Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

🔴 Brand new Tom the Dancing Bug now up on Boing Boing
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MEET DEMENTIA DONNIE
Featuring the current Donald Trump, but in the universe in which his father bequeathed his estate to the Ku Klux Klan instead of to his son.
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https://boingboing.net/2026/03/11/tom-the-dancing-bug-meet-dementia-donnie.html

The dumbest people, the dumbest war, the dumbest weapons ... so far. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Dismantle oppressive systems. Yes, all of them. Yes, even that one.

"This policy change is illegal," said Ginger Quintero-McCall, a public interest lawyer who represents FPF.

"It would not surprise me at all to learn that the administration reassigned employees who objected to this illegal policy of secrecy."

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-privacy-threshold-analysis-foia/

@_elena @kawunngg Thank you!

The sentence that inspired most of my humble resistance, was the one I read by the author of Nepenthes:

“I’m just fed up, and you know what? Let’s fight back, even if it’s not successful. Be indigestible. Grow spikes.”

(src: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/ )

@nixCraft I already said & saying again. AI making humans lazy and dumb. So #StopAI #NoAi

I made a more in-depth post about OpenSCAD: https://manchicken.com/2026/03/10/3-openscad/

I might be having too much fun with this program; don't tell the Feds.

Dear Fedi friends,

I'd like to put together a list of people who are publicly resisting / calling out LLMs and AI slop.

Why? I enjoy reading my Fediverse feed in topical lists and I need something to counteract the unrelenting AI hype I see in the media.

Do you have any recommendations?

So far, at the top of my list I have:

@timnitGebru @emilymbender and @alexhanna of @DAIR

plus @cwebber @jaredwhite and @tante

Anyone else to recommend who advocates for #NoAI?

When you post things on Instagram, Facebook, and X, this is what they look like to people who don’t use those platforms. @vicfroh https://mastodon.social/@vicfroh/116172585169719449

Some of my favorite cartoons from @cartoonmovement this week, by Luc Vernimmen, Naser Jafari, Milko Dalla Battista and Alaa Allagto. For a lot more cartoons, head over to https://www.cartoonmovement.com/

#CartoonMovement #PoliticalCartoons #PoliticalSatire

All I feel when someone mentions "Claude" or similar so-called "models", is utter revulsion.

some time ago i (half) joked that the only job #llm can replace outright is the CEO.

today i attended an earnings call where a synthetised voice of our CEO read multi-page long table of numbers from an official financial document, according to a script prepared by claude, over a single slide titled "company earnings 2025" - to a room full of employees who commuted to the office to watch it in person. there was no management present or even shown on the screen.

it was the most disturbed dystopian fucking thing i've experienced in my career of working for soul-crushing corporations.

Trickle-down society. Cartoon for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

#economy #TrickleDown #inequality #poverty

English speakers of the fedi. In a software with the interface in English, Reading a menu with verbs such as Save, Open, Close, Edit, Format etc., do you read them as imperative (an order: "do this") or as an infinitive (the "base form" of the verb, like "to do this")?

Are you a native speaker or have English as a second language?

#Dev #ux #ui #software #interface #translation #uiux #uxui #gui

Is legal the same as legitimate: #AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate #licensing #copyright

Hi everyone,

If you are using hastags with multiple words, please use camel case.

#LikeThisExample

Not #likethisexample

Why?

A) Screen readers will see a bunch of letters that doesn't make one word and read out each individual letter. Which makes it hard to understand.

B) For us signed people, it is also easier to read.

Thanks you

#TheForkiverse

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, exhibit 64,549:

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/trumps-properties-remain-an-epicenter-of-his-conflicts-and-corruption-in-second-term/

Big Journalism has done sporadic coverage of the beyond-epic corruption in Trump world. But occasional stories don't begin to show the breadth and depth of the sleaze. They could learn from this independent piece.

Cool! Just tested my personal Mailcow installation against this tool: https://emailspooftest.com - so far so good - it's blocking the spoofed emails as it's meant to!

Back in the bad-old-days (2009-11?) when MS Internet Explorer was mostly gone, but a few companies with laggard user bases insisted on supporting it, staff at my company, Egressive, *hated* working on any compatibility stuff because it felt like a waste of resources. Eventually, we instituted double-time 'hazard pay' for staff subjected to the indignity, and we charged 2x for IE-related compatibility work. Customers paid it, too.

Mastodon has a new human-over-AI contribution policy.

tl;dr:

- The human contributor is the sole party responsible for the contribution.

- If AI was used to generate a significant portion of your contribution (i.e. beyond simple autocomplete), we require you to disclose it in the Pull Request description.

- If you cannot guarantee the provenance and legal safety of the AI-generated code, do not submit it.

- Cases of repeated violations of these ... guidelines could result in a ban from our repositories.

https://github.com/mastodon/.github/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md

#AI #Mastodon #fedimeta