never forget that the answer when the stock market crashes completely is to literally take all the rich people's money and use it to protect the poor and vulnerable.

That's it. That's the answer.

And when some snide fucks tell you that it's "impossible", remember that money and markets and stocks and all that is *100% made up*. The vast majority of it isn't even remotely related to *anything* but whether or not the hedge fund managers got a hando the night before.

It's not *real*.

When autistic people struggle to understand others, it's seen as our deficit. When others struggle to understand us, that's seen as our deficit too.

But... communication goes both ways!

🤔

(Slide credit to Chris Bonnello, at AutisticNotWeird)

#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #DoubleEmpathy #Neurodiversity

Lol, this is an amazing story. A Canadian firm says it's going to use AI to extract more fossil fuels which can then be used to power AI

https://www.desmog.com/2026/11/04/ai-needed-to-produce-more-gas-to-power-more-ai-tech-firm-cohere-says/

"In a world where all of our compute is in massive distant opaque datacenters, where a tiny cartel of gigantic tech companies control nearly the whole supply chain, one of the few things that you still can have agency over is your own server on the Internet."

(Article title: Why You Should Care About The Political Project of Twisted)

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/11/the-project-of-twisted.html

@FootInMouth @cstross no because the RAM and disk you want isn't scarce because the AI companies are hoarding those literal products, it's scarce because it *never got built* because the AI companies are hoarding the production pipeline. I'll be surprised if component prices are back to pre-2023 affordability within a *year* let alone weeks.

🤷‍♂️ I Am Not A Developer Or An Accessibility Specialist. Hire me?

https://heydonworks.com/article/i-am-not-an-accessibility-specialist-hire-me/

Text onputs and other animals:

“The worst conceivable solution to a problem that never existed in the first place”

https://youtu.be/he8wuV880Fc?si=6u5PFW_MDaOTgv6z

News: Calls to Replace Jeffries and Schumer Explode After Democratic Win | The New Republic

Calls for Representative Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Chuck Schumer to step down from their leadership positions are growing... coming from inside and outside of Congress—cite a lack of vision, an unwillingness to go after Trump, the continued acceptance of corporate PAC money, and an extreme deference to the Israeli government.

https://newrepublic.com/post/217644/calls-replace-jeffries-schumer-explode-democratic-wins

Please send me a few artists on Mastodon to follow. Boost for reach. Thanks.

Of all the things that 4 years in #psychoanalysis taught me, the most valuable one was to embrace otherness. Not simply to tolerate it, but to welcome it, to invite it in, to be inspired and excited by it. To allow the other to be entirely other. Not to try to find commonalities, or imagine it less alien to me.
No. To love it for its difference. It's impossible difference. To recognize that of all the things life has to offer, this differentness is by far the richest experience of all. /1

Jessica Killin will be the first woman, first Democrat, and first pro-choice Representative from Colorado Springs since Focus on the Family was founded there in 1977.

Just in time for their 50th anniversary!! 😇🫢

#CoPol #Midterms #UsPol

#ScottColom was to be nominated #Federal #Judge in 2022. He was blocked. By #Mississippi #Republican #Senator #CindyHydeSmith. Her reason: #Colom allegedly supported #trans students in girls' and women's #sports

So he ran for Senator

If he wins, he will be the first #Black Senator from Mississippi since #Reconstruction (1875!). #MS is 37% black, highest % of black residents of any #USA state

Now look at this #vote tally so far

And tell me your vote doesn't matter

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-elections/mississippi-senate-results