Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

RE: https://social.coop/@natematias/116606979531755936

"Expecting correctness from #GenAI is like expecting #perpetualmotion from a machine. Gen AI has no concept of correctness. And even if it did, GenAI favors plausible falsehoods over unlikely truths. And unlikely truths are the heart of scientific discovery. "

#AnnasArchive Hit With $19.5m Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order - https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-hit-with-19-5m-default-judgment-and-global-domain-takedown-order/ meanwhile, #google has appropriated the Web and destroyed hyperlinks

Every front-facing explainer video looks like Wayne and Garth pretending to be cable news pundits. But not even funny.

Companies referring to people as “Lower value human capital”

Welcome to end stage capitalism

Add this term to others such as “economically inactive” & “useless eaters”

The disabled, homeless, elderly and children fall in these categories too

Worth must never be measured by productivity.

https://news.sky.com/story/standard-chartered-to-replace-lower-value-human-capital-with-ai-13545809

#fuckai #capitalism #patriarchy #ableism #eugenics #disability

Man throws giant rock at endangered seal, gets repeatedly punched in the head and arrested - https://boingboing.net/2026/05/18/man-throws-giant-rock-at-endangered-seal-gets-repeatedly-punched-in-the-head-and-arrested.html "When confronted, the man claimed he was rich and "could pay the fine,"

Solar to dominate energy by 2035, but #AI data centers will keep fossil fuels in business - https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/solar-to-dominate-energy-in-2035-but-data-centers-will-keep-fossil-fuels-in-business/ another reason to hope for a serious market correction here

@david_chisnall @atax1a I definitely think that the people who are by far the happiest with slopcode are the ones who frequently have to produce code that doesn't differ from previous code in any significant way, only in superficial ways. Obviously those situations should be eliminated through proper abstraction and reuse but something something realities of enterprise serious business industrial work something..

Actually the original Copilot with its "spicy autocomplete" interface was a lot more explicitly targeting that kind of thing!.. narrow scope (!), almost like a fuzzy search for stackoverflow snippets that get regurgitated with slight tweaks as necessary.

@atax1a To add to that:

Unless someone is actively trying to mount a supply-chain attack, they are generally trying to make their code understandable. Comments and code both reflect what they are thinking. They may not quite reflect each other, but one allows you to build a mental model of intent that you can compare against the implementation.

In contrast, LLM-generated code is designed to be statistically probable. Each statement is the statement that is most likely to follow the previous one. Yet the reason for writing new code is that the requirements are different from all of the existing code in the world in some significant way. Reviewing statistically plausible code is very hard because it is code that is created specifically to look like the code you wanted. By coincidence, it sometimes is the code you wanted. But figuring that out requires working out exactly what code you wanted, at which point it’s less effort to just write it down than play a complex game of spot the difference.

Before you worry about #AI threats, fix your security fundamentals: Most cyber breaches aren’t driven by advanced AI - they’re caused by basic failures like exposed cloud storage and poor data governance. It’s time to refocus on #cybersecurity fundamentals.

https://katecarruthers.com/ai-threats-fix-your-security-fundamentals/

the arxiv controversy is interesting because people are enthusiastically describing research & writing practices that i would've thought you'd have to drag out of them. like they don't read the papers they cite, don't want responsibility for entire sections of papers with their names on them, etc...

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RE: https://chaos.social/@thefinalstrawradio/116590394663363769

Check out this amazingly insightful and wide-ranging interview between two members of The Peoples Want and our friends at @thefinalstrawradio.

NEW: Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for evading income taxes.

It hasn’t stopped the FCC from sending him $1 million a year to sell obsolete internet service in Alaska.

The money comes from a special government subsidy program. You help pay for it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-telecom-subsidies-roger-shoffstall?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Alaska #FCC #Internet #Wifi #Telecom #Government

Apropos of nothing...don't do meth kids, it'll make you real...strange...and not in a good way.

if there is any doubt that we should move off github, let this shatter your doubt

we all need to move away asap

maybe to codeberg? it's pretty great

of course if your project is some genai bs. stay on github

codeberg should be the genai-free forge

Guess what the "i" in "iPhone" stands for?

‘Should we leave them to die?’ The battle over how to save #orangutans from the curse of #palmoil - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/may/19/should-we-leave-them-to-die-the-battle-over-how-to-save-orangutans-from-the-curse-of-palm-oil "orangutans seem particularly ill-suited to being moved. Wild orangutans have a mental map of the forest built up over many years. They know which trees are fruiting and when. "

Reading about the 600 megawatt proposed data center in Coachella, CA is mortifying.

It’s expected to raise temperatures in the vicinity by 8° to 16°F. And where’s the water going to come from?

https://thepalmspringspost.com/valley-residents-confront-officials-at-data-center-town-hall-over-unanswered-questions/