Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

One of my favorite student proofs was written by a student who was just learning to speak English. He'd get frustrated with long explanations and just switch to equations or diagrams and write "it is like this:"

Then demonstrate his point.

He could have run the final draft through and LLM and it would add some pointless sentences to pad out the proof so it was less terse and more like every other proof ever written.

It would have been worse.

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#UK #Politics #Environment #GlobalWarming #ClinateChange

your attitude toward the currently proliferating "AI" technologies (as you define it) is mostly...

please boost to include others.
comments open for context and perspective sharing.

@miss_rodent yes, to be clear I am extremely angry at the social construction of the “support agent” role in this case, not at all angry at the actual human being whose interactions with me are mediated by 10 layers of baffling and dysfunctional automations

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This is such a great story! An employee at a rural electric co-op recognized a need for childcare among their membership, and so the electric co-op helped organize a cooperative solution!
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it’s really weird to see people post about Apple not betting on AI as Apple rushes the release of the ear cameras that can only feed photos into an LLM, right after Apple started a fight with the EU over the API they designed that lets an LLM access all the data on your device

Switching from Flock to another ALPR provider or other police surveillance technology isn't a fix, EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told @NPR. "You're just replacing one color of camera for another. Those dangers you were concerned about are still going to be there." https://www.npr.org/2026/08/22/nx-s1-5931446/flock-fallout-competitors-see-opportunity

This is pretty much where I sit on AI today. Christopher Newfield always gets the context right IMO. https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/05/liner-note-53-ai-and-public-good.html

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- Research and science has been dismantled or pushed abroad. This is going to tank innovation
- Education is increasingly outsourced to LLMs/ed tech as well

What's going to be left?

It's not entirely clear what the future US economy is supposed to be doing other than buy stuff with debt

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In the late 90s/early 2000s the US deindustrialised by outsourcing manufacturing

The bargain was basically "you make the stuff, we provide design, research, services, software, and financial markets"

Now they seem to be "de-servicing" as well:

- US films and TV are being shot abroad
- Software dev and related are being outsourced to LLMs and the shift from US models to cheaper non-US ones seems certain
- Finance is all-in on "AI" while tariffs and trade wars destroy its fundamentals

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How to live in the age of AI - Gautami Reddy

Full episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/episodes/19667703-rumors-of-a-singularity-have-been-grossly-exaggerated-2026-08-03

No need to worry about food poisoning when you're brain poisoned. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/08/24

The Declaration of Independence was written in a small room by a few property-owning white men.

A different vision of democracy is now taking shape in community spaces and on the streets, where working people are demanding a real share of governing power.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/cogovernance-american-democracy-250

"Ooh kudzu is soOoOoOOo scary!" is kinda like fearmongering about Burmese pythons in Florida.

Don't get me wrong, the pythons are definitely there & they're a problem.

But also, at the same time, most of them DO get eaten before reaching maturity. By the alligators that already live there.

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It's a 3-way melee between Smilax (native with thorns), Wisteria, & honeysuckle

Honorable mentions to Virginia creeper (native), wild grape (native), & English ivy

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