Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Usually, when I get interviewed for a piece on something like "AI consciousness" I am relegated to the skeptics box --- some short paragraph near the end. So it is a nice change to see this piece by Holly Baxter

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-news-humanize-chatbot-conscious-b2963788.html

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New: President Trump's memecoin project is preparing to launch a membership club promising "elite and extraordinary experiences". This is the latest attempt to prop up a token down 97% from peak.

https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-coin-club/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

MIT's Technology Review takes a comprehensive dive into the energy/climate consequences of AI, and the news is terrible for everyone but the corporate bosses and billionaires in charge of it all. Grim, grim stuff here:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

Starlink continues to have been designed to sell a small number of users lower-latency links at a steep premium.

And it remains way past time to stop letting corporations make a mess of the sky.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91532281/spacex-starlink-fcc-complaints

The corrupt Roberts Court just wiped out what was left of the Voting Rights Act. It was a purely partisan/ideological ruling, and will reverberate for decades to come as it frees the Republican Party to keep racism at the core of its beliefs, and operations.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the-scotus-vra-decision-could-impact-the-midterms-and-beyond

After internal protests from Google employees after the company signed a contract with the Pentagon for military uses of AI, the company told employees it “proudly” works with the U.S. military.

Long gone are the days of bowing to employee backlash in big tech.

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Could folks stop referring to what these AI tools are doing as “thinking”? It’s stretching definition of the term and contributing to the intentional misinformation in the marketing from the vendors.

It’s not thinking, it’s computing. Those aren’t the same thing.

#Forgejo 15.0.1, 14.0.5 and 11.0.13 were just released! They are security releases.

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

blogged: Github is sinking
https://dbushell.com/2026/04/29/github-is-sinking/

— the people do not yearn for Microsoft products

They're putting a chip in the passports that play Lee Greenwood when you open it.

The best description of LLM outputs, by @dbushell "words that take forever to say nothing".

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #slop

@munin How did we get to the point of _asking_ the computer? You don't ask a computer, you tell it. You give it a command and it either succeeds or it fails or or it is broken. It's a complicated box of sand. There's no awareness, no spark, just an odd arrangement of doped silicon and metal. Believing there's more than that is deeply deeply delusional, like believing socks are sentient because you made a sock puppet once.

And this is just your periodic reminder, in case you haven't had any visceral reminders today, that wow, the #Microsoft corporation is full of slop and produces entirely rubbish products, with rubbish marketing and business models, and is completely unworthy of its 'success' and market dominance. I think this would be a good year for the world to deprecate them entirely, out of existence. I'm dedicated to helping make that happen.

Hot Take:
If the makers of claude code are having *this* much trouble getting reliably code, what makes you think that you can do any better using it?

related question: how the hell does that top bar of historical uptime data == 98.69% uptime?

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-oppose-the-guard-act

#Trump admin pays #wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects - https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/28/trump_admin_pay_off_wind_farm/ will go down in history as one of the most perverse policies ever - not just wrong, vindictive

So @Blender has decided that money is more important than their users and their community, and has begun accepting money from Anthropic.

Yes, the same Anthropic that has an LLM that STEALS WORK from artists. The same Anthropic that had to pay OVER A BILLION DOLLARS back to artists for stealing their work. The same Anthropic that works for shady government agencies and was responsible for the bombing of a school.

That Anthropic.

Money over F/OSS and our communities.

They can eat shit.