Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Evolution seems to work well as a replacement for Thunderbird calendar.

I blogged about recovering Thunderbird data: https://www.brainonfire.net/blog/2026/10/27/recovering-thunderbird-data-loss/

It may actually have just been a busted cache, even though I was using local calendars, as the data in local.sqlite actually seems to be complete?! But it would have sucked to lose something, so I'm glad I went through this exercise anyhow.

A 28-Year-Old #DOGE Operative Gutted #USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working There - https://www.wired.com/story/a-28-year-old-doge-operative-gutted-usaid-hr-had-no-record-of-him-working-there/ “If Lewin didn’t even fill out the papers and was not authorized to take these actions, then he could be exposed to personal liability,” sue him now.

Are you hungry? Is your appetite for pizza higher than your aversion to bullshit?

On Thursday evening in Heidelberg you can eat pizza for a small price of listening to "effective altruists", yes, that doomsday sex cult, talk about how "AI" could totally kill us all, but not by "AI" companies exacerbating climate change, or a fool with nuclear codes trusting a chatbot, no no, by becoming sentient and deciding to exterminate humans 😱

Register here:
https://luma.com/ps3wshex

Register any person in need of a hot meal you might know. Advertise free pizza to any unhoused person you encounter. Make their "altruism" effective for a change!

#AI #noAI #technofascism

LibreOffice is now a project that uses chatbot code then tells people who call them out that slop is "not slop"

so much for the "no AI" babble

https://web.archive.org/web/20261026230500/https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/117214068793979843

Waiting 10 years to charge Comey with espionage says everything. The Espionage Act is so poorly written that it’s just a blank check to go after political rivals and whistleblowers.

The abuse won’t end until the law is reformed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/us/politics/james-comey-charges-doj.html

Books to Bewitch You
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There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.

An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/

The Ultrawealthy Produce More Carbon Pollution Than Nearly Half of Humanity
https://time.com/article/2026/10/27/carbon-emissions-ultra-rich-oxfam-report/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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It might be appropriate to call voluntary AI users scabs. Stop feeding the machine dismantling our own labor! There isn't some basic income program. No utopia. Quality hasn't improved. Communities aren't healthier. The world isn't getting smarter.

Instead we have crumbling communities, loss of skill, a terrible job market, lack of trust with almost every interaction online, massive creative theft, and a dying planet. Yeah, these people are scabs.

I work for and with rich people because they pay me lots to rent my brain. I have learned some things:
1. "Rich" is normally some combination of time, talent, luck, and fear. Luck is always one of the components. Rarely do my clients credit luck.
2. It does not take much money (relative) to become insulated from most consequences of daily life. That insulation rapidly severs people from people who work for a living.
3. People who inherit their wealth are contemptible. So are a lot of people who have worked for their money, but trust fund babies (who I am in the business of creating) have a strong tendency to be entitled, imperious, incompetent shits.
4. I'm really smart and really good at what I do. This is absolutely not a prerequisite for becoming rich and can even be counter-productive. Many of the people I work with are not particularly smart or talented, and that doesn't matter if you find a good racket and can sock away the money.
5. Back to people who inherit their money: as someone who will inherit basically a steak dinner and a heightened risk of Alzheimer's, I know nobody is coming to save me. I save as much as I can understanding that it may be a fool's errand. I resent people who have the luxury of knowing they cannot die from poverty because one day a mountain of dough is going to fall on them.
6. The estate tax should apply to as many people as possible and it should be confiscatory. Without it, we end up with these neo-feudalist enclaves of the corpulent rich, the grandchildren of ruthless/fortunate/gifted men, check-cashers who live off exploitation alone.
7. We do not need rich people.

Sorry, I'm in a mood. Endrant.

@hypha what’s worse is the original photo was just fine. https://eldritch.cafe/@ml/117508212048558879

“Don't think | deadSimpleTech”

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/dont-think

> It's a show trial of thought: pre-determined conclusions, pre-determined axioms and premises, and all that's left for our thought leader to do is to apply the package to whatever particular issue they're curious about and do just enough casuistry to make everything hold together.

Hey fedi friends, how do we feel about open plan offices? (We’re talking, not even much in the way of partitions between desks.)
Please boost for reach?

@psistarpsiii I think I'd have to find a new job.

SpaceX Whines About Space Collisions After Gutting Regulators That Oversee That Sort Of Thing - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/26/spacex-whines-about-space-collisions-after-gutting-regulators-that-oversee-that-sort-of-thing/

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The term 'rando' is an homage to Ayn Rand, the patron saint of reply guys.