Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

No wait, it's worse than you thought!

Membership [of the x402 governing body] will be comprised of participants from multiple verticals with initial intent and support being expressed by Adyen, Amazon Web Services, American Express, Ampersend.ai, Base, Circle, Cloudflare, Coinbase, Fiserv Merchant Solutions, Google, KakaoPay, Mastercard, Merit Systems, Microsoft, Polygon Labs, PPRO, Shopify, Sierra, Solana Foundation, Stripe, thirdweb, and Visa.

This is a list of people I don't want in charge of my money. And yes, I am forced to use some of them. Doesn't mean I trust them.

@AnarchoCatgirlism an entire product sector exclusively created by the people too ignorant to understand that this product sector should not exist and cannot be made to work.

RE: https://labyrinth.social/@nash/116178591588359360

you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production

Can't help but wonder if politicians in Aotearoa are pondering the wisdom of selling off all our food processing (and timber, dairy, aluminium, etc.) to foreign corporations... Given that they can 'increase shareholder value' by moving production to places where they don't have to care for pollution or workers rights, it means we lose fundamental production capabilities to the detriment of the entire population.

25% of layoffs in March were due to AI according to reasons provided by employers. Tech layoffs are also up 40% compared to the same time last year.

I suspect 2026 is the year we will start seeing meaningful job displacements due to AI exacerbated by the U.S. economy being deliberately tanked.

https://www.cfodive.com/news/ai-tied-a-quarter-us-layoffs-march/816519/

Amid the rubble in Gaza City, this year’s Eid observance was a welcome departure from last year’s, which took place under heavier Israeli bombardments and a total blockade on aid entering Gaza, leading to widespread hunger.

“We, the displaced, scattered, homeless in these devastated and desolate places which emerged after war and widespread destruction, have come here to celebrate with the Eid prayer to revive what little hope and longing remains within us,” Abu Ali al-Dahdouh told UR.

French President Macron offers blunt advice publicly to US President Trump: “You have to be serious. When you want to be serious, you don't say the opposite every day of what you said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn't talk every day.” https://www.france24.com/en/macron-says-unrealistic-open-hormuz-strait-force-urges-trump-be-serious

#TikTok pulls #Israeli ultranationalist’s account for breach of hate speech rules - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/02/tiktok-israeli-ultranationalist-account-west-bank-settlers "Dozens of videos have gone viral on TikTok and Instagram showing harassment of #Palestinians and activists"

3D Print-blocking laws hand monopolistic power to manufacturers and can criminalize open source alternatives. We need to reject these onerous restraints on creation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/print-blocking-anti-consumer-permission-print-part-1

✨ TITiPI was interviewed by Kate Rich for @FoAM circa a year ago (!) and we are happy to finally share that conversation publicly.

Instituting for TITiPI is an attempt to go against an as-a-service approach where everything should be flexible and instantaneous. Instead, we want to structure for collective generosity and exuberance at a time when too many things are on fire. So TITiPI's critique is not anti-institutional but about the need to institute otherwise. It is linked to the particular abolitionist politics we are committed to, which means we need to think about what infrastructures we need to dismantle, as much as which ones we need to build.
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Public interest should be about these modes of care, of supporting life, beyond just a basic idea of care – and we shouldn’t shy away from practical solutions either! That's the type of reimagining we're interested in: that the public interest might be that. And then how to do that is really hard!
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That reimagining happens across space-times including rebellious memories, inventive side-steps or uncomfortable prospections, so it's not only the projection of a future of linear progress, in a developmentist sense. That is one of the fundamental spell-breakings

✨ Full interview here -> https://anarchive.fo.am/silver/technology_in_the_public_interest/

My worker-owned coop is hiring! Come join us!

Palante Technology Cooperative is seeking a new technical support person to join us in our work with incredible nonprofit and community organizations. The new worker will join our tech support team, providing remote and on-site assistance to our clients in New York City. https://palantetech.coop/hiring #FediHire #job #GetFediHired

EXCLUSIVE!!! Claude Code function used to select targets to bomb leaked!

#genAI #noAI #AI #LLM #LLMs #vibeCoding #ClaudeCodeLeak

Perplexity's "Incognito Mode" is a "sham," lawsuit says
Google, Meta, and Perplexity accused of sharing millions of chats to increase ad revenue.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/perplexitys-incognito-mode-is-a-sham-lawsuit-says/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

OH: "EBITDA - Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs & Donald Announcements"

Ah. That's the reason the whole tradwife thing bothers the hell out of me.

Yes, even if you're "reclaiming" it.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/study-men-who-want-tradwives-actually

So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.

Totally trustworthy people.

#AI #Anthropic #ClaudeCode #subterfuge

While I continue to look for a new full time position, I would like to offer 1 hour tutoring sessions to help people get started with their first website.

$150 for 1 hour of one-on-one tutoring and assistance with web technologies:

- learn how to use HTML and CSS
- how to buy and set up a custom domain
- ways to get a web page online for free
- what the hell is Git and how to use it

You can book a session on my Calendly. Sessions start 4/13

https://calendly.com/arhodes-codes/tutoring

As is our tradition, the HOPE conference will be running a fundraiser for the Electronic Frontier Foundation during the month of April. For every ticket sold, 10 percent of the total price will be donated to @eff

https://www.2600.com/content/hope-fundraiser-eff-underway

When DOGE employees break the law, their names should not be secret.

In the Privacy Act lawsuit against DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management, EFF helped unseal the names of employees at the center of the violations. Read yesterday's Court opinion. https://www.eff.org/files/2026/04/01/2026-04-01_opinion_and_order_dckt_208_00.pdf