Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

How are y'all handling coworkers who post slop?

Several of our contractors have made rather voluminous wiki pages that are heavily redundant and over-explanatory. So far my approach has been to just... quietly not read them, and pretend the pages don't exist. (If I need information that the page is supposed to have, I just ask the contractor to explain in Slack or a meeting.) It's bad for the company in a bunch of different ways, but the company is all-in on AI and doesn't want to hear dissent, so there's no way to address this systemically. (And I'm not invested in the company's long-term health.)

One coworker posts AI outputs sometimes, but is a bit more discerning, and we have a good enough relationship that I've been able to explain that hey, I'm not reading that, but you're free to tell me anything you learned *after* you verify it.

I'm curious to hear how others are handling it.

Heard they're working on a data center that's cooled by the diarrhea of the people it poisoned.

Are you a huge piece of shit? Did you participate in a coup? You may be entitled ... to decent people's tax dollars. https://www.patreon.com/posts/insurrectionist-158898436

RE: https://wandering.shop/@katfeete/116614462444516402

Yep same. I came up as a farm worker. Now I'm spending most of my working hours on the farm running it myself, and the farm is small. On land that I don't own. It's rented.

So I'm about as close to the legendary "small peasant farmer" as it gets.

And I can tell you the ONLY reason I can do it at all is I made it to the middle class & am no longer broke.

There's money & energy left over after paying the basic bills to... what? PUT IN THE INVESTMENT & TIME IT TAKES TO SET UP A FARM

An historic UN Climate Resolution passes making nation states legally responsible to protect people from harms caused by climate pollution.

The usual suspects opposed of course, just 8 of them, with 141 in favour. 28 abstained.

While not legally binding (and decades late) the resolution can become an important tool in litigation as at least now it is named, written up in international law at the highest level.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/21/un-vote-support-icj-world-court-climate-change-opinion

#climate

Google's (baffling) plans to turn search into ad-polluted AI won't make Google Search all that much worse than it is now.

I use Kagi, which uses Google API, and others, to create a search that actually works well, and recommend it. I also fear Google will kill it.

https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-marketing-live-search-ads/

them: Wow. This person who keeps making videos abt how most small family farmers are millionaires w a 6-figure income? We should ask her how to save farmers.

me: Nah we shouldn't be "saving" millionaires w 6-figure incomes. Or the farmers who are even bigger

them:

Every so often the head of a do-gooder nonprofit or journalist reaches out, wanting to hear my thoughts on [farm topic]

And they're always floored & taken aback that I say "mean" things about farmers. Like "They're adults. They chose this. And they should live with the consequences of their actions."

Policymakers are legislating blanket bans on social media based on evidence that would be rejected in any other field of public health. Before imposing these draconian measures, they must listen to the experts sounding the alarm on oversimplified conclusions. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/science-not-settled-how-weak-evidence-fueling-national-push-ban-social-media-youth

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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116607455389757472

I never thought this day would come, but this is a pretty stupid future, so...

I've added noindex,nofollow meta tags for Google user-agents in all of my site's page headers.

Since I complained about it earlier I feel it's important to give respect when due: WordPress 7.0 released and my host will be updating my site to it eventually. I was super concerned because WordPress 7 is supporting AI integration, and there are a lot of negative connotations that come with that.

Well, as it turns out, the developers were looking ahead and anticipating that, because they made it possible to turn that integration off.

But there's more...

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Dear Fedi friends,

At some point I will re-emerge from my writing cave. I'm just putting together a deep dive into a topic and every day I get a new juicy lead. It never stops! (but incidentally 3 lifetimes ago I wanted to go to journalism school, so I'm finally living out this fantasy)

In other news, I'm happy to share that I will be on a panel at @publicspaces Conference on June 5th with @bjoernsta and @cubicgarden

🔗 : https://conference.publicspaces.net/session/strength-through-diversity-1

Hope to see you there!

#PubConf2026

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Arc XP and The Washington Post illegally fired 76 tech workers for union activity, myself included, and then started releasing opinion videos on social media with right-wing dipshit influencers telling the public about how great more AI data centers are.

Democracy died a while ago, and this is merely the desecration of a corpse.

Some months ago it was revealed that they use donated bodies for ballistics testing, now this:
https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/116611159697312350