Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Slop machines are the antithesis to consent.

Our information is used to build them - without our consent.

They are pushed into our lives - mostly without our consent.

People use them on each other - without consent.

Boosters, try and convince me that your favorite tech hype isn't just a violation of people's right to self-determination!
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#LLMs #StopTheSlop #Slopposition

“President Trump has his own way of calculating,” Kennedy replied. “There’s two ways of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug, and you reduce it to $10, that’s a 600% reduction.”

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/04/defending-trumprx-scam-rfk-jr-absurdly-claims-trump-has-his-own-way-of-calculating-percentages.html

The worst thing about AI right now is that I can't go to a coffee shop without having two tech bro dipshits on either side of me discussing their AI-first startups.

Their startups all seem to be having the same difficulties: the two engineers they do have are stupid, and their target customers just don't "get it." Surely the problem isn't them, their lazy-ass business plan, and their unwillingness to do more than just buy tokens.

It's exhausting.

The Jewish Labor Bund opposed Zionism not because it rejected Jewish identity but because the organization saw in it the same ethnonationalist impulse that underpinned antisemitism and destroyed Europe: http://jacobin.com/2026/04/jewish-labor-bund-crabapple-review

It's not, of course, generative AI that's deceiving people. It's the humans using AI to generate fake images and the humans who pass the fake images off as their own photos who are deceiving other humans.

Oh, turns out that the European "sovereign" payment platform intended to replace Paypal, Wero, uses AWS 🤡 🤡 🤡

#DigitalIndependence #digitalsovereignty #DigitalAutonomy #EuropeanTormentNexus #BigTech #EU #Wero

I used to know a mathematician who would buy lottery tickets despite knowing the odds of winning, because the fun and anticipation was worth the money to him.

I guess it is the same with people who know how to code, but end up wasting more time fixing an LLM's output than it would take to code the damn thing themselves. The thrill and anticipation of that intermittent reinforcement must be worth the time wasted to them.

#LLM #LLMs #AI #noAI

“We hired a junior dev to save on tokens for simple tasks”

My congressman, Brian Fitzpatrick, takes money from Peter Thiel. 🤮

This is the worst possible time for presidential records to be hidden from the public.

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A long shot, but in case anyone is based in the Bellingham, WA area:

Hello friends! Are you looking to rent out a tiny home, ADU, trailer, or spare bedroom? Perhaps you need a roommate in your convent or coven.

My lease is up and I'm looking for a place to live. Bellingham or Ferndale area preferred, but open to elsewhere in Whatcom county.

DM me if you have any leads!

Incarcerated people stopped believing they deserved soap and toilet paper when the government controlled the news they could watch, writes Jeremy Busby.

People on the outside may stop believing they deserve democracy.

https://freedom.press/issues/a-lesson-on-media-consolidation-and-censorship-from-a-texas-prison/

#World #food systems ‘pushed to the brink’ by extreme heat, #UN warns | #GlobalFoodCrisis | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/world-food-systems-extreme-heat-farming-un-report

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Agriculture #FoodSecurity

If you're catering the White House Correspondents' Dinner, don't forget to not wash your hands. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

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The Broken U.S. Press Sits Down For Cocktails And Giggles With Fascists - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/22/the-broken-u-s-press-sits-down-for-cocktails-and-giggles-with-fascists/

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A snapshot of the #ElectricityGeneration mix right now in #GreatBritain. There’s a fair bit of #Wind nationally which is producing about a third and a little more is being produced by #SolarEnergy. #FossilFuels, or #Gas, is only being required to provide an almost negligible amount, although that will have to pick up a bit at night.

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#Environment #RenewableEnergy #Renewables #UK

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts enters...
THE SHADOW DOCKET!!
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https://boingboing.net/2026/04/22/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-secret-origin-of-justice-robertss-shadow-docket.html