Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

‘The toll is huge’: El Niño-driven wildfires overwhelm Indonesia’s orangutan population - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/01/el-nino-orangutans-indonesia-wildlife-destruction-aoe

Erase social media tomorrow? Brits say yes - https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/10/01/erase-social-media-tomorrow-brits-say-yes/5300109 "Just 7 percent of Brits think social media is a force for good and around one in three suspect that life would get better if all these sites were erased from the internet tomorrow. "

Revealed: factory farm pollution is costing the UK £130m a year - https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-10-01/revealed-factory-farm-pollution-is-costing-the-uk-130m-a-year time to make them pay these negative externalities

The AI Pascal’s Wager

Should you accept contributions generated by LLMs in your Open Source project?

https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html

This is very bad news. Owncast has relied on this program the past couple of years, and has allowed us to have servers and services we wouldn't normally afford to be able to do otherwise, especially now with Gabe being unemployed.

Any other cloud hosting providers want to step in and help all the open source projects that are going to be in this position?

Additionally, this might be a good time to show your financial support for Owncast.

https://fedifunding.org/projects/owncast/

“The AI Pascal’s Wager”

https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html

> On the other hand, if you refuse AI-generated contributions to your project right now, the worst very hypothetical regret you could ever have is "I should probably have done it sooner".

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RE: https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@littlefedi_official/01a0f644-8ed6-7a7d-ade6-46f4c0a74f41

littleFedi is out!

#littleFedi #Fediverse

“I'm truly just blown away by how little impact AI has had in our field, even when it comes to pure diagnostics.

My hospital employs a limited number of "models" for basic tasks like pulmonary nodule detection, and even then they suck to such a point that I stopped using them early on in my residency.

Beyond that, I have never heard of anything remotely approaching the point of analyzing CT, MR, US, PET, or catheter angiography accurately and producing a complete report.

The technology is not just in "early stages"...it's plainly nonexistent. And the "cutting edge" research that I review ain't exactly making much progress (it's usually for much more banal bullshit, like fixing reporting errors, and triaging critical findings...which is all well and good, but only modestly impactful in the setting of a true clinical workflow).”

more->

RE: https://mastodon.online/@sarahtaber/117362300150466466

i was not prepared for the order of magnitude of money being made in the modern agricultural slave trade in the u.s.

i was also not prepared for the fact that there is basically no penalty for committing enslavement.

Farm workers really, really, really need you to vote.

Farm slavery is a very real multi-million business in this country.

And Trump struck down major anti-slavery rules for farms last year.

"Both parties are the same" Ok... Not for farm workers, they're not!

So we’re doing this short STATUS SYMBOL autumn ttip and I’m really excited!!!!

Oct 14th - V. Skerninge at Strafbar
Oct 15th - Bremen at Kultur Bunker
Oct 16th - Am*dam at Vrankrijk
Oct 17th - Groningen at Vera
Oct 18th - Hamburg - TBA

Come say hi…

https://ktownhardcorefest.bandcamp.com/track/no-way-back

#statussymbol_hc #ktownhardcore

Meshtastic and MeshCore are both full of corpo slop. 😢

https://slopscan.ava.pet/repo/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub%2Ecom%2Fmeshtastic%2Fmeshtastic/master

https://slopscan.ava.pet/repo/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub%2Ecom%2Fmeshcore%2Ddev%2FMeshCore/main

‘Beyond priceless’: how a halt to dredging saved the seas of Scotland’s Summer Isles - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/30/beyond-priceless-how-a-halt-to-dredging-saved-the-seas-of-scotlands-summer-isles good to see; now ban dredging everywhere

"After numerous street actions, including two separate hunger strikes and sit-ins, New York City home care workers fighting to end round-the-clock shifts and institutionalized wage theft in the industry will return to City Hall on Oct. 3 to continue the struggle.

"They are expected to have allies, too, a growing community of fellow New Yorkers who’s integrity and sense of justice precludes them from turning a blind eye to the 24-hour workday just because it mainly impacts immigrant women of color.

[...]

"Celebrated scholar and feminist activist Silvia Federici was among the participants. Much of the discussion focused around City Council Speaker Julie Menin and how she is using her platform “not to uplift women,” but “do the opposite”—and “devalue care.” "

https://www.work-bites.com/view-all/federici

“Blunt instruments of critique | Riccardo Mori”

https://morrick.me/archives/10424

> I don’t have a nuanced position on ‘AI’. This phenomenon, this ‘AI’ craze does not deserve nuance. The measured approach, the weighing of both sides of the argument, is pointless in my view. Not only that. I think it actively plays in favour of the ‘AI’ techbros and their constant lies and overinflated narratives.

Kind of amazed at all of the people who say "AI" made them better systems-thinkers when none of their analysis includes the models they rely on, let alone the cos that build them, or the finance that enables it all

The whole point of "systems-thinking" is that the system is larger than the object.

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@AberdeenLocal1312/117330348121863005

@AberdeenLocal1312 can you please make https://github.com/ash-xytcc/sabotmedia public again (the source code for the website)?

it seems like the guide is llm generated based on the source. many people are asking for clarification of this in the thread below

we can have a lot of opinions about what this means but imho people should at least know if it was generated or not

can you please be more transparent about this?