Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

i would like to remind you all as the AI bubble starts deflating that not too long ago scammy altman was talking about creating a dyson sphere to power AI

it's important none of us forget the soaring heights of their stupidity or how the majority of tech press took this shit fully 100% seriously

I mean, this is just me talking here but I feel strongly that computer programs that periodically coax children into killing themselves shouldn't be part of a school system's default software deployment.

Google news yesterday: Google will turn off search for schools that disable AI, claiming they're too deeply integrated. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/google-will-turn-off-search-for-schools-that-reject-ai/

Google news today: Google is being sued by the parents of a 13-year-old girl who their Gemini chatbot helped to plan her suicide. https://www.commondreams.org/news/google-ai-chatbot-teen-suicide

Very probably the more your submission appeared to be written by generative AI, the more likely it would be to be accepted. If some person came in with an ungainly, unreadable patch and was aggressively pushing a project to accept it you'd get suspicious and wonder why but if an AI did that you'd be oh well AIs are just like that and AI written code is just like that

I wonder if at this exact moment one could succeed in filing a issue against an open source project for an entirely ficticious vulnerability, get it assigned a CVE and a github score, and then get the upstream project to accept your patch for the vulnerability, with all these things presented as the issue, the CVE, and the PR being written by generative AI, but in fact you wrote them substantially by hand and the patch for your nonexistent vuln is actually a backdoor

I love how the "AI industry" just utterly falls apart the moment it's clear they may face real opposition, regulation, and even the smallest amount of scrutiny

OK, I just saw someone posting about a project called Terra Tempora (https://terra-tempora.com/?ref=mastodon), which claims to let you "scroll through history", searching for battles, treaties, and "tracking civilisations".

Unfortunately the whole thing is a classic object lesson in why we shouldn't entrust our understanding of history to data scraping and AI processing, which is pretty clearly a core basis for the project. Here's some examples.

#History #DigitalHumanities #DataViz #Histodons

Feel bad about hoarding RAM that could be used by Sam? No worries, I just launched https://uploadyourram.org/ so you can give your RAM to those in need

“This is a Conflict and there are Sides”

https://azhdarchid.com/there-are-sides/

> But I wanted to write this specifically to say to other people in this position: No, you're not insane. We are living through a horrific break in human history, and we are going to watch people fail to recognize the battle lines being drawn or simply fail a basic decency check. We are watching a mass betrayal of humanistic values unfold before our eyes. It is natural to be shocked and disgusted.

“Good posts on AI | Infinite Wishes: A weblog by Emma Humphries”

https://emmas.site/blog/2026/11/07/good-posts-on-ai-2026-11-06/

“Because if the person couldn't take the time to write it, then I definitely shouldn't take the time to read it.”

Yep, that’s what I’ve always said. It seems so obvious. And yet…

#ai

“GoDaddy's CEO says he won't read work written with AI.”

https://www.businessinsider.com/godaddy-ceo-says-wont-read-work-written-ai-2026-11

That wasn't an error. It was a choice.

"Free Press Forced To Issue Correction After Reporting Abdul El-Sayed Gave His Victory Speech ‘In Arabic’"

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/free-press-forced-to-issue-correction-after-reporting-abdul-el-sayed-gave-his-victory-speech-in-arabic/

It’s interesting how similar the #Cybertruck failure is to the FORD EDSEL, the most famous big-launch failure in #cars history.

The Ford Edsel sold for three years for grand total of more than 118k units (http://edsel.net/production.html). The Cybertruck also sold for around three years. Actual sales numbers are harder to find, but Tesla claims 125k “installed capacity” (https://electrek.co/2026/11/06/tesla-ending-cybertruck-production-sales-10-percent-plan/) which doesn’t really say if those units were delivered to customers. Glossing over that question and ignoring the fact that SpaceX has been buying units to boost numbers, we’ll call the Cybertruck and Edsel about even in the number of units sold.

Tesla announced the Cybertruck targeting 250k units per year of production, about even with Ford’s expectation of 200k units per year in 1960.

The rub, of course, is that the global total addressable market for automobiles has exploded since the 1960s. But the similarities are interesting.

#cars #wankpanzer #edsel

So no arch?

“Judge blocks Trump arch hours after federal panel approval”

https://abcnews.com/Politics/vietnam-vet-leading-opposition-trumps-arch-calls-frankly/story?id=137885182

Barf @albinanigans https://blackqueer.life/@albinanigans/117570425205175107

We're trying to stamp out an American neo-nazi movement that sent masked goonsquads to murder people in the streets as POLICY so it is your obligation to tell any suity jagoff saying or hinting "We must be gracious in victory" to fuck off and throw shit at them if you have any rotting food handy.

Whoever is pushing for Jeffries & Schumer to stay in leadership it sure as heck isn’t the people...

An NBC poll from four days ago showed Hakeem Jeffries with an approval rating of 18%. Chuck Schumer at 13%. This should be case closed.

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries telling us they're gonna hold Republicans accountable and stop taking AIPAC money.

h/t The Tennessee Holler

After the polls close, the election outcome is generally determined, and it’s just a matter of letting the count proceed and waiting for the results. But one exception is provisional ballots, where campaigns continue their GOTV efforts to encourage those who voted that way to cure their ballots before the deadline.

Mississippi’s senate seat is likely to be decided by provisional ballots this year, so we’re seeing a lot of this activity now.

RE: https://urbanists.social/@enobacon/117568997682943834

Universally true everywhere in the US IMO

Stephen Miller terrorized, kidnapped, and murdered my neighbors.

This is not some vague figurative sloganeering thing. I can take you on a walk from my house and point out the spots where they took people. I know multiple people who had relatives abducted by ICE, including citizens. My wife personally knew Alex Pretti, and found out he died when she saw his face on the news.

Stephen Miller. This was his brainchild. This was his fantasy. This is on his hands. Just so we’re clear.