Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@inthehands
I've been liberal all my adult life, and distressed about mistreatment of immigrants for decades. But I'm a shy introvert who was too timid to go beyond writing politely complaining letters now and then. Minneapolis radicalized me and energized me, and now there's no going back. (Your posts from ground zero played a large part in that emboldening process.) I think for many of us, Minneapolis was the match that started the fire that powered this movement. We saw how you all stood your ground, peaceful yet utterly determined, so how could we not follow?

@mhoye Trying a variation of the old MS "Internet Explorer is deeply integrated with Windows" line eh.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/117570708482660527

A thing want to mention about Google's claim that “Search and AI are deeply integrated,” - hello there, Chris Phillips, vice president for education at Google - is that it's a bald-faced lie, and you can see that lie in action via a different service Google offers: Alerts.

Go to https://www.google.com/alerts and type in something. Watch in amazement as search results come back with not a single reference to Gemini in sight.

Remember what happened when Joe Biden was elected: We “defeated” Trump, but Dems did not go on the offensive to dismantle his corrupt institutions and replace them with robust ones, or aggressively pursue high-ranking criminals to put them in prison. Instead, they wanted a return to the comfortable status quo, where corporate money flowed and everybody went back to their old ways. The result was a Trump recovery and victory.

We cannot make that same mistake again.

Prosecute criminals, demand justice, dismantle bad institutions, and create a BETTER system. Refuse to go back to the way things were, where creatures like Donald Trump and Elon Musk were allowed to flourish.

https://humancode.us/2025/01/20/biden-didnt-even-try

Here are some drawings I found in my notebook from 2020, when my daughter was 12. We would write down the names of animals on pieces of paper and put them in a jar, and then pull out two names and draw a mashup of the two animals.

It was lots of fun. I'm not sure if my daughter has kept hers (they were great). Here are three of mine.

There's Tamandua ⨉ Octopus, Blobfish ⨉ cow, and wombat ⨉ armadillo.

If you've got young ones in the house, it's a great way to learn animals and have fun drawing.

#animals #drawing #art #mashup

Just wrote this up elsewhere... But this is what I think the US congress needs to achieve without delay, post inauguration:
1. kill Citizens' United with fire - the US (like NZ) needs a full campaign financing reset.

1/n

the Software Freedom Conservancy is fully and utterly an AI slop promotion org now

https://web.archive.org/web/20261106174553/https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/nov/05/foss-in-the-age-of-llm-gen-ai-assisted-reverse-eng/

lol

“Trump installs Stephen Miller as White House chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen-miller-trump-chief-of-staff-susie-wiles/

The legacy of Bernie Sanders’ presidential runs was on full display in Democrats’ titanic midterm election results. The message from voters is clear: deliver on economic populism.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/midterms-election-democrats-bernie-sanders-democratic-socialism

"made with love"

looks inside

claude code

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/117570361301630036

Fuck the #cybertruck and fuck the ugly menace that’s the #cybercab. I will 100% judge you as a chud and/or a dumbass if you use the latter.

And I’ll throw in a #fuckWaymo in there for free too.

#cars

Mehdi Hasan: “You know what I think the Democrats should do? First, get rid of the filibuster in the Senate. Making Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico states and adding four Senators should be priorities. Fixing the Supreme Court that was totally rigged by Donald Trump. You’re up against a fascist authoritarian movement. You must use every lever of power available to you to fight back.

I live in the U S A and I've never had a Muslim try to force me to follow Sharia law.

But I've had Christians spend my entire life trying to make their Bible my problem.

@mayintoronto
The bots suck compared to descriptions written by the poster (or a friend, in the case of AltText4You). Bots don't know what to emphasize, what details matter, why the joke is funny, or anything.

And it just sucks to be told that including me is so uninteresting to someone that they'd rather let AI do it. Nice to know how little I matter.

The tweet that crashed NASDAQ and AI stocks in the US and Asia. Lmao. I say bring on aggressive regulations for this AI bullshit. The first step must be forcing them to prove they obtained explicit permission for every single word, video, code and image they stole from others. We need to claw back every single penny from Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and the rest who stole data to train their shitty AI. They were so happy to see job losses & acting like brats. Fuck all of them

Some of the #permacomputing wiki people made a data centre family portrait on this day dedicated to #stopdirtydatacentres
BASTA DE CENTROS DE DATOS
MORATORIUM NOW!!!!!!

We wrote last week about the need to reform the Espionage Act by passing the Daniel Ellsberg Press Freedom and Whistleblower Protection Act.

This should be a slam dunk for the new Congress. Both parties have abused and been harmed by this archaic censorship law.

https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-comey-espionage-act-politicized-prosecution

Art and punk rock have never been mere mirrors reflecting the state of the world—they can also be active forces capable of reshaping politics, culture, and community from the ground up. Register Here: https://events.haymarketbooks.org/checkout/view-event/id/9254107/chk/92f45ebe4d34b9cb1b7edad63bde4871/

"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. But it's not this world, and it's not this type of general-purpose AI we are racing to develop. Racing to deploy agentic AI in society as it is now and in this historical moment is a terrible idea, and will definitely be a net evil.

Technology is NOT a neutral tool. This assessment assumes we can separate technology from the context it's deployed into, but we should not: we have a responsibility to assess the tool in the context in which it's going to be used. It also assumes we can separate the technology from who owns it, builds it, controls it, and benefits from it."

The full letter:

https://stay-human.sofialiguori.com/

Some additional context and reporting:

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