Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The work of refusal continues to be the most important work. https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/into-the-gap

@mathzy
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I think I'm mostly just tired of the US-centric, Tech-Bro mindset that endless growth is literally the only metric by which anything should be measured, that Mastodon not having as many active users as Twitter is a sure sign that it's dead or dying.

They give very little consideration to the quality of a thing, only to whether it's profitable, or growing, or winning. Speaking for myself, the connection with the people I've met on here is worth far, far more to me than whether it has more active users than Twitter.

To be fair, I have the privilege of my income not being tied to the popularity of a social network. But there's nothing stopping those people from finding other forms of income. Mastodon doesn't owe them a living.

I'm very, very much done with the notion of the biggest thing being the best thing. I couldn't give a tuppeny fuck if Mastodon 'wins', I'm just happy to be here, chatting amongst good people who care.

Indeed, my original notion applies to literally anyone who thinks that Mastodon is dying.

Just fuck off. Please.

Fuck off to Twitter, or Bluesky, or Threads (if Threads is still even a thing).

Fuck off and leave us to enjoy ourselves over here.

Fuck off, and take your refusal to add alt-text to photos with you.

We're perfectly happy chatting amongst ourselves. You're just pissy that people don't kiss your arse as much as they used to over there.

Oh, and you're on .social, which a huge number of servers block because that where so much of the spam comes from, so if you don't get as much interaction as you used to on Twitter, that'll be why.

Just fuck off.

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.