Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

My former boss was fired in August after evidence of abusive behavior toward her staff. We are still looking for a long term hire to replace her, but I have been elevated to an administrator position in the meantime.

Seriously, she was so soul sucking, I have PTSD nightmares. She did damage to my mental and digestive health. It is one of the reasons I’m in therapy.

Anyway, when I moved into my new office, I noticed a shoebox. Last spring, she had ordered herself a $350 pair of custom Nikes with the corporate colors. These were the shoes. They fit. My temporary boss said I could have them. I wore them home and then to therapy, which turned into a lovely walk along the river.

Not only am I literally filling my former boss’s shoes, I LITERALLY walked a mile in them.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117100404790375036

on this #VeteransDay #ArmisticeDay i share with you my baby brother’s last dying wish:

❝ DON'T LET OUR KIDS JOIN ❞

and by join, he meant the US military.

he wasn't even in combat. he was part of the munitions and cleanup crews, exposed to deadly toxins AFTER the war. he died of what his oncologists called OPERATION DESERT STORM CANCERS. not one, not two but different systemic cancers that are still, slowly killing those veterans.

Frank was my Puerto Rican twin.

may he rest in power.

quiet now, Anthropic, the adults are talking.

https://www.vulncheck.com/blog/anthropic-glasswing-november-update

In the 70’s and 80’s the bosses fought to avoid paying tech workers overtime. Don’t forget that: tech work has always been the factory floor.

Register Here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/events/840-art-is-a-weapon-ian-mackaye-and-mark-andersen-on-punk-rock-politics-activism-and-aging

#getfedihired #remote

Yeah the place I work for is going out of business in a couple weeks.

I have 5+ years experience in IT support at an MSP. Most experience is in 365/Azure troubleshooting and administration, MFA, account recovery, tracking down intrusions, etc. Some experience with networking, but more Unifi than Cisco if you get my drift. I can do a little Powershell/Bash/Python scripting. Some experience with Hyper-v type virtualization. Can handle high volume and HIPAA compliance, but I would prefer to actually solve problems than follow a script.

I'm in US Central time (utc-6). Prefer remote, but I can move if you give me some time to save money to get to your I'm assuming higher cost of living city.

This key finding from the study should be pinned on the walls of our home offices:

> 31% reported pressure for lower fees and 27% for faster turnaround.

Pretty sure that, if you did a similar survey of freelance software developers, the percentages would be even higher than illustrators are reporting.

This also provides a working example of how infinite supply of mediocre works distorts the market for everybody in it, which software developers seem to have a hard time understanding. Or think that their industry is somehow exempt from basic microeconomics.

This survey on "AI" and illustration from the Association of Illustrators makes for grim reading

https://theaoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/2026-AI-Survey-Analysis.pdf (PDF!)

> A year ago, almost a third of illustrators told the AOI they had already lost work because a client chose generative AI instead.
>
> This year, that figure is 46%.

Via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I6eztzifK0 who apparently found it via https://www.thebookseller.com/news/rise-in-number-of-illustrators-losing-work-to-genai-survey-finds

Just a reminder to those people using AIs (local or not) that unless you are purely training on your own data, any benefit you receive is paid for by other people without their consent, and that's only one of the harms.

We are excited to report the recent launch of Black Onions, a new site listing anarchist and anti-authoritarian onion websites.

Onion websites are a great tool against surveillance and censorship! They do not use the State-controlled domain name system, and they allow anonymizing the location of a website's server, equivalent to how Tor Browser anonymizes your location when you visit the website.

Visit Black Onions at any of the following addresses:
- https://blackonions.gd
- https://blackonions.li
- https://blackonions.st

Follow @blackonions to learn about new and updated onion addresses.

The Company That Published Fake Journalists in Sports Illustrated is Collapsing Dramatically After Massive AI Rebrand

*ahem* lol

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/company-fake-journalists-sports-illustrated-collapsing-ai

#AI has made it ‘close to impossible’ to assess university #coursework, regulator says - https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/nov/11/ai-close-to-impossible-assess-university-coursework-regulator "Office for Students says institutions in England should return to traditional exams and in-person presentations" it's inevitable

Schumer and Jeffries are chums ... for orcas. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/11/10

I'm an anti Gen AI whistleblower, and it would take you less than 60 seconds to help me...

New video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX42P1tim0A

Blog with all of my evidence:
https://medium.com/@kim_crawley/i-am-an-anti-gen-ai-whistleblower-and-it-would-take-you-less-than-60-seconds-to-help-me-24b986529abd

My Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/how-i-became-the-hacker-who-you-hate

Please share!

#NoAI

@GossiTheDog @brennan

The AI itself needs to be resisted, and, hopefully (in its current form) destroyed. But the AI isn't what got our field to this point, where the oppressive clutter of Computer Stuff is so pervasive and so exhausting that we would be willing to do anything, even surrender our own ability to *think*, just to be rid of it, just to be able to address the actual problem at hand. There is a crisis of tool complexity that we just *need* to find a way to address.

Woman in Saudi Arabia sentenced to 100 lashes for giving birth outside marriage - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/nov/11/woman-in-saudi-arabia-sentenced-to-100-lashes-for-giving-birth-outside-marriage what a barbaric country

If you want people to work for you, make your company a nice place to work at

#anticapitalism #EatTheRich #FeedThePoor #activism #workers #labour #WorkersRights #LabourRights