Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

So, work asked for my opinions about AI again.

"I have lost all confidence in senior management since they started evangelising for this obvious scam."

"If any other supplier offered us stolen goods at a price lower than their cost we would not be allowed to buy from them. AI tools should be no different."

"Senior management have clearly missed their calling in timeshare sales and cult recruitment. The pressure to (a) use the tools and (b) provide some evidence, any evidence, that they improve productivity is relentless. It's not my job to destroy my profession, the economy, the climate and poor communities that have AI data centres inflicted on them in order to provide evidence that they may be of marginal utility in my work. If they were worth all the damage they inflict, the
results would be obvious."

I like that having an affair is career ending, but rigging the global tech economy and doing massive environmental damage is not.

Coolcoolcool.

Disability is not a moral failing or a choice.

It’s a natural part of life.

If you live long enough, you will likely experience disability.

We urgently need better access to healthcare, housing, food and social supports.

Worth should never be based on productivity.

The AI companies' control freakery now extends to prohibitions on doing totally useful things to control our own devices. They're pushing us more and more quickly toward local models (running queries on personal devices). Talk about a counterproductive business strategy... https://www.404media.co/reverse-engineer-anything-ai-companies-crack-down-on-the-coolest-thing-people-were-doing-with-ai/

What the videos show is that the police officers themselves needlessly escalated a shoplifting incident into the scenario that they claim put them at risk. https://theintercept.com/2026/10/23/kohen-wiley-body-camera-police-shooting-justification/

I don't think, in general, there *must* be suffering for revolutionary change to occur. But I do think that, in the West, we innovated the idea that the best way for a ruling class to protect itself is to build a moat of suffering between people and a better future.

Our systems cause intense and protracted waves of suffering if they're changed substantially at all. In an ostensible "democracy" this makes change untenable.

This is a strategic choice on the part of Western rulers.

#ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Autistic #Neurodivergent

Oh my god these people found me

In case it’s not clear, my answer is HELL NO

Hey. If you vibe-coded something, can you please tag your post about it appropriately so we can mute the post please? kthx

I can attest with the utmost confidence that every developer or manager or whoever that claims "all code written by AI is reviewed by a human" is a boldfaced lie.

AT BEST they have quickly skimmed it, but more likely they've not looked at it at all.

Actually reading code THAT YOU DID NOT WRITE YOURSELF takes quite a bit of time, and the one thing that people who use AI tooling care most about is just how fast it makes things.

They will not spend the time needed to actually read it.

‘But the AI is super good at updating code!’ — well, no, it isn’t

‘management started quietly asking us to write more of it ourselves again’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JA8i0Cks6Y&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261111-but-the-ai-is-super-good-at-updating-code-well-no-it-isnt - podcast

time: 6 min 03 sec

I don’t think the AI bubble will pop any time soon, but if it starts with an exec being unable to keep his dick in his pants it will say it all really. https://www.wsj.com/business/nvidia-is-preparing-to-oust-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-30f421ad

🔵 This week’s comic now up on Boing Boing:
SUPER-FUN-PAK COMIX, feat. Doug, Public Domain Mickey Mouse, Nathan Fielder, AND MORE!
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https://boingboing.net/2026/11/11/tom-the-dancing-bug-super-fun-pak-comix-feat-doug-mickey-mouse-nathan-fielder-and-more.html

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/reflect-orbital-giant-mirror-in-space

Overall good article about all the terrible things that are going to happen if Reflect Orbital actually launches mirrors into orbit. Among other things, "people should not have to be afraid to look at the stars through a telescope because of the actions of a single private enterprise."

But boy I'm really tired of journalists giving Reflect Orbital the last word. I hate this company with ever fibre of my being.

@fast_code_r_us Physical SIMs are an international physical standard. Any company can physically build infrastructure and physically manufacture SIMs to the standard. It separates interests cleanly.

eSims are database entries and I don't trust the independence of owners/operators of that database. Look at the recent kerfuffle over the .org gTLD and how US interests were able to get in and exert force. I think physical boundaries are valuable. They're clean. They allow more robust competition between participants because nobody has to collaborate on a global database in the sky.

@north

mobile-broadband-provider-info 202611 is out 🎉️: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mobile-broadband-provider-info/-/releases/20261111

I guess the growing number of contributors and changes from release to release means we're onto something with Linux based ☎️.

#LinuxMobile #linux #mobile #phosh #ModemManager #NetworkManager

Holy moly. New study shows that data centres extending the lifespan of coal plants could add nearly 2 gigatonnes of CO2-e into the future.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02794-8

And, let me show you something else @grimalkina introduced me to, a genuinely terrifying thing called Simpson's Paradox.

If you're measuring individual performance and then aggregating that data into a single number, without understanding scope and context - and making decisions based on that number - this is the name of the gun you've pointed at the foot of your company.

"Give me one number" is the tell. That is always the tell.

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/10/09/measuring-up/

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00513/full

Reading that a German city is removing more public toilets, the general rule is:

If your city has no free, public toilets, the city is the public toilet.

(Usually you will not want this.)

#Via Matthew Sheffield
@mattsheffield
1:03 PM · Nov 11, 2026

"Counting is still going, but in the Alaska Senate race, Mary Peltola now has more votes than both Dan Sullivans combined, meaning that the entire controversy (including getting him to run in the first place) was a waste of time."