Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

- Tesla Q1 profits down •71%• YoY
- Earnings per share of $0.27 lower than analyst expectations of $0.41
- Without carbon credits, company would have posted an operating loss

Bad as all that sounds for Tesla, keep in mind that this company regularly publishes falsified data. It hacked its odometers to push customers out of warranty. It wildly exagerrated Cybertruck orders. It almost certainly published fraudulent sales figures in Canada to get in on an expiring gov benefit.

I’m assuming this dismal quarterly earning report isn’t reality, but is the rosiest lie they could manage to sell to investors. The reality is probably even worse.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-sounds-extremely-depressed-after-tesla-profits-plunge-71-2000593013
#TeslaTakedown

Truly my greatest professional joy is that, not only did we get to build a tool to help people stop AI bots from scraping up their work without consent, I was able to have our in-house artist create a SLOP sign to mark the spot where the bots expire.

If you are a non-profit or open source project that does good internet stuff, we’ll protect you for free. If not, then you can pay us money and we will hook you up. Either way, good tools to put you in control over the bots. https://www.fastly.com/blog/take-back-control-make-ai-bots-play-by-your-rules

Republican economics has been insane since before I was born. Anyone pretending they're good at it just wants tax cuts for the rich. https://brianmcfadden.org/2025/04/14/republican-economic-innovations/

We are thrilled to announce the fourth member-owner of Limeleaf! Read all about it at https://limeleaf.coop/blog/welcome-mubs-to-limeleaf/. #coops

“Our time at work is not really part of our lives. It is dead time controlled by our bosses and managers.” Get 40% off of @prole.info's Abolish Work and all labor titles thru 5/1 with code STRIKE at checkout. Shop the sale here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=50&sortby=num_sold:desc

When the government guts worker protections, we all pay the price. Eliminating TSA unions is a move that endangers both workers and travelers. Read the full blog from PM author Jenny Brown and @labornotes here: https://blog.pmpress.org/2025/03/28/trump-tries-to-blow-up-airport-screeners-union/
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For everyone who is justifying using LLMs and other GenAI BS, these are your fellow-travelers. These are the people you are following right over a cliff.

https://blog.dshr.org/2025/04/going-out-with-bang.html

absolutely deranged

[AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers]

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/ai-energy-demand-can-keep-fossil-fuels-alive-tech-backers-promise-worlds-two-biggest-oil-producers.html

Sanctioned #Russian and #Belarusian wood being #smuggled into UK, study suggests - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/23/russia-belarus-sanctions-wood-smuggling-uk-illegal-imports-laundering-certification-fsc-pefc-research-aoe "‘Chemical fingerprint’ shows 46% of wood samples certified as sustainable did not come from labelled country of origin"

Design tool appreciation day. Thank you Maxmiliano, Felix, Zander, Bilal and everyone caring and helping us whiny designer folks out. Thank you, you are amazing!

https://tools.design.gnome.org/

#gnome #design #apps

Gov't officials mustn't use Signal to evade public records rules. "If you decide to have your communications...in a way that is not trackable or retrievable in response to a FOIA request, what you are doing is circumventing the law," @evacide told @axios. https://www.axios.com/2025/04/22/signalgate-encryption-trump-administration-downloads

I drew this three weeks ago, but this guy sucking shit is an evergreen topic. https://brianmcfadden.org/2025/04/05/elon-musks-suck-cess-seminar/

How AI, like a virus, is infecting and corrupting scientific research papers.

https://theconversation.com/a-weird-phrase-is-plaguing-scientific-papers-and-we-traced-it-back-to-a-glitch-in-ai-training-data-254463

"The rise of AI creates opportunities for errors to become permanently embedded in our knowledge systems, through processes no single actor controls. This presents challenges for tech companies, researchers, and publishers alike."

Conservative economist is a fake job for otherwise unemployable dummies. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/4/11/2315873/-Cartoon-Republican-economic-innovations

"Great news, Americans! Thanks to your god-emperor and his loyal billionaire sidekick, your Freedom Milk, is now fortified with listeria and brain parasites!" - https://boingboing.net/2025/04/22/got-contamination-fda-skips-milk-safety-tests-after-elon-fires-20000-health-and-human-services-employees.html another reason not to visit #murica: the poor quality, untested milk

The underlying premise is that the state is the default mode of social existence—that is, to explain how humans can achieve anything cooperatively, we must first make reference either to the state or its absence.

What I would like people to be able to do is to think about questions of community, cooperation, and sociality entirely on their own terms, without a default and automatic reference to the state.

Hi @steveediger
The link is https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy-conference-2025/

I'll be sharing some stories about using Sociocracy (without calling it so) in design, tech and innovation teams.

Hope is useful to someone. :)

Best...

@SociocracyForAll