Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

It's the War Department, not the Good Ideas Department. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/04/06

this is much funnier when you know it's an AI pumper special pleading for the fedi to stop telling AI bros to fuck off, and who posted an AI-reprocessed Harry Potter trailer over on bsky

TIL (Today I learned) that writing websites with simple HTML and CSS is now called "post-framework". Well. I did "post-framework" even before frameworks existed and I never stopped writing that little bit of HTML and CSS needed for static pages myself. I guess I'm getting old :)

from our network:

👉 AI ABOLITION network & strategy meeting
📅 Saturday April 25 at 13:00 - 18:00
📍IT University of Copenhagen, EHK building
🎟️ Free entry, registration required

"There are many of us who object to the fascist logic of the machine, but we are fragmented and isolated. For this reason, we invite all AI critical and AI abolitionist groups/activists/individuals to come to a joint networking + strategy meeting in Copenhagen. Our aims for the meeting: get to know each other; establish a network; find points in common; and start the process of building an action together. Our aims beyond the meeting: conscientiously objecting, rejecting, resisting and dismantling AI. If you are reading this message, you're invited to come!

There will be drinks, snacks, and humans.

Please sign up here to help us organize the event: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/wuk3tQm0I5KOIXQmUG8sV4DM61oLV2oZEq3PLwI7GJM/ & if you have questions about the event, you can contact us at: abolish-ai@proton.me

Co-organized by: Emancipatory Futures Lab, Extinction Rebellion, Scientist Rebellion & more"

https://dukop.dk/en/event/9647/

#degrowth #abolition #ai #copenhagen #kobenhavn

Peter Thiel’s Antichrist lectures have been rejected by theologians and mocked by comedians,
but he still cannot stop talking about the Antichrist.

This week, the billionaire delivered his trademark four-part Antichrist lecture at a private venue within sight of the Vatican.

At the height of his power
—with his companies and allies embedded in Trump’s fascist regime and his protégé, JD Vance, a heartbeat from the presidency
—Thiel has launched a campaign to herald the Antichrist.

He is on an Antichrist world tour, having given his talks in Austin, San Francisco, England, Austria and, now, Rome.

The Vatican was in no mood to play games with the would-be prophet from Palantir.

Paolo Benanti, a priest who has advised Pope Francis and Pope Leo on AI and tech ethics, called out Thiel as a “political theologian operating at the very heart of the Silicon Valley ecosystem” and delivered a scathing rebuke of Thiel’s religious delusions:

"Thiel’s entire action can thus be read as a prolonged act of heresy against the liberal consensus:
a challenge to the very foundations of civil coexistence, which he now considers outdated."

Benanti hit Thiel where it hurts, zooming in on his persistent efforts to pervert religious ideas into justifications for greed, monopoly, and authoritarianism.

He exposes Thiel’s obsessive focus on achieving
“the pathological radicalization” of “competition, technology, the individual”
to argue against democratic society itself.

It’s clear that Benanti has done a deep study of Thiel and knows exactly what the billionaire is up to with all of this Antichrist talk.

The priest hits Thiel for weaponizing René Girard’s theory of mimetic desire
—the theory that people learn desire by imitating other people
—in a demented search for
the “perfect algorithmic implementation” of its destructive force.

Benanti points to Thiel’s early investment in Facebook as an effort to create “a device designed to amplify and monetize mimetic desire on a planetary scale.” 

He also calls out Thiel’s love for The Sovereign Individual,
a 1997 book that taught Thiel
“to view technology not only as an instrument of profit, but as a tool for managing the decline of liberal democratic institutions.”

Benanti further connects Thiel’s ideas to the TESCREAL movement
—“philosophies, championed notably by Elon Musk,
see technology as the instrument for transcending the biological and social limitations of humanity.”

TESCREAL ideologies like transhumanism and longtermism are Silicon Valley’s true religion.

Thiel’s Antichrist meditations attempt to put a Christian mask on these ideas, but Benanti argues that Thiel’s vision is structurally pagan

https://www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiels-antichrist-circus-smacked-down-in-rome/

And if you happen to live in the EU, know that you won't be saved from fascism by the EU either!

#GraduallyThenSuddenly #fascism #technofascism #EU #authoritarianism

My fellow people of the United States, if I have anything to teach from what Minneapolis just lived through, it is this:

Nobody is coming to save us.

Not Congress. Not the courts. Not the ICC or the EU or NATO. Not the generals or the rank and file. Not the press. Not the markets. Not the elections. Not some mythical version of “The People” that materializes out of nowhere as some messianic external force.

We’re it. We’re all we’ve got. If we don’t stop fascism from completely engulfing the US, then nobody stops it.

7/

Famous quotes from NASA mission comms:
- Apollo 11: "The Eagle has landed"
- Apollo 13: "Houston, we have a problem"
- Artemis 2: "We are still updating Outlook so everything but email is go"

the cloud has a silver lining?

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/iran-threatens-complete-and-utter-annihilation-of-openais-usd30b-stargate-ai-data-center-in-abu-dhabi-regime-posts-video-with-satellite-imagery-of-chatgpt-makers-premier-1gw-data-center

A CEO CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A CEO MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

The Trump regime is a criminal enterprise primarily focused on harming the powerless and the children: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/us/ice-arrests-texas-families.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YlA.9Oq7.DMBFU3IA-Ly7&smid=url-share

Fuck MrBeast and this toxic culture of endless gambling.

regular reminder that working excessively isn't beautiful or noble or commendable
it's unhealthy, harmful and a symptom of a deeply sick society

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau for April 5, 2026 | GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2026/04/05

#Humour #Cartoon

I just finished reading The Forest on the Edge of Time by Jasmin Kirkbride and it was brilliant!

A sometimes jarring and ultimately optimistic scifi/time travel/philosophical romp that I expect to reverberate in me for a long time.

#bookstodon #solarpunk

RE: https://journa.host/@NatalieDavis/116352761031799707

There's blood on the wires.

Deutsche Bahn: Your train is going from platform 7 at 21:20.
Deutsche Bahn: No, 5 min late, platform 7, 21:25.
Deutsche Bahn: No, it is going on time, platform 7, 21:20.
[A train arrives at 21:09]
Deutsche Bahn display: Do not board! Do not board! Do not board!
Deutsche Bahn app: Platform 7, 21:20.
Deutsche Bahn display: Do not board! Do not board! Do not board!
[Font size 2]: Stuttgart 21:35 from platform 8.
(It is not just across, it requires walking around because the station is a terminus.)

#travel #railway #Germany

Always wanted to go deeper with Linux? Now’s your chance with this @nostarch book bundle! You’ll also support EFF’s work when you pay what you want for this bundle 💸 https://www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-good-stuff-no-starch-books

the introduction of so-called "AI" into products whose users obviously and definitely Do Not Want It, such as ecosia or at mozilla, exemplifies the sheer soullessness of the nonprofit industrial complex. evidently the people making decisions at ecosia don't actually care about the environment, or being sustainable, or planting trees (which tbh is a very simplistic solution to a complex problem to begin with). No, to them ecosia is just a step on their career path like any other, and they're clearly more focused on being able to write "spearheaded introduction of AI at [company]" in their resume than they are on making good decisions that actually further the goals the nonprofit is ostensibly for.